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, October 20, 2024, and this is show number 1015. I’ve got a great show for you this week but it’s not exactly what I had planned. Last week […]
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Quick Use of ChatGPT to Write JavaScript for TextExpander Snippet
When I add images to podfeet.com for blog posts, I use my blogging software of choice, MarsEdit. I just drag an image into the text of a post, and MarsEdit does all the formatting automatically, and uploads it to my server and links it up. On occasion I want to upload a different kind of […]
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Make Beautiful Online Documentation with Docsify
A few weeks ago I told you about how much fun I was having learning MkDocs to create the user guide for our XKPasswd project. Once I got past the hurdle of fighting with Python (mostly by avoiding it which limited what I could do), I was able to produce beautiful documentation. MkDocs allowed me […]
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New and Improved XKPASSWD — Now in Beta
If you’ve been a NosillaCast listener for any length of time, you’ve heard Bart and me talk about a service he created called XKPASSWD, This service helps you create long, strong, but memorable passwords. He wrote this service a zillion years ago in the Perl language and hosted it at xkpasswd.net. This is such an […]
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CCATP #785 — Helma van der Linden on Porting XKPASSWD from Perl to JavaScript
Helma Visiting Steve & Me from The Netherlands This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is a stretch to the word “Lite”. I’d call it a crossover episode of Lite and Programming By Stealth. Helma van der Linden joins me to tell the story of how she has successfully started the new version of […]
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How Helma Flew 5000 Miles to Sit in My Kitchen and Code
Helma from The Netherlands Came to Visit In the Programming By Stealth podcast I host with Bart Busschots as the instructor, we’ve covered a lot of different programming concepts. One concept we covered twice is Test Driven Development. We covered it twice because the tool that was available the first time we covered it (QUnit) […]
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CCATP #742 – Bart Busschots on PBS 139 of X — Bundling a Web App/Site with Webpack (Part 2)
In our last installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart started teaching us how to bundle an app/website using our bundler of choice, Webpack. The app/website he’s creating for us is very simplified but is intended to allow us to exercise every one of the kinds of things we’d want to bundle. This week we finish […]
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We’re back in the saddle after a summer of “PBS Adjacent” installments. Our last real PBS was learning how to use Webpack to bundle a JavaScript library for sharing with the world. That was cool, but a lot of us want to use Webpack to bundle a web app we’ve written ourselves to include all […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #715 – Bart Busschots on PBS 135 of X – Introducing Jest (and re-Introducing Test Driven Development & Unit Testing)
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart takes us down memory lane to 102 episodes ago when he first introduced us to the concept of test-driven development. He explains why back then he taught us how to use QUnit for our TDD work, and why it’s no longer in favor with him. It’s […]
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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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