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 Sunday, March 23, 2025, and this is show number 1037.
Audio PlayerPBS 178 of X: Getting Started with Jekyll Pages (GitHub Pages)
Last time we learned how to install Ruby, install Bundler, install Gems, and build a very simple website using Jekyll as our static site generator into GitHub. In this installment of our Jekyll miniseries, Bart explains Jekyll’s build process which is mostly automated by how you name things and the content of the files you create (like adding YAML front matter.) Then we spend some quality time bemoaning how the Jekyll developers reuse the word “assets” to mean two different things. Bart avoids some of the associated confusion by creating some naming conventions of our own. We get to do a worked example where we learn a little bit about Pages in Jekyll and do a few things the hard way that we’ll redo the easy way in the coming installments.
If you’re following along real-time, note that we won’t be recording for 6 weeks because of some birthdays and Allison’s trip to Japan.
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Our first CES interview this week is from the giant show floor. As is often the case, the person staffing the booth was reticent to do an interview as she’d never done one before. You might want to go watch the video of this one as it’s a GIANT piece of equipment that’s pretty dramatic to see.
CES 2025: Komatsu Underwater Remote Controlled Dredge
Before I play the next set of CES interviews, I have to tell you a funny story. I’ve mentioned that we get most of the interviews during three press events, CES Unveiled, Pepcom, and Showstoppers. These events are held in hotel ballrooms, and we usually hang out with Dave Hamilton, Chuck Joiner, Pilot Pete, and Norbert Frassa before and after the events.
I think it was on the third day when we went to Showstoppers that for some reason we weren’t with our merry gang, so Steve and I were on our own to navigate the hotel. Some of the events require you to pick up a badge before entering so we weren’t surprised when there was a table to do just that. Oddly the woman helping us said she didn’t see our names. She wasn’t perturbed and just printed us badges anyway.
We went into the conference room and started our usual wandering of the aisles of vendors, searching for interesting products to learn about. The first of those interviews you’re going to hear is with PlugP2P. Steve found this booth and was very excited to have me chat with the founders about an innovative solution for EV charging. After we interviewed them, we found a few more interesting products and did interviews. But we started noticing a couple of strange things. First of all, they were all about the automotive industry. Secondly, they were all referring to Michigan.
We even found a booth up front with a giant map of Michigan on the wall. We went to talk to the woman staffing the booth, and being from Michigan myself we had a nice chat. I learned from her that her organization is trying to get more businesses to invest in the state of Michigan specifically in transportation. Ok, that explains why the heavier-than-expected automotive angle this year.
Finally, after the fourth interview, I noticed that every person I’d interviewed had used a word I didn’t recognize: “covesa”. I asked the last person what the heck this word meant. He gave me a blank stare of confusion, and said, “Uh, COVESA is the sponsor of this event.”
We weren’t at Showstoppers at all! We’d gone into the wrong room. This also explained why we hadn’t seen any of our usual gang, or Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood and the rest of the DTNS crew who should have been there too.
We think the funniest part is that we got some really cool interviews out of it and then went to Showstoppers for the rest of the night. With that, let’s learn about PlugP2P!
CES 2025: PlugP2P Peer-to-Peer EV Charging
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CES 2025: MOTER Next Gen Car Data for Auto Insurers
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