Cheyenne’s EV6 Spaceship In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Cheyenne Swenson joins us to tell us about her new electric vehicle – the Kia EV6. Cheyenne explains how she calls it a spaceship because it’s got two 12-inch wide aspect ratio displays and because of how different it is to […]
Continue readingCategory: Chit Chat Across the Pond
Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show on the topic of technology, or sometimes just with someone really interesting.
CCATP #714 – Bart Busschots – PBS Tibit2 – It’s Ok to Play a Different Game!
This episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond perfectly straddles the line between Programming By Stealth and Lite. While it’s definitely a nerdy discussion topic, Bart Busschots is really just telling a story. He starts by explaining how he ended up a computer scientist essentially by accident, and tells us about a fantastic CS professor […]
Continue reading
CCATP #713 – Bart Busschots on PBS 134 of X — Firming up our Foundations (2 of 2)
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots finishes firming up our foundation on a few more things before we meet Jest, which will be the Test Driven Development (TDD) environment we’ll be learning next time. He explains in some adorable examples involving a parrot (named Polly of course) how getters can be used […]
Continue reading
CCATP #712 – Alec Johnson on One Take Video Production
Alec on Take One Tech This week’s guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is the Wizard Alec Johnson. Alec is the host of the YouTube channel Take One Tech. He creates amazing how-to guides on tools such as Stream Deck, Hazel, Keyboard Maestro, Ecamm Live, and many basic features of the Mac operating systems. […]
Continue readingCCATP #711 – Bart Busschots on PBS 133 of X – Firming up our Foundations (1 of 2)
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes us through some review in order to prepare us to begin our journey into test driven development (TDD) with the tool Jest which he’s chosen for our TDD. He clears up some confusion on the difference between npm install and npm ci, and then he […]
Continue readingCCATP #710 – Bart Busschots on PBS 132 of X — Managing JSDoc
In this final Programming By Stealth and final Chit Chat Across the Pond for 2021, Bart teaches us how to manage our documentation in JSDoc. As any good programmer, he insists on automating as much as he possibly can. He starts by showing us each step that we have to do at the command line, […]
Continue readingCCATP #709 – Adam Engst on the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking
Adam Engst, publisher of the long-running Internet-based email newsletter, TidBITS joins us on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about an article he wrote for TidBITS about the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. Adam starts our conversation by taking us into the WABAC machine to learn about Project Xanadu which was the vision of Ted […]
Continue readingCCATP #708 – Bart Busschots on PBS 131 – Introducing JSDoc
This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond is another installment of Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots. In our last installment, Bart explained why good documentation matters to ourselves and to other developers who want to use our code, and he also explained that using an automatic document generator like JSDoc could help make it […]
Continue readingCCATP #707 – Tom Merritt on Meta and the Metaverse
In late October, Facebook announced that The Facebook Company was name to Meta. A little bit later, Mark Zuckerberg published a video where he described his vision of the future metaverse. I haven’t been following this too closely but it seems to be turning into something I might want to understand. I asked Tom Merritt, […]
Continue readingCCATP #706 – Bart Busschots on PBS 130 of X – Good Technical Documentation
As we embark on our journey to create a JavaScript module for the strong, memorable password generating service XKPASSWD, Bart explains the importance of creating good documentation. That sounds super annoying and tedious, and it is, so Bart explains why a good documentation generator will be our friend. He outlines the two distinctly different users […]
Continue reading