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Drop #693 (2025-08-11): Long-form Monday 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 individuals based on travel patterns, raising issues of transparency, bias, and surveillance.

11.08.2025 12:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #692 (2025-08-08): Counting Sheep 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.

09.08.2025 01:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #691 (2025-08-07): Short & Sweet The post expresses strong discontent regarding Perplexity.ai's partnership with Truth Social, viewing it as empowering misinformation and contributing to societal division. The author shares frustrations about the difficulty in terminating the service and reflects on past utility, while ultimately concluding with a resolute rejection of the platform.

07.08.2025 12:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #690 (2025-08-06): It’s All A Game To You, Isn’t It Today's Drop discusses three online games aimed at enhancing visual perception and design skills. "Hued" challenges players to match daily color hues; "It’s Centred That" tests visual precision with dot alignment; and "Can’t Unsee" sharpens attention to UI/UX differences in design choices. Each game emphasizes detail and creativity in design.

06.08.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #689 (2025-08-05): Typography Tuesday Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop looks at three topics: Flexflex, a JavaScript library that reshapes uppercase letters within defined boundaries; Fit, a variable font emphasizing geometric design and space usage; and the concept of overshoots, which ensures visual balance in letterforms.

05.08.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bonus Drop #93 (2025-08-03): Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad? The weekend Bonus Drop discusses the tension between technological advancement and accessibility, highlighting how specialized knowledge and costs limit benefits. It covers Shift browser’s workspace management features and critiques self-hosting AI models for their impractical costs. Additionally, it describes ADS-B WX's innovative use of aircraft data to generate detailed wind maps.

03.08.2025 19:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #687 (2025-07-31): A Trio Of Timely Topics Today's Drop features three significant resources: Observable Desktop & Notebook Kit 2.0 enhances local notebook functionality for easier deployment, while Jono Alderson's piece critiques the shifting focus of SEO from URLs to assertions for digital authority. Additionally, a guide on integrating Bitwarden with direnv improves secure credential management in coding.

31.07.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #686 (2025-07-29): Typography Tuesday Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the evolution and modern usage of hyphens and dashes. It highlights the complexity of hyphenation in web design, emphasizing the importance of language context for proper hyphenation. We also acquiesce to the use of en dashes over em dashes for phrase separation and introduce the dashing free font Abyssopelagic.

29.07.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #685 (2025-07-28): Self-Hosting Monday Today's Drop highlights three self-hosting projects: Wanderer, a GPS trail data management tool using ActivityPub; Gopher2000, a minimalistic Ruby-based server for Gopher sites; and the XMPP/AP Bridge, enabling chat between XMPP and ActivityPub.

28.07.2025 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bonus Drop #92 (2025-07-27): What The Shell? The Weekend Bonus Drop highlights three command-line tools: "Fortune Favors The Forgetful," which creates custom reminders for command usage; "prettyping," a colorful ping wrapper for better network diagnostics; and "zx," a JavaScript/TypeScript library for easier shell scripting. Each tool enhances terminal productivity and usability in unique ways.

27.07.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #684 (2025-07-24): Fixing A Hole Today's Drop discusses the importance of moving away from centralized platforms due to security and privacy concerns. It also highlights the need for better approaches in web accessibility, specifically through the introduction of "color comfort scores." Additionally, a tool is showcased for transforming long YouTube videos into web pages for easier consumption.

24.07.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #683 (2025-07-22): Typography Tuesday Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop features SimSun, Common.otf, and EB Garamond. SimSun, the default Chinese font, became iconic due to its functionality despite criticism. Common.otf challenges copyright by fusing familiar fonts, questioning ownership in design. EB Garamond preserves Claude Garamond’s legacy, evolving through collaboration and accessibility, bridging tradition and modernity.

22.07.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #682 (2025-07-21): Monday Morning Grab Bag Today's theme-less Drop covers 3 topics: a guide on systemd's internals, detailing D-Bus and cgroups; the OpenCLI Specification, which seeks to standardize command-line interfaces for better automation and discovery; and a humorous essay from the em dash addressing AI-related allegations.

21.07.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bonus Drop #91 (2025-07-20): Back To Basics The weekend Bonus Drop highlights foundational tech topics: Shell, Grid/Flex, and Regex. It emphasizes the importance of revisiting these fundamentals, providing resources for enhanced command-line skills, modern CSS layouts, and mastering regular expressions.

20.07.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #681 (2025-07-17): Front and Center Today's Drop explores 3 resources focusing on front-end technology. David Gerrells demonstrates JavaScript's potential through a simulation of 20 million particles, while canidev.tools offers a comprehensive guide to DevTools across browsers. Jo Wood highlights modern color spaces' importance in visual storytelling and data visualization, urging continued exploration of evolving technologies.

17.07.2025 17:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #680 (2025-07-15): Typography Tuesday Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop looks at the evolution and significance of the Proxima Nova typeface, designed by Mark Simonson, which has gained popularity over four decades. It also highlights Atlassian’s typography system, and features a fun freebie font: King Sans.

