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An airhacks.fm conversation with Gerald Venzl (@GeraldVenzl) about: discussion on prepared statements and their benefits in Oracle databases, explanation of hard parsing vs soft parsing in database queries, overview of connection pooling and its importance in database performance, introduction to Oracle's Database Resident Connection Pool (DRCP), exploration of Oracle's support for serverless workloads, discussion on PL/SQL and JavaScript support in Oracle databases, brief mention of ADA programming language and its influence on PL/SQL, introduction to GraalVM and its role in Oracle databases, comparison of performance between PL/SQL and JavaScript in Oracle, mention of Oracle database support for ARM architecture including M1 Macs and Raspberry Pi 5, explanation of database sharding vs partitioning, discussion on the benefits of stored procedures for data-intensive operations Gerald Venzl on twitter: @GeraldVenzl

This week Apple introduced several of it's new “Apple Intelligence” A.I. features that were touted in June, but finally made it to phones at the tail end of October. The most interesting, and the one that will take AI photo edits mainstream to the masses is “Clean up,” the ability to erase people and distracting objects from your photos, just like you would do with a pencil and paper. However, it's only available to people who have updated their iOS 18 iPhone software and have the iPhone 15 Pro or 16 series phones. So even if you don't have one of these phones, odds are that if you're an iPhone user, you will be upgrading at some point and getting this feature and more in the coming years. Similar tools have been available from Adobe, but at a monthly subscription cost that starts at $9.99 for Photoshop, or Google, via Android phones and the Google Photos app, which has had a confusing rollout. Plus, the Google tools aren't as easy to use and as effective. I've been vocal in my distaste for AI tools from Google that put things easily into photos that were never there in the first place. You could argue that the photo above where I ditched the volleyball net breaks the rule of bending reality into something that's not photography, and you'd be right. But I've been removing distractions like power lines and garbage cans from photos for years, just as so many other photographers have. But it used to be a time-consuming task, one made way easier by Adobe's upgrade of “Generative Fill” in Photoshop in 2023. And now, thanks to Apple, it's even simpler, more effective and available to the masses for free. Reader beware: Sometimes you can get rid of the person in the shot, but not their pesky shadow!How Apple Intelligence Clean Up worksTake the photo, open it up in Apple Photos on your phone, (late models iPad with the A17 chip, and M1 Macs with Sequoia installed) and click Edit. There you will see a new tab added to select the Clean Up feature. Put your finger over the objects you want to get rid of, and watch them disappear. If you don't get it right, try again until you do. Most times it works really well—but when I tried to get rid of a post-Halloween skeleton sitting on a beach chair, all those bones were too much for the A.I. I didn't undertake a complete Photoshop vs. Apple Intelligence test, but Petapixel, the online website that covers photography did, and the results favored the new player. For Android fans, if you haven't already, check out the Magic Eraser in Google Photos. When I said the rollout was confusing, here's why. First it was only available for Android users, then it was brought to the iPhone as well, but only if you subscribed to Google One, Google's backup subscription program. However, in April, 2024 it opened it up to everyone. The process is similar: open photo, select tools, look for Magic Eraser and then erase the person or object with your finger. Have fun playing around and let me know your thoughts. New MacsApple also introduced several new, more powerful Mac computers this week. The headline was that they were equipped with “Apple Intelligence” those silly e-mail summaries, professional writing cleanup and more chatty and smarter (supposedly) Siri. Forget about it! What I'm interested is the extra power! The revamped Mac Mini and new iMacs come with the M4 processing chip, which is a big boost from the M1 on the MacBook Pro I bought in 2021 for $2,000. The Mini even has a M4 Pro chip, which is said to be even faster. I use my laptop even more than the phone, a good 10 hours daily, every day of the week, mostly processing photos and editing videos—as well as writing. And it's showing signs of age. So I'll be buying a new one—interesting that the tiny Mini, which appears to be about half the size of the previous model is more powerful than the giant iMac with a 24 inch screen, so it looks like that will be the purchase for me, boosted with 1 Terabyte of storage. Plus a trackpad, keyboard and monitor. ICYMI, here are the specs:Apple's new iMac starts at $1,299, but clocks in at $2,149 once I add the upgrades of extra RAM and storage, plus a Trackpad. The Mini, which again has the M4 Pro chip, which Apple says is faster than the regular M4 chip, starts at $999 for this edition and creeps up to $1,600 with my extra storage, trackpad and keyboard add-ons. I also will need a monitor, which I haven't bought in years, but per Best Buy is in the $100 to $200 range. I'll let you know how it goes. Readers, which, if any, excites you?ChatGPT Search vs. Google. This week, ChatGPT evolved again by offering a chatty A.I. search function that's surprisingly competitive with Google. I did several tests, and most of what I saw was pretty great. But it's not a Google killer, as I saw suggested by Tom's Guide. Not by a mile. For instance, let's start with the link I just placed above. I typed “ChatGPT search vs. Google Tom's Guide” into both, and only Google could provide the link. I asked both what time Photowalks will air on Scripps News Saturday and both got it right, (thank you) at 8 p.m. ET. But only Google could tell me which episode is scheduled (Oregon Coast.)When is that new Tom Hanks movie opening? (It already did, ChatGPT told me. Google didn't seem to know.) Is it playing near me? Here only Google could provide the actual theaters. ChatGPT gave me links to national movie chains and told me to look it up myself. For tips on when to visit Death Valley, California, and where to stay, ChatGPT had lots of good info, vs. Google which offered sponsored links. However, Google's Gemini, its ChatGPT AI competitor, stepped up, and offered relevant, non-sponsored links, with prices. But we know it won't remain that way, as Google will need to monetize Gemini. To try the search, you need to either pay for a ChatGPT subscription or add ChatGPT as a Chrome extension. Once you do that, ChatGPT replaces Google as your default search engine. That was good for a lark on a Friday afternoon, but trust me, I don't think you'll last a few hours with it, now. The chat is great, but the links we're looking for are hard to come by. By the time I finish this sentence, I'm going to delete it. Your thoughts?Thank you Sam!New paid sub Sam signed up this week, with a really nice note. Readers: feel free to tell me what you'd like to see more and less of in the coming year. I have more photo, tech and travel tips, personal stories and on the road adventures in the works! In tomorrow's edition, I'll tell you all about exploring Big Sur, possibly the greatest road trip ever, despite the mudslides and road closures. Thanks as always for taking the time to watch, read and listen!Jeff Get full access to Jefferson Graham's PhotowalksTV newsletter - Tech & Travel at www.photowalkstv.com/subscribe

Rosemary Orchard, Mike Schmitz, and Joe Kissell finish off their picks as MacVoices Holiday Gift guide #2 closes out with iPhone-oriented picks, a photography pick, and something to tote your gear in. (Part 2)  Today's MacVoices is supported by MacVoices Featured Gear like the Rolling Square inCharge X Portable Keychain Charger Cable. This 6-in one lets you connect almost anything to anything for both data transfer and charging, and is designed to have on your key ring, ready anywhere, any time. Find the links at MacVoices.com/FeaturedGear. Show Notes: MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide 2023 on Flipboardhttps://flipboard.com/@chuckjoiner/2023-macvoices-holiday-gift-guide-hrivlnr7z Chapters: 0:02:08 Compact and travel-friendly charger for all your devices0:04:46 K-20 Tools: Keychain hex key for on-the-go repairs0:08:14 The Convenience of Carrying Essential Tools Everywhere0:10:06 Shooting High-Quality Video with an iPhone and the ProGrip0:18:57 Convenient and Durable Wallet with Card Slot0:19:56 Technical Difficulties with Joe's Zoom0:22:03 Finding the Right Charger for Efficient Charging0:24:04 NXPGKEA Charger: Compact, Versatile, and Affordable0:26:00 Versatile Charger for Apple Tech and More0:29:02 OWC Product Recommendation: A Surprise Pick0:29:18 Affordable RAID Drive for Secure Data Storage0:31:02 On-Site Backup Option for Important Files0:32:39 Scalable Storage Solution to Meet Your Needs0:33:00 Importance of Data Backup and Backblaze Links: Rosemary Orchard's Picks: ESR 3 in 1 Charger for Magsafe, Travel Charger Stand for Magsafe, Made for Apple Watch Certified, Foldable Charging Station Compatible with Magsafe and iPhone 15/14/13/12, AirPods Pro https://amzn.to/46fKu8u ESR Magnetic Wallet (HaloLock), Compatible with MagSafe Wallet, for iPhone Wallet with Adjustable Stand https://amzn.to/3QZR2Dx ESR HaloLock 3-in-1 Wireless Charger with CryoBoost, Phone-Cooling Fast Charging, Arctic White + ESR HaloLock Kickstand Wireless Charger, MagSafe-Compatible Charger https://amzn.to/47a3gPL ESR Magnetic Wireless Car Charging Set with CryoBoost (HaloLock), Compatible with MagSafe Car Charger https://amzn.to/3sO5vcq MINIX 140W USB C Charger Mac Book Pro Charger Foldable, PD 3.1 PPS 3 x USB Type C Ports (Max 140W) Fast GaN II Loptop Wall Power Adapterhttps://amzn.to/3sts8mC Mike Schmitz' Picks: ShiftCam ProGrip Starter Kit - DSLR Style Mobile Battery Grip - Wireless Shutter Button - Built in Powerbank - Qi Wireless Charging - Freestanding Dock - Tripod Mount https://amzn.to/3QJjYye OWC Thunderbolt Hub, 5 Port, 60W Charging, (3) Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C), USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, Compatible with M1 Macs, Thunderbolt 3 Macs, and Thunderbolt 4 PCs, USB4 Machines https://amzn.to/40N9Au7 Joe Kissell's Picks: K20 Tools - Photography Keychain Multi-Tool with 5/32 (4mm) Allen Wrench Hex Key and Flat Head Screwdriver https://amzn.to/49G4800 140W USB C Charger PD 3.1 3-Port GaN Travel Charger Wall Charger 140W USB-C Power Adapter https://amzn.to/3SIOVp3 Chuck Joiner's Picks: STM Dux 30L Premium Tech Backpack - Carry On Travel Laptop Backpack (Fits 17" Laptops) - Customizable Storage Shelves, Water Resistant & Luggage Passthrough https://amzn.to/49AWJiJ OWC 0GB Mercury Elite Pro Dual RAID USB 3.1 / eSATA Enclosure Kit https://amzn.to/47f9P Guests: Mike Schmitz is an Apple fanboy, coffee snob, and productivity junkie who is intent on teaching people how to be more productive. His newest effort is He is the Executive Editor for The Sweet Setup, a site dedicated to reviewing and recommending the very best Mac and iOS apps, and is the creator of FaithBasedProductivity, where he teaches his personal approach to getting more done. Mike lives in Wisconsin with his wife and 4 crazy boys and is the author of Thou Shalt Hustle. He is also the co-host of the Bookworm podcast and (probably) spends too much time on Twitter. You can find all his projects on his personal web site, MikeSchmitz.com, including his new podcast with his wife Rachel at IntentionalFamily.fm. Follow him on Twitter as _MikeSchmitz. Joe Kissell is the publisher of  Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Rosemary Orchard is a nerd, automator, and chocaholic. When she's not making Shortcuts or podcasting about them, you'll frequently find her discussing her love of iPads and other Apple technology on RosemaryOrchard.com, Automators, Nested Folders, The Sweet Setup, and ScreenCastsOnline. She is runs WhenWorks to help you schedule appointments more efficiently. Originally from the UK she now calls Vienna, Austria, home…until she returns to the U.K. Follow her on Twitter.  Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Rosemary Orchard, Mike Schmitz, and Joe Kissell finish off their picks as MacVoices Holiday Gift guide #2 closes out with iPhone-oriented picks, a photography pick, and something to tote your gear in. (Part 2)  Today's MacVoices is supported by MacVoices Featured Gear like the Rolling Square inCharge X Portable Keychain Charger Cable. This 6-in one lets you connect almost anything to anything for both data transfer and charging, and is designed to have on your key ring, ready anywhere, any time. Find the links at MacVoices.com/FeaturedGear. Show Notes: MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide 2023 on Flipboard https://flipboard.com/@chuckjoiner/2023-macvoices-holiday-gift-guide-hrivlnr7z Chapters: 0:02:08 Compact and travel-friendly charger for all your devices 0:04:46 K-20 Tools: Keychain hex key for on-the-go repairs 0:08:14 The Convenience of Carrying Essential Tools Everywhere 0:10:06 Shooting High-Quality Video with an iPhone and the ProGrip 0:18:57 Convenient and Durable Wallet with Card Slot 0:19:56 Technical Difficulties with Joe's Zoom 0:22:03 Finding the Right Charger for Efficient Charging 0:24:04 NXPGKEA Charger: Compact, Versatile, and Affordable 0:26:00 Versatile Charger for Apple Tech and More 0:29:02 OWC Product Recommendation: A Surprise Pick 0:29:18 Affordable RAID Drive for Secure Data Storage 0:31:02 On-Site Backup Option for Important Files 0:32:39 Scalable Storage Solution to Meet Your Needs 0:33:00 Importance of Data Backup and Backblaze Links: Rosemary Orchard's Picks: ESR 3 in 1 Charger for Magsafe, Travel Charger Stand for Magsafe, Made for Apple Watch Certified, Foldable Charging Station Compatible with Magsafe and iPhone 15/14/13/12, AirPods Pro  https://amzn.to/46fKu8u ESR Magnetic Wallet (HaloLock), Compatible with MagSafe Wallet, for iPhone Wallet with Adjustable Stand  https://amzn.to/3QZR2Dx ESR HaloLock 3-in-1 Wireless Charger with CryoBoost, Phone-Cooling Fast Charging, Arctic White + ESR HaloLock Kickstand Wireless Charger, MagSafe-Compatible Charger  https://amzn.to/47a3gPL ESR Magnetic Wireless Car Charging Set with CryoBoost (HaloLock), Compatible with MagSafe Car Charger  https://amzn.to/3sO5vcq MINIX 140W USB C Charger Mac Book Pro Charger Foldable, PD 3.1 PPS 3 x USB Type C Ports (Max 140W) Fast GaN II Loptop Wall Power Adapter https://amzn.to/3sts8mC Mike Schmitz' Picks: ShiftCam ProGrip Starter Kit - DSLR Style Mobile Battery Grip - Wireless Shutter Button - Built in Powerbank - Qi Wireless Charging - Freestanding Dock - Tripod Mount https://amzn.to/3QJjYye OWC Thunderbolt Hub, 5 Port, 60W Charging, (3) Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C), USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, Compatible with M1 Macs, Thunderbolt 3 Macs, and Thunderbolt 4 PCs, USB4 Machines https://amzn.to/40N9Au7 Joe Kissell's Picks: K20 Tools - Photography Keychain Multi-Tool with 5/32 (4mm) Allen Wrench Hex Key and Flat Head Screwdriver  https://amzn.to/49G4800 140W USB C Charger PD 3.1 3-Port GaN Travel Charger Wall Charger 140W USB-C Power Adapter https://amzn.to/3SIOVp3 Chuck Joiner's Picks: STM Dux 30L Premium Tech Backpack - Carry On Travel Laptop Backpack (Fits 17" Laptops) - Customizable Storage Shelves, Water Resistant & Luggage Passthrough  https://amzn.to/49AWJiJ OWC 0GB Mercury Elite Pro Dual RAID USB 3.1 / eSATA Enclosure Kit https://amzn.to/47f9P Guests: Mike Schmitz is an Apple fanboy, coffee snob, and productivity junkie who is intent on teaching people how to be more productive. His newest effort is He is the Executive Editor for The Sweet Setup, a site dedicated to reviewing and recommending the very best Mac and iOS apps, and is the creator of FaithBasedProductivity, where he teaches his personal approach to getting more done. Mike lives in Wisconsin with his wife and 4 crazy boys and is the author of Thou Shalt Hustle. He is also the co-host of the Bookworm podcast and (probably) spends too much time on Twitter. You can find all his projects on his personal web site, MikeSchmitz.com, including his new podcast with his wife Rachel at IntentionalFamily.fm. Follow him on Twitter as _MikeSchmitz. Joe Kissell is the publisher of  Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Rosemary Orchard is a nerd, automator, and chocaholic. When she's not making Shortcuts or podcasting about them, you'll frequently find her discussing her love of iPads and other Apple technology on RosemaryOrchard.com, Automators, Nested Folders, The Sweet Setup, and ScreenCastsOnline. She is runs WhenWorks to help you schedule appointments more efficiently. Originally from the UK she now calls Vienna, Austria, home…until she returns to the U.K. Follow her on Twitter.  Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss 00:02:07 Compact and travel-friendly charger for all your devices 00:04:45 K-20 Tools: Keychain hex key for on-the-go repairs 00:08:13 The Convenience of Carrying Essential Tools Everywhere 00:10:06 Shooting High-Quality Video with an iPhone and the ProGrip 00:18:57 Convenient and Durable Wallet with Card Slot 00:19:56 Technical Difficulties with Joe's Zoom 00:22:03 Finding the Right Charger for Efficient Charging 00:24:04 NXPGKEA Charger: Compact, Versatile, and Affordable 00:25:59 Versatile Charger for Apple Tech and More 00:29:02 OWC Product Recommendation: A Surprise Pick 00:29:17 Affordable RAID Drive for Secure Data Storage 00:31:02 On-Site Backup Option for Important Files 00:32:39 Scalable Storage Solution to Meet Your Needs 00:32:59 Importance of Data Backup and Backblaze

