On episode 1009, Allison spoke about her addiction to AI “vibe coding”. She mentioned many of her friends were also doing the same. I am one of those friends, and this is the story of my experience. First, a little background. I have been a programmer for around 45 years. I have done it for […]
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CCATP #840 — Adam Engst on From HyperCard to AI-Assisted Programming
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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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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Automation Gives Me All the Feels
When Bart and I hatched our plan for him to teach me and the audience how to program, he called it Programming By Stealth for a very specific reason. His plan was to sneak up on us by teaching us a single language first and then when we weren’t noticing, keep adding to our toolkit […]
Continue readingSorry 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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Philips Hue Programming, Off the Charts (Part 3 of 3)
In the second instalment of this series, I left you with a couple of useful scripts — one to fetch the device ID of a light, given a name, and one to perform the conversion from RGB to CIE colour. I developed those two scripts as necessary parts of what comes next. I have demonstrated […]
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NC #1006 Philips Hue Programming Parts 1 and 2, Espanso, Manta Sleep Masks, Re-usable Cable Ties and Cable Tags
Hi, this is Allister Jenks of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, August 18, 2024, and this is show number 1006. mp3 download Articles Philips Hue Programming (Part 1 of 3) Tiny Tip – Re-usable Cable Ties Command Line Text […]
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Philips Hue Programming, Evolved (Part 2 of 3)
Device name selection In my previous instalment, I explained how to use the curl command to control Philips Hue lights. Part of the exercise involved dumping out a huge glop of JSON data and finding a long, gobbledegook of random alphanumeric characters that were the ID of a light we could control. I wanted to […]
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Philips Hue Programming (Part 1 of 3)
A few years ago, I decided I needed to get some smart light bulbs. I need to be able to set very dim light in my study for the nights I am on call for my job. After trying some cheap no-name bulbs, I discovered the Nanoleaf Essentials range. These were affordable and also came […]
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