Followups More speculation-based flaws in Intel Chips (Editorial by Bart: as with other recent Spectre/Meltdown variants, there’s no need for home users to panic, just keep your OSes patched. It’s cloud providers that really need to worry about these flaws.) L1 Terminal Fault AKA L1TF – Intel have released mitigations, and they don’t have significant […]
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Freemium Archisketch Helped Me Rearrange the Room of Crap
As I’ve mentioned a few times, Steve and I are having our bathrooms gutted and remodeled. It’s a pretty stressful thing to live with. There are workers arriving at random intervals during the day, and of course, there are the days we’re ready for them and they don’t show up which is even more stressful. […]
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CCATP #560 – Robb Dunewood on Android Sideloading for Fortnite
This Chit Chat Across the Pond occurred spontaneously without planning. I was curious about the ramifications of Epic Games’ epic decision to only allow downloading of the insanely popular game Fortnite by side loading on Android. Sideloading is a term that refers to the method by which Android users can acquire apps for their devices […]
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NC #693 AppDelete, Diagnosing Remote Networks, Raspberry Pi as a Web Server, MacAlly Lampcharge, Bash Script for ID3 Tagging
I was on the MacCast this week with Adam Christianson, Reggie Ashworth’s AppDelete will live on without him, a great story about Steve’s mom and how we remotely diagnosed a network problem she was having, Ed Tobias tells us how he created a web server out of a $35 Raspberry Pi, I got a MacAlly […]
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7 Hours on a Bash Script Saves 15 Seconds a Week
ID3 Editor applicaiton showing my ID3 tags & album artwork In the past few years, I’ve been highly influenced by a few people in tech. Bart Busschots and his Programming By Stealth series of course, but also Ray Robertson from his AppleScript Bootcamp at Command-D and Sal Soghoian. Listening and learning from these people doesn’t […]
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Raspberry Pi as a Web Server by Ed Tobias
This review was written and recorded by NosillaCastaway and personal friend of Steve and mine, Ed Tobias. We met him for coffee this week and he showed off his website www.edtobias.com, which was awesome, but how he built it was even cooler! I want to describe how I used a Raspberry pi as my web […]
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MacAlly Lampcharge Brings Light and 4 USB Ports
One of the many enjoyable events at Macstock Expo is the MyMac Game Show put on by Guy Serle and Tim Robertson. It’s a trivia game and you win real prizes if you successfully answer questions. Because MyMac is a fun, silly community, the rules of this game are quite adaptable. This year someone answered […]
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My mother-in-law Merlee is one of my favorite people on the planet. She’s one of the kindest, most caring people I know. But this week she made me love her even more, because of how geeky she is. A few months ago Steve’s parents moved from 2 hours away to 4 hours away. It’s not […]
Continue readingCCATP #559 – Sal Soghoian & Ray Robertson on Automation
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond I talk to Sal Soghoian and Ray Robertson. Sal was the Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple from 1997 to 2016. During his tenure, he was pretty much responsible for all of the automation in the Mac operating system and even the Terminal. Ray Robertson […]
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CCATP #558 – Bart Busschots on PBS 60 of X – Bootstrap & jQuery
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth Bart introduces us to Bootstrap Components how we can use jQuery to extend Bootstrap. This is the first baby step into JavaScript with Bootstrap. I’m glad Bart started slowly because my JavaScript muscles are just a bit stiff and dusty. You can find Bart’s tutorial over at […]
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