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Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #809 — Adam Engst on Writing with an Editor and GrammarlyThis week, the delightful Adam Engst of TidBITS joins us to talk about how he learned to write so well, what it's like having an editor, and then moves into how he uses the AI tool Grammarly to improve his writing. It's great fun as always and convinced me to pay for one month of Grammarly to see if it will make me as awesome of a writer as Adam. You can read all the details of his use of Grammarly in his article entitled ["Why Grammarly Beats Apple’s Writing Tools for Serious Writers" on tidbits.co...2025-02-1158 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #808 — Jason Snell on The Magic Behind the Six Colors ChartsIf you’ve been on the Internet before, and you’ve heard of a little fruit company called Apple, then you’ve probably seen Jason Snell's famous Six Colors charts on Apple earnings. In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, we don't talk about earnings, we talk about the magic behind how he creates his famous charts. It's full of nerdy fun like how he decides when to use a serape chart vs. a bar chart, how he calculates a rolling average, how he gets the data for the charts, and how he gets the charts from Apple...2025-02-0654 min

Programming By StealthPBS 175 of X — GitHub Pages: Static Site GeneratorsIn Programming By Stealth this week, Bart has started a new miniseries to teach us how to use GitHub Pages to create a website (for free.) In PBS 175, he starts by explaining what Static Site Generators (like GitHub Pages) are, and the pros and cons vs. a more traditional content management system like WordPress. Neither are wrong, they just solve the same problem in different ways. He then gives us the framework for the tools we'll be using and lays out the next few lessons where we'll get in and get our hands dirty. I'm extremely excited about this...2025-02-021h 23

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #807 — Adam Engst on Bootable Backups Bug in macOS SequoiaAdam Engst of TidBITS joins us to talk about a bug in macOS Sequoia 15.2 that affected a low-level system tool called Apple System Restore or ASR. This tool is the path for developers of backup tools to create true bootable backups, and the bug makes it now impossible to create bootable backups. We talk about the different viewpoints of the developers of Superduper!, Carbon Copy Cloner, and Chronosyc regarding the future of bootable backups. Then Adam talks about whether we really _need_ bootable backups anymore. We then segue into a survey Adam conducted on backup strategies with TidBITS readers and...2025-01-1455 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #806 — Andrea Jones-Rooy on Being a Data ScientistAndrea Jones-Rooy is a data scientist, a standup comedian, _and_ a circus performer. Andrea delves into the realms of data science, its significance, and how it is often misunderstood in mainstream narratives. Andrea begins by reflecting on their journey to becoming a data scientist. Andrea was a professor of data science at NYU Center for Data Science and they taught an undergraduate course called "Data Science for Everyone". The cool thing is you can watch Andrea teach the same material for free in a video series of the same name: Data Science for Everyone on YouTube. 2025-01-1152 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #805 – Bart Busschots On What Does a Cybersecurity Specialist Do?In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart talks about his job as a cybersecurity specialist. We get a bit silly in our early part of the chat, the reasons for which will become obvious when you listen to the beginning but he successfully gives a flavor of what "a day in the life" is like for him. Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_12_29 Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: Patreon Donation Apple Pay or Credit Card one-time donation PayPal one-time donation Podfeet Podcasts Mugs...2024-12-3037 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #804 — Pat Dengler on an Elaborate Scam Involving "Amazon", the "FBI", "Lawyers", and MoreCertified Apple Consultant Pat Dengler joins me to tell the harrowing story of how her neighbor was seconds away from being scammed out of $30,000. In an elaborate web of lies with multiple people involved, she was connected supposedly to Amazon, the FBI, lawyers, and more, and every single person gave their IDs and return phone numbers. Pat saved her literally in the nick of time. This story aired as part of the NosillaCast on December 1st, 2024 but I made it a standalone episode so folks can point directly to it to help raise awareness. If...2024-12-2224 min

Programming By StealthPBS Tidbit 10 — Run LLMs Locally with Ollama with Steve MattanIn a very unusual Tidbit episode of Programming By Stealth, Allison interviews NosillaCastaway and Programming By Stealth student Steve Mattan about how he's running Large Language Models locally on his Mac. He pulls this off using a series of open source tools, starting with Ollama for the models from the command line, and then Enchanted to give him a nice GUI. He explains how he's integrated the local LLM into VSCode for his coding, and how he uses Keyboard Maestro to launch all of this at once. You can find the outline and links to how Steve's...2024-12-1937 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #803 Adam Engst on Obituary Scams Triggering iPhone Security WarningsAdam Engst of TidBITS back again to talk about an unusual and clever scam experienced by one of his TidBITS readers. It involved fake obituaries triggering iPhone security warnings triggering App Store downloads. You can find Adam's written article on the topic at [tidbits.com/...](https://tidbits.com/2024/12/06/beware-obituary-scam-sites-and-fake-iphone-security-warnings/). Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: Patreon Donation Apple Pay or Credit Card one-time donation PayPal one-time donation Podfeet Podcasts Mugs at Zazzle Podfeet 15-Year Anniversary Shirts Referral Links: Parallels Toolbox - 3 months free for you and me Learn through MacSparky Field Guides...2024-12-1050 min

