Today's mixed-up Drop showcases two tools related to data manipulation and monitoring, and a puzzle! | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric version fo the Drop explores the term "Book" weight in typography, rooted in German nomenclature, but has led to confusion in its application, especially during the ITC era. Ohno Type Co. has developed Degular and Degular Mono typefaces for versatile de … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses various technology topics, including misconceptions about Xiaohongshu's "backdoor" , the dangers of malicious Google Ads mimicking legitimate software, enhancements for accessing Cooked.Wiki, and urgent Vite development server upgrades to address critical s … | Continue reading
The weekend Bonus Drop discusses various resources and thoughts to navigate challenges in democracy and engagement over the next few years. Andrea Pitzer's podcast "Next Comes What" explores historical contexts of democracy, while the "If You Can Keep It" newsletter emphasizes lo … | Continue reading
Today's Drop focuses on WebAssembly (WASM) resources: "Water," a web-based fluid simulation using SIMD support; wasmCloud, enabling portable application modules for distributed systems; and TinyWeb, a minimal Rust framework for client-side web apps that directly integrates with J … | Continue reading
Today's colorful drop features Flexoki, a color scheme for coding and prose; the "Definitive Ranking of Pantone Colors of the Year", and. Colorify Rocks' tools for discovering harmonious color combinations, emphasizing accessibility through various free resources. | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop pulls out the legal pad to scribble some prose about the intricate world of font licensing. It also celebrates `womxn` designers in typography, and showcases an elegant font family from a featured collection. | Continue reading
Today's Drop looks at three database tools: libSQL, Beekeeper Studio, and Outerbase Studio. libSQL is an SQLite fork enabling network operations. Beekeeper is a freemium SQL editor w/multiple db support. Outerbase is a browser-based management tool w/user-friendly features for va … | Continue reading
The weekend Bonus Drop discusses three tools for performance: MySpeed is a self-hosted internet connection monitor, DuckDB's CSV processing was compared to coreutils, showing mixed results, and wrk is a Lua-scriptable HTTP benchmarking tool that efficiently simulates concurrent u … | Continue reading
Today's Drop features three resources from HTML.ZONE: WASM'd and webbed MarkItDown; Awesome Homelab, a curated directory for open-source applications in personal server experimentation; and Beauty.Codes, which allows customizable code screenshots and snippet management. | Continue reading
Today's violent Drop discusses the resurgence of the tag and its CSS recreation by Ted Unangst, along with two neat games: rpg-cli, a Rust-based tool gamifying shell operations into an RPG experience, and Rogule, a daily browser-based, roguelike game. | Continue reading
Today's (tardy) typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses kinetic typography, a technique that animates text to express ideas through motion, and the Fast Font typeface, which enhances reading speed by bolding word beginnings. It also introduces CSS's text-wrap: balance pr … | Continue reading
Today's Drop is all about "scrolling", just in very different contexts. Blogscroll is a curated directory of personal websites, the seekrit middle section is all about accessibility; and Scrollama is a JavaScript library for implementing scrollytelling features efficiently. | Continue reading
The 2025 inaugural Bonus Drop discusses Cap’n Proto—a high-performance data interchange format—and Cloudflare's workerd, which enables running serverless functions using Cap’n Proto files. It also gives the lo-down on Cloudflare Workers AI, which offers free access to AI models v … | Continue reading
Today's crufty/cruftless Drop: shows how to simplify recipes from blogs/videos and access to daily top news items; and also offers a detailed analysis of the state of USB-C[ruft]. | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses the 2024 digital landscape which shows that global internet access is unequal, with only two-thirds online and substantial disparities between income levels; IPv6 adoption surpassed 30%, and decentralized networks like Threads and Bluesky gained millions of … | Continue reading
The inaugural Drop of 2025 takes a look back at the Drops of 2024, my 2025+ daily drivers, and covers a new-to-me tool: Mise. | Continue reading
The final Typography Tuesday of 2024 reviews a novel font ownership model that offers royalties for designers. Additionally, notable typography talks from the Letterform Archive explored data visualization, icon technologies, and historical design influences, emphasizing unique c … | Continue reading
Today's 🐱 Drop features kitty, a high-performance, cross-platform terminal emulator utilizing GPU acceleration and SIMD for efficient operations; and, the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) which allows embedding a web browser in applications; and, finally awrit, which lev … | Continue reading
Today's Drop puts us back into the safety zone, starting with "The 2025 Digital Security Checklist" which highlights strong passwords, encryption, and multi-factor authentication as essential for protecting digital assets. We then get introduced to systemd's Credentials system to … | Continue reading
Today's Drop helps us wrap up a year of browsing datat and provides methods to access browsing history from SQLite databases in #RStats to make a more visual view of all the time we wasted staring at glowing rectangles. | Continue reading
Today's very wonky Drop showcases 3 RFCs: HTTP Message Signatures enhance message integrity beyond TLS; RFC 9620 emphasizes designing protocols considering human rights; and RFC 9557 improves timestamp formats, allowing for rich metadata. | Continue reading
Today's Typography-centric edition of the Drop features Badkeming's exploration of kerning failures, the unique Alpha Lyrae font with glitch effects, and the narrative importance of comic lettering. | Continue reading
Today's Drop introduces three distinct resources: MarkItDown, a Markdown conversion tool by (ugh) Microsoft; the "4 Colors Formula" for effective design using four color roles; and Hyperfine, a Rust-based benchmarking tool for performance measurement. | Continue reading
