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
Today's Drop sports a timeline visualizing the evolution of Unix shells, the rDNS Map project mapping the IPv4 space using ClickHouse, and a digital recreation of Moses Harris' 1766 color theory work. | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop features Tendrilis, a script replacing the Latin alphabet with vine-like characters. It also takes a look at the serif revolution, and features two "instrumental" (free) fonts. | Continue reading
Today's Drop reviews three monitoring solutions: Static Status, a Bash script for generating status pages; Vigil, a Rust-based microservice monitor with flexible notifications; and cState, a Hugo-based static site generator with incident management. | Continue reading
The weekend Bonus Drop showcases how to encode hidden data within Unicode characters, the Atlas of Surveillance which documents law enforcement technologies, and a crowdsourced Project 2025 "progress" tracker. | Continue reading
This Friday Drop explores various aspects of authenticity through 3 distinct perspectives. The Content Authenticity Initiative focuses on ensuring digital content provenance, URLQuery enhances URL security via multi-layered threat detection, & The Authentic Personality Scale asse … | Continue reading
Today's un-horrible Drop covers a cool Typst package to use Markdown for content and introduces Typst's new preliminary support for HTML output. It closes with some Datawrapper and #RStats crunchy goodness. | Continue reading
Watch out for today's Drop on filesystem monitors! Chokidar 4.0 significantly updates the Node.js file watcher; Caretaker is a Rust-based tool for monitoring files with TOML config; and, Systemd.path units offer built-in filesystem monitoring. | Continue reading
Today's Drop is a deep dive into typography’s dual role in power dynamics: from authoritarian control to resistance movements, featuring the Fonts for Freedom initiative and the accessible Inclusive Sans typeface. | Continue reading
Today's Drop covers two tools and one tip: Ouch is a versatile command-line compression utility for multiple formats; Stot is a human-friendly alternative to the stat command for file system information; and comprehensive workplace guidance for 2025 focusing on performance review … | Continue reading
The weekend Bonus Drop has a concise overview of the Rosé Pine and Catppuccin theme suites, and introduces a tutorial on creating JavaScript-free scroll progress indicators using modern CSS techniques. | Continue reading
Today's Drop sports Cockpit, a user-friendly web-based server management tool; an in-depth look at HTML whitespace challenges and solutions; and the latest DuckDB 1.2.0 release featuring improved performance, enhanced CSV/Parquet handling, and new SQL features. | Continue reading
Today's Drop features treefmt (a multi-language source formatter orchestrator; a framework for evaluating technological progress (w/emphasis on AI); and, introducesCLI tool for selectively downloading GitHub repository content. | Continue reading
The Drop has returned after a hiatus, and we focus, today, on some tech that was partly responsible for said hiatus. Zed's new beta Edit Predictions kicks coding efficiency up a few notches; Eleventy (11ty) facilitates data-driven site generation, and Pagefind offers robust stati … | Continue reading
Today's missed flight-enabled Drop talks Kata Containers, a secure container runtime using lightweight VMs for enhanced workload isolation; LosslessCut, a cross-platform, FFmpeg-based video editing tool that allows lossless trimming and manipulation of media files; and a CMU semi … | Continue reading
Today's pseudo-Bonus Drop slings your way systemd-nspawn, a lightweight containerization tool integrated with systemd, linuxpdf/doompdf; and 5 Calls, an advocacy app enabling folks to easily contact representatives for civic engagement. | Continue reading
Today's Drop contains (heh) a section on alternatives to Docker, discusses JSON-e for embedding context in JSON objects and features Mercator Extreme, a unique map projection for visualizing geography. | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop takes a gander at the music of type scales, hellboxes in traditional typesetting, and features the free font, Bricolage Grotesque. | Continue reading
Today's Drop starts a theme for the week — containers — starting with Linux namespaces. We break things up with a look at Apple's design philosophy for rounded corners, and upcoming improvements in the Go programming language. | Continue reading
The Weekend Bonus Drop introduces three innovative resources: Lightpanda, a fast, efficient browser automation tool; Yek, a Rust-based solution for processing codebases for LLMs; and ManKier, which transforms Unix man pages into interactive HTML5 documentation. Each tool enhances … | Continue reading
Today's Drop features Fixi.js—a compact hypermedia control framework beneficial for inline editing, search interfaces, and lazy loading with modern JavaScript features. There's a new CSS attr() function in town, and we peek at how use it to work with all CSS properties for dynami … | Continue reading
Today's diverse Drop showcases a proposed DNS-based authentication system allowing universal identities for digital logins, Tarjetas Rojas as tools to protect immigrants' rights during encounters with authorities, and Sprinter, a distraction-free writing platform that integrates … | Continue reading
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