In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Melissa Davis, aka TheMacMommy joins me to give us her tips for setting up an iPhone for a “Vintage User”, in a dignified way. If you’ve ever heard Melissa on the Geekiest Show Ever podcast she does with Elisa Pacelli, you know she’s a fantastic […]
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Those Chit Chat Across the Pond episodes that are not Programming By Stealth or Taming the Terminal
CCATP #689 – Bodie Grimm with Allison and Steve on Tesla Fiddly Bits
This week we have a very different episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. On the awesome Kilowatt podcast (a show all about electric vehicles), host Bodie Grimm asked me and my husband Steve to be his guests on the show. You really shouldn’t be listening to it here, you should go subscribe to […]
Continue readingCCATP #687 – Mikah Sargent on What Thread Means for the Internet of Things
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Mikah Sargent joins us to explain why he’s so excited about what the new technology called Thread is going to bring to the Internet of Things, or IoT. You may know Mikah from the awesome show Clockwise with Dan Moren, or perhaps iOS Today with […]
Continue readingCCATP #683 – Christophe Zajac-Denek is Kind of a Big Deal
This week’s guest is Christophe Zajac-Denek. Christophe worked as a TV producer while touring in a rock band, he’s a drummer, an actor and stuntman, a surfer, a journalist, a podcaster, and public speaker. He’s also 4’4” tall and has a rare form of dwarfism. Christophe hosts an amazing podcast entitled “I’m Kind of a […]
Continue readingCCATP #682 – Doc Rock on Apple Spring Loaded Event
This week’s guest is Doc Rock to talk about the Apple Spring Loaded Event. Doc’s background in all things Apple as well as high-end live video makes him the perfect person to talk about this event. He explains to me how this color calibration of our TVs using our iPhones and an Apple TV will […]
Continue readingCCATP #680 – Gregg Vanderheiden on 50 Years in Accessibility
This week our guest is Gregg Vanderheiden, Professor and Director Trace R&D Center at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because I recently interviewed him at 19:40 on the NosillaCast about a product called Morphic. When we were preparing for that interview, Gregg started to […]
Continue readingCCATP #678 – Matt Campbell on Accessibility Overlays & Cloudflare Remote Browser Isolation
Matt Campbell is a blind software developer who has specialized in making computers more accessible to blind people for over 20 years. He was the lead developer for Serotek for 15 years, where he developed several affordable and easy-to-use products, including a Windows screen reader and an online community for blind people. More recently, he […]
Continue readingCCATP #676 – Jill McKinley on Windows to Mac Conversion
This week our guest is Jill McKinley, also know as Jill from the North Woods. I’ve been using a Mac since 1984, and other than a 3-year stint using Windows Vista at work, I’ve been heads down in the Mac operating system all that time. Jill has recently bought her first Mac, which as is […]
Continue readingCCATP #675 – Working from Home Part 2 – Allister Jenks & Lindsay Tondee
In the last Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Lindsay Tondee made her debut appearance where we talked about working from home. After the show published, Allister Jenks wrote to me and told me that halfway through listening he had to stop and start writing down notes for a recording he would have to make […]
Continue readingCCATP #674 — Bart Busschots on Cooking Like a Programmer
Bart Busschots joins us for Chit Chat Across the Pond in an episode of what he calls “Programming Adjacent”. It’s not about programming, it’s actually about cooking and not wasting food. But Bart, being a programmer, approaches the problem like a programmer. I guarantee you that no one else on earth approaches cooking and food […]
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