Author: hrbrmstr
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OS Secrets Exposed: Extracting Extended File Attributes and Exploring Hidden Download URLs With The xattrs Package
Most modern operating systems keep secrets from you in many ways. One of these ways is by associating extended file attributes with files. These attributes can serve useful purposes. For instance, macOS uses them to identify when files…
The Fix Is In: Finding infix functions inside contributed R package "utilities" files
Regular readers will recall the " utility belt " post from back in April of this year. This is a follow-up to a request made asking for a list of all the % infix functions in those…
The Power of Standards and Consistency
I'm going to (eventually) write a full post on the package I'm mentioning in this one : osqueryr ? . The TLDR on osqueryr is that it is an R DBI wrapper (that has just enough glue to also be plugged into dbplyr ) for osquery ? . The TLDR…
GDPR Unintended Consequences Part 1 — Increasing WordPress Blog Exposure
I pen this mini-tome on "GDPR Enforcement Day". The spirit of GDPR is great, but it's just going to be another Potempkin Village in most organizations much like PCI or SOX . For now, the only thing GDPR has done is made GDPR consulting…
Create Code Metrics with cloc
The cloc Perl script (yes, Perl !) by Al Danial ( https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc ) has been one of the go-to tools for generating code metrics. Given a single file, directory tree, archive, or git repo, cloc can speedily give you metrics…
"LMX ot NOSJ!" Interchanging Classic Data Formats With Single blackmagic Incantations
The D.C. Universe magic hero Zatanna used spells (i.e. incantations) to battle foes and said spells were just sentences said backwards, hence the mixed up jumble in the title. But, now I'm regretting not naming the package zatanna and…
RIPE 76 Selected Talks
Do not read anything more into the order than the end-number of the "Main URL" since this was auto-generated from a script that processed my Firefox tab…
Wrangling Data Table Out Of the FBI 2017 IC3 Crime Report
The U.S. FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center was established in 2000 to receive complaints of Internet crime. They produce an annual report, just released 2017's edition , and I need the data from it. Since I have to wrangle it out, I…
Seventeen Minutes From Tweet To Package
The answer was a 1:1 "file upload" curl to httr…
Painless ODBC + dplyr Connections to Amazon Athena and Apache Drill with R & odbc
I spent some time this morning upgrading the JDBC driver (and changing up some supporting code to account for changes to it) for my metis package? which connects R up to Amazon Athena via RJDBC. I'm used to JDBC and have to deal with Java…