Blogdown with submodules
August 22, 2022
How to configure Blogdown to have a segregated section of content that’s tracked in a git submodule.
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Generate fake data with R
August 3, 2022
Collection of R packages that can generate fake, synthetic data.
Cambridge Donut
June 1, 2022
A frivolous warning to my colleagues on not leaving computers unlocked when surrounded by security practitioners.
Fare thee well, Rapid7
June 1, 2022
Quitting a job I thoroughly enjoyed with some flair.
FBI Internet Crime Compaint Center Report
March 28, 2022
Overview # The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) puts out an annual report that summarizes the recent year’s experiences with Internet crime. It includes analysis that hints at the availability of quantitative data (versus purely qualitative anecdotes). Here’s a copy of the IC3’s latest report. Data # The available data is embedded in the reports themselves, which are in .pdf – less than ideal. ...
Fatal Police Shootings in the United States
March 26, 2022
Updated March 26, 2022 Overview # The Washington Post has spent the last several years collecting details of fatal shootings by on-duty police officers. Since 2015, over 7,000 cases have been added to this dataset. For more details, check out the Washington Post article. I intend to tregularly return to review and revise the analysis on this page as the underlying data is updated. ...
Price to Rent Ratio for Multiple Regions
March 7, 2022
Overview # A common metric that real estate investors rely on to determine where to invest is the price to rent ratio. This is a fairly simple formula: \(Price to Rent Ratio = \frac{Median Home Price}{Median Annual Rent}\). A high price to rent ratio suggests that the demand for rentals is high within a given market. The general idea is that if real estate prices within a given area are extremely high relative to rent, renting will be far more financially accessible than buying, which would drive up the demand for rentals. ...
Digital Garden
February 11, 2022
I think of this site as my digital garden. What is a digital garden? # A digital garden is an online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public. Contrary to a blog, where articles and essays have a publication date and start decaying as soon as they are published, a digital garden is evergreen: digital gardeners keep on editing and refining their notes. ...
Adding a mailing list to a Hugo static site
February 9, 2022
One of the most common pieces of advice I see from other bloggers is that building an email mailing list is critical to sustaining audience engagement. When I looked around, I didn’t find much guidance on how to implement a mailing list solution within a Hugo static site. Most of the guidance out there focuses on Wordpress. After some trial and error, I figured out how to get a third party mailing list service to work with this site. ...
Using a Google Domain with Netlify
January 29, 2022
This site has a domain registered with Google Domains and is deployed on Netlify. There’s a lot that I like about that arrangement. I’ve had a very good experience registering domains with Google Domains. And I’m a big fan of the whole Netlify continuous deployment model once it’s all set up. One thing that I didn’t want to do was use Netlify’s DNS, mainly because doing so would mean missing out on some Google Domain functionality, including Google’s mail forwarding and its included Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) implementation. ...