Programming By StealthPBS 174 of X: Working with Git SubmodulesIn this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart completes his miniseries on Git Submodules. Last time he created an imaginary company with three developers and went through three relatively simple scenarios where Git submodules were implemented. In this finale installment, he takes it up a notch in complexity and we actually get to push submodule changes. The path is fraught with danger and I get stuck on the very last scenario but Bart wouldn't let me give up and eventually helped me understand. You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at pbs.bartificer.net. Read...2024-12-081h 01

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #800 – Adam Engst on Limiting iPhone Charging to 80%In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst of TidBITS joins us to join in the fun conversation about limiting your iPhone's charging to 80%. He wrote up an article entitled Does Limiting an iPhone’s Battery Charging to 80% Increase Lifespan? in which he references an article by Juli Clover of MacRumors. Juli used her iPhone 15 Pro Max for a solid year with charging set to a max of 80%. Juli freely admits this was not a terribly scientific effort to determine whether it helps because there are far too many variables at play and no...2024-10-0235 min

Programming By StealthPBS 171 of X: MVC in XKpasswd-jsWe have a bit of a changeup for today's lesson. While Bart Busschots is in attendance for this episode, he is not be the instructor, he is a student like me. Our instructor today is the delightful Helma van der Linden and she's going to teach us about how she applied the Model View Controller pattern to our project XKPasswd. You can find Helma's fabulous tutorial shownotes at pbs.bartificer.net. Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: Patreon Donation PayPal one-time donation Podfeet Podcasts Mugs at Zazzle Podfeet 15-Year Anniversary...2024-09-291h 18

Programming By StealthPBS 170 of X: Model View Controller (MVC)We're back from our summer hiatus (actually scheduled for the first time ever instead of accidentally happening!) In this week's episode, Bart takes on the task of explaining the philosophy behind why having a framework for software development is useful and even crucial as projects get bigger and more complex. We chose this topic because the XKPasswd project has already started using a framework called Model View Controller. We get the barest understanding of MVC in this explanation from Bart, and the next episode of Programming By Stealth will be the wonderful Helma van der Linden explaining...2024-09-1554 min

Programming By StealthPBS Tidbit 7 – jq to Analyze macOS Installed Apps with Helma van der Linden onIn this special tidbit installment of Programming By Stealth, Helma van der Linden joins Allison to walk through how she solved a real-world problem using jq. The problem to be solved was a need to analyze the installed applications on her Intel-based Mac before migrating to her new Apple Silicon Mac. She used a built-in Terminal command to access System Information to create a JSON file, and then used a series of jq filters to remove data she didn't need, and format what she kept into human-readable form. Helma walks us through every step of the way...2024-07-211h 00

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #797 – Adam Engst on His Quest for Alarming NotificationsCCATP #793 for July 9, 2024, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. In case you missed the announcement, Adam Engst of TidBITS is now a member of the Podfeet Podcasts family as a continuing contributor to Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this week's episode, we talked about why Adam believes we need persistent calendar and reminder notifications. Adam is hyper-focused and when he's writing it's not uncommon for him to easily dismiss a notification of an upcoming event. Articles referenced in the conversation: * A Call to Alarms: Why We Need Persistent Calendar and Reminder Notifications. 2024-07-1042 min

Chit Chat Across the PondWhat happened to Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite?Well hello there, this is Alison Sheridan and I have a very special announcement for July 5th, 2024, to the Chit Chat Across the Pond light audience and the Programming By Stealth audience. If you were subscribed to the Lite feed, you may have noticed that your Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite logo changed into the Chit Chat Across the Pond logo and that you see a whole pile of recent episodes that are all Programming By Stealth. As a Programming By Stealth learner, you won't have noticed a difference yet, but you also care about this.2024-07-0501 min

Programming By StealthPBS 167 of X – jq: Recursion, Syntactic Sugar, Some old Friends and a Few Honourable MentionsIt was actually bittersweet for Bart and me this week as he taught the final installment in our series of Programming By Stealth about jq. As Bart says partway through our recording, he thought this would just be a few episodes but it took 13 episodes to go through everything Bart thought was fun about this deceptively simple programming language. This final installment in the jq series covers querying nested data structures with the `recurse` command. One of the really fun parts of the episode is when he teaches us how to dramatically simplify our code, a concept...2024-06-081h 20

