Best of RNovember 2022

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    A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels (with labs)

    SSH is yet another example of an ancient technology that is still in wide use today. With nothing but standard tools, you can achieve the following: Access internal VPC endpoints through a public-facing EC2 instance. Expose any local server from a home/private network to the outside First, we need to prepare the server - a machine with the SSH daemon and a simple web service listening on 127.0.1:80. The web service is a simple online service.

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    The guide to conditional types in TypeScript

    Since version 2.8, TypeScript has introduced support for conditional types. Conditional types let us deterministically define type transformations depending on a condition. In brief, they are a ternary conditional operator applied at the type level rather than at the value level.

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    Prettier 2.8: improve --cache CLI option and TypeScript 4.9 satisfies operator! · Prettier

    Prettier 2.8: improve --cache option and TypeScript 4.9 satisfies operator! This release includes improvements to the option added in 2.7.8. A new option has been added, and a bug that saved the cache even when wasn't specified has been fixed.

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    Animated population tree maps

    The global population hit 8 billion today. To mark the passing an absolute population total I created some animated tree map plots in R to visualize relative past and future population totals for all countries.