We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for virtualising Linux on M1 Macs, more on DNS and Yubikeys, and more.   Discoveries CEMU       TrueNAS from iXsystems To learn more... Read More

We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for virtualising Linux on M1 Macs, more on DNS and Yubikeys, and more.   Discoveries CEMU       TrueNAS from iXsystems To learn more... Read More

Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow's monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Halse writes up what to expect from your web framework & Eli Bendersky on using GoatCounter for blog analytics.

Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow's monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Halse writes up what to expect from your web framework & Eli Bendersky on using GoatCounter for blog analytics.

Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow's monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Halse writes up what to expect from your web framework & Eli Bendersky on using GoatCounter for blog analytics.

What's important?: Great news for current and future Apple SOC owners...full support from the open source king and my favorite desktop OS. Links: - https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-6-2-the-first-mainstream-linux-kernel-for-apple-m1-chips-arrives/ - ********** Find podcast notes (if any) here: https://dexjohnspc.com/podcast/

Answers to your questions about USB (including USB 4!), apps not launching in Ventura, the longevity of M1 Macs, formatting external drives, and filtering Mail are all here, courtesy of your three favorite geeks. John, Pete, and Dave also take you through a slew of Quick Tips about Notes, Contacts, […]

This MacVoices Live! panel starts out with a personal story by host Chuck Joiner about how an Apple Watch sent a fall notice that hit close to home. Then, David Ginsburg, Jim Rea and special guests Web Bixby and Eric Bolden follow up with comments about the medial ID features on the iPhone, and renewed discussion about Windows emulation on the M1 Macs using Parallels. (Part 1) This edition of MacVoices is supported by Kolide. Get important, timely, and relevant security recommendations for your Mac, right inside Slack. Try Kolide with all its features on an unlimited number of devices for free for 14 days; no credit card required, at Kolide.com/macvoices. MacVoices is supported by Rocket Money. Take full control of your subscriptions at RocketMoney.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links: Parallels Desktop 18 simplifies installing Windows 11 on Apple Silicon, adds new SSO licensing, and improves Xbox and PS4 controller support on 9-5 Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/08/parallels-18/ Use fall detection with Apple Watch on Apple.com: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208944 Guests: Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Eric Bolden is into macOS, plants, sci-fi, food, and is a rural internet supporter. You can connect with him on Twitter by email at embolden@mac.com, and on his blog, Trending At Work. Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, and jeffgamet on LinkedIn., and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65. Jim Rea has been an independent Mac developer continuously since 1984. He is the founder of ProVUE Development, and the author of Panorama X, ProVUE's ultra fast RAM based database software for the macOS platform. Follow Jim at provue.com and via @provuejim on Twitter.   Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web:      http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

This MacVoices Live! panel starts out with a personal story by host Chuck Joiner about how an Apple Watch sent a fall notice that hit close to home. Then, David Ginsburg, Jim Rea and special guests Web Bixby and Eric Bolden follow up with comments about the medial ID features on the iPhone, and renewed discussion about Windows emulation on the M1 Macs using Parallels. (Part 2) This edition of MacVoices is supported by Kolide. Get important, timely, and relevant security recommendations for your Mac, right inside Slack. Try Kolide with all its features on an unlimited number of devices for free for 14 days; no credit card required, at Kolide.com/macvoices. MacVoices is supported by Rocket Money. Take full control of your subscriptions at RocketMoney.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links: Parallels Desktop 18 simplifies installing Windows 11 on Apple Silicon, adds new SSO licensing, and improves Xbox and PS4 controller support on 9-5 Mac:https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/08/parallels-18/ Use fall detection with Apple Watch on Apple.com:https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208944 Guests: Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Eric Bolden is into macOS, plants, sci-fi, food, and is a rural internet supporter. You can connect with him on Twitter by email at embolden@mac.com, and on his blog, Trending At Work. Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, and jeffgamet on LinkedIn., and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65. Jim Rea has been an independent Mac developer continuously since 1984. He is the founder of ProVUE Development, and the author of Panorama X, ProVUE's ultra fast RAM based database software for the macOS platform. Follow Jim at provue.com and via @provuejim on Twitter.   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Ep 188The Apple Store Time MachineJason Snell: My own personal Apple Store Time MachineDavid Barnard: Apple needs Developer Liaison tooCalDigit T4 RAID & M1 Macs. Why no JBOD mode..?Examining Slack's New Free Plan Restrictions and Motivations - TidBITSVMware Fusion 22H2 Tech PreviewHector Martin confirms that Apple designed boot on M1 Macs so it support 3rd party Ones.Chris Spiegl: The BEST (yet) AFFORDABLE NVME Enclosure and SSD Combination! mp3chaps for chapter markers importZahvalniceSnimljeno 5.8.2022.Uvodna muzika by Vladimir Tošić, stari sajt je ovde.Logotip by Aleksandra Ilić.Artwork epizode by Saša Montiljo, njegov kutak na Devianartu.45 x 33 cm,ulje /oil on canvas2022.

