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Get A Day’s Schedule From Fantastical On The Command Line With Shortcuts

| | macos, programming
I use Fantastical as it’s a much cleaner and native interface than Google Calendar, which I’m stuck using. I do like to use the command line more than GUIs and, while I ...

VulnCheck’s Free Community KEV & CVE APIs (Code & Golang CLI Utility)

VulnCheck has some new, free API endpoints for the cybersecurity community. Two extremely useful ones are for their extended version of CISA’s KEV, and an in-situ replacement for NVD’s sad excuse for ...

Three Years After January 6th: The Insurrection’s Impact on U.S. Democracy

| | Commentary, Democracy-2024
Three years ago, on January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a mob intent on overturning the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. This event — the January 6th insurrection ...

Democracy 2024: Stakes vs. Horses

| | Commentary, Democracy-2024
The 2024 U.S. Presidential election isn’t just another tick on the political timeline. It’s a crucial juncture for — quite literally — the future of American democracy. We’re not just deciding who ...
Welcome To 2024

Welcome To 2024

| | Commentary, Democracy-2024
Hey folks, This is likely our last shot at preserving liberal democracy in the U.S., or at least avoiding 20–40 years of abject horribleness by wannabe bigoted and sociopathic demigods. The year ...

Democracy 2024: Pro-Hunger ≠ “Pro-Life”

| | Commentary, Democracy-2024
Ref AP News: https://apnews.com/article/iowa-summer-ebt-food-assistance-0e878c5c0fc9dd0dd55622cb22a82561. Iowa has decided not to participate in the 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) program, which provides $40 per month to each child in a ...

Ligatures In RStudio Dailies

| | R, RStudio
I had thought most folks likely knew this already, but if you are user of RStudio dailies (this may apply to regular RStudio, but I only use the dailies) and are missing ...
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Avoid libwebp Electron Woes On macOS With positron

If you’ve got 👀 on this blog (directly, or via syndication) you’d have to have been living under a rock to not know about the libwebp supply chain disaster. An unfortunate casualty ...

Tracking Rite-Aid Store Closures

| | R
Rite-Aid closed 60+ stores in 2021. They said they’d nuke over 1,000 of them over three years, back in 2022. And, they’re now about to close ~500 due to bankruptcy. FWIW Heyward ...
Foliage 2023

Foliage 2023

The days are getting shorter and when we were visiting Down East Maine the other week, there was just a hint of some trees starting to change up their leaf palettes. It ...