I’m super excited about my latest video tutorial for ScreenCastsONLINE. In this tutorial, I first teach how you can make little standalone applications from websites. They’re called site-specific browsers, and they’re valuable as an easy way to open a web service as though it’s an app, and if done with the right tool, they can […]
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Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline Part 2 – Grammar — Eddie Tonkoi
Intro In my last article, (Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline with Regex and Python — Part 1 by Eddie Tonkoi), I introduced my pipeline, including the rationale behind my Narrative Analysis toolkit, ETNA. This time, I’ll be looking at the more subjective part, starting with grammar. The problem with grammar Unlike syntax and spelling, grammar […]
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Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline with Regex and Python — Part 1 by Eddie Tonkoi
Intro: Rationale and Regex My wife, Jern Tonkoi, is a discovery writer. She knows what she wants to write, but the characters and the locations don’t always play along, resulting in emotional depth with creative freedom. I have the task of editing and producing the novel, and so I am bound by mundane conventions such […]
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Security Bits — 18 December 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Yet another real-world example of the dangers of poor secret hygiene: Over 10,000 Docker Hub images found leaking credentials, auth keys — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… 🇬🇧 UK fines LastPass £1.2M over 2022 data breach impacting 1.6 […]
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Taming the Terminal — New Installment 41!
In October of 2015, Bart and I started a podcast called Taming the Terminal. It’s a fantastic and (mostly) evergreen series that helps demystify the Terminal. It’s not just for macOS users. Whenever possible, Bart included Linux and Windows commands. With the advent of the Windows Subsystem for Linux, it became even easier for Windows […]
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The Night Before Christmas, NosillaCast Style
Since Christmas will soon be here, I thought it would be a good time to resurrect the poem that has become a holiday tradition on the NosillaCast. In 2019, we lost our beloved Honda Bob, a long-time NosillaCastaway and contributor to the show and a very dear friend. But his memory and the silliness he […]
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Smart Outlets — by Sandy Foster
I don’t have a home that’s as “smart” as many these days. I don’t, for instance, have smart door locks or window shades. I certainly don’t have any fancy lighting systems. However, I do have three smart outlets from Meross. I’ve used a couple of different brands in the past, but right now my outlets […]
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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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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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