Chit Chat Across the Pond

By Allison Sheridan

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Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show talking technology. It was originally part of the NosillaCast podcast (for the first 406 shows!)

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Chit Chat Across the Pond episodes:

04.14.2024
CCATP #791 – Bart Busschots on Submarines, Lasers, and Vacuum Cleaners???
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk Dyson vacuums. I know that doesn't sound too technical but you'd be surprised how advanced the tech is in the new devices. I share...
03.31.2024
CCATP #790 — Bart Busschots on PBS 164 of X – jq: Working with Lookup Tables
In our previous episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots taught us how to create lookup tables with jq from JSON data using the `from_entries` command. Just when we have that conquered, this time he teaches us how to do...
03.17.2024
CCATP #789 — Bart Busschots on PBS 163 of X – jq: Lookups & Records
In this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots as usual works through his solution to the challenge from last time, and as usual I learn a lot more about how to use jq to solve problems. He takes a...
03.03.2024
CCATP #788 — Bart Busschots on PBS 162 of X — jq: Altering Arrays & Dictionaries
Bart Busschots is back to teach us how to alter arrays and dictionaries in JSON files using jq. Bart went through his challenge solution on cleaning up the Nobel Prize database and I learned a lot from it. Maybe he’d...
02.18.2024
CCATP #787 — Bart Busschots on PBS 161 — jq: Maths, Assignment & String Manipulation
In this week’s episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart continues to expand our knowledge on how to use jq to query and manipulate JSON files. We learn how to use mathematical operators on data in our JSON files along with...
02.05.2024
CCATP #786 — Bart Busschots on PBS 160 of X — jq as a Programming Language
In this week's installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us how to use jq as a programming language. Before we get into the new stuff, Bart takes us through his solution to the challenge, and I have to...
02.04.2024
CCATP #785 — Helma van der Linden on Porting XKPASSWD from Perl to JavaScript
This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is a stretch to the word “Lite”. I’d call it a crossover episode of Lite and Programming By Stealth. Helma van der Linden joins me to tell the story of how she...
01.21.2024
CCATP #784 — Bart Busschots on PBS 159 of X - jq: Building Data Structures
In this very meaty episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us how to build data structures using jq with JSON files. We’re not just querying existing data, we’re rebuilding the data the way we want to see it....
12.31.2023
CCATP #783 — Bart Busschots on PBS 158B - jq: More Advanced Queries
Two weeks ago, Bart Busschots and I recorded a Programming By Stealth episode covering more queries using the jq language on our JSON files. We spent so much time working through the challenges from the previous installment that we only...
12.21.2023
CCATP #782 — Bart Busschots on PBS 158A – jq: More Queries
In Programming By Stealth this week, Bart Busschots and I start off by going through the challenges from our previous installment. Remember how I said I was really digging jq and querying JSON files because at heart I’m a data...
12.10.2023
CCATP #781 — Bart Busschots on PBS 157 of X — jq: Querying JSON with `jq`
In this week’s episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots continues his instruction on learning more about how to use the jq language to query JSON files. We get into the thick of it as Bart teaches us three important...
12.05.2023
CCATP #780 — Jason Howell on Using Android with a Mac
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Jason Howell, podcaster and producer for the TWiT network (https://twit.tv), and musician (https://open.spotify.com/artist/5bgXcI3jGHMp8N97Ib08ZK?nd=1&dlsi;=50d38517395a4ea9) joins me to talk about what it’s like to use an Android phone with a Mac....
11.25.2023
CCATP # 779 — Bart Busschots on PBS 156 of X — Extracting Data with `jq`
After the last episode of Programming By Stealth where Bart gave us an intro to jq and the problems it can solve, this week we start to get our feet wet by learning how to extract data from JSON files....
11.19.2023
CCATP #778 — Bart Busschots on PBS 155 – Introducing JSON Processing from the Shell with `jq`
After our annual break from Programming By Stealth that happens at an unknown time for an unknown length every single year, Bart and I are back with a new episode of Programming By Stealth. Bart introduces us to a...
11.06.2023
CCATP #777 Angela Preston on Creating an Open Source Knitting Font
One of the great joys of Mastodon is that I’m meeting new people with a cross-section of interests that overlap with my own. By following hashtags like #programming and #technology and #knitting and #crocheting, I can find fellow nerds who...
11.03.2023
CCATP #776 Adam Engst on iPhone Recommendations for Senior Citizens
