The weekend Bonus Drop discusses implementing offsite backups for self-hosted bare Git repositories using Hetzner's storage boxes and Borg Backup. It emphasizes the importance of ensuring reliable backups, describing Borg's deduplication and encryption features, and detailing the chosen backup configuration and retention strategy while promoting interaction on social media for further assistance.

The weekend Drop is all about a feature of Zsh you are likely using, but not aware you are, and how you can use it to robustify your shell game: zsh modules. You'll learn how to wield them well and improve performance of your scripts, tap into Zsh's networking capabilities, and even use it to make persistent db stores. Lots of practical examples included!

In today's Drop, we cover Homebrew 7.0.0 — parallel installs, native brew vulns scanning, Linux Landlock sandboxing, Intel Macs demoted to Tier 3 — plus my new brew-sploits wrapper that flags which CVEs actually have public exploits, and a shell script beefer-upper-er and forensics tour of stat, readlink, command, file, ldd, and friends for answering "where does this binary really live?"

Today's Drop discusses useful tools for Bash scripting and terminal operations. It goes deep on the 'declare' command in Bash, explaining its various attributes for variable assignment. Additionally, it presents 'rura,' an interactive Rust terminal UI for building shell pipelines, and 'mdfried,' a terminal pager for viewing markdown files that supports enhanced formatting and image handling.

The is-there-really-another-in-week-Drop?! showcases MicroLighter, an innovative syntax highlighter that enhances code editing while preserving the DOM; HTML advancements including new attributes that reduce JavaScript reliance; and Manuel Matuzović's updated HTML Boilerplate for 2026, which offers comprehensive templates with modern features for web development.

Today's Drop discusses three neat CLI tools to enhance shell skills, tame code, and manage system processes. Witr identifies the lineage of running processes; zcomplete corrects shell commands based on typed command history; and, scc provides efficient line counting for codebases while offering analytical features like complexity assessments.

Today's Drop highlights a few recent discoveries: Deepfield IP Checker, HTML-XML-utils, and MapTheNet. It describes how Deepfield's IP Checker reveals if an IP has participated in DDoS attacks, while HTML-XML-utils provides utilities to manipulate HTML/XML files. MapTheNet explores web traffic through a unique classification approach.

The weekend Bonus Drop discusses several advanced DNS resources, focusing on ptrclassify, which categorizes IP addresses efficiently using structured tagging for traffic analysis. It introduces the new HTTPS DNS record type that enhances HTTP/3 connectivity and touches on dnstt, a tool for DNS tunneling.

The almost-too-late Bonus Drop discusses the benefits of creating bare repositories for independence from GitHub, introduces F2 as a powerful tool for file [re]organization, and highlights Organic Maps as a tracking-free alternative for navigation, emphasizing privacy concerns.

Today's Bonus (Typography) Drop features TypeStax: a browser-based tool that simplifies typography design by allowing users to set a base font size and scale ratio, automatically adjusting line height and letter spacing based on real font metrics. The application includes a community sharing feature and an impressive export functionality. Additionally, Ioskeley Mono is highlighted as a free font inspired by the commercial Berkeley Mono, and the history of the WOFF font format is also discussed, detailing its evolution and widespread adoption in web design.

The Weekend Bonus Drop covers the repository "awesome-bash-alias", which features an extensive README w/over 2,100 lines outlining advanced shell aliases & functions. It emphasizes safe, cross-platform usage, w/modules covering various tasks like file management and container commands. Notably, it includes confirmation mechanisms for destructive actions, promoting careful command usage throughout.

This week's anti-clanker Bonus Drop explores tools for enhancing understanding and efficiency. It highlights Daniil Baturin's iproute2 guide, stinkpot's simpler shell-history tool, and Filip Roséen's article on using the POSIX shell null-command effectively. It also quick links to ~1,800 "today I learned" entries across 75 categories.

The Weekend Bonus Drip explores the evolving bot landscape, focusing on the Known Agents directory that tracks over 2,000 AI crawlers and scrapers. It highlights recent regulatory changes, like New York's Stealth Crawler Act and EDPB guidelines, which emphasize crawler identification for compliance. Additionally, it discusses post-quantum TLS as a new bot detection method.

Today's (barely in-time) Drop discusses web resources like Vilistextum, an enduring HTML-to-ASCII converter, and Freedium Mirror, which circumvents Medium’s paywall. The "Milliseconds That Matter" section showcases a project that visualizes the web page loading process in detail.

The weekend Bonus Drop discusses moreutils, a collection of Unix tools developed by Joey Hess to fill gaps in the Unix toolbox. It highlights various utilities like sponge, chronic, combine, and isutf8, explaining their functionalities and practical applications. Each tool enhances command-line efficiency, addressing specific tasks in data handling and script automation.

The weekend Bonus Drop discusses three resources related to "observation": anomalies in synchronized traffic from Akkoma instances, a global CDN mapping exercise highlighting discrepancies in detected nodes, and radmon.org, a global radiation monitoring network using amateur equipment. Together, these underscore the effectiveness of decentralized observations in understanding complex systems.

