Bart takes us through the penultimate hat JavaScript wears and that’s Regular Expressions. Luckily since we haven’t talked about REs in ages, he reminds us of the syntax for Regular Expressions literals in JavaScript first and then he takes us through three common uses for Regular Expressions. We joked around during this episode at how […]
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The Sounds of Silence with Turbo Boost Switcher
This article is a story of how my fans are going bananas on my new 16″ MacBook Pro. But we can’t start with the amazing solution I found in the app Turbo Boost Switcher until we back up and learn a little bit about computer processors. Not too deep, because we get in over my […]
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NC #771 Celestron, Hydrow, Transcribe VOIP Calls, mamaRoo, Currency Rate Decimals, Plugable, Hindenburg, Lost iPhone
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, February 16, 2020, and this is show number 771. mp3 download
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Dean Deals With a Lost Phone (Otter.ai Transcription)
The transcript below was created with otter.ai, the text-transcription service I talked about last week. I have made no effort to edit the transcript so it’s going to have mistakes in it. otter.ai recognizes when different people are talking. From there you can tell it which voice is which on a couple of examples, and […]
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Create Real Time Transcriptions of VOIP Calls with Rogue Amoeba and otter.ai
Problem to be Solved Podcasts are awesome because audio can be listened to while you’re doing something else, like washing the dishes, washing the car, cycling the hills of Ireland or commuting to work. But there are lots of situations where listening isn’t an option or isn’t the consumer’s preferred option. If you’re hearing-impaired, definitely […]
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When Currency Rate Decimals Go Wrong
Problem to be solved My Currency Conversion Web App (work-in-progress) I’m not entirely sure that this subject belongs in the NosillaCast but Bart was quite insistent that I write it up, so here I go. In Programming By Stealth we’ve been working on a little web app that will do currency conversions. Bart gives us […]
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CCATP #625 — Tom on the Internet on Teaching Himself to Program
Tom Steven, aka Tom on the Internet from tomontheinternet.com joins me to tell the tale of how he went from knowing zero about programming to landing a full-time job as a web developer in two years of self-training. Then he talks about the things that surprised him that he learned as a developer in that […]
Continue readingNC #770 Closed Captions on YouTube, Podfeet DDOS Update, Follow the Money, Top Greener, Shure, Tesla Tech Range Anxiety, iKuddle, Wi-Charge, 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, February 9, 2020, and this is show number 770. mp3 download
Continue readingCCATP #624 — Bart Busschots on PBS 90 of X — JavaScript Wrapper Objects
Hope you enjoyed getting the little extra Tidbits episode this week. In this installment Bart continues our on-going mini-series looking at each of the proverbial hats JavaScript objects wear. Bart explains the concept of JavaScript wrapper objects that allow you to access properties of otherwise property-less primitives. It’s pretty magical and I only got lost […]
Continue readingPBS Tidbit 1 of Y — Display Values are not Data!
This is not a normal episode of Programming By Stealth, it’s what Bart Busschots is calling a PBS Tidbit. Listener @lbutlr pointed out to Bart and me on Twitter that Bart’s math was wrong in his solution to the challenge he posted in PBS 89. The assignment was to produce currency exchange rates for a […]
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