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #792 – Bart Busschots on Rethinking Weather Apps for Privacy and FunctionalityIn this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about weather apps. He's a serious weather nerd by necessity, living in Ireland and being an avid bike rider. As he walks through the apps he'll explain which ones fall down on privacy, which ones have good apps for everything from the watch to iOS to the Mac. He'll even go through how he uses different widgets to help him decide how much rain gear to wear. Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_04_26 Join the Conversation: allison...2024-04-2750 min

Programming By StealthPBS 161 of X — jq: Maths, Assignment & String ManipulationIn this week's episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart continues to expand our knowledge on how to use jq to query and manipulate JSON files. We learn how to use mathematical operators on data in our JSON files along with fun functions like floor and absolute value. I even contributed some to the learning by showing examples of how `ceil` (for ceiling), `floor`, and `round` produce curiously different results when operating on negative decimal numbers. We move onto learning about both plain assignment and update assignment. It seems like a small deal but the ability to set...2024-02-181h 06

Programming By StealthPBS 158B - jq More Advanced QueriesTwo weeks ago, Bart Busschots and I recorded a Programming By Stealth episode covering more queries using the jq language on our JSON files. We spent so much time working through the challenges from the previous installment that we only made it halfway through his tutorial shownotes. So this week we're back with the second half of that episode, Programming By Stealth 158B. Before we got started learning, I alerted the audience to a significant enhancement to the material we create for this show. I use a service called Auphonic to do a lot of...2023-12-3159 min

Programming By StealthPBS 158A – jq: More QueriesIn Programming By Stealth this week, Bart Busschots and I start off by going through the challenges from our previous installment. Remember how I said I was really digging jq and querying JSON files because at heart I'm a data nerd? Well, I failed completely at accomplishing the homework. It was not for lack of trying though - I worked about 4 hours on just the first challenge. Because of a fundamental building block that wasn't properly in place in my brain, I was never going to succeed. That means that this episode is almost half about the...2023-12-211h 06

Programming By StealthPBS 157 of X — jq: Querying JSON with `jq`In this week's episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots continues his instruction on learning more about how to use the jq language to query JSON files. We get into the thick of it as Bart teaches us three important jq concepts: filter chaining, operators, and functions. To get there we learn about the literal values in JSON and jq and how only null and false are false. Armed with that, Bart explains the `not` function and once we put those concepts together, this ridiculous command will make perfect sense: `jq -n 'true and true...2023-12-101h 16

Programming By StealthPBS 156 of X — Extracting Data with `jq`After the last episode of Programming By Stealth where Bart gave us an intro to jq and the problems it can solve, this week we start to get our feet wet by learning how to extract data from JSON files. We learn how to descend into dictionaries and arrays, and how to slice arrays. Learn how jq will output sarcasm about "Bart Busschots" if you don't learn how to ask it for raw output. We even learn how to extract data from multiple files at once and how to extract multiple values from our JSON files. Finally, we learn...2023-11-2652 min

Programming By StealthPBS 155 – Introducing JSON Processing from the Shell with `jq`After our annual break from Programming By Stealth that happens at an unknown time for an unknown length every single year, Bart and I are back with a new episode of Programming By Stealth. Bart introduces us to a language called jq _and_ a terminal command called `jq` which together are used to help query JSON files, see "pretty versions of them, and also to manipulate them. We don't learn a lot of commands but Bart walks us through a few examples to help illustrate why we care, or shall I say, "the problem to be solved"...2023-11-1944 min

Programming By StealthPBS 152A of X — Bash: xargs & Easier ArithmeticI don't always make the time to pre-read the shownotes for Programming By Stealth but I never regret when I do make the time. That was especially true this week. In this installment, Bart Busschots takes us through his solution to the challenge from PBS 151, which was to print a "pretty" multiplication table using the `printf` command. Being Bart, he didn't just make the columns line up nicely, he took it up a notch and added ASCII characters that build a nice border and corners around his table. The reason I said it was good...2023-06-251h 11

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #769 — Bart Busschots on visionOSThis week our guest is Bart Busschots but this is not a Programming By Stealth episode, it's a Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. At least within my personal definition of Lite! Bart joined the show this week to talk about visionOS, the new operating system that will power the Vision Pro headset Apple announced at their World Wide Developer's Conference. We talked about how we can see the future now in spatial computing as a big shift. Bart tells us about what he learned about visionOS from the Platforms State of the Union, as...2023-06-111h 04

