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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CCATP #600 — PBS Supplemental — Dorothy Rendon on the PBS Index
In the very first Programming By Stealth supplemental episode, I interview Dorothy Rendon, the programmer behind the PBS Index. If you haven’t seen it before, it’s an index that Dorothy has created for the Programming By Stealth students to helpt them find key topics in Bart Busschots’s fabulous tutorial shownotes. We’ll first get a little […]
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I Have Made Fire – I Coded in Perl with Regex!
We’re entering chapter 3 of my quest to provide chapter markers in the podcast. The original request was from Joe LaGreca but since I’ve started talking about it on the show, people have been coming out of the woodwork saying, “Yes, please!” I have been working my little fingers and brain to the bone on […]
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Bart likes to give credit to the sites he references in his shownotes but the links get fairly clutterly. He wrote a very short (17 line) perl script and put it inside TextExpander to make pretty links instead. He wrote this for Markdown but since I like html better he created a version for html […]
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