The weekend bonus drop highlights include a playable Pong game in a favicon, an HTML document encoded in a favicon, and zeroserve, a minimal static file server using eBPF for configuration. These projects explore innovative uses of favicons and enhance server functionality while raising security implications and practical applications for the future.

Today's Drop discusses various useful SSH features and tips to improve automation and efficiency when using SSH. Key highlights include using BatchMode to avoid hanging connections, running local shell functions on remote hosts, maintaining sessions with screen/tmux, and conditional config management. These methods enhance user productivity and error handling in SSH operations.

The Bonus Drop discusses three typography-related topics: Camel Mono, an innovative font design that enhances readability of camelCase identifiers; Adrian Roselli's argument against setting a base font size in CSS to respect user preferences; and Matteo Bertin's Borges Square Pixel, a typeface that visually embodies labyrinths, challenging traditional readability.

The weekend Bonus Drop focuses on q3cpma's repository, which contains 85 meticulously crafted shell scripts designed for portability across multiple systems. Notable scripts include fqueue, a file-based queue, and attrfilter, a line colorizer using awk. The collection emphasizes best practices in shell scripting, showcasing techniques for efficiency and usability while demonstrating the power of POSIX sh. If I missed your fav from it, drop a note in the comments or reply on the Fediverse.

Nordstjernen; The Attack On Competence; quien New $WORK onboarding and new project immersion is slowing down to a more human pace and we’re done-done with fam holidays for a bit, so let’s try to get the Drops back into daily form. Today we’ve got a real new browser alternative, a somewhat distressing piece on “AI”, […]

The weekend Bonus Drop covers Gribouille, a Typst package developed by the legendary Mickaël Canouil. It's a comprehensive Grammar of Graphics implementation for Typst, rivaling ggplot2 with features like geom layering and aesthetic mapping. It enables seamless data visualization in Typst, supporting native CSV data loads and providing publication-quality charts without external dependencies.

Today's sleep-deprived-originated Typography Tuesday features Lilex, a ligature-enhanced font, and D.I.Y. ’75, a typewriter font derived from 1970s fanzine materials. It also highlights FontBob’s interactive game that teaches type design through hands-on practice, encouraging users to create and optically correct their own alphabets.

The latest (and, hopefully final only- Bonus Drop) showcases a cadre of terminal emulators, highlighting their unique features and technologies. It covers OpenWarp, Macterm, rootshell, Rio, and Foot, each with distinct attributes related to performance, design, and underlying technology. The author discusses usability for different systems, emphasizing safety and configurations while noting trends toward AI integration and GPU usage.

Seeing is believing in the weekend Bonus Drop! Posit has launched an alpha version of ggsql, a SQL syntax extension for visualizations, allowing folks to create charts directly from SQL queries without additional programming languages. It utilizes database computation for efficiency and offers a clean interface for SQL practitioners. Additionally, chartli provides a CLI tool to generate terminal-based charts from text data, catering to quick visual assessments.

Managed to crank out another Bonus Drop after a firehose of an onboarding week @ Censys. Today, we've got Kula, a Linux server monitoring tool that emphasizes security with deliberate mitigation measures. Also: SSH certificates improve key management, addressing the flaws of public key systems. Finally, an iTerm2 bug demonstrates vulnerabilities in terminal emulators, highlighting the significance of "AI"-automated bug detection.

The first Bonus Drop in quite a while has some seekrit updates and a new method for setting up S3-object storage at home using Versity S3 Gateway and Tailscale, detailing installation steps and configurations for enhanced security and accessibility.

Hey folks! Just a quick note to ACK the unexpected, extended hiatus from Drops for a bit. Prep for our talk at [un]prompted the other week took a ton of time away, then I had to sit next to a dude with the (legit) plague next to me for 6.24 hours to SFO, deal with […]

It's all about DNS in today's Drop! Geoff Huston developed ipasn.net, a user-friendly DNS-based IP-to-ASN lookup service that avoids complex query formatting. Hickory DNS is a Rust-native implementation, addresses memory safety issues in traditional DNS stacks, with future production plans by Let’s Encrypt. And Miek Gieben's revised Go DNS library boasts significant performance enhancements, optimizing throughput and memory efficiency.

Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the role of typography as a uniquely human design element amidst an advancing "AI" landscape. It emphasizes that tools like "AI" struggle to replicate the nuance and cultural significance of human-crafted typefaces. Featured fonts include Television Sans, inspired by 1980s ads, and Sobremesa, designed for warmth and comfort.

Today's Drop discusses portit, a Rust TUI for managing TCP ports; MinRX, a new regex engine in GNU gawk focusing on performance and POSIX compliance; and Regexle, a puzzle game that blends Wordle mechanics with regex challenges.

The weekend Bonus Drop covers three key topics: an AWK script simulating a Bell 103 modem for data exfiltration, the revamped Go 1.26 'go fix' tool enhancing code modernization, and Scraping Sandbox, an open-source web scraping platform offering a playground for developers to practice with synthetic e-commerce data in a "modern" site.