After a long hiatus for which I have no excuse, Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is back with a fabulous interview with Adam Engst, publisher of the long-running Internet-based email newsletter, TidBITS (https://tidbits.com). Adam’s been on the show a...
09.03.2023
CCATP #775 — Bart Busschots on PBS 154 — Bash: Expansions & Brackets Redux
Bart Busschots joins us for Programming By Stealth with the final installment of our miniseries on Bash. He explains a few new concepts, but the real value of this installment and especially his fabulous tutorial shownotes is that he compiles...
07.30.2023
CCATP #774 — Bart Busschots on PBS 153 – Bash: Functions & Scope
In Programming By Stealth, we’ve come to the end of our journey with Bash. I’ll be sad to have it complete because as I tell Bart in this episode, I’ve really enjoyed it. Next time he will do a final...
07.08.2023
CCATP #773 — Bart Busschots on PBS 152B — Bash: xargs & Easier Arithmetic
In Programming By Stealth 152A Bart and I decided to hold off on the middle of the lesson he’d written up. That middle bit where he said to “put a pin in it” was about the use of `xargs`. I’m...
06.30.2023
CCATP #772 — Dr. Jason Briner on Studying the Greenland Polar Ice Sheet
I’m on a roll with scientists on Chit Chat Across the Pond. This week my guest is Professor Jason Briner from the University of Buffalo. Dr. Briner joins us to tell us tales of adventure as he and his team...
06.25.2023
CCATP #771 — Bart Busschots on PBS 152A — Bash: xargs & Easier Arithmetic
I don't always make the time to pre-read the shownotes for Programming By Stealth but I never regret when I do make the time. That was especially true this week. In this installment, Bart Busschots takes us through his solution...
06.23.2023
CCATP #770 — Nobel Laureate Dr. Andrea Ghez on our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole
ave you always figured that astrophysics was a subject beyond your grasp? In this week's Chit Chat Across the Pond, Nobel Prize-winning Dr. Andrea Ghez from UCLA joins me to explain how she and her team proved there is a...
06.11.2023
CCATP #769 — Bart Busschots on visionOS
This week our guest is Bart Busschots but this is not a Programming By Stealth episode, it's a Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. At least within my personal definition of Lite! Bart joined the show this week to talk about...
05.28.2023
CCATP #768 — Bart Busschots on PBS 151 of X — Bash: Printf and More
This week’s Programming By Stealth wasn’t a heavy lift but I managed to get confused a couple of times anyway so expect lots of questions from me in this one. Bart started the show by telling us about a clever...
05.14.2023
CCATP #767 – Bart Busschots on PBS 150 of X – Bash Script Plumbing (Take Two)
When Bart and I recorded PBS 150 on Bash Script Terminal Plumbing, neither of us was happy with it. I got very confused in the middle, and Bart decided that his original strategy might have been flawed in which he...
04.30.2023
CCATP #767 – Bart Busschots on PBS 150 of X – Bash Script Plumbing
Bart and I took a few minutes upfront to high-five each other for 150 episodes of the Programming By Stealth Podcast. Then we quickly got to work. Back in the Taming the Terminal podcast (at [ttt.bartificer.net/…](https://ttt.bartificer.net/), Bart taught us about stream...
04.23.2023
CCATP #766 — Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills
This week our guest is your favorite psychological scientist, Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato in New Zealand and [www.garrylab.com/…](https://www.garrylab.com/) Dr. Garry and four of her colleagues published a paper recently in the Royal Society Open Science called “Trivially...
04.16.2023
CCATP #765 — Bart Busschots on PBS 149 of X — Better Arguments with POSIX Special Variables and Options
In this rather mind-bendy episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes into the weird world of POSIX special variables and options. He refers to some of them as being like handling nuclear power, at one point he suggests mind-altering...
04.13.2023
CCATP #764 — Adam Engst on Mac Cloud Storage Changes
Adam Engst of TidBITS (https://tidbits.com) joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite to talk about the changes Apple made recently to the File Provider Extension. These changes had a fairly significant effect on how cloud storage providers like...
03.26.2023
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...
03.18.2023
CCATP #762 — Bart Busschots on PBS #147 – Bash Arrays
In this week's episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart walks us through how to create, add to, and extract from arrays using Bash. It's a very light episode, which I manage to drag out longer by making him slow down...
03.05.2023
CCATP #761 — Bart Busschots on PBS 146 of X – Shell Loops
As Bart continues our education in shell scripting, he explains the simplicity of looping. He explains the four types of loops: while, until, for, and select, along with the simple syntax of do/done within a loop. He walks us through...
03.01.2023
CCATP #760 — Rod Simmons on Migrating from LastPass to 1Password
