Category: Programming
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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…
Get A Day's Schedule From Fantastical On The Command Line With Shortcuts
Get Command Line Access To Fantastical Schedules With An Apple Shortcuts And Bash Combo.
A Step to the Right in R Assignments
I received an out-of-band question on the use of %<>% in my CDC FluView post, and took the opportunity to address it in a broader, public…
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…
Moving From system() calls to Rcpp Interfaces
Over on the Data Driven Security Blog there's a post on how to use Rcpp to interface with an external library (in this case ldns for DNS lookups). It builds on another post which uses system() to make a call to dig to lookup DNS TXT…
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…
One More Time…Mapping Maine Power Outages with D3
It started with a local R version and migrated to a Shiny version and is now in full D3 glory…
Reverse IP Address Lookups With R (From Simple To Bulk/Asynchronous)
R lacks some of the more "utilitarian" features found in other scripting languages that were/are more geared—at least initially—towards systems administration. One of the most frustrating missing pieces for security data scientists is the…