Author: hrbrmstr

The CDC continues to “deliver” in 2020, this time by changing the JSON response of one of the hidden APIs that my {cdcfluview} package wraps. CDC: So helpful! It was...continue reading.

(This is part 2 of n “quick hit” posts, each walking through some approaches to speeding up components of an iterative operation. Go here for part 1). Thanks to the...continue reading.

(This is part 1 of n posts using this same data; n will likely be 2-3, and the posts are more around optimization than anything else.) I recently had to...continue reading.

The Marshall Project has a solid story and set of visualizations on the impact of COVID-19 in U.S. prisons. They keep the data (and vis) regularly updated. They do great...continue reading.

The incredibly talented folks over at Bishop Fox were quite generous this week, providing a scanner for figuring out PAN-OS GlobalProtect versions. I’ve been using their decoding technique and date-based...continue reading.

Tis been a long time coming, but a minor change to default S3 parameters in tibbles finally caused a push of {sergeant} — the R package that lets you use the...continue reading.

I (and, apparently, Gandalf O_o) are pleased to announce that RSwitch version 1.7.0 has been released. (Direct Download) RSwitch is a macOS menubar utility that: makes it dead simple to...continue reading.

R 4.0.0 has been out for a while, now, and — apart from a case where merge() was slower than dirt — it’s been really stable for at least me...continue reading.

I caught this tweet by Terence Eden about using Twitter image alt-text to “PGP sign” tweet and my mind immediately went to “how can I abuse this for covert communications,...continue reading.

The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC from now on) has setup two new public surveillance resources for COVID-19. Together, COVIDView and COVID-NET provide similar weekly surveillance data as...continue reading.

Just a quick note that thanks to a gentle nudge an updated version of {uaparser} — a package that processes User Agent strings web clients send to servers — is...continue reading.

Waffle House announced it was closing hundreds of stores this week due to SARS-Cov-2 (a.k.a COVID-19). This move garnered quite a bit of media attention since former FEMA Administrator Craig...continue reading.

Über Tuesday has come and almost gone (some state results will take a while to coalesce) and I’m relieved to say that {catchpole} did indeed work, with the example code...continue reading.

For folks who are smart enough not to go near Twitter, I’ve been on a hiatus from the platform insofar as reading the Twitter feed goes. “Why” isn’t the subject...continue reading.

It seems that the need for MX, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC records for modern email setups were just not enough acronyms (and setup tasks) for some folks, resulting in the...continue reading.

As the maintainer of RSwitch — and developer of my own (for personal use) macOS, iOS, watchOS, iPadOS and tvOS apps — I need the full Apple Xcode install around...continue reading.

macOS R users who tend to work on the bleeding edge likely noticed some downtime at <mac.r-project.org> this past weekend. Part of the issue was an SSL/TLS certificate expiration situation....continue reading.

I saw this CNBC article on an in-theory browser client-side-only conversion utility for taking Apple Card PDF statements and turning them into CSV files. Since I (a) never trust any...continue reading.

Before we start wrapping foreign language code we need to make sure that basic R packages can be created. If you’ve followed along from the previous post you have everything...continue reading.

The R language and RStudio IDE are a powerful combination for “getting stuff done”, and one aspect of R itself that makes it especially useful is the ability to use...continue reading.