rdmurphy

My favorite command line tools (2021-09-09)

I wrote this in response to Gurman's tweet. I remember answering in News Nerdery, but it was sadly lost to the void. :(

xsv - https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

The CSV Swiss-army knife that trumps all others. Written in Rust, so it's absurdly fast in a way that's still kind of shocking.

VisiData - https://www.visidata.org/

veltman

Generating an SVG from a set of shapefiles

The USGS provides detailed downloads of fire perimeters, with timestamped files that can be used to show the spread of a major fire over time.

Using the 2017 Thomas fire as an example, we'll process this data into a single SVG file with all the different perimeter measurements.

This index page contains links to a series of shapefiles of the fire boundary, each one with a timestamp:

https://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/GeoMAC/2017_fire_data/California/Thomas/

tatianamac

Speaker Rider

by Tatiana Mac

Last updated 14 April 2021

What is a speaker rider?

As speaking comes with immense privilege, I have crafted a speaker rider to set expectations and boundaries around my engagement. I am grateful to all the conference organisers who have brilliantly hosted me. I would love to continue to exercise this privilege to speak at conferences, and use this privilege to make the landscape more accessible and beneficial to tech's most historically excluded and marginalised communities.

Considerations

😫 I provide a lot of explanations for those of you who never had to consider these things. Most thoughtful conferences I've attended check most of these boxes intrinsically, particularly when conference runners are experienced speakers. They get it.

dannguyen

Transcribing Cardi B's political speech with AWS Transcribe and command-line tools

Inspired by the following exchange on Twitter, in which someone captures and posts a valuable video onto Twitter, but doesn't have the resources to easily transcribe it for the hearing-impaired, I thought it'd be fun to try out Amazon's AWS Transcribe service to help with this problem, and to see if I could do it all from the bash command-line like a Unix dork.

The instructions and code below show how to use command-line tools/scripting and Amazon's Transcribe service to transcribe the audio from online video. tl;dr: AWS Transcribe is a pretty amaz

TylerFisher

This script for Google Spreadsheets allows you to generate slugs for your data such as might be used for creating unique urls.

Use it like this!

#	A	B	C
1	a	b	slug
2	foo	baz bing	=slugify(A2:B4)
3	bar	BAZ
4	FOO	baz-bing

crccheck

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Usage: ./web.py [command]

Arguments:
  command  The manage.py command to run (default: runserver)
"""
import os
import sys

brianboyer

#!/bin/bash
#
# Because https://www.medicare.gov/homehealthcompare/ does not provide any way to
# search for providers by their ratings, we've got to do this the hard way.
# Luckily, with csvkit the hard way isn't so hard. Get it here http://csvkit.readthedocs.io/
#
# First, download the data from https://data.medicare.gov/data/home-health-compare
#
curl -o HHCompare_Revised_FlatFiles.zip "https://data.medicare.gov/views/bg9k-emty/files/36e8f3b0-0273-4b46-ba04-89f089678a84?content_type=application%2Fzip%3B%20charset%3Dbinary&filename=HHCompare_Revised_FlatFiles.zip"
#

maplight

Candidate

Use this endpoint to fetch an array of candidate objects.

• URL

/candidates

• Method:

Grokzen

# Based on post from: https://snipt.net/chrisdpratt/symmetrical-manytomany-filter-horizontal-in-django-admin/#L-26
# Only reposting to avoid loosing it.

"""
When adding a many-to-many (m2m) relationship in Django, you can use a nice filter-style multiple select widget to manage entries. However, Django only lets you edit the m2m relationship this way on the forward model. The only built-in method in Django to edit the reverse relationship in the admin is through an InlineModelAdmin.

Below is an example of how to create a filtered multiple select for the reverse relationship, so that editing entries is as easy as in the forward direction.

IMPORTANT: I have no idea for what exact versions of Django this will work for, is compatible with or was intended for.

wboykinm

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset=utf-8 />
    <title>turfjs census dotmap</title>
    <meta name='viewport' content='initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no' />
    <script src='https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v2.1.9/mapbox.js'></script>
    <link href='https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v2.1.9/mapbox.css' rel='stylesheet' />
    <style>
      body { margin:0; padding:0;}