Today's Dop discusses two main topics: rv, a solution for R dependency management, addressing speed, reproducibility, and environment isolation, and Jetrelay, a high-performance relay for Bluesky’s jetstream feed. It emphasizes solution-focused questioning to enhance team product … | Continue reading
Today's Drop highlights three spiffy tools: uchū offers a modern color palette for web design, emphasizing usability and flexibility; evildeno showcases Deno's capabilities in offensive security operations, illustrating various attack techniques; and ThumbHash generates efficient … | Continue reading
Today's all-CLI Drop introduces three utilities: mandown, a terminal-based Markdown viewer; freq, an efficient text frequency analysis tool; and Biff, a modern command line tool for DateTime operations. Each tool enhances command-line usability, focusing on Markdown viewing, text … | Continue reading
Today'st typography-centric edition of the Drop covers recent typography controversies that include the improper kerning on Pope Francis' tombstone, which highlighted the importance of precise letter spacing, and the criticism of Nebula Sans for mislabeling itself as "humanist." … | Continue reading
Today's Drop features Podfox: a container-aware browser enabling easy access to containerized environments without port conflicts; Dan Abramov's "Functional HTML" which reimagines HTML with modern programming concepts, advocating for JSON-based markup; and, httpok: a lightweight … | Continue reading
The Bonus Drop returns! Today, we cover SveltePlot, a visualization framework improving upon Observable Plot with component-based reactivity; Dax, which streamlines JavaScript shell scripting across platforms; SSL libraries, highlighting the decline of OpenSSL 3.0 and alternative … | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses typography's impact on design, emphasizing advanced OpenType features like variable fonts, alternates, and swashes to enhance visual appeal. It highlights the importance of choosing bold sans-serif fonts for thumbnails to a … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses 3 Python (yes…*python*) projects: Docling, a library focused on accurate document processing; Notary, which generates badges to verify the provenance of Python packages on PyPI; and CVE Search MCP, a server for querying CVE data. Each serves distinct roles … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses the integration of MCP protocol with AI tools like llama3.2, oterm, Context7, and Zed AI to enhance coding assistance and information retrieval. It emphasizes MCP's role in structured data interaction, Context7's up-to-date documentation for better coding a … | Continue reading
Today's theme-less Drop covers two projects: Bluefish, a web diagramming framework emphasizing relations for flexible diagram creation, and Quartz, a static-site generator focused on Markdown support and speed. It discusses experiences with LLMs, warnings about misleading outputs … | Continue reading
The midweek Drop covers advanced CSS features, including the CSS text-box-trim for precise vertical text spacing control, Kate Morley’s 12-bit rainbow palette for improved data visualization using the LCH color space, and the CSS Shapes Module which enables non-rectangular conten … | Continue reading
Today's edition of the Drop explores typographic infrastructure, highlighting IKEA’s journey from traditional fonts to modern self-hosting solutions. It also presents FontDiffuser, a framework that enhances font generation through innovative diffusion techniques. The featured fre … | Continue reading
Today's Drop covers Wave, a versatile terminal combining command-line and graphical features with AI integration; Geolocus, an open IP geolocation database offering physical and logical location data; and Lichen, a Rust-based tool for managing software license files and headers. … | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of The Drop highlights new developments and challenges in font design. Key points include Microsoft's Kermit typeface aimed at aiding children with dyslexia, the issues related to thin fonts causing accessibility problems, and the declining stat … | Continue reading
Today's Drop covers GNU Recutils, an efficient plain text database management tool; Joplin, a versatile open-source note-taking app with strong encryption and synchronization options; and inclusive dark mode design, emphasizing accessibility improvements. | Continue reading
Today's fun-filled Drop features "Stevens," a customizable AI assistant leveraging minimal components for personal use; "Powxy," a proxy, combats scraping by enforcing proof-of-work challenges; and, "Ferron," a Rust-based web server, gunning for Caddy. | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses MotherDuck's #DuckDB Model Context Protocol server with a walk through a look at my sensor network data. It further highlights the rise of automated bots, which now constitute 51% of web traffic, and, lastly, emphasizes the privacy concerns surrounding mode … | Continue reading
Today's [tardy — due to DOGE] Typography Tuesday covers a study questioning I-beam designs using typeface cross-sections, the manicule's historical significance as a symbol, and a modern sans serif font, Ronzino, contrasting with Arial in design and functionality. | Continue reading
Today's cobbled together themed Drop sports Browser MCP, a tool that integrates LLMs with web browsers for automation tasks; Arc Export which helps convert pinned tabs from the Arc browser to HTML bookmarks, and a D2 extension for Zed, w/a bonus link to Jumping River's excellent … | Continue reading
The weekend Bonus Drop contains 3 "quick hits". One highlights Lit web components' advantages, another showcases FLOCKMTL's integration of LLMs into #DuckDB SQL workflows, and features Granary's role as a universal translator for social web data. | Continue reading
The Friday Drop is designed to de-stress us all with three very different games. "cereal-words" is an interactive word puzzle for **Typst**; "robotfindskitten" is an absurd ASCII art game where players seek a kitten among symbols; and, "Gorched" is a terminal artillery game remin … | Continue reading
Today's Drop sports "Bare", a lightweight JavaScript runtime optimizing for modular app development; JAWSM, a project executing JavaScript directly in WebAssembly, enhancing performance and reducing file size; and Remind, a command-line calendar tool for managing complex schedule … | Continue reading
