In this fascinating discussion with Adam Engst, we discuss how he used to think that reading added information to essentially a database in his brain. Recently, though, he has started to think about his brain as a large language model, and that instead, reading is changing the weights of the model to include new information. […]
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NC #1088 Hip Surgery Hardware Weight, Strapsicle for Kindle & iPad mini, Komutr MagSafe Earbuds, 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 15, 2026, and this is show number 1088. mp3 download Articles How Much Did All That Hardware Weigh That They Put In Me? CES 2026: Strapsicle Straps […]
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How Much Did All That Hardware Weigh That They Put In Me?
I’m not sure why, but I have always weighed myself every single day. Weighing yourself doesn’t help you lose weight. I can prove that because I tried weighing myself twice a day, and it still didn’t help, and yet I still weigh myself every day. As a result when I went into the emergency room […]
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Strapsicle Testimonial
Hopefully, you just heard, watched, or read our interview with Lou from the company Strapsicle, but I want to add Steve and my 2¢ to this, so I guess you’re getting 4¢. When we got home from CES, I went straight to Amazon to buy one for Steve and one for me. Spoiler, we love […]
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My Experience with Claude Code: AI-Assisted Development in Practice — Bruce from Tennessee
This is Bruce from Tennessee with a summary of my experience working with Claude Code over the past several weeks. Claude Code, from Anthropic, is one of several AI tools that can be used to create software, as I’ll discuss in this post. The show notes contain a link to an overview of Claude Code […]
Continue readingNC #1087 Finland Travelogue, Hospital Tech, Viewsonic 4K/5K Displays VSCode Agentic Editing with Codex, Adam Engst on Siri as the New Mac Help System
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 8, 2026, and this is show number 1087. Before we get started, I want to thank all of you who reached out with your well wishes for […]
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Hospital Tech
I thought it might be interesting to talk a little bit about tech in the hospital, since that’s where my most recent experience lies. To give a little context, I spent three nights in the proper hospital, and then I was transferred to a rehab hospital where I spent another six nights. WiFi The first […]
Continue readingCCATP #830 — Adam Engst on How Siri Could Become the Mac’s New Help System
The charming Adam Engst joins us to talk about his vision of How Siri Could Become the Mac’s New Help System. His vision is that since Apple knows everything about macOS, it doesn’t seem a big leap that we should just be able to ask Siri how to do things on our Mac. It could […]
Continue readingNC #1086 Broken Femur, Rescue Retriever, Audiobook Recording V3 Part 1 Eddie Tonki, 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 1, 2026, and this is show number 1086. mp3 download Articles It’s Still a Slider — The Broken Femur Edition CES 2026: Rescue Retriever Smoke Detector to […]
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It’s a SLIDER, not a button! You may remember last June when I published a PSA entitled, “PSA — SOS Button for Apple Watch Fall Detection is a SLIDER!” I posted that after I had a hard fall while walking Kepler, which caused me to break my nose. After years of looking at the SOS […]
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