Author: hrbrmstr
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Avoid libwebp Electron Woes On macOS With positron
Explore the impact of the libwebp supply chain disaster on Electron-based apps and discover Positron, a Golang macOS CLI tool designed to identify vulnerable apps. Stay informed and secure with our in-depth analysis and practical solutions.
Tracking Rite-Aid Store Closures
Explore the impact of Rite-Aid's store closures on communities, learn about the company's bankruptcy, and discover how data collection scripts can track these changes. This analysis provides insights into the consequences of pharmacy deserts and the role of leadership in these developments."
Foliage 2023
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 a solid reminder to re-up my ~annual “foliage” plotting that I…
Resolving A Bluesky/AT Protocol did:plc To A Handle/Handles
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…
Keeping Track Of URLs Shared On Bluesky
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…
New R Package For HTTP Headers Hashing
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…
Poor Dude's Janky Bluesky Feed Reader CLI Via R & Python
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 —…
Supreme Annotations Plot Redux & An OJS Plot↔ggplot2 Rosetta Stone
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…
Start Creating Vanilla JS WebR Apps With Less Inertia
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…
Make "Solar System" Plots With {ggsolar}
I was cranking out a blog post for work earlier this week that shows off just how many integrations our platform has. I won't blather about that content here, but as I was working on it, I really wanted to show off all the…