Today's "AI"-centric edition of the Drop focuses on the "Model Context Protocol" (MCP). This new, standardized integration system for LLM/GPT-ops enhances data connectivity and addresses prior fragmentation. However, it significantly lacks security measures, making it vulnerable … | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the evolution of smart quotes and accent marks in typography, highlighting their historical context and modern usage. It also introduces the Style Manual, which provides guidance on British and American English punctuation, … | Continue reading
This weekend Bonus Drop discusses DuckDB's integration with dbt for effective data transformation, enhancing workflows with features like spatial functions and reverse ETL. It also highlights shell command efficiency improvement tools and introduces Ollamacommit for generating Gi … | Continue reading
Today's theme-less Drop showcases Hollama, a user-friendly web interface for LLMs; Tactile Vega-Lite, which enhances accessibility in data visualization for blind users; and Pussh, a parallel SSH tool for managing commands across multiple servers. | Continue reading
Today's [tardy] typographic edition of the Drop discusses the significance of typography in the series Severance. It also features two silly, but fun 🍜 fonts. The Drops are mysterious and important. | Continue reading
Today's Drop covers three significant topics: Charles Booth's transformative social research on urban poverty through innovative mapping, the alarming expansion of aggressive immigration enforcement under the Trump administration causing widespread disappearances, and a vital NIH … | Continue reading
The Weekend [Shameless] Bonus Drop showcases a spiffy accessible color palette generator, a project that will help turn the "news" into a research corpus, and some updates on various personal projects. | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses recent tools and experiments in document preparation and bookmarking. John Maxwell shares insights on Typst as a LaTeX alternative, highlighting its ease of use and integration with Pandoc. Additionally, Shaarli is introduced as a self-hosted bookmarking to … | Continue reading
Today's Hurtsday Drop highlights tools focused on the AT Protocol, including Boat for identity and data management, Roomy for peer-to-peer group chats, and Treeverse for visualizing Bluesky threads. | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses two new packages, hmmfetch and {headrs}, designed to generate realistic HTTP headers for #JavaScript and #RStats respectively, aiding developers in avoiding detection from automated traffic. Additionally, Anthony Fu promotes transitioning to ESM-only packag … | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop covers Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, introduces. Hyperglot, and showcases the Kyiv Type Foundry. | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses Djot, a new markup language enhancing Markdown's capabilities, and Bean CMS, a minimal content management system built on redbean. It also outlines a "Clean Slate Protocol" to remove ⭐️'d GH repos. | Continue reading
Today's Drop visits three recent RFCs. RFC 9755, which enables UTF-8 support in IMAP4rev1 for international characters. RFC 9745 which introduces a standardized Deprecation header for APIs to inform users about endpoint lifecycle effectively; and, RFC 9748 which enhances NTP regi … | Continue reading
Today's Drop explores ATproto-verse & shows how to build custom records w/only Bash/curl. It highlights the atmo.lol URL shortener, & takes a first stab at analyzing the current extent of the tangled.sh universe. | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the drop tells the stories of three typefaces: VTC Garibaldi, VTC Ruby, and VTC Tatsuro. Each is designed to inspire hope and resistance. | Continue reading
Today's Drop covers Plonk.li — a new gist service on the ATproto network, storing pastes in Personal Data Servers to enhance data portability; Nash — a portable web-based note-taking app without server dependencies, supporting various formatting options;; and highlights Arc Brows … | Continue reading
The Weekend Bonus Drop covers Prettier, an opinionated code formatter ensuring consistent style across programming languages, and Krep, a fast C-based string search tool outperforming traditional utilities. It also includes updates to the {hrbrthemes} #RStats package. | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses DuckDB version 1.2.1, which features a web-based UI for easier SQL query management and data exploration. It highlights the Netquack extension for URL analysis in SQL and introduces the PSQL extension, enabling a pipe operator for clearer, sequential data t … | Continue reading
Today's Drop covers the Speed Force infusion of TypeScript with many a caveat, introduces CSS Relative Colors for dynamic color generation directly in stylesheets, and check out the WebTUI project. | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric Drop highlights Mixfont, a font generator for visualizing typeface pairings; Words of Type, a multilingual encyclopedia providing expert typography terms and community access; and Fleckled, a digital archive preserving letterpress fonts for modern desig … | Continue reading
Today's thematic Drop features "The Blue Report," which analyzes trending links on Bluesky using a scoring formula. It also explores the AT Protocol's applications, emphasizing practical development. And, it introduces a study by Quelle and Bovet examines Bluesky's network, revea … | Continue reading
The Weekend Bonus Drop features Tangled, a new decentralized platform for Git-based collaboration, designed to enhance social coding while ensuring data ownership and ease of entry. Built on the AT Protocol, it allows developers to create "knots" for hosting repositories. The pla … | Continue reading
The Friday Drop highlights Xit, an experimental version control system built in Zig, and advocates for the use of text labels to improve user interface clarity. It also showcases a creative interpretation of the "Bad Apple" animation using SSH key randomart images. | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop looks at a project showcasing the VT220 terminal's distinctive typeface. It also introduces Creative Fabrica's not-ready-for-prime-time AI Font Generator, and features the graffiti-style MS Scratch font. | Continue reading
Today's Drop includes a grab bag of tools and packages including MDB Tools for accessing Microsoft Access databases, unenv for ensuring JavaScript code runs consistently across environments, and uptasticsearch for simplifying data extraction from Elasticsearch into tabular format … | Continue reading
The Friday Drop discusses enhancing productivity through macOS tips, the introduction of SmallJS as a modern web development tool inspired by Smalltalk, and emphasizes the significance of digital preservation tools | Continue reading