Today's Drop looks at three tools: a local, browser-based detective map for free-form note-taking; a vintage, command-line reminder system that prioritizes privacy; and a guide on How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm. | Continue reading
Today's Drop brings some items from simpler times back into active memory: the HTMLTableElement API for creating data tables without libraries, the 'leave' terminal command for GTHeckO reminders, and an effective modern use for the HTML element. | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the COLRv1 standard for color fonts enabling dynamic, scalable typography with gradients and animations. It features two specific fonts, Primecolor, which utilizes OpenTypeSVG for vivid lettering, and Nabla, inspired by vin … | Continue reading
Today's Drop pits terminal emulators against each other (and the results are sad + surprising). It also showcases a11y.css, a lightweight tool for instant accessibility checks on webpages, and Ben Joffe's fast-date algorithm, which improves date conversion speeds by 2-10% through … | Continue reading
The Friday Drop is just super ducky! It highlights the integration of mlpack as a DuckDB extension, enabling machine learning models like AdaBoost directly within SQL queries. Additionally, the Dash extension provides a user-friendly data exploration and dashboard tool, while th … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses three core web topics: CSS’s 239 methods of representing the color blue (O_O), the inefficiencies of using await in JavaScript loops, and the HTML Popover API for creating overlays. It emphasizes the complexities arising from legacy choices in CSS, performa … | Continue reading
This week's typographic edition of the Drop explores 3 key resources: 1984.design’s Typography Basics provides a friendly guide to type communication, while Codepoints.net serves as a searchable atlas for Unicode characters. And, The Is It Tofu? tool helps prevent missing charact … | Continue reading
The weekend Bonus Drop covers Typst 0.14.0 which introduces significant enhancements, including automatic tagging for accessible PDFs, improved HTML export, and character-level justification. We also link to Phil Gyford's memoir that reflects on his nostalgic first experiences wi … | Continue reading
Today's Drop critiques OpenAI's new browser, "Atlas," describing it as an inferior tool that compromises user privacy. It advises against its use, and cites issues with handling prompt injections and a lack of concern for user safety. | Continue reading
Today's Drop looks at recent updates in log & code visualization tools, highlighting (heh) Logalize for its customizable log colorization, and ch for its simple word highlighting in live streams. It also introduces Lexical Differential Highlighting, which improves code readabilit … | Continue reading
Today's Drop covers Gephi Lite, a user-friendly, browser-based tool for network visualization, allowing exploration of graphs on mobile devices without installation. It also digs a little into Isochrones which represent areas reachable within specified travel times, accounting fo … | Continue reading
Today's Drop shares insights on three resources: WorkKit, which decodes Apple’s iWork formats; a critique on software "un-quality" normalization; and AstroDither, a creative coding project for audio-visual interaction. | Continue reading
Today's Drop explores comic book lettering as a visual language with distinct grammar, emphasizing artistic conventions. It features the New Heterodox Mono font, blending elegance with functionality in programming. Additionally, it highlights the necessity of using relative CSS u … | Continue reading
Today's Drop has a focus on Meson, a build system/toolkit that streamlines builds and dependency management. Qman (build with Meson) modernizes Unix manual pages with user-friendly features, while mpv (also built with Meson) delivers a minimalist, high-performance media playback … | Continue reading
The wekeend Bonus Drop discusses three al-terminal-tive CLI/TUI utilities: Skim, Liquidprompt, and Zenith. Skim is a fast fuzzy finder for seamless file searching. Liquidprompt offers a customizable, context-aware prompt for Bash/Zsh, enhancing usability. Zenith is an advanced sy … | Continue reading
Today's webby Drop highlights the HTML element's purpose, the Journal of Web Engineering's efforts to establish web development standards, and the risks of old SSL certificates through BygoneSSL, which can lead to various cybersecurity threats. | Continue reading
Today's Drop introduces Retrocide Mono, a unique monospaced font suitable for retro-futurist designs, devoid of descenders for a mechanical look. It highlights James Edmondson's OH no Type School as an interactive resource for learning glyph design. Additionally, it presents Robo … | Continue reading
Today's Drop reflects on the "vibe coding revolution," questioning its impact on resource creation for coders. It also introduces three projects: The Garage, an efficient object storage system; wxpull, a minimalist weather tool using open data; and faup-rs, a fast URL parser in R … | Continue reading
THE DROPS ARE BACK! Today, we tackle three note-taking tools: Blinko, Piles, and Memos. Blinko is an AI-integrated self-hosted system with features for task management and Markdown support. Piles is a minimal web clipper lacking organization tools, while Memos offers a lightweigh … | Continue reading
The Bonus Drop has an ASAM update; presents Sniffly, an open-source dashboard by Chip Huyen for analyzing Claude Code usage (with some code & SQL to get similar data from Zed AI); and links to PostHog's redesigned website resembling a desktop OS for better interaction and usabili … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses accessing and utilizing U.S. maritime safety data, focusing on Anti-Shipping Activity Messages, while highlighting challenges faced due to changes in data accessibility. It describes a method to retrieve piracy-related datasets using R and DuckDB, emphasizi … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses diverse topics including readability tools to enhance writing clarity, the challenges of obtaining structured JSON from LLMs, and Apple's introduction of a private CSS property for Liquid Glass effects. | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop explores the significance of typography in video games, illustrating its evolution from functional necessity to a vital artistic element. It highlights how different games utilize fonts to enhance player immersion and identity, facin … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses FFmpeg, Linkhut, and Peekaping. FFmpeg offers a detailed guide on media processing. Linkhut is a flexible social bookmarking platform, and Peekaping serves as a self-hosted uptime monitoring solution. | Continue reading
