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2024-08-30 UPDATE: Binary versions of this extension are available for amd64 Linux (linux_amd64 & linux_amd64_gcc4) and Apple Silicon. (osx_arm64). $ duckdb -unsigned v1.0.0 1f98600c2c Enter ".help" for usage hints. Connected to a transient in-memory data

Here is the full transcript of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's video address early on Feb. 24 local time warning that a Russian invasion could cause tens of thousands of deaths.

WWDC 2021 is on this week and many new fun things are being introduced, including some data science-friendly additions to the frameworks that come with Xcode 13 and available on macOS 12+ (and its OS cousins). Specifically, Apple has made tabular data a f

I caught this post on the The Surprising Number Of Programmers Who Can't Program from the Hacker News RSS feed. Said post links to another, classic post on the same subject and you should read both before continuing. Back? Great! Let's dig in. Why does hr

I was pretty brutal to Apple earlier this week in a Twitter thread that I tried to craft so it occurred in-line with the WWDC live stream (which might be something you want to remember as/if you read on). I really don't care about "memojis" and I have ser

UPDATE 2019-04-17 - The example at the bottom which shows that the, er, randomly chosen site has the offending tag present is an old result. As of this update timestamp, that robots noindex tag is not on the site. Since the presence status of that tag is

I apologize up-front for using bad words in this post. Said bad words include "Facebook", "Mark Zuckerberg" and many referrals to entities within the U.S. Government. Given the topic, it cannot be helped. I've also left the R tag on this despite only show

The new year begins with me being on the hook to crank out a book on advanced web-scraping in R by July (more on that in a future blog post). The bookdown? package seemed to be the best way to go about doing this but I had only played with the toy/default

If you follow me on Twitter or monitor @Rapid7's Community Blog you know I've been involved a bit in the WannaCry ransomworm triage. One thing I've been doing is making charts of the hourly contribution to the Bitcoin addresses that the current/main attac

If you do enough web scraping, you'll eventually hit a wall that the trusty httr verbs (that sit beneath rvest) cannot really overcome: dynamically created content (via javascript) on a site. If the site was nice enough to use XHR requests to load the dyn