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Steph is joined by a very special guest and fellow thoughtboter, Rob Whittaker. ngrok (https://ngrok.com/) Time Off Book (https://www.timeoffbook.com/) Rob's Codespace Setup (https://github.com/purinkle/codespace) Rob Whittaker on Twitter (https://twitter.com/purinkle) Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of The Bike Shed! Transcript: STEPH: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Steph Viccari. And today, I'm joined by a very special guest and fellow thoughtboter, Rob Whittaker. Rob has been in the software business for the past 15 years and spent the last five and a half years at thoughtbot. Rob is the Director of Software Development for our Europe, Middle East, and Africa team and, in his spare time, likes to hunt down delicious beers and coffee. Rob, welcome to The Bike Shed. It's so lovely to have you on the show today. ROB: Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah, thank you for that lovely introduction and my far too complicated job title. It sounds more serious than it actually is. STEPH: Well, you do have a fancy job title, yeah, Director of Software Development. [laughs] ROB: Yeah, it's the added on bit where it's Europe, Middle East, and Africa where I feel like there's about 20 of us maximum. But that sounds more grandiose than it actually is. STEPH: Yeah, that's something that Chris and I haven't dug into too much on previous episodes are all the different teams that we have at thoughtbot. So the shorter way of saying that is Launchpad II, but not everybody knows that. But I'm going to circle back to that because I would love to talk a bit more about that specific team and the dynamic. But before we do that, I'm realizing I'm not familiar with your origin story as to how you came to thoughtbot and then how you became this very fancy grand title of Director of Software Development for Europe, Middle East, and Africa team. ROB: Yeah, there's a bit of history about thoughtbot London as well that kind of ties into this. So before thoughtbot Launchpad II, it was thoughtbot London before we went remote. And initially, we had the plan of setting up a new studio in London to help expand thoughtbot outside of the Americas, but that plan fell through. But he knew some people from another agency called New Bamboo, and so we merged with or acquired that agency, and that agency then became the thoughtbot London team. I'm actually the first hire or...not the first hire, that's not true, the first development hire for the thoughtbot London team that would then become launchpad II. I was at the Bath Ruby Conference six years ago, I guess. And there was just an advert up on the hiring board that Nick Charlton, who's a Senior Developer and Development Team Lead at Launchpad II now, had put up. And I saw it, and I was talking to somebody who was my mentor at the time that I'd worked with at a previous job at onthebeach.co.uk, a guy called Matt Valentine-House who now works at Shopify who, actually, fun fact, his face appears at the top of Ruby Weekly this week. If you open up this week's Ruby Weekly, you can see Matt Valentine-House, who said to me, "Yeah, apply for it, why not? You see what happens." And I was like, "Okay," and just kind of took the leap. So I thought, thoughtbot, why would thoughtbot want me? Which is something I think a lot of people think when they want to join thoughtbot. They think, well, I can't do that. But I would implore people to apply. And so, from there, I never really wanted to move to London. I'd always lived in the North West of the UK. I made that leap to London because I wanted to work at thoughtbot. And then, gradually, over time, the London team expanded, and we needed to split out the management roles, and the development director role came up. And I've always enjoyed the coaching side of software development. It seems that you gain more experience as you help people with less experience, and I've always enjoyed coaching. And that was a big part of the role for me. So I was fortunate enough to be allowed to do it. And then, from there, things have grown. Yeah, so it's been a really interesting journey as a development director. The London studio went through a pretty tough time at one point where not long after I became development director that two-thirds of the team, in the space of two weeks, decided to hand their notice in and unbeknownst to each other. And so, all of a sudden, we didn't have a very big team. We didn't have very many prospects, and so it was a tough time. And so it's really nice to look back on the last three years and go, okay, we came through that. We're now one of the stronger teams at thoughtbot. And somebody actually asked me in an interview the other day, somebody we actually hired, not just based on this question, but he said, "What is your proudest moment of working at thoughtbot?" And I was like, that's one of the best questions I've heard from a candidate. And I said, "Hmm, that's interesting." It's not anything development-related, but it's that I can now look back on this team and say this is the team that I have grown in my image and all these people apart from Nick, who was the person who put the advert of it at Bath Ruby. I've hired all these people, and so the buck stops with me really because if anybody isn't able to perform, then it's kind of my fault because these are the people that I want to grow into being the team and see be a successful product design team or product development team, which brings us to modern-day I guess. So yeah, that was a long origin story. That's pretty much my whole thoughtbot biography. And I apologize. STEPH: That was perfect. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing it. And yeah, that's an awesome question. What's your proudest moment, like, part of a team? That can yield so many insights. I love that question. And I love your answer as well in terms of this is the team. We've pulled through a hard time. And then we've built everybody to the point that they are now, which kind of leads in perfectly to my next question. So being the software development director, could you walk us through a little bit of like, that's one of those titles I feel like a lot of companies have, but they can be very different from company to company. Would you mind walking us through a bit of the day-to-day in the life of being a development director? ROB: Yeah, sure. It's one of those things where I think this is something that I'm not sure if it's unique to thoughtbot, but you end up taking on a lot of hats at thoughtbot. So I know you're a team lead. So you have to balance your responsibilities as an individual contributor, which is a term I don't like, but I haven't got a better way to say it yet, and your development team lead roles. And I have similar sort of responsibilities where I have to do my individual contributor work. I have to do my director work. I'm also on our DEI Council. So I have to add that work in too, and make sure it's balanced out. So the start of my day is very much about prioritizing things. I know you and Chris, a few episodes ago, had quite lengthy discussions about productivity systems and what tools Chris wants to use. And I'm a big fan of Things, and I've been using it for maybe ten years, if not more, that I've now got my system down that I'm able to prioritize things in the way that I can pick up the right task at the right time. So a big part of my day-to-day is figuring out what is the most important thing to work on? So I have my client work, and then it's about supporting the team from that point. And the big part of my idea of what a manager is is that my job isn't to tell you what to do; my job is to find out what you want to do and direct you in a place where you can find the answer. Or I can give you some guidance about where to find the answer. And I feel like I'm doing a bad job as a manager where if I have to act as a middle person. Because if somebody comes to me and says, "Oh, I want to do this thing," And I say, "Well, I'll talk to that person for you," and then come back, I have failed. And my job is to say, "Oh, you should talk to that person about this." And to some extent, it's about being lazy. I don't want to be doing too much stuff because I have other things to do. But I want to make sure that those people have the right frameworks and guidelines in place so that I can point them in the right direction. STEPH: I think the fancy term for that is just delegating. [laughs] ROB: Yes, thank you. [laughs] STEPH: But I like lazy. [laughter] I like that one as well. I love that framing of a manager where you're not telling someone to do, but as your job, you are helping that person figure out what they want to do and then supporting them. I've been chatting with Chris recently and some others because I've been reading the book Resilient Management by Laura Hogan. And it's really helped me cement the difference between mentorship, coaching, and sponsorship. And I realized that I'm already falling a lot into the coaching and sponsorship because mentorship can be wonderful, but it is more directive of like, this is what I've done. And this is what has worked for me, and you should do this too. Versus the coaching and sponsorship, I think aligns far more perfectly with what you described as management, where it is my job to figure out what brings you joy, what brings you energy, and then how to help you progress to your next goals and your next steps in your career. ROB: Yeah, I think Laura Hogan is a great resource like her blog posts and books. I haven't read Resilient Management. But I know that the team leads on my team had been on her training courses, and they say how great it is. And there's also a blog post of hers that's about managing in tough times. It has a much better title than that. But it's about how do we be good managers in such uncertain times when there are a lot of things going on around the world right now that we all have to deal with? And helping people deal with those situations. Because at the end of the day, work isn't the most important thing; the most important thing is living. And it's something I say to my team, especially when people feel like...it's something that I say to my team when they're not feeling well. The most important thing is that you get better. And thoughtbot is still going to be here. The most important thing is how you live your life and how you look after yourself, and everything else is secondary. STEPH: Absolutely. Well, and everybody needs something different from work too. Some people may be in a state where they really need more stability and predictability from their work. And some people may be in a space where everything else outside of work is very stable and calm, and then they want work to bring the challenge and the volatility and the variety to life. So I remind myself very often that not everybody wants the same thing from work and to figure out what it is that someone wants from work. And then your seasons change. You may be in a season of where you want stability, or then you may be in a season of like, I'm ready to grow and push and take some risks. So helping someone identify which season of work they're in. ROB: Yeah, I 100% agree. What people can't see is me nodding vigorously on the other side of this call. It's very much about understanding because everybody is different. And that's what we want from a good team; it's understanding everybody's different approach to things. And so sometimes people want the distraction of work because they don't want the time off to think about other things. They want to be able to sit and concentrate on something. And it's understanding different people. STEPH: Yeah, that's a great point. I'm curious; you mentioned that as part of being development director, you are also, in addition to managing the team and being part of DEI then, there's also your day-to-day client work. I think you've started a new client recently. Could you tell me more about that? ROB: Yeah, I'd recently been working for a client for two and a half years, which is a very long time to be working with one client at thoughtbot. And it came to the time where I was ready for a new challenge, and it was stable enough for me to move on. So I've been working for a company in the UK. They allow customers to buy and sell cars, not between customers, the customers like companies like Auto Trader but customers to dealers and back and forth. And primarily, they worked with buying cars. And they've launched a product in the UK where people can sell their cars as well because they found that 70% of people who are buying cars also want to sell their cars. And from there, they're now looking to expand into Germany and Spain, so we are helping them to do that. And it's an interesting project, not necessarily from a technical point of view, but I might come back to that but definitely from a cultural point of view. The product at the moment allows you to put in a license plate or a registration plate for a car. And there's then a service in the UK that will allow you to pull up the maker model and the service history of that car. But you can't do that in Germany because it's against the privacy laws to find something from registration plates. And so it's interesting these different cultural aspects that you have to take into account when expanding into other countries that you aren't from and that you have less knowledge about. Because I'm also aware that credit cards aren't a big thing in Germany either. So you have to think about how they pay for things in different countries. And the previous company I was working for they're based in the Middle East. And so we had to take into account how we would do right to left design in a mobile app, which is really interesting from a western point of view that you get so used to swiping through an experience from left to right. But then it's not just the screen that's right to left. The journey moves from right to left. So you have to get used to the transitions of the screen going the other way and not thinking of that as going backwards. It's one of the best things about working in this region is that we get to deal with so many different cultures and how they expect to use applications. It's really satisfying. STEPH: That's fascinating. Yeah, I haven't gotten to work on a project like that that has those types of considerations. I think the most relatable experience I have is more working in healthcare because that's one of those areas that I'm certainly not proficient. I've become more proficient because of the type of projects that I've worked on. But I'm curious, for expanding into other regions and cultures, do those teams typically have an expert on their team that then helps guide the development process? Or, as you mentioned, the process of buying a car could be very different in some of the legal aspects that you're up against. Is there someone that you can turn to that's then helping mentor or be aware of that process? ROB: Yes, the current client they have a team based in Germany, people who are from Germany that are advising us on different cultural aspects or legislative things. They are doing a lot of data analysis for us because we need a new service that we can use for looking up car details. Because there is a service that you give different information to to get information about the car back from. So yeah, we do have that team there. But that's not always the case because every client is different. The company that we're working for in the Middle East didn't have a team. They had two developers who were helping us. But we have to figure things out just from their cultural background to ask them questions about things and allow them to advise us, but nobody who was really a specialist. But that's an interesting thing as well, not just the cultural aspects of the customers but the cultural aspects of the company that you work for. We definitely found that the company in the Middle East was more hierarchical. And so that's another challenge that you have to work with because we tend to work in quite a flat way where we tend to default as on thoughtbot projects, of not having a point person on a project. Everybody is there to answer the questions. But some teams or clients want that point person. And so, we adapt and change to allow for that to happen and work in that way. But it is interesting to work in different companies as well as working as an agency. STEPH: Yeah, you bring up a really good point of something that I don't reflect on very often, but it's something that I really appreciate about our thoughtbot culture is that we do try to strive for a very flat hierarchy. But also in working with clients, we purposely will avoid like, if there are two or more thoughtboters on a project, we don't want one person that is then the primary contact between the client and the thoughtbot team. The goal is that everybody shows up. Everybody is part of the process; everybody is part of meetings. And we do have an advisor for projects, but otherwise, we work very hard to make sure that there's not just one person that's then responsible for communication. We want everybody to have opportunities to be part of meetings, to lead meetings, to take on initiatives versus having that one person. That is something that I really appreciate that we do. ROB: Yeah. And it's more noticeable when you go to places where that isn't the norm, and you appreciate it more. And I think a big part of that is how much we are trusted. And we trust people to trust us, I guess. STEPH: Yeah. And I think it fits in nicely with circling back to the management conversation is that when people have access to those opportunities, that makes my job so much easier as a team lead where then there are more opportunities to sponsor someone or to coach someone as to how they can then be the person that then takes on a project or if they want to lead a particular meeting, or if they want to help a team introduce retrospectives into their process. So it gives more opportunities for me to then coach someone into expanding their skill set in those ways. ROB: Yeah, that's interesting to think about, allowing yourself to coach other people in that role. Because as we gain more experience and become senior developers, we naturally fall into that role of taking the lead on projects, even when we're not asked to. But then, when you gain other responsibilities in the management track, so you as a team lead and me as a team lead and a development director, it could be better for you to not take that role and allow somebody else to come into that role so you can coach them. That's been playing on my mind the last couple of days. Josh Clayton, who's the Managing Director for one of our teams in the Americas, raised it on our pull request in our handbook where we were talking about team leads having a dedicated day to concentrate on team lead things. It's one of those things where somebody says something, and it's like, oh yeah, that really clicks. Maybe that's why we have been having certain struggles on projects where we need to rearrange things and learn from that and so we can be better on projects in the future. So that's something that really resonated with me, and it's flying around in the back of my mind at the moment. STEPH: Yeah, that really resonates with me because while the predominant part of being a team lead at thoughtbot is having one-on-ones with folks, I find that when I have more time, a lot of the work also falls outside of that one-on-one where it's following up on conversations around hey, this person mentioned they're really interested in growing their skill. How can I help them? How can I help find opportunities? Or I know that they're currently stretching their skill set right now. If I have some extra time, then I can check in with them. I can pair with them. I can see how things are going. So I find that while the one-on-ones are the staple thing that happens every two weeks, there's a lot of other behind-the-scenes work that's going on as well to make sure that that person is growing and feeling really fulfilled by their work. ROB: I know we've spoken a lot about the product side and the client side of working on the new project that I'm working on. There are some interesting technical sides to it as well. The client has found that they have had some issues with Haskell and running on M1 Macs. And so, they've decided to take the leap and use GitHub Codespaces as their primary development environment, which has been interesting. I had heard about it but only in the background. I hadn't read anything about it or hadn't had any direct conversations. I just heard that there was a thing. So it's been quite interesting to play with that. It's interesting the way the client is using it as well because they're using a Dockerized environment effectively inside Docker by using Codespaces. So you start the Codespace, which very basically is a Docker instance somewhere on GitHub's infrastructure. It's built very much for Visual Studio Code, and so you can just directly attach your Visual Studio Code session to the Codespace and go from there, but I'm a Vim user. I've started to feel like a bit of an old guard or a curmudgeon recently where I've been like; maybe I need to use Visual Studio Code. Maybe I should just unlearn my Vim key bindings and learn the Visual Studio ones. And people say, "Oh, you could just use The Vim key bindings in VS Code." I'm like, that's cheating. I spent the time to learn the key bindings for Vim. I will take the time to learn the key bindings for Visual Studio Code and use it for the way it's intended. So it's been interesting to understand how Codespaces works, not necessarily in the way, it's intended. So you can still SSH into a Codespace session, but then you lose all the lovely setup stuff that you might have on your local machine. So I did spend half a day porting my dotfiles which are based off thoughtbot's dotfiles, into something that Codespaces can use and made it publicly available. So if you go to github.com/purinkle/codespace, you can see what I use to set up my Codespace environment. And once that's set up, it becomes a bit easier because then you have all the things that you're used to running locally. It is very much early days for how the client is using it. And so they're really open to saying like, okay, let's find out what's not working, and let's work and figure out how to get it up and running properly. So one of the things we do find is that Codespaces do timeout after a while. And then you might lose, like, even if I've created a tmux session, that tmux session disappears. And so I have to go in and create it again. I'm not sure what the timeouts are. I haven't had time to look into what those timeouts are yet. But that's definitely the main pain point at the moment of it being used as a development environment. It's been interesting. It's been kicking around in the back of my head like the difference between developing locally and deploying locally. And it's something that I wanted to talk to people at thoughtbot and outside of thoughtbot as well to understand that more. Because I don't think you need everything running to develop locally, but you might need it to deploy locally. It's interesting to me to understand how different companies