Chit Chat Across the Pond

Chit Chat Across the Pond


Latest Episodes

CCATP #780 — Jason Howell on Using Android with a Mac
December 04, 2023

In this weeks 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

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 #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 #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

CCATP #769 — Bart Busschots on visionOS
June 10, 2023

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 visionOS, the new operating system

CCATP #766 — Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills
April 23, 2023

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

CCATP #764 — Adam Engst on Mac Cloud Storage Changes
April 13, 2023

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 Dropbox,

CCATP #760 — Rod Simmons on Migrating from LastPass to 1Password
March 01, 2023

In this weeks 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 o

CCATP #756 — Bart Busschots on the Meaning of Verification and Twitter/Mastodon Implementations
December 17, 2022

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 explains how Twitter and Mastodon do the