In Programming By Stealth this week, Bart Busschots and I start off by going through the challenges from our previous installment. Remember how I said I was really digging jq and querying JSON files because at heart I’m a data nerd? Well, I failed completely at accomplishing the homework. It was not for lack of […]
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CCATP #781 — Bart Busschots on PBS 157 of X — jq: Querying JSON with `jq`
In this week’s episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots continues his instruction on learning more about how to use the jq language to query JSON files. We get into the thick of it as Bart teaches us three important jq concepts: filter chaining, operators, and functions. To get there we learn about the literal […]
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CCATP #780 — Jason Howell on Using Android with a Mac
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Jason Howell, podcaster and producer for the TWiT network, and musician joins me to talk about what it’s like to use an Android phone with a Mac. I live in an Apple-centric bubble, so I am very curious about how he works with these […]
Continue readingCCATP # 779 — Bart Busschots on PBS 156 of X — Extracting Data with `jq`
After the last episode of Programming By Stealth where Bart gave us an intro to jq and the problems it can solve, this week we start to get our feet wet by learning how to extract data from JSON files. We learn how to descend into dictionaries and arrays, and how to slice arrays. Learn […]
Continue readingCCATP #778 — Bart Busschots on PBS 155 – Introducing JSON Processing from the Shell with `jq`
After our annual break from Programming By Stealth that happens at an unknown time for an unknown length every single year, Bart and I are back with a new episode of Programming By Stealth. Bart introduces us to a language called jq and a terminal command called jq which together are used to help query […]
Continue readingCCATP #777 Angela Preston on Creating an Open Source Knitting Font
One of the great joys of Mastodon is that I’m meeting new people with a cross-section of interests that overlap with my own. By following hashtags like #programming and #technology and #knitting and #crocheting, I can find fellow nerds who are also into the crafts I enjoy. I discovered this week’s guest, Angela Preston through […]
Continue readingCCATP #776 Adam Engst on iPhone Recommendations for Senior Citizens
After a long hiatus for which I have no excuse, Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is back with a fabulous interview with Adam Engst, publisher of the long-running Internet-based email newsletter, TidBITS. Adam’s been on the show a few times and he’s always a delight. This episode focussed on an article he published in […]
Continue readingCCATP #775 — Bart Busschots on PBS 154 — Bash: Expansions & Brackets Redux
Bart Busschots joins us for Programming By Stealth with the final installment of our miniseries on Bash. He explains a few new concepts, but the real value of this installment and especially his fabulous tutorial shownotes is that he compiles a lot of info into some tables for us to use as reference for the […]
Continue readingCCATP #774 — Bart Busschots on PBS 153 – Bash: Functions & Scope
In Programming By Stealth, we’ve come to the end of our journey with Bash. I’ll be sad to have it complete because as I tell Bart in this episode, I’ve really enjoyed it. Next time he will do a final bow-tying episode where he brings everything we learned together in one set of notes as […]
Continue readingCCATP #773 — Bart Busschots on PBS 152B — Bash: xargs & Easier Arithmetic
In Programming By Stealth 152A Bart and I decided to hold off on the middle of the lesson he’d written up. That middle bit where he said to “put a pin in it” was about the use of xargs. I’m really glad we did skip it in the last installment. It’s a pretty useful concept […]
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