Author: hrbrmstr
Everything written by hrbrmstr.
Some Covid Donuts To End The Week
Vox grabbed some data from the Kaiser Family Foundation and did a story a few days ago on it, then posted a different visualization of it that attracted some…
Hasty Bug-fix Release of RSwitch v2
Version 2 of RSwitch — the macOS menubar utility that enables fast and seamless switching between R versions on macOS and also provides notifications for new versions of RStudio Dailies has had a hasty update to deal with an error…
Acoustic: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP SIP/RTP Challenge with R, Zeek, tshark (& friends)
Hot on the heels of the previous CyberDefenders Challenge Solution comes this noisy installment which solves their Acoustic…
Packet Maze: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP Puzzle with R, Zeek, and tshark
It was a rainy weekend in southern Maine and I really didn't feel like doing chores, so I was skimming through RSS feeds and noticed a link to a PacketMaze challenge in the latest This Week In 4n6…
New TabularData Available in Swift on macOS Monterery (et al)
WWDC 2021 is on this week and many new fun things are being introduced, including some data science-friendly additions to the frameworks that come with Xcode 13 and available on macOS 12+ (and its OS…
archinfo v0.4.0 Released
My archinfo utility is a small macOS command line application that displays process id, name, and architecture (arm64 or…
A {swiftr} Brief Interlude While Awaiting {cdcfluview} CRAN Checks
My {cdcfluview} package started tossing erros on CRAN just over a week ago when the CDC added an extra parameter to one of the hidden API endpoints that the package wraps. After a fairly hectic set of days since said NOTE came, I had time…
Using the new Plot Javascript Exploratory Visualization Library Sans-Observable
The fine folks over at @ObservableHQ released a new javascript exploratory visualization library called Plot last week with great fanfare. It was primarily designed to be used in Observable notebooks and I quickly tested it out there (you…
Feedly Mini Extension Removed From Chrome Store Due To "Malware"
On or about Friday evening (May 7, 2021) Edge notified me that the Feedly Mini extension (one of the only extensions I use as extensions are dangerous things) was remove from the store due to…
COVID-19 U.S. County Vaccination Tracker With An Observable Notebook Using Datasettes and {Plot}
Rather than continue to generate daily images with R, I threw together an Observable notebook that takes advantage of the CDC COVID-19 county data datasette (provided by Simon Willison) and the new {Plot} library (by the @ObservableHQ…