work on their products from that point of view. STEPH: Yeah, I'm selfishly excited that you are using Codespaces for a client project because I have kept an eye on it, and I'm very intrigued by it. But I also haven't used it for a project. And it sounds really neat. I'm curious, have you found that it has helped them with onboarding or if you need to switch from working on one application to another? Have you found that it has helped them with some of those? I'm guessing that's the problem that they're optimizing to solve is how do we help people run everything quickly without having to set it up locally? ROB: It's an interesting question because I don't have the comparison of trying to set up the environment as it was before. It was smoother. The main thing with access tokens because once you can set up your SSH keys and your GitHub tokens, it's just a case of running a script and letting it run. So yes, from that point of view, I can imagine if I tried to set up their previous environment, that it'd be a lot more challenging because they were using Vagrant and running things that way, which I know from experience would not be fun. And I know that my Mac fans would just be spinning all the time. It would be like an aeroplane was trying to take off. So I'm thankful for that, that I don't have that experience anymore that my machine is going to slow down all the time. We've had on a previous client who had a Dockerized environment, but you have to have it all running on your machine. There are pros and cons to everything with these things. And it's like you said, what is the problem they're trying to solve with introducing this setup? STEPH: Yeah, I can't decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing. But I'm also intrigued by the idea that if a team is using Codespaces, then that means everybody else is using VS Code. And you can still customize it so you can still have your own preferences. But that does set a standard, so everybody is using the same editor. There's a lot of cross-collaboration in terms of if you do run into an issue, then you can help each other out. Versus when I join other teams, everybody's using their preferred editor, and then there you may have a day where someone's like, "Oh, I'm really stuck because my particular editor is suddenly having a problem and can't connect." And then you have less people that are able to help them if they're not using that same editor. And I can't decide if I like that or if I hate it [laughs] in terms of taking away people's ability to pick and choose their editor. But then the gains of everybody is using the same thing which is nice and would be really great for pairing too. ROB: Yeah, that's an interesting point. I was talking to...I have a management coach. He's a PHP developer, and I'm a Rails developer. And we were talking about the homogenization of things nowadays. And is that good, or is that bad to use with stuff like RuboCop that lints everything, so it's exactly the same? Does that stifle creativity? But then, at the same time, the thing I like about Codespaces is I think we're biased coming at it from the point of view of Rails developers. And if you look at how you can use Codespaces in the browser directly from GitHub, that's quite interesting because now you're lowering the barrier to entry to get started and saying you don't need to have an editor. You don't have to set up everything. You can just do it from your browser. A few years ago, I used to volunteer or coach at an organization called codebar. They help people who are less represented in the tech community get represented in the tech community. And we would see a lot of people coming for sessions using...I forgot what it's called. What was it called? Cloud 66 or something. There was some remote development environment that people would come and say, "Oh, I've been using this," because they didn't know how to set up the necessary infrastructure to just get a Rails server going or things like that or didn't know how to set up Sublime or Atom or editor of choice. And it's really interesting if you remove your bias of 15 years of professional software development and go okay, if I were starting today, what would the environment look like, and how would I get started? I'm lucky enough that I've grown up with the web and seen how web development has changed and been able to gain more knowledge as it's appeared. I don't envy anybody who has to come into the industry now and suddenly have to drink from this firehose of all these different frameworks, all these different technologies. Yeah, I started off by just right-clicking and viewing source on HTML files back in 1998 or something ridiculous like that. And CSS didn't even exist or wasn't used. And so it's a much different world than 24 years ago. STEPH: That is something that Chris and I have mentioned on previous episodes where people are coming into software development, and as much as we love Vim and it sounds like you love Vim, our advice is don't start with Vim. Don't start there. You've got so much to learn. Start with something like VS Code that's going to help you out. And you make such a great point in regards to this lowering the barrier to entry. Because I have been part of a number of classes where you have people coming in with Macs or with a Windows machine, and then you're trying to get everybody set up. You want them to use the same browser for testing. And we spend like a whole class just getting everybody on the same page and making sure their machines are working or then troubleshooting if something's not. But if they can just go to GitHub and then they can run things seamlessly there, that's a total game-changer in terms of how I would teach a class, and it would just be far easier. So I hadn't even considered the benefits that would have for teachers or just for onboarding teams as well. But yeah, specifically for leading a class, I think that is a huge benefit. GitHub did some pretty cool stuff around when they were launching that as well because I went back and watched some of their GitHub Universe sessions that they had where they were talking about Codespaces. And one of the things that they did that I really appreciated was how they went about launching Codespaces. So initially, it was how fast can this be? Or what's our proof of concept? And I think when they were building this, they found it took about 45 minutes if they wanted to spin up an application and then provide you a development environment. And they're like, okay, cool, like, we can do this, but it's 45 minutes, and that's not going to work. And so then their next iteration, they got it down to 25 minutes, and then they got it down to 5 minutes. And now they've got it to the point that it's instantaneous because they're building stuff in the background overnight. And so then that way, when you click on it, it's just all ready for you. But I loved that cycle, that process that they went through of can we even do this? And then let's see, slowly, incrementally, how fast can we get it? And then, to get feedback, instead of transitioning their own internal teams to it right away, they created this more public club. I think they called it The Computer Club, something like that. And they're like, hey, if you want to be part of Codespaces or try out this new feature that we have, delete all the source and the things that you need locally, and then just commit to using Codespaces. And then, if you are stuck or if you have trouble, then your job is to let us know so then we can iterate, and we can fix it. I really liked that approach that they took to launching this product and then getting feedback from everyone and then improving upon it. ROB: Yeah, that sounds like an Agile developer's dream where you just put something out there that's the bare bones, and you're given license to learn from that experience and how people are actually using that tool. That's something we've actually tried to do on the client project at the moment is adding all the...now that there's a different flow in Germany, there are different questions we need to ask. And so that could be quite a complex thing to put into place. So what we said is what we're going to do is just put in the different screens, and all you have is one option to click. So you click that option, you go to the next one, go to the next one, go to the next one. Then we have something that the customer can click on and play with and understand, and then we can iterate on top of that. But it also allows us to identify areas of risk because you can go; oh, where does this information come from? But now we need to get this from a third-party service. So that's the riskiest thing we've got to work on here, where this other thing is just a hard-coded list of three-door or five-door cars. And so that's an easier problem to solve. So allowing yourself to put something that could be quite complex like GitHub Codespaces and go okay, we're going to put something out there. It takes 45 minutes to run-up. But we're telling you it takes 45 minutes to run it. We're not happy with it, but we want to learn how you're using it so that we can then improve it but improve it in the right direction. Because it might be that we get it to 20 minutes to start up, but you need it in half a second. That's a ridiculous example. Or it might be that you need to be able to use RubyMine with it instead of VS Code, and that's where the market isn't. That's the thing that you can't learn in isolation that you have to put something out there for people to use and play with. STEPH: There's one other cool feature I want to highlight that I realized that they offer as well. So in the past, I've used a tool called ngrok, which then you can make your localhost public so other people can access. You can literally demo what you're working on locally, and someone else can access it. And I think that it's very cool. It's come in handy a number of times. And my understanding is that Codespaces has that feature where they can make your localhost accessible. So your work in progress you can then share with someone, and I love that. ROB: Oh, that's really interesting. I didn't know you could do that. I know you could forward ports from your local machine to that. But I didn't know you could share it externally. That'd be really cool. I can see how that can be really helpful in demos and pairing. And it makes sense because it's not running on your computer. It's running on some remote architecture somewhere. That's interesting. STEPH: Well, that's the dream I've been sold from what I've been reading about GitHub Codespaces. So if I'm telling lies, you let me know [laughs] as you're working further in it than I am. But yeah, that was one of the features that I read, and I was like, yeah, that's great because I love ngrok for that purpose. And it would be really cool if that's already built into Codespaces as well. ROB: ngrok is really interesting with things like trying to get third-party services to work. So from, the previous client, they wanted an Alexa Skill. And so, if you're trying to work with an Alexa Skill, you have to sign in from Amazon's architecture onto your local machine. You have to use ngrok as the tool there. So I wonder if that could potentially solve a problem where if there are three developers trying to develop on this if you could point to one Codespace that you're all working on rather than... Because the problem we had was if me or Fritz or Rakesh was working on this, we'd have to go and then change the settings on the Amazon Alexa Skill to point to a different machine. Whereas I wonder if Codespasces allows you to have this entry point, you could point to like thoughtbot.codespace.github.com or something like that that would then allow you to share that instance. That's something interesting that I think about now. I wonder if you could share Codespace instances amongst each other. I don't know. STEPH: Yeah, I'm intrigued too. That sounds like it'd be really helpful. So circling back just a bit to where we were talking about wearing different hats in terms of working on client work, and then also working on the team, and then also potentially some sales work as well, I'm curious, how do you balance that transition? How do you balance solving hard problems in a codebase and then also transition to solving hard problems in the management space? How do you make all of that fit cohesively in your day or your week? ROB: The main thing that somebody said to me recently is that you can only do so much in a day, and it's about the order that you approach those things. And just be content with the fact that you're not going to get everything done. But you have to make sure that you work on things in the right order and just take your time and then work through them. I read a really good book recently that was recommended to me by my coach called Time Off. And it's all about finding your rest ethic, which sounds a bit abstract and a bit weird. But all it is it's about understanding that you can't be working 100% all the time. It's not possible. As developers, sometimes we can forget that we're creative people, and creativity comes from a part of your brain that works subconsciously. So it's important for you to take breaks throughout the day and kind of go okay; I use the Pomodoro Technique. So I have an app that runs, and every 25 minutes, I just take a little break. I don't use it in the way that it's supposed to be used. I just use it to give me a trigger to have a break every 25 minutes. And so in that time, I'll just step away from my computer. I'll walk to the kitchen, grab a glass of water. I usually have a magazine or a book next to my table. So I have a magazine here at the moment. I'll just read a page of that just to kind of rest my eyes, so they focus at a different level but also just to get my brain thinking about something else. And it seems counterproductive that like, oh, you're stepping out of what you were doing. But then I find like, oh, I suddenly have a little refresher to like, oh, I need to get back into what I was doing. I know where I've got to go. That thing that I was thinking about now makes a little bit more sense. And even if it's a bigger break, give yourself the license to go for a walk and just kind of clear your head. And a big thing about going for a walk is not to concentrate on completing the task of walking but to concentrate on the walk itself and taking the things that are happening around you. And let your mind just kind of...you'll sometimes notice that oh, I can hear a bird. But that bird's been chirping for five minutes, and you didn't notice because your mind's kind of going. And if you concentrate on, I just want to complete this walk, that's what I'm out here to do, then you lose that ability to let your mind reset. That's a big thing that I'm working on personally to concentrate on the doing rather than the getting done. And it ties into the craft of being a software developer because if you concentrate on the actual writing of the code and the best practices that we all believe in, you end up with something better that you don't then have to revisit at a later time. Where if you just try and get something done, you're just going to end up having to come back to it or have to revisit in some other way. I've actually got a blog post coming out soon about notifications on phones. I'm a big believer that your phone belongs to you and that if your work wants you to have work notifications on your phone, then they could buy you a phone just for that purpose. The only thing where I kind of draw the line is I have notifications for meetings on my phone because I can't think of another way to get those things to ping up at me. And I understand that there are jobs where you do need to have those sorts of notifications, especially things like where you're on call; it's a big thing. But when it comes to things where a manager wants to get a hold of you straight away, from a trust point of view, that's where I think things fall down. And you're questioning, like, okay, why does this person need to get hold of me at 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 o'clock at night? And should I be available? We build by the day at thoughtbot. And so when I find, not when I find but when I talk to people, and they say, "Oh, I was still working at 7:30, 8:00 o'clock," I will say, "Why? You're devaluing your own time at that point because we're not billing any extra for that time. So you're making your craft and your skill...you're cheapening it. And I want them to relish the skills and competencies that they have. That's a big thing for me. We're very lucky at thoughtbot that we can draw a boundary at the end of the day and go, okay, that's it. There's no expectation for me. It is much more difficult at product companies. But yeah, I think it's something that as an industry, and it's a bigger thing as a society, especially with younger people coming into the industry who have never worked in an office and may never work in an office, that idea of where is the cutoff? For so much of the pandemic, the people I would get concerned about the most are the people whose beds I could see behind them because I'm thinking to myself, you spend at least 16 hours a day in that same room. And that's going to become the norm for people. And if people don't have those rest periods and those breaks and aren't given the opportunities to do that by their managers, then it's not going to end well. And happy people and fulfilled people do the best jobs from a business point of view. But that's never the way I approach it, but that's what I say to people. STEPH: I think that's one of the biggest mistakes that I made early on in my career, and even now, I still have to coach myself through it. It's like you said, we are creative people and people in software and in general and not just developers, but it's a creative craft. And I wouldn't step away to take breaks. I just thought if I pushed hard enough, I would figure it out, and then I could get done with my work because I was so focused on getting it done versus the doing, as you'd highlighted earlier. I haven't really thought about it in that particular light of focusing on this is the thing that I'm working on. And yes, I do want to get it done, but let's also focus on the doing portion of it. And so I wouldn't step away for walks. I wouldn't step away for breaks. And that is something that I have learned the hard way that when I actually gave myself that time to breathe, if I gave myself a moment to relax, then I would come back refreshed and then ready to tackle whatever challenge was in front of me. And same for keeping a magazine that's near my desk; I have found that if I keep a book or something that I enjoy...because, at some point, my brain is going to look for some rest, like, it happens. That's when we flip open Twitter or Instagram or emails or something because our brain is looking for something easy and maybe a little bit of like brain candy, something to give us a little hit. And I have found that if I keep something else more intentional by my desk, something that I want to read or that I'm enjoying, then I find that when I am seeking for something that's short that I can look at, that I feel more relaxed and fulfilled from that versus then if I go to Twitter, and then I see a bunch of stuff, I don't like, and then I go back to work. [laughs] And it has the opposite effect of what I actually wanted to do with my downtime. I love the sound of this book. We'll be sure to include a link in the show notes because it sounds like a really good book to read. And I've also worked on improving the setup with my phone and notifications, where I have compartmentalized all the work-related apps into one folder, and then I keep it on the third screen of my phone. So if I want to see something that's work-related, it's very intentional of like, I have to scroll past all of the stuff that matters to me outside of work and then get to that work section and then click in that folder to then see like, okay, this is where I have Slack, and Gmail, and Basecamp, and all the other things that I might need for work. And I have found that has really helped me because I do still have the notifications on my phone, but at least putting it on its own screen further away from the home screen has been really helpful. ROB: Do you find that you still get distracted by that, though, when you're in the flow of doing something else? STEPH: I don't with my phone. I am a person who ignores my phone really well. