As a beginner developer, I find it very difficult to recommend coding tools to others because I’m worried the more advanced programmers will make fun of me. They’ll say my opinion is wrong because I don’t have the right experience, or I’ll accidentally step into a religious war like saying vi is better than Emacs. […]
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CCATP #695 – Bart Busschots on PBS 122 – Managing Dot Files with Chezmoi
In our previous installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart introduced us to Chezmoi, an open source tool to help us manage dot files, those hidden configuration files that get created on our Macs. Configuration files contain information about how we like our Macs configured, including where to access our ssh keys and our preferred command […]
Continue readingCCATP #693 – Bart Busschots on PBS 121 of X — Managing Dot Files and an Introduction to Chezmoi
As we’ve become nerdier while learning from Bart, we have started to add hidden configuration files to our Macs and PCs. On the Mac, these configuration files hidden by default by putting a dot in front of them, and hence they are called dot files. Maybe you’ve stored your ssh keys, or in our Git […]
Continue readingCCATP #690 – Bart Busschots on PBS 119 of X — Open Source on GitHub
As promised, Bart takes us through the final step in our GitHub journey – learning how to contribute to an open source project. He explains three open source scenarios: using someone’s code exactly as-is, using their code with a few customizations of your own, and finally the most interesting scenario, customizing the code and contributing […]
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Knit Like a Programmer
After I had written most of this article, I realized that I may have come up with a subject that interests absolutely no one but me. You see, this is about knitting like a programmer. How many of you both program, and knit? I mentioned this problem to Bart and he explained that there’s a […]
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CCATP #685 – Bart Busschots on PBS 116 0f X – Team Git
In previous installments of our Git miniseries within a series in Programming By Stealth, Bart taught us how to work in Git standalone on one computer, then how to work as one developer with multiple computers. In those installments he taught us the necessary commands and their importance in the Git scheme of things. In […]
Continue readingI Thought Regular Expressions Were the Answer
In the Programming by Stealth podcast I do with Bart Busschots, we had an assignment a while back to create a web app that would show the time in two different cities of their choice. I took the assignment up a notch and added a little slider you could drag to change the time in […]
Continue readingCCATP #679 – Bart Busschots on PBS 113 of X My First Git Remote
Last time on Programming By Stealth, Bart introduced the concept of remote repositories, also known as remotes. It was one of those episodes where we learned a lot but didn’t get to apply what we learned. In this week’s installment, we get our hands digitally dirty as we create a bare repository (a repo with […]
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NC #826 Preview Tips on macOS, I Have Written All the Blog Posts, Swiftbar by Allister, Security Bits
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 7, 2021, and this is show number 826. mp3 download CCATP #674 — Bart Busschots on Cooking Like a Programmer Let’s Talk Apple — Ep. 90 (February […]
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Add Glanceable Information to Your Mac Menu Bar with SwiftBar
Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways, Allister from New Zealand here, once again, with a review of a geeky tool that will let you flex your Taming the Terminal muscles. On an episode of the Upgrade podcast Jason Snell talked about an open source utility called BitBar. This utility puts customisable information in the macOS menu bar […]
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