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 23, 2025, and this is show number 1037. mp3 download PBS 178 of X: Getting Started with Jekyll Pages (GitHub Pages) Last time we learned how to […]
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Automation Gives Me All the Feels
When Bart and I hatched our plan for him to teach me and the audience how to program, he called it Programming By Stealth for a very specific reason. His plan was to sneak up on us by teaching us a single language first and then when we weren’t noticing, keep adding to our toolkit […]
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CES 2025: Flic Smart Buttons for Home Automation
Allison interviews Laura Ruiz Asenjo from Flic about their small wireless buttons to use for smart home routines and automations. They are easy to get started with and configure, they replace voice commands, and they’re simple to use for everyone since they don’t need a mobile device to operate. Flic offers three control devices: the […]
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A Rusty Podcaster Makes Mistakes
At the beginning of last week’s show, you probably heard me say that the live audience heard the intro three times because I kept making mistakes. While Jill, Bart, and Allister flawlessly executed their three shows, I couldn’t stop messing up. And that was only the beginning. I Blame Automation I’m going to blame automation […]
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Smart Light Strings from Hue and Twinkly — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello everyone. This is Jill from the Northwoods. I didn’t have a Christmas tree for the last 16 years, primarily because of the cats. But this year, someone gifted me a new Christmas tree because they replaced it with something else. But here it was. I had no Christmas lights, at least none of them […]
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Learn Retrobatch Through my ScreenCastsOnline Tutorial
You’ve heard me describe the awesome batch image manipulation app Retrobatch recently. If you’d really like to learn the tool in detail, ScreenCastsOnline has just published my latest tutorial about Retrobatch. I start from the very beginning and go step-by-step building up a few different scenarios and I explain the interface along the way. I’m […]
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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, April 23, 2023, and this is show number 937. mp3 download CCATP #766 — Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills Articles Tesla Full “Self-Driving” […]
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Retrobatch for Automating Image Manipulation
Remember a few months ago when I spent a stupid amount of time automating the incredibly complex procedure of unchecking a box in Preview’s Export window to remove the alpha channel from PNG files? The problem to be solved is that images with an alpha channel have transparency, and if they’re dark images, they’re impossible […]
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Stream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 3
At the end of Part 2, I had a really useful set of buttons, many with nice button faces, and I was looking into how to get live information to display on a button. I knew there were plugins that did this for their specific functions, but I could not figure out how I could […]
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Stream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 2
When we left our hero at the end of Part 1, he… I… had a working set of controls for my NanoLeaf lights. Once I had my buttons working, I decided I wanted to have some nice images to place on them to make the actions clear, and which were nice to look at. The […]
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