Today’s themed! Drop features 2 spiffy CSS resources and a rly cool tool. Modern CSS Code Snippets compares legacy and modern CSS patterns; ASCII Silhouettify converts images to ASCII art; and CSS Doodle is for creating generative art using CSS-like rules.

Today's theme-less Drop discusses 4 topics: dotenvx, an enhanced .env management tool that improves security and multi-environment support; factbook.json, a project preserving the CIA World Factbook as structured JSON; and alpinestuff, a resource for learning Alpine.JS. Kanso Ink is also mentioned, offering terminal theme configurations.

Today's typography-focused drop features three highlights: M PLUS 1 Code, an open-source programming font from Japan known for its monospaced Latin and CJK support; FontPlop, apps for converting TTF/OTF fonts to web formats; and Font Gauntlet, a browser tool for proofing and animating variable fonts with local caching.

Today's Drop takes a big look at Vim 9.2's release and finally pokes at Fresh, a new Rust-built terminal editor that offers an intuitive editing experience with tmux-like session persistence and robust features like LSP integration and lazy loading.

Today's Drop discusses three tools: Kaku, a macOS WezTerm fork enhancing ergonomics; Pake, a Tauri tool creating cross-platform desktop apps from URLs; and Fair Weather, a vanilla JS weather app scoring activities based on conditions.

Today's Drop introduces md-browse, a markdown-first web browser that converts web pages to clean markdown for better readability. It utilizes electrobun (also covered today) for lightweight cross-platform app building and Turndown (also covered today!) for HTML to markdown conversion.

Today's Drop introduces FontBo, a browser-based font editor designed by Carl's Type, providing a user-friendly alternative to complex professional tools. It offers a free tier with full features, and a paid Pro tier for additional privacy and support. The featured font, Geomini, is a compact geometric typeface optimized for UI design, showcasing clean lines and balanced metrics.

Today's Drop discusses two tools in the Google Workspace ecosystem: gog, a CLI that simplifies API access for Gmail and other services + msgvault, a local Gmail archiver enabling offline analysis using DuckDB; It also covers duckdb-oast, a community extension for analyzing OAST domains.

The weekend Bonus Drop discusses enhancements in Bash scripting, particularly focusing on a function for running tasks concurrently with real-time status updates. It further emphasizes the significance of robust error handling using recommended practices to improve script reliability. Additionally, it introduces the Oxford Principle for organizing personal scripts effectively.

Today's Drop covers the release of Pandoc 3.9, whcih features a WASM build for client-side document processing, enhanced PDF support and configuration flexibility with JSON. It also pokes at mermaid-rs-renderer, a Rust-based tool for rendering Mermaid diagrams in various formats, and introduces Pretty Mermaid Skills which allows LLMs to generate and render Mermaid syntax into SVG or ASCII, improving diagram integration in "AI" applications.

Today's make-up Drop discusses two new #DuckDB community extensions: duckdb_mcp, which integrates SQL with Model Context Protocol servers for advanced data analysis, and dns, enabling versatile DNS lookups. Additionally, DuckDB has enhanced its logging capabilities to support detailed debugging across multiple log types, improving usability and troubleshooting efficiency.

Today's Drop features the 2025 Web Almanac's font section which reveals that 88% of websites use web fonts, with self-hosting at 72% being the leading delivery method. Additionally, fontdata.com offers a practical tool for checking font name availability, while the featured POI Aeronaut font provides unique stylistic alternates.

The Friday Drop covers cli-stash, a Bubble Tea-based micro-TUI for managing shell commands efficiently, and llparse with llhttp, a TypeScript-based parser generator.

Today's Drop discusses three useful programming resources: arf, a modern Rust-based #RStats REPL with SQLite command history and helpful features; go-typescript, a Go package enabling high-performance TypeScript execution without CGO dependencies; and an article on ten essential Bash tips for developers.

Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop introduces Atlas of Type, a curated directory of over 12,000 typefaces from independent foundries. It also showcases Beyond Bézier, a research project exploring alternative type design methodologies; and the featured font Neue DIN, highlighting the innovative "retalic" style.

As promised, the weekend Bonus Drop covers Ollama's launch of launch: a new feature enabling Claude Code to work with local models using a modified API. It also showcases Sightline which offers efficient searching for infrastructure assets within OpenStreetMap data. And it closes with "Kitty Cards".

This second DuckDB-focused Drop of the week discusses three more/new DuckDB Community extensions: duck_tails, which enables version-controlled data workflows from git repositories; crawler, which provides web scraping tools compliant with robots.txt; and urlpattern, designed for parsing and matching URLs. Each extension enhances data handling capabilities within DuckDB.

Today's 🦆 Drop covers several notable enhancements in the #DuckDB ecosystem, including a new Go-based duckdb-mcp server for improved LLM interaction with databases, the Yardstick extension for reusable SQL calculations at varying aggregation levels, and the DataSketches extension facilitating efficient streaming algorithms for data analysis.