Programming By StealthPBS 148 – A Bash Potpourri (Subshells, Relative Paths & More)This week's Programming By Stealth is a great lesson on how no matter how long you've been coding, you'll still get caught out from time to time and think that the universe makes no sense. When Bart was working on the challenge from PBS 147, he ran into a bizarre situation for many hours. He eventually figured out what was going on, but it changed this installment into a walk down what went wrong, what he learned, and gave him the opportunity to teach us even more about shell scripting. The entire installment is all about the solutions...2023-03-261h 03

Programming By StealthPBS 147 – Bash ArraysIn this week's episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart walks us through how to create, add to, and extract from arrays using Bash. It's a very light episode, which I manage to drag out longer by making him slow down and dig into the syntax used for arrays. It's not just me being dense (this time), there are squirrely brackets, square brackets, single quotes, double quotes, and the good old octothorp thrown in for some extra fun. You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at pbs.bartificer.net. Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com...2023-03-1853 min

Programming By StealthPBS 146 of X – Shell LoopsAs Bart continues our education in shell scripting, he explains the simplicity of looping. He explains the four types of loops: while, until, for, and select, along with the simple syntax of do/done within a loop. He walks us through a lot of examples that illustrate how each one of these loops work. He ends by giving us a challenge, because teacher's pet Allison asked for homework last time. Enjoy this episode along with Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at pbs.bartificer.net. Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript: CCATP_2023_03_04 2023-03-051h 00

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #740 – Allison on Bart's Let's Talk Photography – Mirrorless Camera ConversionThis is another crossover episode - it's an interview Bart Busschots did with me for his Let's Talk Photography podcast at [lets-talk.ie/...](https://lets-talk.ie/) about the conversion I made ages ago to a mirrorless camera. He asked me on because it looks like DSLRs are winding down and he's contemplating making the jump soon. It's a fun conversation where I also confess that I've lost the touch of editing RAW photos but I'm still very glad I brought my Olympus E-M5 Mark III to Iceland.2022-08-2144 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #733 – Brian Hoffman takes Solar to a New Level - Co-Interview with Steve SheridanRecently Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane of DTNS fame hosted what they called a Solar Round Table. The guests were NosillaCast Live Producer Steve Sheridan, an engineer working at AES Solar named Joe Briney, and Boeing 777 captain Brian Hoffman. I tell you that whole story because when Steve got off the phone, he started telling me all about Brian’s huge projects to use solar on his farm. Steve was so enthusiastic about these projects that he started barraging Brian with questions about his projects in email, so I suggested Brian come on Chit Chat and Steve he...2022-06-131h 00

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #704 – Chris Ashley & Rod Simmons on BBQ and Tech Podcast with Steve SheridanThis week I'm pleased to have Chris Ashley and Rod Simmons on the Chit Chat Across the Pond. You may know them from the SMR Podcast they do with Robb Dunewood, or you may remember them from their frequent appearances on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk tech. They're joining me today to talk about their brand new podcast, BBQ and Tech. I've also asked Steve (the husband) to join us because he's really enjoying what the guys are teaching, while I'm just the beneficiary in the eating part. This episode of Chit Chat...2021-11-051h 03

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #697 – Bodie Grimm Explains EV Fires and Teslas Hitting Emergency VehiclesCCATP #697 for August 23, 2021, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bodie Grimm. Along with being a podcaster who specializes in the news about electric vehicles on his show the Kilowatt Podcast, Bodie is a firefighter and engineer on a ladder truck. He is in a unique position to answer some of my questions about fires in internal combustion vehicles. We also talked about the new investigation by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) into 11 reported accidents where Teslas ran into emergency vehicles. Bodie is super knowledgeable and has a lot of experience...2021-08-231h 06

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #689 – Bodie Grimm with Allison and Steve on Tesla Fiddly BitsThis week we have a very different episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. On the awesome Kilowatt podcast (a show all about electric vehicles), host Bodie Grimm asked me and my husband Steve to be his guests on the show. You really shouldn't be listening to it here, you should go subscribe to the Kilowatt podcast instead and listen to it there, but he _insisted_ that we should share the love and he let me broadcast it for you here as well. The Kilowatt Podcast is _not_ just about Teslas, it's about electric vehicles in...2021-06-201h 22

