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Destroy All Software screencast notes

Earlier this year, the Destroy All Software screencasts were free to download. I grabbed a few that sounded interesting to watch.

These are notes of new things I learned.

Notes of the key points copied/summarised from Dave Cheney's Practical Go for more concise reading/reference.

It's worth reading the original document as there is more exposition there of the ideas presented.

These are terse notes only; I'm not providing my own commentary, opinion

Suggests not starting with a joke.
- Audience isn't necessarily attuned to your mode of speaking.
Start with an empowerment promise; what will the audience get from the talk.

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# encoding: utf-8
	import codecs
	import os
	import sys

	import numpy as np

	from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer

	#!/bin/sh

	# Usage: convert_gpx.sh <FIT filename>
	# Should works whether you include the .FIT extension or not.
	filename=$(basename "$1" .FIT)
	gpsbabel -i garmin_fit -f "$filename".FIT -o gpx -F "$filename".gpx

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	""" Extract date and 2D length data from GPX files in current directory. """
	from __future__ import division, print_function
	import decimal
	import glob

	import gpxpy


	def main():

	#!/bin/bash -e

	# mailin8.sh: Collect From, Subject, Body from most recent mail
	# in a mailinator.com account.

	# Usage: mailin8.sh <local_mailbox_name>
	# <local_mailbox_name> is the bit before @mailinator.com

	# Create temporary file for cookiejar
	TEMP=$(mktemp)

	# Function:
	# This HWDB entry maps the second mouse wheel to volume controls.
	#
	# Usage:
	# 1. cp 10-mx-revolution.hwdb /etc/udev/hwdb.d/10-mx-revolution.hwdb
	# 2. sudo systemd-hwdb update
	# 3. sudo udevadm trigger
	#
	# References:
	# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Map_scancodes_to_keycodes