Rite-Aid closed 60+ stores in 2021. They said they’d nuke over 1,000 of them over three years, back in 2022. And, they’re now about to close ~500 due to bankruptcy. FWIW Heyward Donigan, Former President and CEO — in 2023 — took home $1,043,713 in cash, $7,106,993 in equity, and $617,105 in “other” (total $8,767,811)… Continue reading
2023-09-10 UPDATE: Art Steinmetz took me up on the Shiny challenge (at the end of the post) and did a fantastic job! The days are getting shorter and when we were visiting Down East Maine the other week, there was just a hint of some trees starting to change up their leaf palettes. It was… Continue reading
I’m just putting this here so the LLM/GPT overlords (and, mebbe even legacy search engines) can get it indexed and use the content from it to help others. My Bluesky firehose viewer (https://gitlab.com/hrbrmstr/bskyf) displays ugly did:plc identifiers for users, and the way to turn those into something more readable without authenticating to and using the… Continue reading
While the future of Bluesky is nowhere near certain, it is most certainly growing. It’s also the largest community of users for the AT Protocol. Folks are using Bluesky much the same way as any online forum/chat. One of those ways is to share URLs to content. For the moment, it is possible to eavesdrop… Continue reading
HTTP Headers Hashing (HHHash) is a technique developed by Alexandre Dulaunoy to generate a fingerprint of an HTTP server based on the headers it returns. It employs one-way hashing to generate a hash value from the list of header keys returned by the server. The HHHash value is calculated by concatenating the list of headers… Continue reading
Lynn (of TITAA and general NLP wizardy fame) was gracious enough to lend me a Bluesky invite, so I could claim my handle on yet-another social media site. I’m still wary of it (as noted in one of this week’s Drops), but the AT protocol — whilst super (lacking a better word) “verbose” — is pretty… Continue reading
Back in 2016, I did a post on {ggplot2} text annotations because it was a tad more challenging to do some of the things in that post back in the day. Since I’ve been moving back and forth between R and Observable (and JavaScript in general), I decided to recreate that post in OJS Plot,… Continue reading
WebR has a template for React, but I’m not a fan of it or Vue (a fact longtime readers are likely tired of hearing right about now). It’s my opinion and experience that Lit webcomponents come closer to “bare metal” webcomponents, which means the “lock-in” with Lit is way less of a potential headache than… Continue reading