I caught this tweet by Terence Eden about using Twitter image alt-text to “PGP sign” tweet and my mind immediately went to “how can I abuse this for covert communications, malicious command-and-control, and embedding R code in tweets?”. When you paste or upload an image to tweet (web interface, at least) you have an opportunity… Continue reading
Dairy-Free No-Fail Biscuits
Ingredients 453g all-purpose flour (this precision is not 100% necessary, you may need to add more when folding in the wet ingredients) 30-37g sugar (I’d err on the lower side for the first run) 28g baking powder 7g salt 151g butter-flavored shortening (cold!) 76g eggs (I kinda just use 2 jumbo and add a teensy… Continue reading
New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC’s New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET
The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC from now on) has setup two new public surveillance resources for COVID-19. Together, COVIDView and COVID-NET provide similar weekly surveillance data as FluView does for influenza-like illnesses (ILI). The COVIDView resources are HTML tables (O_O) and, while the COVID-NET interface provides a “download” button, there is no… Continue reading
Adzuki & Andouille Soup
Ingredients 2 cups adzuki (not dried) 2 cups (4-6 links) andouille sliced 1 tbsp olive oil 1 medium onion, chopped 2 bay leaves 2 garlic cloves, coarse chopped 0-2 dry hot peppers to taste 1-2 fresh sprigs thyme 4 cups stock (chicken or veg) salt & pepper to taste dash of vinegar TODO Brown sausage… Continue reading
{uaparserjs} Updated on CRAN & Using webpack to Make {V8} Application Bundles
Just a quick note that thanks to a gentle nudge an updated version of {uaparser} — a package that processes User Agent strings web clients send to servers — is making its way to all the CRAN mirrors and is also available on CINC. The most significant change is a much overdue update to the… Continue reading
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 indicator of the immediate and overall severity of a natural disaster. [He’s not the only one](https://www.ehstoday.com/emergency-management/article/21906815/what-do-waffles-have-to-do-with-risk-management. The… Continue reading
Dairy-free Chocolate Chip Muffins
Stuff you need 370g all-purpose flour 7g baking powder 300g sugar 80g shortening 7.5g salt 140g eggs (~2 proper jumbo) 75ml coconut milk or cashew milk or almond milk yogurt 75ml oat milk 15ml vanilla 85ml veg oil 10oz bag ghirardelli dark chocolate chips Stuff you do Oven @ 375°F. Paddle sugar, shortening and salt…. Continue reading
{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 run: If we tweak the buffer space around the squares, I think the cartogram looks better: but, you should… Continue reading