15.07.2025 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bonus Drop #90 (2025-07-13): A Very Utilitarian Drop The weekend Bonus Drop features three useful resources: urltomarkdown, which converts web pages to Markdown; utiluti, providing command-line control for app associations; and Small Utilities, offering various helpful scripts for tasks like media conversion and file management.

13.07.2025 12:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #679 (2025-07-10): No, Thanks. I’m Just Browsing. Today's Drop discusses 2 new "AI"-driven browsers: Dia & Comet, + introduces Kite. Dia offers an "AI"-laden browsing experience but lacks functionality and has privacy issues. Comet provides better integration and automation but is/will be costly. Kagi's Kite focuses on delivering concise news summaries while ensuring user privacy.

10.07.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #678 (2025-07-08): Typography Tuesday The typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the significance of typeface names, highlighted by a graphic on etymology. It explores Zohran Mamdani’s campaign typography, which employed bold designs and vibrant colors, breaking traditional norms. Lastly, Setup Type Lab offers unfinished font families as beta versions for real-world testing, promoting experimentation in type design.

09.07.2025 19:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #677 (2025-07-07): Just Another Manic Monday Today's Drop ntroduces three useful tools: systemd-lsp, a Rust-based LSP for systemd unit files that provides syntax analysis and autocompletion; oh-my-logo, a Node.js CLI for creating ASCII art logos with customizable colors; and Mercure, an open protocol for real-time data updates via HTTP and Server-Sent Events.

07.07.2025 14:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bonus Drop #89 (2025-06-28): Shop^wInfer Local The Weekend Bonus Drop highlights 2 projects using local inference models for generating alt text and enhancing OCR, encouraging experimentation with these tools as a safeguard against the impending instability of mainstream AI services.

06.07.2025 17:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #676 (2025-07-04): Invoking An Infrequent Author’s Indulgent Privilege The text emphasizes the importance of reclaiming American values on Independence Day, urging citizens to recognize their rights to freedom, self-governance, and accountability. It calls for vigilance against manipulation and asserts that true citizenship involves respecting the Constitution rather than submitting to authority. The fight for these principles continues.

04.07.2025 10:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #675 (2025-07-03): drop –upgrade Today's Drop features three kind-of-major updates to some froody FOSS. Deno 2.4 enhances developer experience with features like raw imports, OpenTelemetry integration, and improved Node.js compatibility; SQLite marks its 25th anniversary with performance upgrades like the sqlite3_rsync feature for faster sync; and, Ligolo-ng v0.8 introduces a web interface for collaborative tunneling, supporting multiple users effectively.

03.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #674 (2025-07-01): Typography Tuesday Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop highlights the significance of small symbols like reference marks in typography, which aid in guiding readers while maintaining text flow. It features Gentium Plus, a versatile font with extensive multilingual support, and reveals how Apple's historical design elements reside in its Symbols font, showcasing a nuanced connection to technology's evolution.

01.07.2025 15:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #673 (2025-06-30): Long[er] Form Monday Today's Drop discusses the shortcomings of relying on LLMs in development, positing they may highlight poor tooling rather than technological progress. It also reviews Cloudflare's secure video conferencing platform, Orange, and addresses the unsettling trend of businesses replacing human imagery with AI avatars, reflecting a diminishing emphasis on human value.

30.06.2025 14:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bonus Drop #88 (2025-06-28): The weekend Bonus Drop discusses two developer tools: MCPJam Inspector and mcp-cli, designed for testing and debugging Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Additionally, it explores a project on replicating Apple’s Liquid Glass effect in web browsers using SVG filters and Three.js, emphasizing creativity and ingenuity in overcoming browser limitations.

29.06.2025 12:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #671 (2025-06-26): On Display Today's Drop covers the recent, er…, "drop" of the W3C's PNG-3 standard which introduces significant improvements, including official support for Animated PNG (APNG), enhanced color management, and EXIF data integration. It also covers Keith Clark’s RichInput web component enhances form inputs with real-time feedback; and links to a humorous post discussing the inevitable complexity in web table design as project scopes expand.

26.06.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #670 (2025-06-24): Typography Tuesday Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop features 3 monospaced fonts: Wumpus Mono, a freemium font designed for programming; Annotation Mono, a customizable variable font; and 🍁 Mono, a multilingual offering. Each font caters to specific needs in coding aesthetics and functionality, with a focus on legibility and innovative design.

24.06.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop #669 (2025-06-23): Monday Morning (Barely) Grab Bag The Monday Drop discusses 3 main topics: a Rube Goldberg-inspired data pipeline to archive X posts into #DuckDB, the #RStats package {fplot} for automating distribution plot creation in R, and an article from CSS-Tricks on advanced CSS color techniques, detailing color spaces and models for modern web development.

23.06.2025 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bonus Drop #87 (2025-06-22): Taking One For The Team The weekend Bonus Drop reviews Microsoft’s basic terminal text editor, edit, deemed unremarkable due to its lack of features. It highlights the Raycast Ollama extension, showcasing its capabilities for efficiently managing local and remote LLM models with advanced integrations. Finally, it introduces ttl.sh, an ephemeral Docker image registry for secure, temporary sharing without authentication.

22.06.2025 14:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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