This week we’re joined by Eleanor Mazzarella, a musician turned programmer. She gives us her background in music from finding a clarinet on a bookshelf as a child to a career as a classical performer. She then walks us through how and why she decided that programming sounded like more fun. She’s a funny, delightful […]
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Those Chit Chat Across the Pond episodes that are not Programming By Stealth or Taming the Terminal
CCATP #618 – Adam Engst on Success of Macs at IBM
Adam Engst, veteran author of TidBITS for the last 29 years, inventor of Internet advertising and someone who dresses appropriately for the weather joins us for this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond. Adam explains the fascinating results that IBM has reported since they first decided to give their employees the choice of whether […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #616 — Don McAllister on Automating ScreenCastsOnline
This week I asked Don McAllister, owner of ScreenCastsOnline to come on the show to talk about how he automates the production of his video tutorial podcast business. We start at his humble beginnings as a new convert from Windows with a Mac mini and a monitor, up to and including a global workforce with […]
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Ken with the original box for OMNIWEB This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond is really special. It’s an interview with Ken Case, the CEO of Omnigroup. We don’t actually talk much about his current work, but rather start back with how he went to college when he was only 13 years old at the […]
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Ray & Allison at ⌘-D Conference This week we’re joined by returning guest Ray Robertson, well-known AppleScript guru and general all-around automator. Ray joins me to talk about the increased challenges developers faced working with Apple. It’s no secret that iOS 13 and iPad OS 13 have been problematic on their own, but the betas […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #608 – Doug Ingram on Nightscape Photography
Doug Ingram joins us to talk about what he calls Nightscape Photography, which is a combination of astral photography (photographing the stars) and photographing of the surrounding landscape. His photographs of the Milky Way with the landscape are absolutely breathtaking. Doug explains his gear, the settings on his camera and the surprisingly little he does […]
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In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart Busschots joins us to talk about how he arranges his podcast listening, how he categorizes them and then what kinds of shows he likes. Bart listens to around 6 hours of podcasts per day so this is quite a long list. He purposely didn’t […]
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CCATP #606 for August 31, 2019, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bart Busschots with a non-Programming By Stealth episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this “Lite” version of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart answered Scott Fairclough’s request to explain DoH and DoT. It’s super nerdy and […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #605 — Sandy Foster on CarPlay and Prius Prime Tech
In this week’s episode, Sandy Foster, aka @MacQuilter joins me to talk about why CarPlay is so awesome and how it influenced her decision to buy the top-of-the-line Prius, called Prius Prime. We also talk about the new tech in the Prius Prime including the fact that it’s not just a gas/electric hybrid, it’s also […]
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Bart Busschots joins us to talk about the technology decisions that go into buying a bike these days. I thought I knew about bikes, but I learned a lot about what’s changed just in the last five years. At the very end of the post, we have a video where Bart walks around his bike […]
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