In this Programming By Stealth adjacent installment labeled Tidbits 3 of Y, Bart Busschots talks to us about the dangers of using other people’s code in your code, and the danger of not using other people’s code. He explains this seeming dichotomy and gives us ways to approach the problem taking a middle ground. He […]
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Has Apple Lost Steve Jobs’s Vision of the Simple 2×2 Matrix? – More Diagrams
I’ve been obsessed with diagramming the new Mac models recently and in discussion with Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show we started thinking about how things were at Apple before Steve Jobs’s triumphant return to Apple on September 16, 1997. Steve looked at the product lineup and immediately saw that there were far […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #879 Podfeet is Wicked Fast, Gator Frameworks Boom Mic Stand, Apple Shortcut Plus Shell Script Fun
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 13, 2022, and this is show number 879. This has been a crazy last couple of weeks and I can’t wait to tell you why. I’ve got […]
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New vs Old Web Server CPU Load I have something VERY exciting to tell you about, and instead of telling a 2500-word story first and saving the punch line, I’m going to tell you the news first. I’m still going to tell the 2000-word story but you just won’t have to wait for the dramatic […]
Continue readingMore TagThe Apple M1 Family as of March 2022 – a Diagram
Last October I created a diagram to try to explain all of the different options available in laptops for the M1 Pro and M1 Max Apple Silicon processors: M1 Pro and M1 Max Decision Tree (click to embiggen) This diagram is still valid, but this week Apple added yet another version of Apple Silicon, the […]
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If you’re looking for a methodical walk through the Apple March Peek Event that discusses point-by-point every detail and spec that Apple presented, you will be sorely disappointed with this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond. Instead of being methodical, Adam Engst of TidBITS and I dive right into the middle and enjoy ourselves talking […]
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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 6, 2022, and this is show number 878. mp3 download Say My Name With Allison Sheridan: SMRpodcast #536 – SMRPodcast I invited myself onto the SMR Podcast […]
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Two weeks ago I told you about the nifty plugin for Safari called Keyword Search. This is the one that allows you to set up little shortcuts to search sites you visit often. I explained that it works really swell with most sites, but not with static sites like Programming By Stealth. PBS is a […]
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Bart Busschots taught us the basics of Jest last time for our Test Driven Development environment. This week we learn to group our tests using the describe() function in Jest. Grouping tests with describe does more than eliminate the need to comment our code, it also provides more useful output from our tests and scopes […]
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I’m a huge fan of the well-known app Hazel from Noodlesoft. You’ve probably heard of it and may use it yourself, but just in case you haven’t I’ll briefly describe what it does and the problem it solves for me. Hazel watches folders you specify and then takes action on the items in those folders […]
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