Category: Development
Everything filed under Development.
AI Proofing Your It/cyber Career: The Human Only Capabilities That Matter
In the past ~4 weeks I have personally observed some irrefutable things in "AI" that are very likely going to cause massive shocks to employment models in IT, software development, systems administration, and cybersecurity. I know some…
Are We Becoming Children of the MagentAI?
Back in 1997, a commercial airline captain noticed his fellow pilots had a problem: they'd gotten so used to following the magenta flight path lines on their fancy new navigation screens that they were forgetting how to actually fly the…
An OS X R Task Runner for—and a Mini-R-centric review of—Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Editor
Microsoft's newfound desire to make themselves desirable to the hipster development community has caused them to make many things open and/or free of late. One of these manifestations is Visual Studio Code, an Atom-ish editor for us code…
Rforecastio 1.3.0 Update
Thanks to a comment suggestion, the Rforecastio package is now up to version 1.3.0 and has a new parameter which lets you specify which time conversion function you want to use. Details are up on…
Rforecastio 1.2.0 Bug-fix Update
Not even going to put an R category on this since I don't want to pollute R-bloggers with this tiny post, but I had to provide the option to let folks specify ssl.verifypeer=FALSE (so I made it a generic option to pass in any CURL…
Rforecastio Package Update (1.1.0)
I've bumped up the version number of Rforecastio (github) to 1.1.0. The new features…
Points, Polygons and Power Outages
Most of my free coding time has been spent tweaking a D3-based live power outage tracker for Central Maine Power customers (there's also a woefully less-featured Shiny app for it, too). There is some R associated with the D3 vis, but it's…
Slopegraph Workbench/Workshop in D3
I've been getting a huge uptick in views of my Slopegraphs in Python post and I think it's due to @edwardtufte's recent slopegraph contest…
Mapping Power Outages in Maine Dynamically with Shiny/R
I decided to forego the D3 map mentioned in the previous post in favor of a Shiny one since I had 90% of the mapping code…
Scraping Content From Google Groups
I was helping a friend out who wanted to build a word cloud from the text in Google Groups posts. If you've made any efforts to try to get content out of Google Groups you know that the only way to do so is to ensure you subscribe to the…