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, [laughs] but it is a truth of who I am where I'm pretty good at ignoring my phone. ROB: That's a good skill to have. If there's any phone in the room and a notification goes off, my head swivels, and I pivot, and I'm like, oh, yeah, some dopamine hit over there that I can get from looking at somebody else's notification. STEPH: I have noticed that in the other people that I'm around. Yeah, it's that sound that just triggers people like, oh, I got to look. And even if you know it's not your phone like you heard someone else's phone ding, it still makes you check your phone even though probably there's a part of your brain that recognizes like, that wasn't mine, but I'm still going to check anyways. And I have worked hard to fight that where even if I hear my phone go off, I'm like, okay, cool, I'll get to it. I'll check it when I need to. And I'm that person that whenever apps always ask me, "Can we send you notifications?" I'm like, no, you may not send me notifications. [laughs] Something else you said that I haven't thought about until just now is the idea that there are some people who have never worked in an office or may never work in an office because we are leaning into more remote jobs. And that is fascinating to me to think about that someone won't have had that experience. But you make such a good point that we need to start thinking about these boundaries now and how we manage our remote work and our home life because this is, going forward, going to be the new norm for a number of people. So how do we go ahead and start putting good practices in place for those future workers? ROB: One of the things, as we've hired people from a remote point of view who've only worked with thoughtbot remotely, is the idea of visibility. And I don't mean the visibility of I want to see when somebody's working but maybe the invisibility of people. Because you can't see when people are taking breaks, you assume that everybody is working all the time, and so then you don't take those breaks. And so this is something we saw with people who we hired in the first six months of being remote. And they were burning out because they didn't realize that other people were taking breaks. Because they didn't know about the cultural norms of how we worked at thoughtbot. But people who had worked in the studio would know that people would get up and have breaks. People would get up and go get a coffee from a coffee shop and then have a walk around. They didn't know that that was the culture because they bring the culture from other places with them. But then it's much harder to get people to understand your way of working and how we think that we should approach things when you are sat in isolation in a room with a screen. And that's something that we've had to say to people to break that down. And even things that we took for granted when we worked in a studio where somebody would get up and ask somebody if they could pair with them even if they weren't on the same project. Somebody might have more Elm knowledge or React Native knowledge, or Elixir knowledge. And you'd get up and say, "Hey, can I borrow some of your time just to go over this thing, to pair?" And everybody would say, "Yeah, yeah, I can find some time. If not now, we can do it later." And recently, we've had people saying, "Oh, is it okay if we pair across projects? Is it okay if we pair with other people?" It's like, "Yeah, pair." One of the big things we say is that we have this vast amount of knowledge across thoughtbot, across the world that we can tap into and that you can use. And that's just one example of how do you get those core things that you take for granted and help people understand them? Because you don't know what people don't know. And it's all about that implied knowledge. So that's something that we learned. And we try and say to people and instill in them about yeah, take breaks. You can pair with people. There are people who bring in culture from other places with them. But then, to go back to where you started, how do you start with people who have no culture with them or have the culture of coming from maybe from school, or university, or from a different industry? How do you help those people add to your culture but also learn from your culture at the same time? Big people problems. STEPH: Have you found any helpful strategies to normalize that take a break culture? ROB: One thing we tried, but it doesn't last very long because people are lazy, is putting it in Slack saying, "I'm going for a break." And you can do that, but it's so artificial. After a week or two weeks, people just stopped doing it. It was through conversation. We have a regular retrospective as the Launchpad II team where we talk about what is working, what isn't working. And we have such a trusting environment where people will say things along the lines of this isn't working for me, or I feel like I'm burning out. Then we will talk to each other about it and figure out where it comes from. And it's a good point to raise that I don't think we have explicitly addressed it. But it is something that we will address. I'm not going to say could address; we will address it. I will talk to our latest hire, Dorian, who I have a one-on-one with next week, and to kind of talk to him about it. And we should maybe try and codify that in our handbook somewhere so everybody can learn from it, at least start a strategy and a conversation. Because I don't think it is something that we do talk about. It's the problem of being siloed and being remote and time zones as well. A lot of stuff that Launchpad I knows Launchpad II doesn't necessarily know because we only have three, maybe, hours if people are based on the East Coast where we overlap. I have meetings with Geronda, who's our DEI Program Manager, and she lives in Seattle. And so sometimes I'll talk to her at 5:00 o'clock, and it's 7:00 o'clock in the morning for her. And you have different energy levels. But yeah, so we spend time to try and figure out how we work together. STEPH: Yeah, I like that idea of highlighting that we take breaks somewhere that's part of your expectations as part of your role. Like, this is an expectation of your role; you're going to take breaks. You're going to step away for lunch. You're going to stick to a certain set of hours in terms of having like an eight-hour workday with a healthy lunch break in there. I think that's a really good idea. On the Boost team, I have found that people have adopted the habit of not always but typically sharing of, like, "Hey, I'm stepping away for a coffee break," or "I'm having lunch. Maybe like a late lunch, but I'm taking it," Or "I am stepping away for a walk." You often see later in the afternoon where there are a number of people that are then saying, "Hey, I'm going for a walk." And I feel that definitely helps me when I see it every day to reinforce like, yes; I should do this too because I already admitted I'm bad at this. So it helps reinforce it for me when I see other people saying that as well. But then I can see that that takes time to build that into a team's culture or to find easy ways to share that. So just putting it upfront in like a role expectation also feels like a really good place to then highlight and then to reinforce it as then people are setting that example. ROB: One thing that Nick Charlton tried to introduce was a Strava group. There's a thoughtbot Strava group. So you can see if people are members of it that they've been walking and things like that. It was quite an interesting way to automate it. I think it fell off a cliff. But it was something that we did try to how can we make the visibility of this a little bit easier? But yeah, the best thing I've seen is, like you say, having that notification in Slack or somewhere where you can see that other people are stepping away from their keyboards. STEPH: Well, as you mentioned, solving people problems is totally easy, you know. It's a totally trivial task although I'm sure we could spend too many hours talking about it. All right, so I do have one more very important question for you, Rob. And this goes back to a debate that Chris and I are having, and I'd love to get you to weigh in on it. So there are Pop-Tarts, these things called Pop-Tarts in the world. And I don't know if you're a fan, but if you were given the option to eat a Pop-Tart with frosting or a Pop-Tart without frosting, which one do you think you would choose? ROB: That's an interesting question. Is there a specific flavor? Because I think that the Strawberry Pop-Tart I would have with frosting but maybe the chocolate one I have without. I know there are all sorts of exotic flavors of Pop-Tarts. But I think I would edge towards with frosting as a default. That's my undiplomatic answer. STEPH: I like that nuanced answer. I also like how you refer to the flavors as exotic. I think that was very kind of you [laughs] other like melon crushed or wild flavors that they have. Awesome. All right. Well, I think that's a perfect note for us to wrap up. Rob, thank you so much for coming on the show and for bringing up all of these wonderful ideas and topics and sharing your experience with Codespaces. For folks that are interested in following your work or interested in getting in touch with you, where's the best place for them to do that? ROB: Yeah, thank you so much for having me. It's been fantastic to have a chat. If people do want to find me, the best place would be on Twitter. So my handle on Twitter is @purinkle which I understand is hard for people to maybe understand via a podcast, but we'll put a link in the show notes so people couldn't find me more easily. And that's probably also a good time to say that I am actually trying to find a development team lead to join our Launchpad II team. So we are looking for somebody who lives in Europe, Middle East, or Africa to join our team as a developer and manager of two to three people. There's more information on the thoughtbot website, and I do tweet about it very, very often. So feel free to reach out to me if that's of any interest to you. STEPH: Awesome. We'll be sure to include a link to that in the show notes as well. On that note, shall we wrap up? ROB: Yeah, let's wrap up. CHRIS: The show notes for this episode can be found at bikeshed.fm. STEPH: This show is produced and edited by Mandy Moore. 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This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updateshttps://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form Lucee 5.3.9.131-Snapshot Installers released - Stable release coming today!So we solved the last blocker for the 5.3.9 release, stable release tomorrow!Here are the preview installers, they bundleApache Tomcat/9.0.62Java 11.0.15 (Eclipse Adoptium) 64bitBonCode 1.0.42Notes: Java 17 is still not fully working, but Lucee will start instead of crashing on startup.Users with M1 Macs should now be able to use a native ARM JVM.https://dev.lucee.org/t/preview-5-3-9-131-snapshot-installers/10012 New Beta for the S3 Lucee Extension 2.0.0.71 (awslib) We had been using the older, no longer maintained jets3t library, but it's no longer maintained and was causing a range of minor problems which led us to decided to switch over to the the AWS S3 java library.Those problems beinglarge multipart uploads failing sometimesoccasional OSGI issues with the jets3t properties fileBasically as an end user, there is no functional difference between the 0.9.154 and 2.0.0.71 versions, in our testing the new version is a bit faster, especially with file deletion.https://dev.lucee.org/t/s3-extension-2-0-0-71-beta-awslib/10014 CFBreak is BackA once weekly email newsletter for the ColdFusion / CFML community.Hi, this is Pete Freitag, you're receiving this email because you signed up for my CFML / ColdFusion monthly newsletter CFML News here https://tinyletter.com/cfml a few years ago.I haven't posted to the newsletter since 2020, so I decided it is time for a refresh, and a rebrand of the newsletter.https://www.cfbreak.com/ CFWheels has joined Open Source CollectiveCFWheels has joined the Open Source Collective allowing us to raise, manage, and spend money transparently.https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-joins-open-source-collective/ Hot deal on Adobe ColdFusion from Fusion Reactor - Pricing good until April 30thAdobe ColdFusion Hot Sale. Upgrades to Adobe ColdFusion are now available at an exclusive rate. Upgrade to ColdFusion 21 if you have CF9, 10, 11, or 2016 and get the following deal:25% discount compared to the full price of CF21This offer is only available to FusionReactor customers for STD and ENT editions of ColdFusion. If you're not already a customer, then by adding FusionReactor in, you still have a significant saving. FusionReactor prices start from $19 per month, see our APM pricing page.https://www.fusion-reactor.com/blog/news/coldfusion-hot-sale/ ICYMI - Mid-Michigan CFUG - John Farrar is presenting on 13 ways to modernize with Vue 34/19/2022 - 7 pm eastern time.Learn everything that is new and how to transition to Vue 3.Meeting URL: https://bit.ly/3rwOxvq Recording Available:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6nMoMO5o1oOnline ColdFusion Meetup - "Updating the Java underlying ColdFusion", with Charlie ArehartThursday, April 28, 20229:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDTWith Java updates happening about quarterly (and one just last week), it's important that ColdFusion administrators and/or developers keep up to date on the Java version which underlies their CF (or Lucee) deployments. While the simplest question may seem to be "how do I do such an update, effectively" (and it really can be quite simple), there's a good bit more to updating the Java (aka jvm, jdk, jre) which underlies your CFML engine.In this session, veteran troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will share his experience helping people deal with this topic for many years, including:Considering, planning the jvm update (what jvm do you have, what can you update to, why should you?)Performing the jvm update (where to get it, how to install it, how to configure CF to use it)Avoiding various potential gotchas when updating the JVMHow to be made aware of new JVM versionsWhether you use CF or Lucee, deployed traditionally or via Commandbox (or even containers), most of the discussion will apply to you.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/285508327/?response=3Ortus Webinar - April - cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs with Eric PetersonApril 29th 202211:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Learn how to integrate cbSecurity into your application whether you are using passwords, API tokens, JWTs, or a combination of all three!More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Hawaii ColdFusion Meetup Group - Using ColdFusion ORMs with Nick KwiatkowskiFriday, April 29, 20224:00 PM to 5:00 PM PDTThe ColdFusion language introduced the concept of ORM (Object Relation Mappings) to allow developers to be able to do database work without having to write database-dependent SQL.Nick Kwiatkowski is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University, a member of the Mid-Michigan CFUG, and Apache Foundation Member. His day job also includes managing the telecommunications platforms at MSU as well as managing a variety of applications on campus. He has been a ColdFusion developer for nearly 25 years and an instructor for 15.https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/285109975/ Online ColdFusion Meetup - “Code Reuse in ColdFusion - Is Spaghetti Code still Spaghetti if it is DRY?” with Gavin PickinThursday, May 12 20229:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDTFind out the difference between DRY code and WET code, and what one is better, and more importantly, WHY.We write code once, but we read it over and over again, maintaining our code is 90% of the job... code reuse is our friend. You are already Re-using code, even if you didn't know you were.We'll learn about the different types of Code Reuse in ColdFusion, and the pros and cons of each.www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/285524970/ Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseICYMI - THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 202210:00 AM PDTAdobe ColdFusion TruthsMark Takatahttps://adobe-coldfusion-truths.meetus.adobeevents.com/TODAY - TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-workshop-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comJust ReleasedGavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox PackageMinimum Requirements for a Package https://www.cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/minimum-requirements-for-a-package What happens if your slug for your package isn't unique?  https://www.cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/what-happens-if-your-slug-for-your-package-isn't-unique Coming SoonMore… Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox PackageConferences and TrainingDockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/Adobe Developer Week 2022July 18-22, 2022Online - Virtual - FreeThe Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updateshttps://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form THAT ConferenceHowdy. We're a full-stack, tech-obsessed community of fun, code-loving humans who share and learn together.We geek-out in Texas and Wisconsin once a year but we host digital events all the time.For a limited time all monthly THAT Online events are free and do not require a ticket to participate.Read more at: https://that.us/events/thatus/2022-5/ on THAT.There have webinars too https://that.us/activities/WISCONSIN DELLS, WI / JULY 25TH - 28TH, 2022A four-day summer camp for developers passionate about learning all things mobile, web, cloud, and technology.https://that.us/events/wi/2022/ Our very own Daniel Garcia is speaking there https://that.us/activities/sb6dRP8ZNIBIKngxswIt CF SummitIn person at Las Vegas, NV in October 2022!Official-”ish” dates:Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit ConferenceOct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Testshttps://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1511210472518787073VueJS Forge June 29-30thOrganized by Vue School_The largest hands-on Vue.js EventTeam up with 1000s of fellow Vue.js devs from around the globe to build a real-world application in just 2 days in this FREE hackathon-style event.Make connections. Build together. Learn together.Sign up as an Individual or signup as a company (by booking a call)https://vuejsforge.com/Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 6, 7 and 8, 2022One day workshops before the two day conference!Early bird pricing available until April 30, 2022Call for Speakers - Extended until April 30, 2022https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9Conference Website:https://intothebox.orgInto the Box Latam 2022Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CFCampStill waiting as well.More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the WeekLooking for more content, check out the other ColdFusion related Podcasts​Working Code Podcast https://workingcode.dev/ ​CF Alive https://teratech.com/podcast/ April 25, 2022 - Blog - Mark Takata - Adobe - Turning on NULL support in ColdFusion 2018+While playing around with booleans, I ended up running into some fun stuff(tm) having to do with NULL. As you might be aware, as of Adobe ColdFusion 2018, the framework has supported NULL values, but what you might not be aware of is that you can turn them on and off either globally (via the Administrator) or on a per-application level.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/04/turning-on-null-support-in-coldfusion-2018/ April 26, 2022 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Considering The Separation Of Concerns When Invoking A Remote API In ColdFusionWhen dealing with a local database in ColdFusion, the levels of abstraction and the separations of concern feel somewhat second nature. Yes, I've wrestled with some irrational guilt over returning Query objects from my DAL (Data Access Layer); but, on balance, I love the query object's simplicity and power; and, returning it from the DAL makes life easy. Lately, however, I've had to start consuming some remote APIs (microservices). And, when it comes to making HTTP calls, the separation of concerns is less clear in my head - it seems that so much more can go wrong when consuming a remote API.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4254-considering-the-separation-of-concerns-when-invoking-a-remote-api-in-coldfusion.htmBen is essentially setting up a gateway to abstract getting the data so he can standardize what the service is receiving, so it shouldn't matter where the data is coming from.April 22, 2022 - Blog - Ben Nadel - ArraySlice() Has An Exponential Performance Overhead In Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201The other day, I tweeted about Lucee CFML struggling with a massive array. I had created a data-processing algorithm that was taking an array of user-generated data and splitting it up into chunks of 100 so that I could then gather some aggregates on that data in the database. Everything was running fine until I hit a user that had 2.1 million entries in this array. This was an unexpected volume of data, and it crushed the CFML server. 2.1M is a lot of data to my "human brain"; but, it's not a lot of data for a computer. As such, I started to investigate the root performance bottleneck; and, I discovered that the arraySlice() function in Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201 has a performance overhead that appears to increase exponentially with the size of the array.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4253-arrayslice-has-an-exponential-performance-overhead-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-201.htm @bdw429s just left a comment on the blog-post about .subList() as well. It looks crazy-fast! This seems like the fastest possible implementation.April 22, 2022 - Blog - Charlie Arehart - Updated - Solving problems calling out of CF via https, by updating JVMIf you're getting errors in calling out to https urls from CF, especially if it was working and now is not, you may NOT need to import a certificate, nor modify any jvm args. You may simply need to update the JVM that CF uses, as discussed in this post.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/06/error-calling-cf-via-https-solved-updating-jvm/ 4/22/2022- Tweet - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - It sucks that CF engines still don't allow for CFCs to extend Java classesIt sucks that CF engines still don't allow for CFCs to extend Java classes.  That prevents me from integrating with Java libraries like this one who don't allow interface implementations, but require abstract base class extension.  https://github.com/bkiers/Liqp/issues/226 4/22/2022 - Tweet - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - native Java threading can't access application/session/request scopesOne of the missing pieces for CF devs using native Java threading is the inability of your code to access your application/session/request scopes.  ColdBox works around this but we really need out of the box CF engine support! https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3960 https://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1517584339235745795https://twitter.com/bdw429s4/19/2022 - Blog - Charlie Arehart - New updates released for Java 8, 11, 17, and 18 as of Apr 2022New JVM updates have been released today (Apr 19, 2022) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, and 17, as well as the new interim update 18. (Note that prior to Java 9, releases of Java were known technically as 1.x, to 8 is referred to in resources below as 1.8.)The new updates are 1.8.0_331, (aka 8u331), 11.0.15, 17.0.3, and 18.0.1 respectively). And as is generally the case with these Java updates, most of them have the same changes and fixes.For more on them, including changes as well as the security and bug fixes they each contain, see the Oracle resources I list below, as well as some additional info I offer for if you may be skipping to this from a JVM update from before Apr 2021. I also offer info for Adobe ColdFusion users on where to find the updated Java versions, what JVM versions Adobe CF supports, and more.https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2022/4/19/java_updates_Apr_2022 CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 75  ColdFusion positions from 43 companies across 36 locations in 5 Countries.2 new job listedFull-Time - Mid/Senior CFML Developer at Cleveland, OH - United States Apr 22https://www.getcfmljobs.com/viewjob.cfm?jobid=11462Full-Time - Senior ColdFusion/Lucee Engineer (Remote) at Remote - United States Apr 19https://www.getcfmljobs.com/viewjob.cfm?jobid=11461 Other Job LinksOrtus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers Consortium Inchttps://www.dice.com/jobs/detail/-/10183574/7322396 There is a jobs channel in the box team slack now tooForgeBox Module of the WeekCBMailServices PreMail FilterThis is a tool that fires on the PreMail interception point, allowing you to filter emails being sent from your application using CBMailServices.This supports multiple enviromnents, so you can turn on the filter for just one environment, or multiple environments, and you can choose to override the global settings, with settings for just one environment, whether that is allowed email addresses, or required email addresses.https://www.forgebox.io/view/cbmailservices-premail-filter VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekDepot Data Editor by Afterschool StudioStructured data editor for VS Code - Edit JSON data directly inside of code with a spreadsheet like interface. Can be used to replace the need for .csv or XML filesExtension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=afterschool.depot Bonus VS Code Livestream Recording - JSON Data in VS Code with Depot Extension