Today's Bonus [Knowledge] Drop takes you on my journey to add CIDR handling to DuckDB's INET extension, which stores IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. It outlines the process of developing a function to expand CIDR notation into a list of IP addresses, detailing technical steps and functi … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses the BlogFlock platform, which enhances RSS feeds through communal curation; the impact of generative AI on hiring practices, making resumes less reliable; and Matt Might’s shell scripts that improve clarity in writing by detecting passive voice and weasel w … | Continue reading
Today’s Drop reviews 2024's latest CSS advancements, [re]visits a CSS lightweight framework designed for simplicity, and explores a quick trick for creating color palettes using CSS. | Continue reading
Today's Drop features Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps which showcase remarkable artistry with unique, hand-drawn letterforms that create a distinct typographic style for each location. Additionally, two free fonts, 3270font and Libre Caslon Condensed, offer modern adaptations of clas … | Continue reading
Today's Drop emphasizes the necessity for accessibility in data visualizations, particularly for individuals with disabilities. Resources covered discuss identified flaws in major news dashboards, offer guidance on writing effective alt text, and section 3 introduces AI tools lik … | Continue reading
Today's Bonus Drop discusses GoReleaser, an open-source tool designed to simplify cross-platform releases of Go projects, supporting various formats and integrations. It also introduces a project for a CLI version of the DuckDB Drop viewer. | Continue reading
Today's Drop explores three distinct topics centered around safety. We take a deep look into DuckDB's sophisticated query optimization capabilities, examine a new security tool for GitHub Actions workflows, and review the Electronic Frontier Foundation's comprehensive guide to su … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses three tools: Plop, Lit Starter Kit, and Elia. Plop is a micro-generator framework for creating boilerplate code efficiently. The Lit Starter Kit simplifies web component development with the Lit framework, while Elia is a terminal app for interacting with l … | Continue reading
Today's 🦆-focused Drop explores the capabilities of DuckDB, particularly its remote database features and full-text search functionality. It illustrates how we can transform blog posts into a DuckDB database using R and SQL, highlighting the potential of remote operations … | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop highlights the evolution of typography in adapting to digital environments, thereby enhancing readability and design versatility. Key resources and innovations in modern typography are also mentioned, including a free, modern monospa … | Continue reading
December features various "technical" advent calendars, such as Advent of Code and Advent of Rust, offering daily programming challenges to enhance skills. Today's Drop showcases a bonkers number of code, "no-code", and absolutely no-code challenges to keep you occupied throughou … | Continue reading
Today’s Drop presents three useful tools: Qlty, a Rust-based multi-language code quality tool that simplifies static analysis and formatting; untls, a Golang CLI tool enabling seamless TCP and TLS connections; and Censeye, developed by Censys Research to help identify and analyze … | Continue reading
Today's Drop features The Type Archive, established in 1992, closed in 2022 due to financial issues but has been digitized by the Science Museum Group. We also take a quick peek at Damien Guard's 2023 Advent of Fonts and introduce the free brush-style font, Perfect Moment, which … | Continue reading
Today's Drop sports a Bluesky follower export tool for CSV files, the Shebanger CLI tool that reconfigures shell scripts into multiple shebang files, and Onefetch, a Rust-based CLI for offline Git analytics. | Continue reading
Today's Bonus Drop covers spatial data visualization using Foursquare's open-source POI dataset and decentralized blogging via WhiteWind's platform built on AT Protocol. It also covers setting up an ATproto Personal Data Server (PDS). | Continue reading
Today's Drop features DuckDB's API integration with Hono.js for SQL queries, turning RSS feeds into automated Bluesky posts, and resources for learning Deno 2.x. | Continue reading
Today's Drop features three tools: Ripunzip, a Rust-based parallel unzipper that starts decompression during downloads; Pipe Viewer (pv), a terminal utility for monitoring Unix pipeline data flow with real-time stats; and Joker, a minimalist daemon management tool providing basic … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses three data-centric tools: Vector, a high-performance observability data pipeline enhancing data collection and routing; ATFile, a shell script for storing and retrieving blobs in ATproto/PDS infrastructure; and Betwixt, a web debugging proxy for effective t … | Continue reading
Today's tyography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the evolution of ink traps in typography, pinpointing three types: Light Traps, Corner Cuts, and Tear Traps. It also highlights a free programming font, Envy Code R, known for its clear differentiation between characters. Ad … | Continue reading
Today's Drop explores browser rendering, Electron's challenges, and the rise of the “small Internet.” The topics emphasize a detailed breakdown of browser operations, propose a new extension system for Electron applications, and highlight a movement prioritizing genuine online co … | Continue reading
Bluesky introduced "Starter Packs" to help users build their feeds, accumulating nearly 30,000 packs. The Jetstream service, replacing the more complex firehose, simplifies data streaming, using JSON for easier access. Today's Bonus Drop discusses leveraging Deno, Red Panda, and … | Continue reading
Today's Drop covers a CLI tool to work with Bluesky Starter Packs to enhance user onboarding by personalizing curated account lists; Libravatar, a federated alternative to Gravatar, which ensures consistent avatars across platforms; and shpool which offers lightweight shell sessi … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses 3 shell-related resources: 'up,' a utility for efficient directory navigation in Bash/Zsh; 'BATS,' a Bash testing framework that isolates test execution; and 'cmdx,' a Golang module for streamlined command-line operations with error handling. | Continue reading
Today's diverse Drop covers a tiny JavaScript library for webpage minimaps, Adobe's Spectrum design system for accessible data visualizations, and "The Copilot Pause," which addresses cognitive effects when AI code completion tools are disabled. The latter highlights concerns abo … | Continue reading