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Rod Simmons of the SMR Podcast (https://smrpodcast.com) and BBQ and Tech (https://bbqandtech.com) joins me to talk about password managers. After the recent breaches and more importantly breaches of trust...
02.19.2023
CCATP #759 — Bart Busschots on PBS 145 of X — Shell Conditionals
Bart continues his miniseries on shell scripting by teaching us conditionals in the shell. In order to explain why conditionals are a bit odd in shell scripting, Bart first walks us through how it was originally done and then shows...
02.04.2023
CCATP #758 – Bart Busschots on PBS 144 – Basic Shell Script IO
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...
01.08.2023
CCATP #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...
12.18.2022
CCATP #756 — Bart Busschots on the Meaning of Verification and Twitter/Mastodon Implementations
In this final Chit Chat Across the Pond of the year, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about what verification really means, how you know a website is what it says it is, and how verification is accomplished and then...
12.11.2022
CCATP #755 — Bart Busschots on PBS 142 — The XKPasswdJS Project Kickoff!
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart officially kicks off the XKPasswdJS project. This is what we’ve all been waiting for! As I said to Bart at the end of our recording, we’re no longer fixing to make...
12.09.2022
CCATP #754 — Casey Liss on Automations From the Absurd to the Delightful
On this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, we're joined by developer Casey Liss of the Accidental Tech Podcast and creator of the iOS apps MaskerAid and Peek-a-View. I asked Casey to come on the show to talk...
12.04.2022
CCATP #753 Nic of Nic's HomePod Repair
This week our guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Nic of Nic’s HomePod Repair (https://nicsfix.com/). You might remember the article about Steve’s amazing experience with Nic repairing our big-girl HomePod a month or so ago. It wasn’t just...
11.27.2022
CCATP #752 — Bart Busschots on PBS 141 — Generating UML Class Diagrams with Mermaid (Don't Cuddle the Mermaid)
In the last installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart taught us all about UML class diagrams for documenting the structure of our code. In this installment, Bart teaches us how to use the ASCII diagramming tool Mermaid to make our...
11.13.2022
CCATP #751 — Bart Busschots on PBS 140 of X — UML Class Diagrams
Bart and I are back from summer vacation to kick back into gear on Programming By Stealth. As you may remember, we’ve been learning all of the tools we’ll need to rewrite, test, and document Bart’s password generation library xkpasswd...
11.08.2022
CCATP #750 Dave Hamilton on WiFi 6E Backhaul and Why You Might Care
WiFi Generations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_6)In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, I asked Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab (https://macgeekgab.com) to come on to talk to us about mesh routers and why we might care about WiFi...
10.30.2022
CCATP #749 Bart Busschots on Understanding the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape
This week our guest on Control Center is Bart Busschots with a talk that’s part Security Bits, part Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. Bart has been asked to speak at a Mac User’s Group on the subject of...
10.26.2022
CCATP #748 – Darcy Hegarty on His Unusual Screencasting Process
This week I'm pleased to introduce you to Darcy Hegarty on Chit Chat Across the Pond. Darcy is a fellow screencaster for Don McAllister's ScreenCastsOnline and I'm really impressed with the videos he creates. They're tight, they tell a...
10.21.2022
CCATP #747 – Dan Moren on Baby Tech
This week our guest is Dan Moren (https://dmoren.com/). Dan is the author of the Galactic Cold War series of sci-fi espionage capers, a former senior editor at Macworld, a writer for Six Colors and TidBITS amongst other publications, and...
10.11.2022
CCATP #746 – Antonio Rosario on iPhone 14 Pro Max From a Different Angle
Antonio Rosario bills himself as a full-time unemployed photographer, part-time semi-employed videographer and photography instructor, and a volunteer bimonthly podcaster. He sent out a tweet in which he said, “Dear podcasters: Will someone PLEASE interview me about the #iPhone 14...
10.04.2022
CCATP #745 – Bart Busschots on Zero Trust
In this "Lite" episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots teaches us about a relatively new concept in IT security called Zero Trust. He explains how the old ways of simply securing the perimeter of your organization are...
09.28.2022
CCATP #744 – Paul Kafasis on 20 Years of Audio Software Development
Rogue Amoeba is celebrating 20 years in Mac software development this month and in honor of that accomplishment, I asked CEO Paul Kafasis to come on Chit Chat Across the Pond to take us on a walk down memory lane. We...
09.18.2022
CCATP #743 – Bart Busschots on PBS Tidbit 6 of Y — A Real-World Webpack Case Study
In the past few episodes of Programming By Stealth, Bart has been walking us through worked examples to demonstrate how to roll up a web app using Webpack. These worked examples have been contrived to show how to perform the...

