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mqtt Development Log : On DSLs, Rcpp Modules and Custom Formula Functions
I know some folks had a bit of fun with the previous post since it exposed the fact that I left out unique MQTT client id generation from the initial 0.1.0 release of the in-development package (client ids need to be unique…
Inter-operate with 'MQTT' Message Brokers With R (a.k.a. Live! BBC! Subtitles!)
Most of us see the internet through the lens of browsers and apps on our laptops, desktops, watches, TVs and mobile devices. These displays are showing us --- for the most part --- content designed for human consumption. Sure, apps handle…
A Workaround For When Anti-DDoS Also Means Anti-Data
More sites are turning to services like Cloudflare due to just how stupid-easy it is to DDoS --- perform a (possibly Distributed) Denial of Service attack on -- a site. Sometimes the DDoS is intentional (malicious). Sometimes it's because…
The Cost of True Love (a.k.a. The Tidy — and expensive! — Twelve Days of Christmas)
I’m in the market for Christmas presents for my true love, @mrshrbrmstr, and thought I’d look to an age-old shopping list for inspiration. Just what would it set me back if I decided to mimic the 12 Days of Christmas in this modern day and…
A Public Apology to Tal/R-Bloggers + The Trouble With Tibbles
Over the past few weeks, I had been noticing that some posts in the R-bloggers feed were getting truncated in Feedly. I don't remember when I noticed that since I usually click through immediately from the headline entry to the R-bloggers…
Sentiment Analysis of "A Christmas Carol"
Our family has been reading, listening to and watching "A Christmas Carol" for just abt 30 years now. I got it into my crazy noggin to perform a sentiment analysis on it the other day and tweeted out the results, but a large chunk of the R…
voteogram Is Now On CRAN
Earlier this year, I made a package that riffed off of ProPublica's really neat voting cartograms (maps) for the U.S. House and Senate. You can see one for disaster relief spending in the House and one for the ACA "Skinny Repeal" in the…
"Black"/"Cyber" Tips (a.k.a. How the hrbrgrinch ruined Christmas shopping)
NOTE: This is mainly for those of us in the Colonies, but some tips apply…
For Victoria & Kyle
Daughter #2 got married to a wonderful chap yesterday. I wanted to preserve the text of my speech and blessing for them here. I know it's on their wedding video but I'd like to archive it into the historical record as…
Statebins Reimagined
A long time ago, in a github repo far, far away there lived a tiny package that made it possible to create equal area, square U.S. state cartograms in R dubbed statebins ? . Three years have come and gone and --- truth be told --- I've…