Tom Steven, aka Tom on the Internet from tomontheinternet.com joins me to tell the tale of how he went from knowing zero about programming to landing a full-time job as a web developer in two years of self-training. Then he talks about the things that surprised him that he learned as a developer in that […]
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NC #770 Closed Captions on YouTube, Podfeet DDOS Update, Follow the Money, Top Greener, Shure, Tesla Tech Range Anxiety, iKuddle, Wi-Charge, Security Bits
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, February 9, 2020, and this is show number 770. mp3 download
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CCATP #624 — Bart Busschots on PBS 90 of X — JavaScript Wrapper Objects
Hope you enjoyed getting the little extra Tidbits episode this week. In this installment Bart continues our on-going mini-series looking at each of the proverbial hats JavaScript objects wear. Bart explains the concept of JavaScript wrapper objects that allow you to access properties of otherwise property-less primitives. It’s pretty magical and I only got lost […]
Continue readingPBS Tidbit 1 of Y — Display Values are not Data!
This is not a normal episode of Programming By Stealth, it’s what Bart Busschots is calling a PBS Tidbit. Listener @lbutlr pointed out to Bart and me on Twitter that Bart’s math was wrong in his solution to the challenge he posted in PBS 89. The assignment was to produce currency exchange rates for a […]
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Tesla Tech – Range Anxiety is Real
One of the things people talk about with electric vehicles is the concern you might have about whether you’ve got enough battery charge in your car to make it to your destination. They call this range anxiety. With an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle, you usually have lots of options to stop and get gas, […]
Continue readingNC #769 Denial of Service, ALOGIC, NextThere, Brydge, FindOut, Selvy Penscript, Lumi by Pampers
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 Friday, January 31, 2020, and this is show number 769. Yes, the show is actually 2 days early. That means there will be no live show on Sunday, remember? […]
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Podfeet.com is under a denial of service attack … maybe
You may have noticed over the last few days that from time to time you can't get to podfeet.com. The errors returned are fairly random. Sometimes it says I don't have a valid security certificate (I do). Sometimes it says there's an error connecting to the database. With Bart's help, we've determined that something is […]
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CCATP #623 — Lila Brissette on Accessibility from a Young Person’s Perspective
While we were in Las Vegas for CES, we carved out some time to have dinner with our good friend, JF Brissette, who is also the editor of all of my videos for ScreenCastsOnline. He brought his daughter Lila to dinner and she started talking to me about her journey of discovery into accessibility on […]
Continue readingSelvy Penscript — Great Handwriting Recognition keyboard for iPad
Selvy Penscript Keyboard Showing Corrections Back in 2016 I told you about an awesome third-party keyboard for iPad called MyScript Stylus. The genius of this keyboard was that it allowed you to write by hand with a stylus and it would convert your scribbles into text as you wrote. It worked in every app, so […]
Continue readingNC #768 Cubo, ioTrapster, otter.ai, Insta360 ONE R, Drinkworks by Keurig, Security Bits
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, January 26, 2020, and this is show number 768. This week’s show is going to be a blast. We’ve got an interview about an AI-based baby monitor and […]
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