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #680 – Gregg Vanderheiden on 50 Years in AccessibilityThis week our guest is Gregg Vanderheiden, Professor and Director Trace R&D Center at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Listen to Gregg talk about Morphic at 19:40 on the NosillaCast You can find more about the Trace Institute at trace.umd.edu/... The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure at gpii.net/... His work on the Morphic project (coming into beta in just two weeks) at morphic.org/... You can follow Morphic on Twitter @mymorphic or Gregg's very infrequent tweets at @Greggvan. allison@podfeet.com Tesla Affiliate Link podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet...2021-04-0759 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #675 – Working from Home Part 2 – Allister Jenks & Lindsay Tondee In the last Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Lindsay Tondee made her debut appearance where we talked about working from home. After the show published, Allister Jenks wrote to me and told me that halfway through listening he had to stop and start writing down notes for a recording he would have to make talking about his views on the same subject. I forwarded Allister's message to Lindsay and then I connected the two of them and before I knew what was happening they had decided that we were going to do a three-way Chit Chat...2021-03-1457 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #673 – Lindsay Tondee on Working from HomeLindsay Tondee, Senior Manager in Quality Assurance at a global pharmaceutical company, joins us to talk about whether it's a good or a bad thing that companies are thinking about having their workforce continue to work from home indefinitely. I originally thought this would be a great thing because we'll have fewer cars on the road, less traffic and pollution, office buildings won't be needed and people gain hours of their life back because they're not spending it commuting in their cars. Lindsay explains what is missed when you work from home and the benefits of a...2021-02-2747 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #671 – Allison Sheridan on American Council of the Blind RadioThis week the tables are turned and you'll actually hear me being interviewed. I was asked to be on the Magic Mac Show, which is on the American Council of the Blind's streaming radio channel. Hosts Tyson Ernst, Katie Frederick and Jason Castonguay asked me on so they could learn about how I got interested in accessibility and what it's helped me do. During the latter part of the show, they do something terrifying - they allow live audience listeners to call in and ask questions! I've always been afraid of that, but Debbie Hazelton, managing director...2021-02-151h 03

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #664 – Tom Merritt on Time ManagementThis week's guest is Tom Merritt, prolific podcaster, author, and lover of dogs. I asked Tom to come on the show to explain how on earth he does as much as he does. We walk through all of his podcasts, what he has to do to prepare for them, and how he makes the time to get all of them done. He talks about the research required for each of them and even how some require him to watch TV. On top of podcasting, he's an author, he walks his dogs, he exercises, and even spends time with his...2020-12-0947 min

Programming By StealthPBS 104 of X – Tracking Changes in GitIn our next baby step in learning to use the version control system Git, Bart teaches us how to track changes. We start by doing a bit of housekeeping, especially for Mac users to set Git to always ignore those pesky .DS_Store files. We learn how to stage and then commit a simple change, then we stage and commit multiple changes and even learn to see the differences in our staged files from the database all from the command line. While we all think we're capable of making one structural change and then committing our changes, Bart knows...2020-10-2500 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #657 – Lory Gil on the iPhone 12 AnnouncementLory Gil, managing editor from iMore is back to talk about the new toys announced by Apple this week. In a show where we do NOT talk about 5G we instead talk about how cool it is that Apple brought so many features to the entire product line of iPhones, and then we go deep into a couple of the differences between the models. We talk about magnetometers, nano ceramic crystals and more nerdy terms. Lory speculates on what fun things we'll get out of the MagSafe connector - like maybe we can stick our phones to our refrigerators...2020-10-171h 06

Programming By StealthPBS 103 of X — Getting Started With GitAfter some quick revision from the previous episode, Bart explains how Git commands work with their subcommands. We start by looking at how to configure Git and the differences between local, global and system-level settings. Then we create our very first repo with an exciting README file, and we commit the file to our repo. It's a fairly simple lesson while laying down a good foundation for all future work. You can find the shownotes for this installment at PBS 103 of X — Getting Started With Git allison@podfeet.com Tesla Affiliate Link podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack po...2020-10-1159 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #655 – Jill (from the North Woods) McKinley on Starting a PodcastThis week our guest is Jill McKinley of the Start with Small Steps Podcast at smallstepspod.com. Those of you who listen to the NosillaCast may already know her from her many fantastic tech reviews for the show as Jill from the North Woods. I'm a fan of the Start With Small Steps podcast thought it would be fun to have Jill to come on to talk about what it's like to start a podcast in 2020. All of my experience and knowledge about starting is 15 years old so I was curious what it's like now. We talked...2020-10-0242 min

Programming By StealthPBS 100 of X — Time Sharing Challenge SolutionIn this positively _delightful_ episode, Bart and I celebrate 100 episodes of Programming By Stealth. When we hit 99 instalments, Bart declared that for 100, there should be cake! So I got Bart's darling beloved to deliver him a piece of cake right as we started, and Steve delivered one to him. To say that Bart was surprised and delighted would be an understatement! This episode is entirely dedicated to us describing our solutions to the Time Sharing challenge from PBS 96, and to explaining what we learned while working on the assignment. You can view Bart's working solution...2020-08-301h 38

