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CCATP #662 – Rod Simmons on Screencasting Tips and Tricks Nov 24, 2020

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This week Rod Simmons of the SMR Podcast smrpodcast.com/... joins me to talk about our tips and tricks for doing effective screen casting. We started by going through some more strategic ideas on how to get your message across with a screencast, and then we dug into some of the techniques and tools we use to edit our screencasts.

CCATP #644 – Lory Gil on WWDC Jun 29, 2020

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**CCATP #641 – Robb Dunewood on Being a Black Man in America** Jun 02, 2020
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This week I decided to take a pause from tech and talk to Robb Dunewood of the SMR Podcast about what it's like being a black man in America. This was of course inspired by the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis. I wanted to have Robb on to describe to us what the daily life is like for black men across this country. I've heard some of Robb's stories before but I was floored at the relentlessness of how he and his fellow African Americans are treated as a matter of course.

It's not an easy episode to listen to but probably the most important Chit Chat I've ever recorded. I hope you'll open your minds and listen.

If you'd like to follow Robb online where he talks about tech and football and being an entrepreneur and gaming, you can find him @RobbDunewood on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. If you'd like to converse with him directly you can email him at Robb.Dunewood@bloggerpreneur.com

CCATP #629 - Dr. Garry on Study of Language Skills vs Numeracy In Learning to Program Mar 14, 2020

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Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato and I break down the meaning of a research paper published in the journal Nature in which subjects were measured to see whether language aptitude had a high correlation with learning to code. The paper can be found at "Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages".

Figures we discuss from the open access journal:

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CCATP #628 — Bart Busschots on Creating Automator Quick Actions Mar 07, 2020

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This week our guest is Bart Busschots with an installment of something he's calling Programming By Stealth-adjacent. It's not part of the regular series of Programming By Stealth, and yet it's not technically very "light" in terms of the chit chatting. Since neither podcast is the right place for it, I've decided to put it in both podcast feeds to be wrong twice.

Bart walks us through how to create Quick Actions with Automator (also known as Services) to do some simple but very useful text manipulations using a smidge of JavaScript. Even if you don't want to write these Quick Actions yourself, you can download his services from his Github repo where he's put them up as open source: https://github.com/bbusschots/macos-quickaction-text.

You can see how Bart created this in his blog post at [www.bartbusschots.ie/...](https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2020/03/06/macos-quick-actions-for-text/)

CCATP #625 — Tom on the Internet on Teaching Himself to Program Feb 10, 2020

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Tom Steven, aka Tom on the Internet from [tomontheinternet.com/...](https://tomontheinternet.com/) joins me to tell the tail of how he went from knowing zero about programming to landing a full-time job as a web developer in two years of self-training. Then he talks about the things that surprised him that he learned as a developer in that first year. In listening to Tom, you'll feel like he's not extraordinary and like maybe you could do this too. That is, if you're willing to put the time and energy into teaching yourself all with a laptop and the Internet. I found Tom delightful and entertaining and inspiring, and I hope you will too.

CCATP #605 — Sandy Foster on CarPlay and Prius Prime Tech Aug 17, 2019

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In this week's episode, Sandy Foster, aka @MacQuilter joins me to talk about why CarPlay is so awesome and how it influenced her decision to buy the top-of-the-line Prius, called Prius Prime. We also talk about the new tech in the Prius Prime including the fact that it's not just a gas/electric hybrid, it's also a full electric vehicle for short-range driving.

You can follow Sandy online at sandymike.net and find her in the NosillaCast Live chat room and the Podfeet Slack @Sandy.

CCATP #603 - Laura Kane on Effect of Women on Business Success Jul 24, 2019

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This week our guest is Laura Kane, CFA, CPA, Head of Investment Themes Americas for UBS. Laura specializes in something called Sustainable Investing for UBS. As part of her research she has written several articles about investing through a gender lens. I've asked Laura to come on, not to talk about investing per se, but rather what she has discovered about the impact women have on the success of a company.

Here's a link to the research we discuss in the interview: ubs.com/...

CCATP #591 — Kaylee Dayo on Building JavaScript Games to Teach English in Japan Apr 28, 2019

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BUZZR buzzrtv.com/...
WhatTheFont? myfonts.com/...
Transit ricostacruz.com/...
Clear Divs/GtP —> Mousetrap craig.is/...
NW.js nwjs.io/...
Makey Makey makeymakey.com/...
Villas FunForce Touch Controller vilros.com/...
Whiteboard app - Doceri doceri.com/...
Zettai Geek Dayo Podcast at platypuspodcasts.com/...
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podfeet.com/patreon
podfeet.com/slack
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CCATP #576 - Dr. Maryanne Garry on Grammar Pet Peeves Dec 20, 2018

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This week we have returning guest, Dr. Maryanne Garry from the University of Waikato but this time it will not be an intellectual, deep learning experience about the mysteries of human memory. This time we're going to talk about our grammar pet peeves. As Maryanne would say, we're both quite pedantic on this topic. Sit back and enjoy our silliness, and please add _your_ grammar pet peeves as comments on podfeet.com, in our Slack group at podfeet.com/slack or in our Facebook group at podfeet.com/facebook.

I bet you have your own grammar pet peeves, add them in the comments!

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