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fetch_ghstars.py: quick CLI script to fetch and collate from Github API all of a user's starred repos

• Requires Python 3.6+
• Creates a subdir 'ghstars-USERNAME' at the current working directory
• the raw JSON of each page request is saved as: 01.json, 02.json 0n.json
• A flattened, filtered CSV is also created: wrangled.csv

Example usage:

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Amazon Transcribe (real-time) streaming sample, with speakers identified (2020-10-09)

Note: This gist refers this older gist that shows the AWS transcribe API: https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/9b8c51f5bb853209f19f1a0f18f0f74c

I went into the AWS console for Transcription, which has an interface for real-time transcription here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/home?region=us-east-1#realTimeTranscription

Then I used my phone to play out this snippet of the 2008 VP presidential debate, featuring speech from Biden and Palin: https://twitter.com/dancow/status/1313951588428517385

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fieldname	value
act	1
scene	5
speaker	Horatio
lines	Propose the oath, my lord.
~~~~~~~~~
act	1
scene	5
speaker	Hamlet

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How to use xsv (in Windows) to split up a CSV file too big for Excel

I wrote these instructions on how to install and use xsv – a powerful CSV-handling command-line tool, because someone asked how to deal with a data file that was too big to open in Excel or even Notepad. I didn't know how familiar the person was with installing/running downloadable .exe files or with Powershell, so I've tried to include some general instructions that hopefully are useful to even novices.

This mini-guide is not at all meant to be exhaustive as it basically shows just one of xsv's many useful functions. But if you're new to the idea of using command-line tools to do things, hopefully this can be a friendly intro to it.

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Here's an example of a CSV that, at 3 million rows, is too big for Excel to open: https://burntsushi.net/stuff/worldcitiespop.csv

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this goes in my bash profile:

XRESET='\[\033[00m\]'
PROMPT_PATH="\[\033[0;33m\]\W${XRESET} \[\033[1;37m\]\$${XRESET}"
PROMPT_GHOST="༼ つ\[\033[1;33m\]°${XRESET}\[\033[1;31m\]︻\[\033[1;33m\]゜${XRESET}༽つ🐕"

export PS1="${PROMPT_GHOST} ${PROMPT_PATH} "

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Example Google Apps Script functions to normalize non-ASCII characters and insert a timestamp, when a new row is created.

Basically I sloppily added various Vietnamese accented characters to this Gist example: https://gist.github.com/akora/51b2933a2554776d7144#gistcomment-2936646

Blogpost about Apps Script in general, onEdit and timestamps here: http://blog.danwin.com/how-to-automatically-timestamp-a-new-row-in-google-sheets-using-apps-script/

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test test test

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How to automatically timestamp a column when a row in Google Sheets is created

Couldn't be bothered to look up the latest workout tracking app, so decided to stick to Google Sheets for now. One problem with this approach is that while it is easy on desktop GSheets to fill out a current timestamp (Command-Option-Shift-semicolon in MacOS), no such shortcut is available AFAIK in the iOS version of Google Sheets.

So I wrote a little custom function in Google Apps Script to do the following:

In an active Google Sheets spreadsheet, given a tab/sheet named myworkouts with a header named datetime, the following script updates a row's corresponding "datetime" column when a value is entered into a first column cell:

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[
  {
    "id": 0,
    "name": "Adirondack Explorer",
    "homepageUrl": "https://www.adirondackexplorer.org",
    "supportUrl": "https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/subscription-center/new-combined-digital-and-print-subscription",
    "city": "Saranac Lake",
    "state": 36,
    "lat": "44.329496",
    "long": "-74.1312662"

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