Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Thursday, August 8, 2024, and this is show number 1005. This show is coming out early, because Steve and I leave on Saturday for our 3-week African adventure to South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. This means there is NO LIVE SHOW until September 8th! I’ll miss you all till then.
I want to pre-thank Allister, Bart, and Jill for the hard work they have coming up. I’ve written elaborate guides for them using Folge that lets walk them step-by-step through setting up all of the tools and making the show go. I wrote a _README file to guide them through the guides. I shared passwords with them via 1Password. They’ve tested the instructions. They’ve even planned out their content for the most part. We got three audio and text donations (four if you count the two-parter George from Tulsa sent over) so they’ve got a little bit of help with content too.
I’m sure the shows will be absolutely terrific and I hope you give them lots of great feedback for stepping in to keep the NosillaCast streak alive while Steve and I take a vacation. Ok, let’s get started with this show!
PBS Tidbit 8: Interview with jq Maintainer Mattias Wadman
In Programming By Stealth, you normally hear structured lessons where Bart Busschots is teaching the class a new concept with me as the star pupil who asks lots of questions. On occasion, Bart and I come up with ideas for what we affectionately call Tidbit episodes. This week, we published Tidbit 8.
A month or so ago, Bart finished teaching his mini-series on the language jq, which amongst other tricks, allows you to query JSON files and manipulate the data within them to extract the information you need. When we plugged one of the episodes on Mastodon, we were delighted when Mattias Wadman @[email protected] responded with excitement, as he’s one of the open source maintainers of the language jq.
Bart thought that was delightful, and asked him if he’d he’d like to come on the show to talk about the development of the project, how many people are involved, the genesis of the language, and more. I wasn’t there but that meant I got to sit back and enjoy the conversation.
You can find this episode of Programming By Stealth in your podcatcher of choice, or by going to the post at pbs.bartificer.net/tidbit8.
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