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Chit Chat Across the Pond episodes:

CCATP #791 – Bart Busschots on Submarines, Lasers, and Vacuum Cleaners???

CCATP #790 — Bart Busschots on PBS 164 of X – jq: Working with Lookup Tables

CCATP #789 — Bart Busschots on PBS 163 of X – jq: Lookups & Records

CCATP #788 — Bart Busschots on PBS 162 of X — jq: Altering Arrays & Dictionaries

CCATP #787 — Bart Busschots on PBS 161 — jq: Maths, Assignment & String Manipulation

CCATP #786 — Bart Busschots on PBS 160 of X — jq as a Programming Language

CCATP #785 — Helma van der Linden on Porting XKPASSWD from Perl to JavaScript

CCATP #784 — Bart Busschots on PBS 159 of X - jq: Building Data Structures

CCATP #783 — Bart Busschots on PBS 158B - jq: More Advanced Queries

CCATP #782 — Bart Busschots on PBS 158A – jq: More Queries

CCATP #781 — Bart Busschots on PBS 157 of X — jq: Querying JSON with `jq`

CCATP #780 — Jason Howell on Using Android with a Mac

CCATP # 779 — Bart Busschots on PBS 156 of X — Extracting Data with `jq`

CCATP #778 — Bart Busschots on PBS 155 – Introducing JSON Processing from the Shell with `jq`

CCATP #777 Angela Preston on Creating an Open Source Knitting Font

CCATP #776 Adam Engst on iPhone Recommendations for Senior Citizens

CCATP #775 — Bart Busschots on PBS 154 — Bash: Expansions & Brackets Redux

CCATP #774 — Bart Busschots on PBS 153 – Bash: Functions & Scope

CCATP #773 — Bart Busschots on PBS 152B — Bash: xargs & Easier Arithmetic

CCATP #772 — Dr. Jason Briner on Studying the Greenland Polar Ice Sheet

CCATP #771 — Bart Busschots on PBS 152A — Bash: xargs & Easier Arithmetic

CCATP #770 — Nobel Laureate Dr. Andrea Ghez on our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

CCATP #769 — Bart Busschots on visionOS

CCATP #768 — Bart Busschots on PBS 151 of X — Bash: Printf and More

CCATP #767 – Bart Busschots on PBS 150 of X – Bash Script Plumbing (Take Two)

CCATP #767 – Bart Busschots on PBS 150 of X – Bash Script Plumbing

CCATP #766 — Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills

CCATP #765 — Bart Busschots on PBS 149 of X — Better Arguments with POSIX Special Variables and Options

CCATP #764 — Adam Engst on Mac Cloud Storage Changes

CCATP #763 — Bart Busschots on PBS 148 – A Bash Potpourri (Subshells, Relative Paths & More)

CCATP #762 — Bart Busschots on PBS #147 – Bash Arrays

CCATP #761 — Bart Busschots on PBS 146 of X – Shell Loops

CCATP #760 — Rod Simmons on Migrating from LastPass to 1Password

CCATP #759 — Bart Busschots on PBS 145 of X — Shell Conditionals

CCATP #758 – Bart Busschots on PBS 144 – Basic Shell Script IO

CCATP #757 Bart Busschots on PBS 143 — Shell Script Basics

CCATP #756 — Bart Busschots on the Meaning of Verification and Twitter/Mastodon Implementations

CCATP #755 — Bart Busschots on PBS 142 — The XKPasswdJS Project Kickoff!

CCATP #754 — Casey Liss on Automations From the Absurd to the Delightful

CCATP #753 Nic of Nic's HomePod Repair

CCATP #752 — Bart Busschots on PBS 141 — Generating UML Class Diagrams with Mermaid (Don't Cuddle the Mermaid)

CCATP #751 — Bart Busschots on PBS 140 of X — UML Class Diagrams

CCATP #750 Dave Hamilton on WiFi 6E Backhaul and Why You Might Care

CCATP #749 Bart Busschots on Understanding the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape

CCATP #748 – Darcy Hegarty on His Unusual Screencasting Process

CCATP #747 – Dan Moren on Baby Tech

CCATP #746 – Antonio Rosario on iPhone 14 Pro Max From a Different Angle

CCATP #745 – Bart Busschots on Zero Trust

CCATP #744 – Paul Kafasis on 20 Years of Audio Software Development

CCATP #743 – Bart Busschots on PBS Tidbit 6 of Y — A Real-World Webpack Case Study