Followups Andrew Orr at TMO got a bit of a sneak-peak at Cloudflare’s soon-to-be released Warp VPN (Editorial by Bart: support for a split tunnel is a nice touch) — www.macobserver.com/… Security researchers have found that there are still nearly a million devices out there on the internet vulnerable to the BlueKeep RDP vulnerability Microsoft […]
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CCATP #595 — Bart Busschots on PBS 79 — Introducing JavaScript Promises
Bart has been promising us Promises for ages now and he finally fulfills his promise by explaining thenables. Promises are a tool to get us out of “callback hell”, which we experienced a while back. I think he made us suffer through that so we’d appreciate Promises. In this episode he shows us the beauty […]
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Google Image Search for “No PowerPoint When I was working, I had to do a lot of big thinking stuff. I needed to get ideas down, organize them, and then figure out a compelling way to make my point. This was often to try to change policies in the company, influence technical decisions, justify the […]
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NC #733 Samsung Accessibility, DTNS, Clockwise, Powerbeats Pro, Tesla Tech on Charging, Keyboard Maestro Field Gide, EVs and Sound
David Woodbridge joins us for Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk Samsung accessibility, my appearances on Daily Tech News Show and Clockwise, Steve (Sheridan) does a great review of the Powerbeats Pro earphones, we’ll listen to the proposed sounds different electric vehicles will make come this September in the US and in 2021 in […]
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Electric Vehicles Will be Required to Make Sound
In Chit Chat Across the Pond this week, I talked to David Woodbridge about Samsung tech and we wandered off topic a while when I mentioned that I bought a Tesla. It spawned a discussion of how you can’t hear an electric vehicle coming. My buddy Ron, who has driven Teslas for the last 5 […]
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MacSparky Presents — Keyboard Maestro Field Guide
Good friend of mine and great geek David Sparks has created another one of what he calls his Video Field Guides. This one is all about Keyboard Maestro. Keyboard Maestro is really misnamed. It’s not just a tool to make something happen when you hit a keystroke. It’s really a very advanced automation tool designed […]
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CCATP #594 — David Woodbridge on Samsung Galaxy S10, Watch and Buds
David Woodbridge of the Vision Store in Australia tells about how he’s been testing and using the Samsung Galaxy S10, the Galaxy Watch and the Galaxy Buds side by side with his iPhones, Apple Watch and AirPods. It’s a delightful discussion of the relative goodness of both platforms from an accessibility perspective. David is hilarious […]
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Tesla Tech – How Long Does it Take to Charge?
My father had a lot of weird sayings that I didn’t completely understand. For example, when I was misbehaving, he would threaten me with “I’m going to cut you off too short to hang up!” When I asked a question that was too vaguely worded to have a unique answer, he would say, “How big […]
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Expect a few extra Podfeet Press emails over the next few days as I fix the Programming By Stealth RSS feed. I’ll talk about how silly I think it is that people feel sorry for Samsung with their folding phones. I’ve got my first installment of Tesla Tech where I’ll tell you all about the […]
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Bart Busschots and I both had a great time doing the challenge this week. In this week’s installment Bart takes us through his homework not in a detailed step-by-step method, but rather he goes through some major structural ways he created his code. He digs deep enough to explain why but it’s a great lesson […]
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