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #644 – Lory Gil on WWDC macOS 11 Big Sur: Everything you need to know | iMore New Apple accessibility features coming this fall make technology usable and more accessible to all | iMore How to send feedback to Apple about iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS betas | iMore How to send feedback to Apple about macOS betas | iMore Recovery mode redo coming to Apple Silicon Macs | iMore Follow Lory on Twitter @appaholik Email Lory at lory@imore.com allison@podfeet.com Wyze Affiliate Link podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/paypal 2020-06-301h 11

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #639 — Lory Gil on All Things Apple If you'd like to follow Lory Gil online, she's @appaholik on Twitter, @lorygil on most other social media and you can even email her at lory@imore.com. And of course you should go read all of her great work over at imore.com. allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon podfeet.com/paypal 2020-05-1958 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #634 — Mikah Sargent on Favorite TextExpander SnippetsThis week our guest is Mikah Sargent of the Clockwise Podcast and the TWiT network. Mikah was talking on some show about how much he loves TextExpander, and I thought it might be fun to have a session where we talked about our favorite TextExpander snippets from Smile. You can find all of Mikah's work at http://chihuahua.coffee. allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon podfeet.com/paypal 2020-04-141h 06

Programming By StealthPBS 93 – Encapsulation with JavaScript ObjectsIn this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart takes us through the last "hat" that JavaScript objects can wear: encapsulation. As Bart walks us through the problems encapsulation solves using a funny NosillaCast-specific example, he shows how the code becomes reusable and sharable with encapsulation, and even more readable. You can read the tutorial shownotes as you listen at [pbs.bartificer.net/...](https://pbs.bartificer.net/pbs93) allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon podfeet.com/paypal 2020-04-0541 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #631 — Rosemary Orchard on Shortcuts Rosemaryorchard.com relay.fm/automators Take Control of Shortcuts book Video — Automators 24: Blog Post Editorial Calendar in AirTable with Shortcuts allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon podfeet.com/paypal 2020-03-271h 30

Programming By StealthPBS 92 of X — Currency Grid SolutionCCATP #630 for March 14, 2020, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bart Busschots with PBS 92 of X in which he walks us through his solution to the assignment from PBS 89 to create a grid of currency conversions. He doesn't go through his code line by line, but rather gives us the big picture of his process. Most of the time he spent on the solution was actually in refactoring his code because he decided to preload the data rather than fetching it repeatedly on-demand. I loved it when he referred to his original work...2020-03-211h 16

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #621 — Bart Busschots's Health Tech Update Cat Eye Volt400 Duplex cycl.bike/... BPM Core Blood Pressure Monitor Withings Sleep Mat Withings Thermo allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon podfeet.com/paypal 2020-01-1159 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #616 — Don McAllister on Automating ScreenCastsOnlineThis week I asked Don McAllister, owner of ScreenCastsOnline to come on the show to talk about how he automates the production of his video tutorial podcast business. We start at his humble beginnings as a new convert from Windows with a Mac mini and a monitor, up to and including a global workforce with automated workflows. He's even moved his Mac Pro into MacStadium so it's a resource for his back end production folks. I must do a disclaimer that I do screencasts for Don's show, which means I have a conflict of interest in telling...2019-11-191h 09

Programming By StealthPBS 85 of X — Objects as Arrays in JavaScript (Redux & Update)Bart continues his redux and new information by circling back through Objects as Arrays in JavaScript. I don't know about you, but I get a lot out of the redux episodes because it cements in place concepts that were a bit wiggly before he goes through it again. The one new concept he goes through is Array Destructuring which sounds ominous and destructive but which allows us to dive into arrays and create new and more interesting arrays. Bart also debuts a new way he's providing the content for the lesson. If you still want to download the zip...2019-11-031h 22

Programming By StealthPBS 83 of X Bootstrap CardsBart finishes up our first exploration of Bootstrap 4 with a look at one its most versatile components, the so-called Card. This is one of those components that’s so generic it’s hard to describe, but once you learn about it you’ll start seeing it all over the web. Cards really are ubiquitous! It’s important to stress that while we’re wrapping up our exploration of Bootstrap 4 with this installment, that does not mean we’ve come close to covering every feature this impressive library offers. Instead, the aim was to cover the big-picture items, and leave you wi...2019-10-051h 10

Programming By StealthPBS 82 of X – Async & AwaitWe're back after a summer hiatus (where Bart was working too hard) with a new installment where we attempt to dust off Allison's brain and learn about two new promise-related keywords, async and await. Both of these keywords were actually added to the core JavaScript language, so this doesn't happen that often. With async and await, we can actually get away from doing promise chains and create much more readable code while still being able to control parallel and in series tasks. Bart had to drag me along a bit in this one but I saw the...2019-09-211h 32

