Chit Chat Across the Pond

Chit Chat Across the Pond


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CCATP #801 – Sam King of GigSky & How to Use a US Phone Number Using WiFi Calling with a Foreign eSIM
November 03, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sam King, chief revenue officer for eSIM provider GigSky. As an unwritten policy, I don’t generally interview people who sell products or services, but since it’s my own guideline, I can color outside the lines when I w

CCATP #800 – Adam Engst on Limiting iPhone Charging to 80%
October 02, 2024

In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst of TidBITS joins us to join in the fun conversation about limiting your iPhone's charging to 80%. He wrote up an article entitled Does Limiting an iPhone’s Battery Charging to 80% Increase L

CCATP #799 – Adam Engst on Apple's Screen Recording Permissions in Sequoia Beta
September 07, 2024

Adam Engst joins me again, this time to talk about the patently wrong decision by Apple to include repetitive permissions requests for screen recording in the macOS Sequoia beta. As he explains in his article on TidBITS.com entitled Apple Reduces Excessiv

CCATP #798 Adam Engst on Troubleshooting
August 06, 2024

This week our guest is the venerable Adam Engst of TidBITS.Adam wrote an article recently about his solar inverters that ended up being a story about troubleshooting. That inspired me last week to tell you our troubleshooting story about our home networ

CCATP #797 – Adam Engst on His Quest for Alarming Notifications
July 09, 2024

CCATP #793 for July 9, 2024, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. In case you missed the announcement, Adam Engst of TidBITS is now a member of the Podfeet Podcasts family as a continuing contributor to Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this week's episode,

You May Need to Resubscribe to the NosillaCast
July 06, 2024

So ... I made a wee mistake this morning when I accidentally told the NosillaCast feed to move to the Chit Chat Across the Pond feed! I thought I fixed it right away, but then Louis Trapani told me that he was seeing all of the NosillaCast content slopped

What happened to Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite?
July 05, 2024

Well hello there, this is Alison Sheridan and I have a very special announcement for July 5th, 2024, to the Chit Chat Across the Pond light audience and the Programming By Stealth audience.If you were subscribed to the Lite feed, you may have noticed th

CCATP #792 – Bart Busschots on Rethinking Weather Apps for Privacy and Functionality
April 27, 2024

In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about weather apps. Hes a serious weather nerd by necessity, living in Ireland and being an avid bike rider. As he walks through the apps hell explain which ones fall dow

CCATP #791 – Bart Busschots on Submarines, Lasers, and Vacuum Cleaners???
April 14, 2024

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 a few of my Dyson stories too and we both

CCATP #790 — Bart Busschots on PBS 164 of X – jq: Working with Lookup Tables
March 30, 2024

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 the exact opposite – disas