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 Friday, January 2, 2026, and this is show number 1078. Happy New Year to everyone with this first episode of 2026. Since it’s early yet again, that means there’s […]
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Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline Part 2 – Grammar — Eddie Tonkoi
Intro In my last article, (Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline with Regex and Python — Part 1 by Eddie Tonkoi), I introduced my pipeline, including the rationale behind my Narrative Analysis toolkit, ETNA. This time, I’ll be looking at the more subjective part, starting with grammar. The problem with grammar Unlike syntax and spelling, grammar […]
Continue readingNC #1063 iPhone 17 Pro Camera System Explained and Knightwise on Creative Tech Solutions with Open Source
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 Wednesday, September 17, 2025, and this is show number 1063. Since you’re getting this show a full four days early, that means we will not be in town on […]
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Open Source Audacity — My Latest Video Tutorial for ScreenCastsONLINE
I’ve used the free and open source Audacity for audio recording and editing for as long as I can remember. I did my first podcast recordings using Audacity nearly 20 years ago. What I never did before though, was to actually learn how to use it well. I’d push record, do some minor edits, maybe […]
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Create a Virtual Display on Your Mac with DeskPad
I’ve got one of the weirdest and head-bendy tool reviews for you today. Let’s see if I can set up a problem to be solved to get you interested first. The Problem to be Solved Let’s say you’re doing a presentation and you need to share your screen. This causes a few challenges, especially if […]
Continue readingNC #1024 Night Before Christmas by Steve, Local Large Language Models with Steve Mattan, Bart Busschots on Smart Home Humidity Devices, 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 Saturday, December 21, 2024, and this is show number 1024. mp3 download CCATP #804 — Pat Dengler on an Elaborate Scam Involving “Amazon”, the “FBI”, “Lawyers”, and More You probably […]
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Subscribe to Podcasts … Through Activity Pub … Using Podcast Index … on Mastodon
By now you’ve probably figured out how to follow podcasts in your podcatcher of choice. I’ve just learned of another option that I’m not sure is easy or will be a widespread method, but it’s definitely interesting. You’ve at least heard of Mastodon by now, even if you’re not an avid user like I am. […]
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Make Beautiful Online Documentation with MkDocs
This week I taught myself a new tool and I’m very excited about it. Let’s start with the problem to be solved, shall we? As you may already know, the Programming By Stealth community is working on porting Bart Busschots’s XKPasswd secure, memorable password generation service to modern web tools. Bart created the original service […]
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CES 2024: TIER IV Level 4 Self-Driving Software for EVs
Allison discusses TIER IV’s efforts and successes in developing autonomous driving (AD) software for electric vehicles. With a strong focus on safety, innovation, and open-source software, TIER IV aims to empower people and revolutionize the way people live and interact with transportation. Based in Japan, TIER IV has successfully achieved Level 4 AD services in […]
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OCR PDFs using Free Open Source Tools with Apple Shortcuts (or Automator)
I’ve been talking a lot lately about different methods of running Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on PDFs using only free open source tools after George from Tulsa taught us about OCRmyPDF. All of the methods I’ve described work, but they’re pretty high on the nerd scale. OCR PDFs with Open Source Tools on Linux by […]
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