Chit Chat Across the Pond

Chit Chat Across the Pond


Latest Episodes

CCATP #728 — Bart Busschots on Why FIDO Passkeys Rock
May 14, 2022

Back in August of 2019 (https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2019/08/fido2/), Bart Busschots told us about how someday in the future, we would be able be living a passwordless future because of something called FIDO, AKA Fast ID Online. Back then it was really on

CCATP #727 – Dr. Maryanne Garry on How Everything You Remember is Wrong
May 12, 2022

One of my pet peeves is podcasters who air reruns. Today I am that podcaster but I think I can justify what I’m doing so bear with me here. On June 1st, 2014, Dr. Maryanne Garry made her debut appearance on Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this terrific inte

CCATP #726 – Bart Busschots on Email on Your Own Domain
May 01, 2022

In this ~lite episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots explains why it's a good idea to have your an email address on your own domain. Then he digs deep into all of the different technologies involved in owning a domain, forwarding email, exp

CCATP #725 – Erin Carson on Ear Worms and TikTok
April 20, 2022

This week our guest is Erin Carson, Senior Writer at CNET. She came on the show to talk to me about ear worms and the effect that TikTok is having on their prevalence. We go over the research she studied on earworms, finding out how long we've known abou

CCATP #723 – Bodie Grimm Kilowatt Crossover on Self Driving, Solar Batteries, and More
April 16, 2022

While Steve and I were in Phoenix visiting Steve's sister, we made a trip out to meet the awesome Bodie Grimm, host of the Kilowatt podcast at 918digital.com. Bodie's show is all about electric vehicles, self driving, solar energy, and batteries. You can

CCATP #722 – Tom Merritt on the Past, Present, and Future of Messaging
April 05, 2022

This week’s guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, Cord Killers, Know a Little More, Sword and Laser and more podcast than I can count. He’s also a science fiction author with his book series Pilot X tommerrit

CCATP #720 – Jill from the North Woods on Switching from Windows to Mac
March 24, 2022

Jill from the North Woods, host of the delightful and inspiring Start with Small Steps Podcast at smallstepspod.com decided a few years ago that she wanted to switch from Windows to the Mac. I was a bit of an enabler on this, so I’ve been watching her adv

CCATP #718 – Adam Engst of TidBITS on Apple's March Peek Event
March 10, 2022

If you’re looking for a methodical walk through the Apple March Peek Event that discusses point-by-point ever detail and spec that Apple presented, you will be sorely disappointed with this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond. Instead of being methodical, Ad

CCATP #716 – Cheyenne Swenson on the Kia EV6 "Spaceship"
February 24, 2022

Cheyenne's EV6 SpaceshipIn this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Cheyenne Swenson joins us to tell us about her new electric vehicle – the Kia EV6. Cheyenne explains how she calls it a spaceship because it's got two 12-inch wide aspect ra

CCATP #714 – Bart Busschots – It's Ok to Play a Different Game!
February 06, 2022

This episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond perfectly straddles the line between Programming By Stealth and Lite. While it's definitely a nerdy discussion topic, Bart Busschots is really just telling a story. He starts by explaining how he ended up a comput