Chit Chat Across the Pond

Chit Chat Across the Pond


Latest Episodes

CCATP # 779 — Bart Busschots on PBS 156 of X — Extracting Data with `jq`
November 25, 2023

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. We learn how to descend into dictionaries and arrays,

CCATP #778 — Bart Busschots on PBS 155 – Introducing JSON Processing from the Shell with `jq`
November 18, 2023

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 language called jq _and_ a terminal comm

CCATP #777 Angela Preston on Creating an Open Source Knitting Font
November 06, 2023

One of the great joys of Mastodon is that Im 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 are also into t

CCATP #776 Adam Engst on iPhone Recommendations for Senior Citizens
November 02, 2023

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 few t

CCATP #775 — Bart Busschots on PBS 154 — Bash: Expansions & Brackets Redux
September 02, 2023

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 a lot of inf

CCATP #774 — Bart Busschots on PBS 153 – Bash: Functions & Scope
July 29, 2023

In Programming By Stealth, weve come to the end of our journey with Bash. Ill be sad to have it complete because as I tell Bart in this episode, Ive really enjoyed it. Next time he will do a final bow-tying episode where he brings everything we learned

CCATP #773 — Bart Busschots on PBS 152B — Bash: xargs & Easier Arithmetic
July 08, 2023

In Programming By Stealth 152A Bart and I decided to hold off on the middle of the lesson hed written up. That middle bit where he said to put a pin in it was about the use of `xargs`. Im really glad we did skip it in the last installment. Its a pret

CCATP #772 — Dr. Jason Briner on Studying the Greenland Polar Ice Sheet
June 30, 2023

Im 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 go to Greenland to study the polar ice sheet. I n

CCATP #771 — Bart Busschots on PBS 152A — Bash: xargs & Easier Arithmetic
June 25, 2023

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 to the challenge from PBS 1

CCATP #770 — Nobel Laureate Dr. Andrea Ghez on our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole
June 23, 2023

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 supermassive black hole at the cen