Using the new Plot Javascript Exploratory Visualization Library Sans-Observable

The fine folks over at @ObservableHQ released a new javascript exploratory visualization library called Plot last week with great fanfare. It was primarily designed to be used in Observable notebooks and I quickly tested it out there (you can find them at my Observable landing page: https://observablehq.com/@hrbrmstr). {Plot} doesn’t require Observable, however, and I threw… Continue reading →

COVID-19 U.S. County Vaccination Tracker With An Observable Notebook Using Datasettes and {Plot}

Rather than continue to generate daily images with R, I threw together an Observable notebook that takes advantage of the CDC COVID-19 county data datasette (provided by Simon Willison) and the new {Plot} library (by the @ObservableHQ team) that enables users to interactively see the daily county resident vaccination “series complete” percentage distribution. The full… Continue reading →

A Small macOS (Big Sur+) App to Extract Indicators of Compromise

There’s a semi-infrequent-but-frequent-enough-to-be-annoying manual task at $DAYJOB that involves extracting a particular set of strings (identifiable by a fairly benign set of regular expressions) from various interactive text sources (so, not static documents or documents easily scrape-able). Rather than hack something onto Sublime Text or VS Code I made a small macOS app in SwiftUI… Continue reading →

Making macOS Universal Apps in Swift with Universal Golang Static Libraries

There are a plethora of amazingly useful Golang libraries, and it has been possible for quite some time to use Go libraries with Swift. The advent of the release of the new Apple Silicon/M1/arm64 architecture for macOS created the need for a new round of “fat”/”universal” binaries and libraries to bridge the gap between legacy… Continue reading →