Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 An update on a story Allison referenced last time: Missouri governor rebuffed: Journalist won’t be prosecuted for viewing HTML — arstechnica.com/… 🇮🇱 The NSO Group/Pegasus Saga: The Israeli government has opened an investigation […]
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Podfeet Speedup and Fixing MySQL Character Encoding
Strange Character in Text I mentioned last week that podfeet.com had slowed down to a crawl, but that I didn’t know why. I thought it might be interesting to understand a little bit about how the site works and what Bart and I tried to do and how William Reveal is now our hero. The […]
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CCATP #715 – Bart Busschots on PBS 135 of X – Introducing Jest (and re-Introducing Test Driven Development & Unit Testing)
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart takes us down memory lane to 102 episodes ago when he first introduced us to the concept of test-driven development. He explains why back then he taught us how to use QUnit for our TDD work, and why it’s no longer in favor with him. It’s […]
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Easier, Faster Web Searches with Keyword Search Extension for Safari
I’m reasonably skilled at searching the web, especially using a little search trick I learned years ago. Let’s say you want to find the diagram I made for all of the new Pro and Max 14” MacBook Pros. You know it’s somewhere on podfeet.com, and you could navigate there first and then use my search […]
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NC #875 LaTeX for Document Automation by Chris, Elgato Wave XLR, EV Charging Times with Solar, 6-Button Stream Deck
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 13, 2022, and this is show number 875. mp3 download Before we get started, I wanted to acknowledge what you’ve probably noticed, and it’s that podfeet.com is […]
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Elgato Wave XLR Mic Interface – by Marty Sobo
Elgato Wave XLR The Elgato Wave XLR is a simplistic easy to use podcast interface. Don’t be fooled though, it still packs a punch. It has all the features you want and need without any extra bells and whistles. The Problem To Be Solved: I’m blind, so I was looking for a device that was […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Is it Better to Charge Your EV at Night or During the Day if You have Solar?
This week’s Dumb Question comes from my long-time friend Mark. I’ve known Mark since I was in high school so we go way back. He got solar for his house right around the same time as us and got an electric vehicle. He asked me this question. Hope y’all are doing well. Had a solar/EV […]
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CCATP #714 – Bart Busschots – PBS Tibit2 – It’s Ok to Play a Different Game!
This episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond perfectly straddles the line between Programming By Stealth and Lite. While it’s definitely a nerdy discussion topic, Bart Busschots is really just telling a story. He starts by explaining how he ended up a computer scientist essentially by accident, and tells us about a fantastic CS professor […]
Continue readingNC #874 OpenCore with 2010 Mac Pro by Kurt, I Was Wrong About Stream Deck, 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 6, 2022, and this is show number 874. mp3 download Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I recorded an episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond […]
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OpenCore Lets 2010 Mac Pro Run macOS Monterey – By Kurt Liebezeit
By Kurt Liebezeit (@PDX_Kurt in podfeet Discord chat, @flaubert on MacRumors.com) 2010 Mac Pro?! Why would anyone be talking about a 2010 era computer, much less be using it in 2022? Let’s see if I can come up with a car analogy… OK, so my MacBook Air is kind of like a Mazda Miata: it’s […]
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