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical's hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.   News You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! Linux Downtime... Read More

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical's hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.   News You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! Linux Downtime... Read More

Josh Centers has launched a new web site that all of us should consult at one time or another. Apple Buying Advice covers the major Apple product lines, and is being expanded as new products and revisions are released. Josh talks about the genesis of the site, digs deep into how he approaches recommendations, and the variety of M1 Macs now available. We also cover his thoughts on the Mac Studio, the Studio Display and some of the other Apple product lines.  This edition of MacVoices is brought to you by our Patreon supporters. Get access to the MacVoices Slack and MacVoices After Dark by joining in at Patreon.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links: Apple: Design Macs for Other Types of Professionals by Adam Engst on TidBITS Guests: Josh Centers is the Managing Editor of TidBITS and the publisher of Apple Buying Advice. He's also an occasional contributor to Macworld, Boing Boing, and The Sweethome. You can keep up with him on Twitter, and his blog at joshcenters.com. Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Josh Centers has launched a new web site that all of us should consult at one time or another. Apple Buying Advice covers the major Apple product lines, and is being expanded as new products and revisions are released. Josh talks about the genesis of the site, digs deep into how he approaches recommendations, and the variety of M1 Macs now available. We also cover his thoughts on the Mac Studio, the Studio Display and some of the other Apple product lines.  [embed]http://traffic.libsyn.com/maclevelten/MV22060.mp3[/embed] This edition of MacVoices is brought to you by our Patreon supporters. Get access to the MacVoices Slack and MacVoices After Dark by joining in at Patreon.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links: Apple: Design Macs for Other Types of Professionals by Adam Engst on TidBITS Guests: Josh Centers is the Managing Editor of TidBITS and the publisher of Apple Buying Advice. He's also an occasional contributor to Macworld, Boing Boing, and The Sweethome. You can keep up with him on Twitter, and his blog at joshcenters.com. Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

