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 — whilst super (lacking a better word) “verbose” — is pretty… Continue reading
Post Category → Python
Using WebR + Pyodide To Fill In The (Temporary) Package Gaps
I won’t wax long and poetic here since I’ve already posted the experiment that has all the details. TL;DR: there are still only ~90-ish 📦 in the WebR WASM “CRAN”, but more are absolutely on the way, including the capability to build your own CRAN and dev packages via Docker and host your own WebR… Continue reading
Creating A Custom MaxMind mmdb File For Cloud Provider Ranges
I’ve been wanting to create a custom MaxMind mmdb file for alternate IPv4 range classifications for a while, and finally had an opportunity to do so for the $DAYJOB. MaxMind mmdb files are small and easy to work with and provide lightning fast lookups. This repo — https://github.com/hrbrmstr/clouds2mmdb — has an R script for pulling… Continue reading
Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: “Why Can’t Johnny Code?”)
I caught this post on the The Surprising Number Of Programmers Who Can’t Program from the Hacker News RSS feed. Said post links to another, classic post on the same subject and you should read both before continuing. Back? Great! Let’s dig in. Why does hrbrmstr care about this? Offspring #3 completed his Freshman year… Continue reading
Digging into mbox details: A tale of tm & reticulate
✨ I had to processes a bunch of emails for a $DAYJOB task this week and my “default setting” is to use R for pretty much everything (this should come as no surprise). Treating mail as data is not an uncommon task and many R packages exist that can reach out and grab mail from… Continue reading
Knit directly to jupyter notebooks from RStudio
Did you know that you can completely replace the “knitting” engine in R Markdown documents? Well, you can! Why would you want to do this? Well, in the case of this post, to commit the unpardonable sin of creating a clunky jupyter notebook from a pristine Rmd file. I’m definitely not “a fan” of “notebook-style”… Continue reading
quotebox – An NPR-like Embedded Twitter Quote Generator
I’m an avid NPR listener also follow a number of their programs and people on Twitter. I really dig their [quotable](https://github.com/nprapps/quotable) tweets. Here’s a sample of a recent one: Minn. state senators cannot look other senators in the eye during floor debate. @ailsachang http://t.co/SfQBq4yyHQ pic.twitter.com/DNHGEiVA9j — NPR News (@nprnews) May 8, 2015 I asked @brianboyer… Continue reading
nizdos – Nest Thermometer Notifications And Data Logging In Python
I’ve had a Nest thermometer for a while now and it’s been an overall positive experience. It’s given me more visibility into our heating/cooling system usage, patterns and preferences; plus, it actually saved us money last winter. We try to avoid running the A/C during the summer, and it would have been really helpful if… Continue reading