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The Waffle House Index
Waffle House announced it was closing hundreds of stores this week due to SARS-Cov-2 (a.k.a COVID-19). This move garnered quite a bit of media attention since former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate used the restaurant chain as both an…
Dairy-free Chocolate Chip Muffins
Sift together dry ingredients and mix until moist. Don't…
{catchpole} Redux and Hashing Files & Websites with {ssdeepr}
Über Tuesday has come and almost gone (some state results will take a while to coalesce) and I'm relieved to say that {catchpole} did indeed work, with the example code from before producing this on first…
Make WSJ-esque Über Tuesday Democrat Delegate Cartograms in R with {catchpole}
For folks who are smart enough not to go near Twitter, I've been on a hiatus from the platform insofar as reading the Twitter feed goes. "Why" isn't the subject of this post so I won't go into it, but I've broken this half-NYE resolution…
BIMI Up, Scotty! A look at Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) Adoption with R and the Alexa Top 1m
It seems that the need for MX, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC records for modern email setups were just not enough acronyms (and setup tasks) for some folks, resulting in the creation of yet-another-acronym --- BIMI, or, Brand Indicators for Message…
Prying ".R" Script Files Away from Xcode (et al) on macOS
As the maintainer of RSwitch --- and developer of my own (for personal use) macOS, iOS, watchOS, iPadOS and tvOS apps --- I need the full Apple Xcode install around (more R-focused macOS folk can get away with just the command-line tools…
Monitoring Website SSL/TLS Certificate Expiration Times with R, {openssl}, {pushoverr}, and {DT}
macOS R users who tend to work on the bleeding edge likely noticed some downtime at <mac.r-project.org> this past weekend. Part of the issue was an SSL/TLS certificate expiration situation. Moving forward, we can monitor this with R using…
Davos 2020 World Economic Forum 2020 Global Risk Report Cyber Cliffs Notes
Each year the World Economic Forum releases their Global Risk Report around the time of the annual Davos conference. This year's report is out and below are notes on the "cyber" content to help others speed-read through those sections (in…
Convert Apple Card PDF Statements to Tidy Data (i.e. for CSV/Excel/database export)
I saw this CNBC article on an in-theory browser client-side-only conversion utility for taking Apple Card PDF statements and turning them into CSV…
Writing Frictionless R Package Wrappers — Building A Basic R Package
Before we start wrapping foreign language code we need to make sure that basic R packages can be created. If you've followed along from the previous post you have everything you need to get started here. Just to make sure , you should be…