In the last Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Lindsay Tondee made her debut appearance where we talked about working from home. After the show published, Allister Jenks wrote to me and told me that halfway through listening he had to stop and start writing down notes for a recording he would have to make […]
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Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show on the topic of technology, or sometimes just with someone really interesting.
CCATP #674 — Bart Busschots on Cooking Like a Programmer
Bart Busschots joins us for Chit Chat Across the Pond in an episode of what he calls “Programming Adjacent”. It’s not about programming, it’s actually about cooking and not wasting food. But Bart, being a programmer, approaches the problem like a programmer. I guarantee you that no one else on earth approaches cooking and food […]
Continue readingCCATP #673 – Lindsay Tondee on Working from Home
Lindsay Tondee, Senior Manager in Quality Assurance at a global pharmaceutical company, joins us to talk about whether it’s a good or a bad thing that companies are thinking about having their workforce continue to work from home indefinitely. I originally thought this would be a great thing because we’ll have fewer cars on the […]
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CCATP #672 – Bart Busschots on TTT 37A of n – SSH Agents
In 2017 on Taming the Terminal installment 37 of n, Bart taught us about SSH agents and the advantages of using a passphrase to further protect your SSH keys. In the intervening four years, things have changed a bit in macOS, so we decided to do a supplemental update to installment 37. We review a […]
Continue readingCCATP #671 – Allison Sheridan on American Council of the Blind Radio
This week the tables are turned and you’ll actually hear me being interviewed. I was asked to be on the Magic Mac Show, which is on the American Council of the Blind’s streaming radio channel. Hosts Tyson Ernst, Katie Frederick and Jason Castonguay asked me on so they could learn about how I got interested […]
Continue readingCCATP #670 – Ken Ray on Apple’s Record-Breaking Earnings Call
This week our guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Ken Ray, host of the macOS Ken Podcast, hosted at macosken.com. You may have been wondering why Ken had never been on Chit Chat Across the Pond before, but I just wanted to make sure he was going to stick with it. Since he […]
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CCATP #669 – Bart Busschots on PBS 111 of X – Stashing Changes
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart teaches us how Git can help us when we forget to switch to the correct branch before starting to make changes to our code. We’re only human, and we will forget, and Git’s stash command allows us to set our changes aside, switch to or even create […]
Continue readingCCATP #668 – Bart Busschots on PBS 110 of X – Merge Conflicts
In this installment of Programming By Stealth Bart teaches us how to deal with conflicts in branches of our code. He has been purposely only changing one thing at a time before now, but it’s time to face the reality of when two branches change the same line in the same file. I’ve been terrified […]
Continue readingCCATP #667 – Mike Price on Keyboard Maestro
This week our guest for Chit Chat Across the Pond is Mike Price, also known as @Grumpy in the podfeet slack and our live show chat room. During the live NosillaCast, I have to perform a super repetitive set of tasks to add chapter marks as I’m recording the show. If you enjoy there being […]
Continue readingCCATP #666 – Bart Busschots on PBS 109 of X — SemVar & Structured Commits
We continue our mini-series within a series learning the version control system Git. We learn two methods to enhance our branching strategy. First, we’ll walk through some basic principles on how to number our released versions of our code. From there we’ll explore three types of changes that would cause a change in our release […]
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