Joseph and I had a Great Time Recording This week, our guest is a lovely gentleman named Joseph Nilo. If you’ve been listening to Apple podcasts since the dawn of podcasting, you may recognize that name. He was one of the original hosts of the Mac Roundtable podcast. I first “met” Joseph on July 29, […]
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Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show on the topic of technology, or sometimes just with someone really interesting.
CCATP #832 — Ron Burch on Replacing Tesla Model S Battery
Most people today get great joy out of buying a new car if they can afford it. Our buddy Ron has a ten-year-old Tesla Model S, and rather than buying a new car, he decided to have Tesla install a brand new battery. In our conversation, Ron explains what the original battery was and talks […]
Continue readingCCATP #831 — Adam Engst on Reading Trains Your Internal LLM
In this fascinating discussion with Adam Engst, we discuss how he used to think that reading added information to essentially a database in his brain. Recently, though, he has started to think about his brain as a large language model, and that instead, reading is changing the weights of the model to include new information. […]
Continue readingCCATP #830 — Adam Engst on How Siri Could Become the Mac’s New Help System
The charming Adam Engst joins us to talk about his vision of How Siri Could Become the Mac’s New Help System. His vision is that since Apple knows everything about macOS, it doesn’t seem a big leap that we should just be able to ask Siri how to do things on our Mac. It could […]
Continue readingCCATP #829 Jason Howell on Smart Glasses
You may know Jason Howell from his work hosting Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt, or his work on the All About Android and Android Faithful Podcasts, or hosting Tech News on the TWiT Network. Over the last two decades, he’s been the voice translating complex technology into clear, human stories that connect with […]
Continue readingCCATP #828 — Adam Engst on Menu Icons in Tahoe
Adam Engst joins me this month to talk about the wonderful world of macOS Tahoe’s menu icons. You may not have noticed, or you may not have upgraded to macOS 26 yet, but nearly every menu item in every dropdown menu on nearly every application now has a tiny icon next to it. In this […]
Continue readingCCATP #827 — Bart Busschots on Understanding Email Sender Validation
In this rather propeller beanie episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots explains how to configure your DNS records on your server to ensure you can send email from your domain. Like I said, it’s nerdy, but we know a fair number of NosillaCastaways host their own servers and will enjoy learning how […]
Continue readingCCATP #826 — Adam Engst on The Phone App in iOS 26
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst joins us to valiantly attempt to explain to us how the new Phone app is supposed to work in iOS 26. He’ll demystify the Classic and Unified views and even help you figure out how to call someone from the calls list in […]
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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 […]
Continue readingCCATP #825 — Andy Dolph on Remote Production of Events Using Zoom Webinar
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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