IBM has a new set of corporate typefaces — dubbed “Plex” — and has released them with a generous open license. IBM Plex Sans is not too shabby: (that image was grifted from a Font Squirrel preview page) The digit glyphs are especially nice for charts and the font iself is just different enough from… Continue reading
By now, virtually every major media outlet has covered the “280 Apocalypse”™. For those still not “in the know”, Twitter recently moved the tweet character cap to 280 after a “successful” beta test (some of us have different ideas of what “success” looks like). I had been on a hiatus from the platform for a… Continue reading
Working remotely has many benefits, but if you work remotely in an area like, say, rural Maine, one of those benefits is not massively speedy internet connections. Being able to go fast and furious on the internet is one of the many things I miss about our time in Seattle and it is unlikely that… Continue reading
Unlike @noamross, I am not an epidemiologist (NOTE: Noam battles pandemics before breakfast, so be super nice to him) but I do like to find kindred methodologies in other disciplines to help foster the growth of cybersecurity into something beyond it’s current Barnum & Bailey state. I also love finding and exposing hidden APIs and… Continue reading
Despite my week-long Twitter consumption sabbatical (helped — in part — by the nigh week-long internet and power outage here in Maine), I still catch useful snippets from folks. My cow-orker @dabdine shunted a tweet by @terrencehart into a Slack channel this morning, and said tweet contained a link to this little gem. Said gem… Continue reading
This past weekend, violent windstorms raged through New England. We — along with over 500,000 other Mainers — went “dark” in the wee hours of Monday morning and (this post was published on Thursday AM) we still have no utility-provided power nor high-speed internet access. The children have turned iFeral, and being a remote worker… Continue reading
As many folks know, I live in semi-rural Maine and we were hit pretty hard with a wind+rain storm Sunday to Monday. The hrbrmstr compound had no power (besides a generator) and no stable/high-bandwidth internet (Verizon LTE was heavily congested) since 0500 Monday and still does not as I write this post. I’ve played with… Continue reading
Way back in July of 2009, the first version of the twitteR package was published by Geoff Jentry in CRAN. Since then it has seen 28 updates, finally breaking the 0.x.y barrier into 1.x.y territory in March of 2013 and receiving it’s last update in July of 2015. For a very long time, the twitteR… Continue reading