Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇨🇦 More voices against Canada’s proposed End-to-End-Encryption ban: Apple Google Push Judicial Oversight Canada Online Safety Bill — www.reuters.com/… Citizen Lab urges Canada to withdraw parts of Bill C-22 over privacy concerns — cyberinsider.com/… […]
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Demon Bots, I Rebuke Thee!
Podfeet.com is on a virtual server hosted by DigitalOcean. Bart and I have both been enjoying their services for quite a few years. A few years back, Bart convinced me to rent a second server to host the WordPress database. This setup has been working great. But then a few months ago, I noticed in […]
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Podfeet Home Page Redesign – You Didn’t Even Notice!
Buttons Cut Off on iPhone 11 Pro Back in March, alert reader Anthony Walla noticed something annoying about the Podfeet home page when viewing it from his iPhone 11 Pro. You know how I have a graphic of a MacBook with big red buttons for the various categories of content on podfeet.com? When I first […]
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Podfeet Speedup and Fixing MySQL Character Encoding
Strange Character in Text I mentioned last week that podfeet.com had slowed down to a crawl, but that I didn’t know why. I thought it might be interesting to understand a little bit about how the site works and what Bart and I tried to do and how William Reveal is now our hero. The […]
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Geek Adventure Time – Fixing Bart’s Audio Player
Pretty Audio Player As you know, Bart Busschots and I do a podcast together called Programming By Stealth which is a subset of the Chit Chat Across the Pond podcast. I know, I should have just made it its own show from the beginning, having it exist is in two ways is confusing, blah blah […]
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NC #737 Psychopaths, MAMP & WordPress Tutorial, DTNS, MacStadium, Zoom iQ7, Zoom H4n Pro, Horns on Kids
Steve and I are about to leave for Chile but I’ve got three Chit Chat Across the Pond recorded and in the queue for you, and Bart and Allister are going to take the reins while we’re gone. I’ve got two stories about recorders, the Zoom iQ7 and the Zoom H4n Pro that have very […]
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MarsEdit Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
I had a total blast creating my latest tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline. It’s on the blogging software called MarsEdit from red-sweater.com/…. This is a fantastic piece of software that I use for creating all of the blog posts you see on podfeet.com. The best part of doing these tutorials is that it forces me to learn […]
Continue readingNC #720 Omnicharge, Down a Tech Rabbit Hole, Targus Video Docking Stations, Bitdefender BOX, Security Bits
We’ve got more interviews from CES, starting with one with Omnicharge about their portable power banks that allow us to charge USB-C-enabled laptops directly. Then I’ll tell you the tale of the rabbit hole I fell down when trying to use Markdown in a locally-hosted WordPress installation on my Mac so that I could show […]
Continue readingNC #686 Listening to Bart Pays Off, Instagram from a Computer, Security Bits
This week I’ll tell you a tale of how all the knowledge Bart has been pouring on us really paid off this week, then I’ll tell you how to play on Instagram.com from a real computer. Heck, I learned a lot of what I used there from Bart too! Then with even more Bart, we’ve […]
Continue readingListening to Bart Really Pays Off
Bart has been teaching you and me for many years now. Between his Taming the Terminal series and now his Programming By Stealth series, he’s attempted to cram vast amounts of knowledge into our brains. My father used to say that children are like wine bottles – you should pour as much information into them […]
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