0:00 You just never know 0:12 Microsoft also hacked by lapsus$? 1:11 GPUs at MSRP?? 2:14 Another Windows 11 watermark 3:12 Zoho CRM 3:50 QUICK BITS 3:55 Asahi Linux on M1 Macs 4:22 Wii + DSi stores disappear 4:48 FSR 2.0 almost here 5:25 Maserati EVs 5:50 Elden Ring death loop flaw NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/5kcaE

Ep 178OWC Releases Affordable Thunderbolt 4 CablesWorld's Most Powerful and Toughest CableAttackers can force Amazon Echos to hack themselves with self-issued commandsPeek PerformanceApple introduces the most powerful and versatile iPad Air everApple introduces gorgeous new green finishes for the iPhone 13 lineupApple announces the new iPhone SE: a powerful smartphone in an iconic designApple unveils M1 Ultra, the world's most powerful chip for a personal computerApple unveils all-new Mac Studio and Studio Display

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave he is joined by Jeff Gamet and Chuck Joiner. We review all new features with the new releases iOS15.4, iPadOS15.4, WatchOS 8.5, tvOS15.4. MacOS12.3 now has universal control and you can use the same keyboard and mouse with an iPad and we review this new feature iOS app Posture Pal is reviewed and tips on silencing iMessage and more.  The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com 
Direct Link to Audio Links to our Show Click this link Buy me a Coffee to support the show we would really appreciate it.  Website: In Touch With iOS YouTube Page In Touch with iOS Magazine on Flipboard News Apple streamlines the process of buying a new iPhone SE for AT&T and T-Mobile customers iPhone tops North America and Western European smartphone markets as 5G surpasses 4G Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro Models Scammers have been using Apple's TestFlight to distribute malicious iOS apps Benchmark Results Confirm Apple Hasn't Downclocked M1 Chip in New iPad Air - MacRumors Apple Watch fall detection to the rescue - 9to5Mac Topics Beta this week. iOS iPadOS 15.4 was released! We reviewed all the new features across all platforms. iPhone /iPad Apple Releases iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 With Face ID Mask Unlock, New Emoji, Universal Control, and More - MacRumors Use Face ID while wearing a mask with iPhone 12 and later - Apple Support HomePod Apple Releases HomePod Software 15.4 - MacRumors Apple Watch Apple Releases watchOS 8.5 With Support for Apple TV Purchase Authorization, Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification Improvements and More  watchOS 8.5 Fixes Mail Privacy Protection Loophole That Could Expose IP Addresses iOS 15.4 and watchOS 8.5 Allow You to Restore an Apple Watch Using an iPhone Apple's latest watchOS update includes a recovery mode, of sorts - The Verge tvOS Apple Releases tvOS 15.4 With Support for Captive WiFi Networks Apple TV now lets you easily authorize purchases with Apple Watch, here's how No new betas for any devices this week. Someone will be in withdrawal.  Universal control was added to MacOS 12.3 which allows use of a keyboard and mouse across multiple devices.  We review how the iPad works with this new feature.  Here is Apple support article that reviews the process: Universal Control: Use a single keyboard and mouse between Mac and iPad - Apple Support More details about Universal Control.  Apple Releases macOS Monterey 12.3 With Universal Control, Spatial Audio Dynamic Head Tracking on M1 Macs and More Universal Control: Everything You Need to Know PSA: Universal Control and Sidecar Can Be Used At the Same Time in macOS 12.3 - MacRumors How to Use Universal Control and Sidecar Simultaneously in macOS 12.3 - MacRumors Tips How to silence iMessage notifications on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac Apps This iPhone app uses AirPods to help you improve your posture - 9to5Mac Posture Pal - Improve Stance on the App Store Our Host Dave Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Visit the YouTube channel https://youtube.com/daveg65 follow him on Twitter @daveg65.and the show @intouchwithios About our Guests Jeff Gamet is a podcaster, technology blogger, artist, and author. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's managing editor, and Smile's TextExpander Evangelist. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram as @jgamet and YouTube https://youtube.com/jgamet Chuck Joiner is the host of MacVoices and hosts video podcasts with influential members of the Apple community. Make sure to visit macvoices.com and subscribe to his podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @chuckjoiner and join his MacVoices Facebook group About our Co-Host Warren Sklar @Wsklar is an IT Consultant and moderator of the Mac To The Future FaceBook Group with over 3000 members talking about all things Apple. Request to join this group to be among people who love Apple.

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show, join us as we talk some tech and create a new word. Allison, Brian, and Jeanine gathered together in the That Real Blind Tech show lair to discuss the Apple Event and some other tech topics.    We start off discussing the good of social media, and a unique way that people are using Air BnB to help send money to people in the Ukraine.   After discussing the Ukraine, we move on to the bizarre story about a man in Florida who was killed by a co-worker while in a Port A Potty, yes, while in a Port A Potty.   Does your FitBit have you all hot and bothered? Well, you are not alone. And we have heard of cellular networks throttling your connection speed, but now, phones are throttling app speeds, this is a new one. And Dropbox finally got an update out for M1 Macs, but what about M1 Ultra Macs?   Axe Con will be taking place on March 15th to the 17th, and you can catch Brian as part of the Yahoo Fantasy, It's not just a game panel on Tuesday, March 15th at 130pm EST. You can register to attend this massive accessibility focused conference for free here.    Apple kicked off its March event discussing two new colors for the iPhone 13 lineup. Apple must not have gotten the memo as AppleTV Plus is now offering Friday night baseball, of course there would have to be baseball played for this to happen.   The first new product that Apple announced is the iPhone SE third generation. This could be the most popular model of the iPhone for people who are blind. The M1 chip now comes to the new iPad Air.   Apple then announced the launch of the all new Mac Studio. Is it a laptop, desktop, bird or plane? And to monitor or not to monitor? On a more serious note, if someone is buying one of these new Mac Studios and using VoiceOver, should they bump up the Ram on a M1 machine.   We are not sure of the accessibility of the OCR Scanning Pen, and how accurate you need to be with it, but this could be a very promising product for the blind.   You are going to start hearing a lot about Matter, a process that will make all of your Smart Home devices communicate with each other better. And of course it's more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.     To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , or leave us an old school phone message at 929-367-1005.

There are many useful accessibility functions within Microsoft Windows but the recent addition of a new app in the Microsoft Store might add some cool new features, especially for those of us with low vision. Host of The Echo Show and the Dot To Dot Podcast Robin Christopherson joined Steven Scott and Shaun Preece to talk about the app and demo some of its useful features. Steven and Shaun are also keen to talk about updated support for M1 Macs by Dropbox and a new streaming service from ITV coming later in 2022 - but how accessible will it be compared to the ITV Hub it replaces? Join in the conversation as always by emailing hello@blindguytalkstech.com or call 0204 571 3354 and leave us a voicemail.

Here's episode 8 of the Tech Unlocked Podcast! Today we're talking about AirPower possibly making a comeback, AR Glasses will be as powerful as the M1 Macs, Apple announces an Upgrade Program for MacBooks, and so much more! Make sure to buckle your seatbelts too, because this episode is looooong!

We hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and a Happy Hannuka to those who will be celebrating that... Not much news really but Nick and Simon find a few bits to natter about including the ultra rare WristMac and AR replacing the iPhone in the future and a few other bits and pieces. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Affinity Sale - 30% off most stock, 50% off iPad apps Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 28th November 2021 NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos – YouTube APPLE Apple delays support for storing your ID in the Wallet app until 2022 – 9to5Mac Kuo: Apple plans to replace the iPhone with AR in 10 years – 9to5Mac Russia demands foreign tech companies open offices in the country – Sky News "Not currently available": Turks cant buy iPhones after lira plunge – Reuters Seiko WristMac, aka the 'first Apple Watch,' will look weird as hell on your wrist – Cult of Mac Seiko WristMac – the first Apple Watch in 1988 – up for auction – 9to5Mac Helpful Mac app sends alerts when new Apple devices are in stock – Cult of Mac TECHNOLOGY BT to axe traditional landline phones sparking fears for millions of elderly – Daily Record 12ft – Hop any paywall – 12ft Windows 11 could come to M1 Macs in the future – BGR SECURITY & PRIVACY GoDaddy discloses recent security breach that exposed 1.2 million accounts – Engadget Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law – BBC News WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS The key combo to lock the screen is Control + Command + Q - I looked it up iin the Apple Menu (Duh!) Or as Alister pointed out press the Touch ID/Power Button JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (26:46) Whoosh cleaning products – Amazon Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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We made it to Episode 25 and it's a Tailoring Tech episode for you as Roberto is joined by his friend and Play Pause Turn co-host Jon Evans!Apple assaulted us with not one but two fall events in September and October which included the launch of a whole host of new products.Jon and Roberto give their views and layperson / average consumer user experiences on:- iPhone 13- Apple Watch 7- iOS 15- AirPods 3- HomePods- The new M1 MacBook Pro 14" and 16"- iPad Mini-  macOS Monterey - Beats Fit Noise Cancelling Wireless BudsJon also talks a little more in depth about his experiences with the original HomePods and waxes lyrical about the joys of Spatial Audio.Enjoy!Get in touch! To apply to be a guest on the show, for any questions, comments or future content ideas, please email Roberto at  contact@robertorevillalondon.comLinks:Roberto Revilla http://www.robertorevillalondon.com Roberto on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/robertorevillalondonRoberto on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ItsBobbyRevilla Connect with Roberto on LinkedIn https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robertorevillalondonThe Play Pause Turn Podcast https://playpauseturn.showPlay Pause Turn on Twitter https://twitter.com/playpauseturnJon Evans https://twitter.com/jonprevansCredits:Edited by Roberto Revilla Music by Wataboy Produced by Roberto RevillaPodcast hosted by BuzzSprout.comSupport the show

Die beiden neuen Prozessoren von Apple, der M1 Pro und der M1 Max, laden ein zu Spekulationen, wie es mit den Desktop-Macs weitergehen könnte. Der iMac und der Mac Pro stehen als nächstes auf der Liste, aber auch ein erweiterter Mac Mini (oder ein kleinerer Mac Pro) rücken wieder in den Fokus. Werden diese leistungsstarken Desktops ebenfalls eine neue Variante der M1-Prozessoren bekommen? Oder sind die Pro- und Max-Varianten bereits ausreichend? Dazu betrachten wir uns einige aufschlussreiche Benchmarks, die uns den Abstand zwischen den schnellsten Intel-Macs und den schnellsten M1-Macs zeigen. Wir gehen auch auf Gerüchte ein, der Mac Pro würde "einfach" vier solcher Chips enthalten. Würde das ausreichen?

