In yet another delightful conversation with Adam Engst, he fires up the WABAC machine and walks us through his journey of never successfully becoming a programmer. Two periods in time allowed him to unleash his creativity: HyperCard in the 1980s and today with AI-assisted programming. The basis for the conversation was his article on TidBITS […]
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CCATP #836 — Jane Jordan on Blind Programming and Knitting
When you post online, and you know I’m following you, beware that if you say something interesting, you might be in danger of being asked onto one of my shows. That’s what happened to blind knitter and programmer, Jane Jordan. After Jane and I were done talking, I discovered that she has been listening to […]
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VS Code for Agentic Editing with Codex — by Eddie Tonkoi
Intro Hi, Eddie here with a mini review of my favourite tool of 2026, so far, and what I use it for. It’s VS Code, a Microsoft product that I stumbled upon when deciding to creating our website at jerntonkoi.com using Hugo, as told previously, and I have fallen for it head-over-heels. The problem that […]
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Sorry Steve, I’m Having an Affair with Claude
Like most developers, I’ve been using AI to help me with my little coding projects. In case you doubt that “most” devs are using AI, in June of 2023, which is a long time ago in AI years, Inbal Shani reported on the GitHub blog the results of a survey of developers. They wrote: A […]
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Quick Use of ChatGPT to Write JavaScript for TextExpander Snippet
When I add images to podfeet.com for blog posts, I use my blogging software of choice, MarsEdit. I just drag an image into the text of a post, and MarsEdit does all the formatting automatically, and uploads it to my server and links it up. On occasion I want to upload a different kind of […]
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How Helma Flew 5000 Miles to Sit in My Kitchen and Code
Helma from The Netherlands Came to Visit In the Programming By Stealth podcast I host with Bart Busschots as the instructor, we’ve covered a lot of different programming concepts. One concept we covered twice is Test Driven Development. We covered it twice because the tool that was available the first time we covered it (QUnit) […]
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NC #865 Kilowatt Thanksgiving Special, Stuck Coding? Write a Letter, Meross Smart Plugs, Level Lock with Pat Dengler
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 5, 2021, and this is show number 865. mp3 download Steve and I Were on the Kilowatt Podcast One of the great joys of podcasting is the […]
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Tiny Tip – When You’re Stuck Coding, Write a Letter You’ll Never Send
When I’m programming, I often run into problems I can’t solve. I’ve gotten pretty good at reading the documentation (at Bart’s insistence), and I read lots of forum discussions on sites like Stack Overflow where people help each other with their code, but it’s pretty common that I still can’t figure out how to fix […]
Continue readingNC #788 Read to Me Siri, Magic Up Arrow, Wyze Affiliate, I’m a Real Developer, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 14, 2020, and this is show number 788. mp3 download If you have an EVER so slight Apple bias too, I’m sure you know that Apple has […]
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I’m a Real Developer
When I started to learn to program from Bart Busschots in October of 2015 with Programming By Stealth, I didn’t really have the vision to understand what that would mean. I don’t think I expected really to be able to do the things I can do today. Caleb Fong tipped us off in our PBS […]
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