We have one more thing to learn as we gear up to actually start writing modern code for Bart’s HSXKPasswd tool. The last piece of our tool kit is a bundler. In this installment, Bart teaches what problems bundlers solve, and he explains why he chose the bundler Webpack for our project. After learning about […]
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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 #723 – Bodie Grimm Kilowatt Crossover on Self Driving, Solar Batteries, and More
While Steve and I were in Phoenix visiting Steve’s sister, we made a trip out to meet the awesome Bodie Grimm, host of the Kilowatt podcast at 918digital.com. Bodie’s show is all about electric vehicles, self driving, solar energy, and batteries. You can imagine that it would be impossible for a podcast to not break […]
Continue readingCCATP #722 – Tom Merritt on the Past, Present, and Future of Messaging
This week’s guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, Cord Killers, Know a Little More, Sword and Laser and more podcasts than I can count. He’s also a science fiction author with his book series Pilot X tommerrittbooks.com. I asked Tom to come on Chit […]
Continue readingCCATP #721 – Bart Busschots on PBS Tibit 4 of Y — Rethinking a Web App – from Web Server to Cloud Stack
Over the past few months, podfeet.com went through a period of really poor performance. My site hadn’t been snappy in the last few years with page loads of up to 6 seconds, but it hit a tipping point where it was taking in excess of 40 seconds for pages to load. William Reveal and Bart […]
Continue readingCCATP #720 – Jill from the North Woods on Switching from Windows to Mac
Jill from the North Woods, host of the delightful and inspiring Start with Small Steps Podcast at smallstepspod.com decided a few years ago that she wanted to switch from Windows to the Mac. I was a bit of an enabler on this, so I’ve been watching her adventure with great interest. She recently made the […]
Continue readingCCATP #718 – Adam Engst of TidBITS on Apple’s March Peek Event
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 […]
Continue readingCCATP #717 – Bart Busschots on PBS 136 of X — More Jesting
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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CCATP #716 – Cheyenne Swenson on the Kia EV6 “Spaceship”
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 […]
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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 readingCCATP #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 […]
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