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #607 – Bart Busschots's Podcast RecommendationsIn this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart Busschots joins us to talk about how he arranges his podcast listening, how he categorizes them and then what kinds of shows he likes. Bart listens to around 6 hours of podcasts per _day_ so this is quite a long list. He purposely didn't include the usual suspects that he's talked about often before. That means that you are bound to learn about some shows you've never heard of and might enjoy. There are TONS of links to every show in the show notes. allison@podfeet.com podfeet...2019-09-091h 15

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #605 — Sandy Foster on CarPlay and Prius Prime TechIn this week's episode, Sandy Foster, aka @MacQuilter joins me to talk about why CarPlay is so awesome and how it influenced her decision to buy the top-of-the-line Prius, called Prius Prime. We also talk about the new tech in the Prius Prime including the fact that it's not just a gas/electric hybrid, it's also a full electric vehicle for short-range driving. You can follow Sandy online at sandymike.net and find her in the NosillaCast Live chat room and the Podfeet Slack @Sandy. allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com...2019-08-1745 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #604 - Bart Busschots on Tech of Buying a Mountain/City BikeBart Busschots joins us to talk about the technology decisions that go into buying a bike these days. I thought I knew about bikes, but I learned a lot about what's changed just in the last five years. In the blog post, we have a video where Bart walks around his bike and points out each of the things he talked about in the recording: Bart's video showing the bike components allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon 2019-08-111h 44

Programming By StealthPBS 81 – The JavaScript Promise UtilitiesIn this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart teaches us how to use Promises, with a capital P to get promises when we already know the value we want to supply. That sounds funny but it will make sense in context. Then he shows us how we can control parallelization of promises using Promise.all(). It's a very sensible lesson, and not brain bendy at all. (I really like those.) Please consider supporting Bart's hard work for us via Patreon at patreon.com/ltpod Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes are available at bartbusschots.ie/... allison@podfeet.com ...2019-07-131h 00

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #601 – Dr. Maryanne Garry on Why Science is BrokenDr. Garry, self-proclaimed Crusher of Dreams, joins us again on Chit Chat Across the Pond, this time to talk about how she thinks science is broken and why. Dr. Garry is a professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, and also professor of the NZ institute of Security & Crime Science. In this episode, she takes on the topic of how science journals choose which papers should be published, and the flaws she sees in that process that cause the extraordinary claims to be published, rather than those efforts with less flashy premises. She backs up her thoughts with...2019-07-0840 min

Programming By StealthPBS Supplemental — Dorothy Rendon on the PBS IndexIn the very first Programming By Stealth supplemental episode, Allison interviews Dorothy Rendon, the programmer behind the PBS Index. If you haven't seen it before, it's an index that Dorothy has created for the Programming By Stealth students to helpt them find key topics in Bart Busschots's fabulous tutorial shownotes. allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon 2019-06-2643 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #599 — Dr. Devon Polaschek on PsychopathsThis week we’re joined by Dr. Devon Polaschek. Dr. Polaschek is the Joint Director of the New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science at the University of Waikato. I will further embarrass her by mentioning that she was recently awarded with a Queen's Birthday honour (as in Queen Elizabeth). Dr. Polaschek has has been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to criminal psychology. In this interview, we talk about Devon's work with imprisoned psychopaths and her successful efforts to rehabilitate them. It's a fascinating discussion of the perspective of psychopaths: ho...2019-06-2147 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #598 — Oleksandr Kosovan of MacPaw on SetappInterview with Oleksandr Kosovan of MacPaw about SetApp, his work to enhance tech in Ukraine and how he created a Mac museum. MacPaw allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon 2019-06-1826 min

Programming By StealthPBS 80 — JavaScript Promise ChainsBart Busschots (successfully) explains the concept of JavaScript promise chains. It's a rough ride because of the subject itself, but he gets us there through his care and detail in explaining the concepts and of course his great examples. When he's done, you'll know how to chain promises together, you'll understand what data is passed through, and you'll understand why he says, "Don't have unhandled rejections, it's just not nice." You can find Bart's detailed shownotes at bartbusschots.ie/... allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon 2019-06-151h 45

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #596 — Anže Tomić on Tech in SloveniaThis week on Chit Chat Across the Pond I had the great pleasure of talking to Slovenian tech podcaster, Anže Tomić. Anže also works for RTV Slovenia's Val 202 public radio, and as he says on his website, he sounds like an Eastern European Bond villain. He's also a writer for the most read Slovene tech magazine Monitor (think PC/Macworld in Slovene.) We talked all over the tech map from net neutrality, to the lack of spam calls in Slovenia, to Internet speeds, to his love of the old Nokia handsets, to Huawei's current problems, to his Chromebook. I u...2019-06-081h 02

