Cross-post to Substack where I dropped some details on the newest browser in town: Arc. Intro: It feels like it’s been forever since The Browser Company started teasing us about their new browser, Arc. I did the dance many of you almost certainly did and typed in my throwaway email address to try to get… Continue reading
Honk If You Like The Fediverse!
This is a re-post from today’s newsletter. I generally avoid doing this but the content here is def more “bloggy” than “newslettery”. You can now receive these blog posts in your activity stream. Just follow @hrbrmstr@rud.is and the new posts from here will slide right into your timeline. So, you’ve committed to abandoning the bird… Continue reading
Into The Fediverse!
This is more of a test post after enabling some new Fediverse features on the server. Said Fediverse got a bit more real-ish this week (with moderate apologies to the pioneers in this space who’ve languished for ~five years) You can find me at: @hrbrmstr@mastodon.social (general blathering/primary masto-account) @hrbrmstr@infosec.exchange (reserved for cybersecurity chatter) @hrbrmstr@rud.is (the… Continue reading
Fall Foliage: JavaScript/OJS Edition
I’ve been (mostly) keeping up with annual updates for my R/{sf} U.S. foliage post which you can find on GH. This year, we have Quarto, and it comes with so many batteries included that you’d think it was Christmas. One of those batteries is full support for the Observable runtime. These are used in {ojs}… Continue reading
New Chrome Extension To Turn Observable Notebooks Into Quarto Projects
My previous post announced a Rust-based command line tool for generating Quarto projects from Observable Notebooks. Some folks may not want to use yet-another command line tool, and it dawned on me that it’d be more convenient to just do the conversion in-browser when one is already on a Notebook page. So, I dusted off… Continue reading
ohq2quarto — Rust-Based CLI For Turning Observable Notebooks Into Quarto Projects
The previous post had some hacky R code to grab seekrit JSON data in ObservableHQ (OHQ) Notebooks and spit out a directory with a Quarto qmd and any associated FileAttachments. Holding firm to my “no more generic public R packages” decree, that’s as far as the R code for that utility is going to get…. Continue reading
Bootstrapping An {ojs} Quarto Document With An Observable Notebook
Quarto is amazing! And, it’s eating the world! OK. Perhaps not the entire world. But it’s still amazing! If you browse around the HQ, you’ll find many interesting notebooks. You may even have a few yourself! Wouldn’t it be great if you could just import an Observable notebook right into Quarto? Well, now you can…. Continue reading
Rust CLI For Apple’s WeatherKit REST API
Apple is in the final stages of shuttering the DarkSky service/API. They’ve replaced it with WeatherKit, which has both an xOS framework version as well as a REST API. To use either, you need to be a member of the Apple Developer Program (ADP) — $99.00/USD per-year — and calls to the service via either… Continue reading