This week, the Bonus Drop features a practical example of using Python data loaders in Observable Notebooks 2.0. Data loaders enhance notebook performance by executing code in advance, facilitating access to diverse data formats. Observable currently supports Node.js and Python f … | Continue reading
The Friday Drop is all about reducing cognitive load & keeping things simple. It showcases incplot, a terminal plotting tool for visualizing structured data, highlights 3 classic Unix utilities, & links to a minimalist guide to Linux commands. | Continue reading
More is less, in today's Drop since it's most-ly featuring pagers, SQL tutorials, and a bonkers number of drop-in CSS themes to make you looks like a CSS, SQL, and terminal genius. | Continue reading
In today's typography-centric edition of the Drop we have a typewriter-inspired mono font, a "back-to-school" font, and a nigh-forgotten line wrapping technique that (IMO) needs to have its own dedicated CSS attribute. | Continue reading
Today's Drop sits idly by while you learn about various "idle" items. (You'll have to click into this one for the deets.) | Continue reading
The Bonus Drop discusses the transition from Inoreader to FreshRSS, highlighting RSS-Bridge as a tool to convert websites into RSS feeds. It explores using SmolLM3 for named-entity recognition, and reviews Flow, a Chromium-based browser considered as a potential alternative to Ar … | Continue reading
Today's 🦆 Drop showcases DuckDB's capabilities for processing NGINX logs and integrating with Observable Notebooks 2.0 for interactive SQL querying. It also introduces the Textplot extension for real-time visualizations in #DuckDB SQL queries. | Continue reading
This unplanned anti-“AI” themed Drop covers: FreshRSS, a powerful self-hosted RSS aggregator; Compromise, a JavaScript NLP library for practical text analysis; and "Clankers Die on Christmas," a satirical take on artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses some spiffy syntax highlighting hacks using OpenType features, shows how to de-Google your fonts, and intros the unexpected journey of "@" into our everyday lives. | Continue reading
Today's Bonus Drop looks at resources aimed at reducing labor: Lorem++ API for text and object generation, Zola for fast static site creation using TOML and Tera templates, and Symbols for quick symbol lookup. | Continue reading
Today's Drop emphasizes the significance of preserving independent copies of vital information resources like Wikipedia, especially amidst increasing political pressures. It highlights tools and initiatives such as Kiwix for offline access, the Antifa Torrent Server for governmen … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses advancements in CSS, highlighted by the calc() function, and its surprising applications, particularly regarding infinity in calculations. It also examines vulnerabilities in AI image scaling as reported by Trail of Bits. Lastly, it mentions Yamanotes, a mu … | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop showcases 3 notable typefaces: Areal, a modernized version of Arial optimized for the web; Another Man's Treasure, a TrueType font honoring the TRS-80's character sets; and Myra 4F, a decorative Ukrainian display font. Each highlight … | Continue reading
Today's Drop explores how we accidentally learn through technology via the TILE model, examining what catches our attention online & its lasting effects. Plus: introducts Anisota, a mindful social media client built on AT Protocol that uses gamification & intentional friction to … | Continue reading
The weekend Bonus Drop emphasizes the importance of security for vibe or vibe-less personal web apps, highlighting key strategies such as SSRF protection, rate limiting, robust CSRF tokens, & more. It also provides a plethora of prompts to help you infuse security into your vibe- … | Continue reading
The Friday Drop presents a novelist's tiny model improving creative writing through Fibonacci word intervals, MDN's redesign enhancing usability for web developers, and Lucide, an open-source icon library featuring customizable, scalable icons for various projects. | Continue reading
Today's Drop explores 3 distinct text editing perspectives: Zedless prioritizes privacy & community ownership by forking the Zed editor, Neovim serves static content efficiently through a Lua plugin leveraging its async capabilities, and MCP Text Editor Server offers line-based e … | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop explores three retro mono fonts: Epson MX-80, DSEG, and IBM Courier. The Epson MX-80 was a pioneering dot matrix printer known for precision, capturing significant market share. DSEG emulates digital display fonts, including weather … | Continue reading
Today's Drop features Overtype, a lightweight markdown editor, focuses on user-friendly design and minimal size. It further showcases SystemD Service Hardening which provides methods to enhance security for services. And concludes with a GH Migration script to automate moving Git … | Continue reading
The weekend Bonus Drop discusses current issues in XML security, notably the libxml2 maintainer's frustrations with unpaid vulnerability triaging, as well as a proposal to remove XSLT, citing its obsolescence and security risks. Additionally, it introduces Slash Pages, a director … | Continue reading
Today's Drop showcases two CSS frameworks: Missing and Web Awesome. Missing emphasizes semantic HTML and customization through CSS properties, suited for smaller projects. Web Awesome, built on Shoelace, offers framework-agnostic components, Font Awesome support, and accessibilit … | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop features 3 free fonts: Google Sans Code, Spline Sans Mono, and Danfo. | Continue reading
Today's Drop features Jimmy Hartzell's critique of LLMs as unreliable assistants needing human oversight, Ian Ireland's explanation of SpiderMonkey's innovative four-tier execution model enhancing JavaScript performance, and concerns about Flock's AI surveillance system flagging … | Continue reading
Today's late Drop introduces "rawk," an enhanced AWK compiler with modern features, discusses the accessibility benefits of the CSS pseudo-element "::after" for click targets, and explains "Markdown Monster," a decision tree for identifying different Markdown parsers. | Continue reading