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, November 2, 2025, and this is show number 1069. mp3 download Articles Unite is Accessible Just last week, on October 29, in my review of the site-specific browser […]
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Rounded Screenshots Part 2 — Rolling my Own and Shottr Update
Two weeks ago, I wrote an extensive article on the trials and tribulations of taking screenshots with macOS Tahoe and its fancy, rounded windows. The two problems to be solved were that some screenshot methods didn’t capture transparent corners for the rounded windows, and the windows in macOS don’t have borders on them, so they […]
Continue readingNC #1057 Automating Project Folder Structure, Choosing an EV Part 2, Bodie Interviews Grok in his Tesla
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, August 10, 2025, and this is show number 1057. Well, Steve and I had a glorious week off playing with Lindsay’s family on Lake Charlevoix in Michigan. It […]
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OCR PDFs using Free Open Source Tools with a Shell Script and Keyboard Maestro
Last week I walked you through how I was able to create a bash shell script to perform OCR on PDFs using the open source library ocrmypdf that George from Tulsa taught us about. I was very proud of my little script, but I realized that running a script isn’t a very mainstream thing to […]
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CCATP #763 — Bart Busschots on PBS 148 – A Bash Potpourri (Subshells, Relative Paths & More)
This week’s Programming By Stealth is a great lesson on how no matter how long you’ve been coding, you’ll still get caught out from time to time and think that the universe makes no sense. When Bart was working on the challenge from PBS 147, he ran into a bizarre situation for many hours. He […]
Continue readingCCATP #758 – Bart Busschots on Programming By Stealth 144
This week our guest is Bart Busschots with Programming By Stealth 144. When last we recorded, Bart started teaching us the basics of shell scripting using Bash. We learned how to collect terminal commands into a reusable shell script, but we didn’t learn how to accept any kind of input. In this installment, we learn […]
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Finder and Terminal in the Same Window – Fun with Scripts — by Bruce from Tennessee
This is Bruce from Tennessee, aka UseTheData, with a tip for working with the Finder and Terminal. The problem to be solved is that, when working with files, I find some operations to be easier in the Finder and others to be easier in the Terminal. There are times where I needed a terminal window […]
Continue readingCCATP #757 Bart Busschots on PBS 143 — Shell Script Basics
In this week’s episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots starts building out one more tool in our toolbox: shell scripts. Bart starts with the basics explaining how to tell our little scripts which shell to run using the shebang line, the structure of shell scripts, commenting, assigning, and using variables, and how to write […]
Continue readingNC #894 Hazel Script of Doom, Tiny Mac Tips Part 2, 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 26, 2022, and this is show number 894. mp3 download In 2020, Steve and I were supposed to go on a trip to Iceland, but of course, […]
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My Hazel Script of Doom™️
In March of this year, I wrote a blog post entitled, “I Have Made Fire – Shortcut with Shell Script to Mount a NAS Share”. I was so proud of my little self because I’d written my first shell script to solve a real problem and I’d used a Shortcut with it just to prove […]
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