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #594 — David Woodbridge on Samsung Galaxy S10, Watch and BudsDavid Woodbridge of the Vision Store in Australia tells about how he's been testing and using the Samsung Galaxy S10, the Galaxy Watch and the Galaxy Buds side by side with his iPhones, Apple Watch and AirPods. It's a delightful discussion of the relative goodness of both platforms from an accessibility perspective. David is hilarious and we have a bit of fun wandering off topic from time to time. You can find David's many podcasts at: iSee Various Technologies from a Blind Person’s Perspective Vision Australia Radio weekly Talking Tech VACast David's video tech blog @dwoodbridge allison@po...2019-05-2558 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #591 — Kaylee Dayo on Building JavaScript Games to Teach English in Japan BUZZR buzzrtv.com/... WhatTheFont? myfonts.com/... Transit ricostacruz.com/... Clear Divs/GtP —> Mousetrap craig.is/... NW.js nwjs.io/... Makey Makey makeymakey.com/... Villas FunForce Touch Controller vilros.com/... Whiteboard app - Doceri doceri.com/... Zettai Geek Dayo Podcast at platypuspodcasts.com/... allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/patreon podfeet.com/slack podfeet.com/facebook podfeet.com/amazon 2019-04-281h 12

Programming By StealthPBS 46 - ES6 Spread Operator, Arrow Functions & ClassesIn this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart adds one more thing to the list of changes to arrays, and that's the spread operator. Then we'll learn how to get rid of the "const self = this" kludge for callbacks using the arrow functions. After that, we learn the basics of classes, a concept introduced in ES6 which brings JavaScript into the world of other C-style languages. Bart's excellent written tutorial for this installment is available here: bartbusschots.ie/... Bart at the end asks a question - would you be interested in learning how to build...2017-12-221h 05

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #515 – Allison Hartley on Trials & Tribulations of a New iPhoneThis week our guest is Allison Hartley. Allison is the Manager of the Napa Branch of the California department of Rehabilitation, and a podcaster. She co-hosts both the Tech Doctor Podcast with Dr. Robert Carter (dr-carter.com/...) and That Blind Tech Show (blindabilities.com/...). Allison joins us to talk about the less than smooth experience she had upgrading to iPhone X. You might think it was hard because she's blind, but accessibility had nothing to do with it. We talk a bit about whether Apple has taken their eye off the ball about quality lately (spoiler alert...2017-12-1645 min

Chit Chat Across the PondCCATP #508 - Allison Sheridan Tells Her Woman's StoryI've been impressed by the women who have stepped forward and told their stories about what life is like for us. I don't have any salacious tale to tell but rather a thousand paper cuts type of story. I thought about doing a monologue but I was terribly anxious about talking through this, so I reached out to Bart Busschots because I trusted him to help me. I decided to push the audio out in both the NosillaCast and Chit Chat Across the Pond feeds, well, because I wanted you to hear it.2017-11-021h 06

Programming By StealthPBS 42 of x – Playing the Game of LifeCCATP #507 for October 29, 2017, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. It is also a Programming By Stealth, installment 42 of X with Bart Busschots. It's finally time to tie all the bits and pieces we've learned together and create our first web app. Armed with our HTML, CSS, jQuery and JavaScript knowledge, and our Cellular Automata Prototype, Bart walks us through how to bring the Game of Life...to Life! It's a lot of fun and I understood a great deal of it (I'm not gonna lie, it wasn't 100% this time.) As always Bart's amazing tutorial for this episode...2017-10-291h 40

Programming By StealthPBS 26 – HTML Data Attributes with jQueryBart Busschots is back with another installment of Programming By Stealth. In this week’s episode we wake Allison up from her long winter nap away from programming and continue our work on our JavaScript clock. The goal is to create a better API for our clock so that we can publish it and have it be used by others. My personal goal is to have a secure clock I can display on https://podfeet.com/live so that you know when it’s coming up on 5pm at my house and hence time for the NosillaCast Live. In orde...2016-12-1100 min

Taming the TerminalTTT 0 OF n - Introducing TTTTaming the Terminal is a collaboration between Bart Busschots and Allison Sheridan. The tutorials were written by Bart, and hosted on this site, and there are matching conversations with Allison Sheridan on the NosillaCast Podcast. In Taming the Terminal, Bart Busschots guides Allison Sheridan through a series of tutorials to help get people comfortable in the Terminal, learn efficient ways of controlling your computer, and diagnosing network problems. While both hosts are using OS X, every effort is made to include both Linux and Windows comparative commands where possible. Bart is a Linux system administrator by day...2015-10-1300 min