There are some people who are part of the fabric of the NosillaCast, piping up from time to time over many years to provide valuable insight to the show when a topic tickles them. One of these people is Andy Dolph, who’s been sending in content and chatting with me in the background since 2012. […]
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Everything Tech is Broken
When last we left our heroes, Steve and I had just finished having our house recarpeted. I walked you through the agony just as therapy for me, and then gave you the tech angles to taking a house apart and putting it back together. By the end of the day Saturday, the house was mostly […]
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Producing an Audiobook — by Eddie Tonkoi
Intro Producing an audiobook to be at a professional level is a big undertaking. It involves hours of recording, gigabytes of data, and exacting specifications. I’ve spent a lot of time understanding these and iterating on my process as I went through the full pipeline as narrator, sound engineer, producer, and publisher for my wife, […]
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NC #1074 Stream Deck to Sleep Mac, Recarpeting Tech Angles, 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, December 7, 2025, and this is show number 1074. mp3 download Articles New Carpet is Like Moving … but Not Stream Deck Button to Put Your Mac to […]
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New Carpet is Like Moving … but Not
We just had our entire house recarpeted this week, and holy cow was that a lot of work. It’s like moving … but not. While it is tempting to give you all the details of things like putting two bookcases’ worth of books and photo albums into our bathtub, instead, I’m going to talk about […]
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Security Bits — 6 December 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A good example of why Bart has been going on and on about secret management in recent conversations with Allison: Massive GitLab scan finds 17,000+ valid secrets in public repositories — cyberinsider.com/… A nice […]
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Stream Deck Button to Put Your Mac to Sleep
Do you ever do some repeated operation on your Mac that’s not hard but you find it annoying? If you can’t think of one, I’ll go first. The Problem to be Solved When I’m done working on my Mac at my desk, I like to put my laptop to sleep to save energy. I use […]
Continue readingNC #1073 Kilowatt Thanksgiving Extravaganza, Recording an Audiobook by Eddie Tonkoi, Adam Engst on Agentic Web Browsers
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, November 30, 2025, and this is show number 1073. I’ve been goofing off all Thanksgiving week, and I got that time off because I recorded with Adam Engst […]
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Recording an Audio Book — by Eddie Tonkoi
Introduction My wife, Jern Tonkoi, is writing fiction and we’re publishing it ourselves, using Amazon and Kobo, etc, and being someone who likes listening more than reading, creating audiobooks seems a natural direction to go in. Even if it wasn’t, the potential for more visibility and more sales is always going to be attractive, and […]
Continue readingNC #1072 Live With It, Slickwraps, Brett Terpstra’s SVG Viewer Plugin for WordPress, 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, November 23, 2025, and this is show number 1072. mp3 download Allison on DTNS’s Live With It Daily Tech News Show has a show called Live With It, […]
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