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Identify & Analyze Web Site Tech Stacks With rappalyzer
Modern websites are complex beasts. They house photo galleries, interactive visualizations, web fonts, analytics code and other diverse types of content. Despite the potential for diversity, many web sites share similar "tech stacks" ---…
SODD — StackOverflow Driven-Development
I occasionally hang out on StackOverflow and often use an answer as an opportunity to fill a package void for a particular need. docxtractr and qrencoder are two (of many) packages that were birthed from SO answers. I usually try to answer…
Speeding Up Digital Arachnids
spiderbar, spiderbar Reads robots rules from afar. Crawls the web, any size; Fetches with respect, never lies. Look Out! Here comes the…
Pirating Web Content Responsibly With R
International Code Talk Like A Pirate Day almost slipped by without me noticing (September has been a crazy busy month), but it popped up in the calendar notifications today and I was glad that I had prepped the meat of a post a few weeks…
Mapping Fall Foliage with sf
I was socially engineered by @yoniceedee into creating today's post due to being prodded with this…
Armchair Quarterbacking Systemic Organization and Industry Failures
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It's a FAKE (?)! Revisiting Trust In FOSS Ecosystems
I've blathered about trust before 1 2 , but said blatherings were in a "what if" context. Unfortunately, the if has turned into a when , which begged for further blathering on a recent FOSS ecosystem cybersecurity…
Revisiting Readability With RStudio
I've blogged about my in-development R package hgr a before and it's slowly getting to a CRAN release. There are two new features to it that are more useful in an interactive session than in a programmatic context. Since they build on each…
Increasing Output Buffer Size in Apache Drill UDFs Custom (Simple) Functions
Putting this here to make it easier for others who try to Google this topic to find it w/o having to find and tediously search through other UDFs (user-defined…
Teasing Out Top Daily Topics with GDELT's Television Explorer
Earlier this year, the GDELT Project released their Television Explorer that enabled API access to closed-caption tedt from television news broadcasts. They've done an incredible job expanding and stabilizing the API and just recently…