We talk about Birthdays, M1 Macs, Hangovers, Art of Drinking, Adventures with Colin, Streaming shows and the Awards and Money.

This week, Matt and Tyler talk about a few things we absolutely love about Linux and 5 things we don't. We also talk about the new Gnome release, Gnome running on M1 Macs, and Tyler's new hairdo. **What have we been up to Linux related this Week?** Tyler – Shaving my head and face to be a proper Linux creator. Matt – I made it to 4000 subs this week. And I've been learning some new stuff in Gimp so that I can make better thumbnails. ===== Thanks to Our Patrons! ==== Devon C. -- Tier 4 Patron Chris - Tier 4 Patron EastCoastWeb - Tier 4 Patron Gentoo is Fun Too- Tier 4 Patron Marcus B.  - Tier 3 Patron Donnie H. - Tier 3 Patron Maeglin - Tier 3 Patron Sven C. - Tier 3 Patron. Mitchel V - Tier 2 Patron Mr. Fox - Tier 2 Patron ArchSinner - Tier 2 on YT Marek M. - Tier 1 Patron Camp514 - Tier 1 Patron ===== Follow us

In this episode we discuss what needs to happen in the PC hardware and software arena before PCs can compete on equal footing with Apple's M1 Macs (for power consumption, thermals, and all-round good performance). Will Qualcomm and Microsoft be able to work together to bring some competition to Apple Silicon?

Marc returns to a slightly chaotic Double Tap Canada this week as no one is quite sure how long the show should be. A quick call to the boss should clear things up. What could possibly go wrong… After a quick discussion about Steven's new watercooler, Marc's refurbished iPhones and testing if Facebook is listening to our diaper conversations, it's on to the first tech story of the week, Amazon's new line of Fire tablets. Starting with the Fire Tablet 10 - which features a more powerful 8-core processor, a brighter 10-inch HD display & 3GB of RAM which is a definite improvement over previous models - there is also the Fire Tablet 10 Plus, which ups the RAM to 4GB and includes wireless charging. Amazon is also offering a productivity bundle, which includes the Fire Plus tablet along with an attachable keyboard and 1-year subscription to Office 365. Everyone agrees that, for the price, these are great tablets. So why is it Shaun has two that he never uses? Also new this week is a new range of laptops from Samsung. The Galaxy Book range feature a choice of Intel CPU's, full-sized keyboards, both wi-fi and mobile connectivity, and the Galaxy Book 360 has a versatile display allowing you to use the laptop like a tablet, including touchscreen and S-Pen support. Speakinging of laptops, Steven tells us why he's replaced his new M1 MacBook Pro with the M1 MacBook Air. Spoiler alert: it's all about the Touch bar. In software and services news, Steven has been trying out the recently-updated Microsoft Remote Desktop Client software, which allows him to remotely control his Windows computers from his M1 Macs. All the audio from the remote computer can be streamed back to the computer you are using, meaning that it's totally accessible for screen reader users. Steven is impressed, but can he get it to work on an iPad? Finally, it's on to Facebook Audio. With yet another platform jumping onto the Club House bandwagon, is there any reason to get excited by Facebook's offering? Shaun thinks so. Also, Spotify has announced that they are going to be offering a pay to subscribe podcast service similar to Apple's recent announcement. Does this signal a complete change to the way we listen to podcasts and are people really prepared to pay?

In this episode: we discuss some of the issues which are still unresolved on the M1 Macs; talk about how small YouTube channels get products for review, and; we look ahead to WWDC 2021 and the Apple Keynote on 7 June 2021 - which hardware and software releases are we expecting? Will there be new iMacs, new MacBook Pros or new iPad Pros? Will there still be a spring event?

Welcome to Episode 114 of the snobOS Podcast! The Lowdown: We talk Apple back on top as number 1 smartphone maker and new malware hits Intel and M1 Macs. 2nd String: We talk data collection with Me.Ring, NASA's Perseverance Rover lands on Mars, and TikTok cracks down on ‘Fake News'For The Culture: We talk Tech-ing While Black: Jewel Burks, Justin Dawkins, & Barry Givens - Collab Capital and new Jackson Tech Hub venture.Be sure to Listen, rate, review and share on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts & SpotifyEngage on all social platforms @snobOScast Leave comments and suggestionsWeb: snobOScast.comEmail: snobOScast@gmail.comSupport the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/snobOScastFollow Nica Montford @TechSavvyDivaFollow Terrance Gaines @BrothaTech

The GOP wants to kill municipal broadband. Facebook has been LYING about their advertising stats. New malware targeting M1 Macs has been found. LG has a new budget phone for India (which looks REALLY familiar). Samsung's AR play has been leaked. Huawei's new foldable ALSO looks familiar. And as a community what should we do about LAZY reviews? Let's get your tech week started right! Stories This Week: If Sony SHOULD stop making phones, at least tell us why Austin? https://somegadgetguy.com/2021/02/19/if-sony-should-stop-making-phones-at-least-tell-us-why/ Canon 7D: TEN YEARS Later https://somegadgetguy.com/2021/02/20/canon-7d-in-2021-shooting-on-a-ten-year-old-camera/ ToughBook: The Hulkbuster Laptop! https://somegadgetguy.com/2021/02/17/panasonic-toughbook-33-a-brutal-windows-tablet-pc/ Periodic Audio Rhodium: Revenge of the Jack! https://somegadgetguy.com/2021/02/16/periodic-audio-rhodium-revenge-of-the-usb-dac/ Mrs. GadgetGuy's New Pixel 4a 5G https://somegadgetguy.com/2021/02/06/sggqa-191-mrs-gadgetguy-and-her-new-pixel-4a-5g/ Best of Our Week 10 with TK Bay! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyIgEJ8iBQs Tech Reviewer's are SCUM! https://somegadgetguy.com/2021/02/04/tech-reviewers-are-scum-reddit-weighs-in/ SomeGadgetGuy Merch! https://teespring.com/stores/somegadgetguy GOP Trying to KILL Municipal Broadband https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/gop-plan-for-broadband-competition-would-ban-city-run-networks-across-us/ Facebook new for years that their ad stats were bogus https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-court-document-claims-facebook-203236002.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr New Malware found targeting M1 Macs https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/new-malware-found-on-30000-macs-has-security-pros-stumped/ TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK ON r/GLOWINGRECTANGLES https://www.reddit.com/r/glowingrectangles/top/?t=week The new LG W41 for India looks REALLY familiar… https://www.gadgetsnow.com/mobile-phones/LG-W41 Huawei unveils the Mate X2 (and it looks familiar too) https://www.engadget.com/huawei-reveals-the-mate-x-2-foldable-phone-141434144.html Samsung commits to 4 years of software support https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_promises_at_least_four_years_of_security_updates_for_galaxies_from_2019_on-news-47868.php Samsung's AR play leaks, looks rad! Juan rambles on about LAZY reviews… Support SomeGadgetGuy! The complete list of how you can contribute to production on this channel AND get yourself some cool stuff! Patreon, Amazon, Humble Bundle, OnePlus, Audible, Merch, and MORE! https://somegadgetguy.com/2012/07/15/support-somegadgetguy-get-cool-stuff/ SomeGadgetGuy's Gear List: Panasonic G9 https://amzn.to/2E95rKM Panasonic 15mm f/1.7 http://amzn.to/2qWH0UZ Panasonic 25mm f/1.7 http://amzn.to/2ohTzsd Audio-Technica Lavalier https://amzn.to/2WywofM Focusrite 6i6 Audio Interface http://amzn.to/2p5l7py Shure SM57 Microphone http://amzn.to/2oypnLm Cloudlifter CL1 http://amzn.to/2oKN9G5 LED Light Panels http://amzn.to/2oy60ls AJA U-TAP HDMI http://amzn.to/2wfprBF Elgato HD S http://amzn.to/2p95Unu SUBSCRIBE TO #SGGQA! SGGQA Podcast RSS: http://goo.gl/oSUjvi SGGQA Podcast on Spotify: https://goo.gl/uyuSsj SGGQA Podcast Google Play https://goo.gl/ABF7Up SGGQA Podcast iTunes: https://goo.gl/YUcyS7 SGGQA Podcast on Stitcher: http://goo.gl/cyazfY SGGQA Podcast on PlayerFM: https://goo.gl/34B8SG SGGQA Podcast on Archive.org: https://goo.gl/9zh4pK Juan Carlos Bagnell on Twitch – http://Twitch.tv/SomeGadgetGuy Juan Carlos Bagnell on Twitter – http://Twitter.com/SomeGadgetGuy Juan on Instagram – http://instagram.com/somegadgetguy Support SomeGadgetGuy Production: http://amzn.com/w/34V1TR2551P6M Links on this page may be affiliate links which help support production on this website. Support Talking Tech with SomeGadgetGuy by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/talking-tech-with-somegadgetgu Find out more at https://talking-tech-with-somegadgetgu.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-c117ce for 40% off for 4 months, and support Talking Tech with SomeGadgetGuy.

Recorded 20th December 2020 In a moment of madness Simon and Guy decide to do a joint Christmas Mayhem Zoom call podcast with GazMaz, MacJim, Nick, Donny, Mark, and Steve (Geeks Corner) Durbin. Not much else to say really - it just took on a life of its own! Happy holidays everyone... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom Essentials free as well. Steve at Geeks Corner has restarted his podcast which is a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye on his site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk to watch for regular giveaways. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show GUY SERLE Co-host of the MyMac Podcast @MacParrot and @VertShark on Twitter Does Guy's Daily Drive, Mac to the Future Livecast, Go! Posts all his stuff to vertshark.com GAZ MAZ @GazMaz on Twitter Co-host of the MyMac Podcast Appears on the For Mac Eyes Only podcast sometimes STEVE DURBIN Runs the Geeks Corner website Produces the Geeks Corner podcast @GeekCorner_uk on Twitter MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed, @essentialapple and @essentialmac on Twitter Puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo 2020 IN BRIEF (cribbed from the excellent Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple) January Apple and FBI and more E2E wrangling - usual stuff 'think of the children' vs E2E can't be backdoored without breaking everything for everyone EU voted to press on with standardising chargers CV-19 breaks out in China February CV-19 wreaks havoc Mobile World Congress scrapped March CV-19 becomes a pandemic Apple donates 10million masks WWDC announced as online only Apple spring new MBA Retina and updated Mini iPad Magic Keyboard with Trackpad launched April Apple and Google team up to work on contact tracing API New iPhone SE (2020) revealed Apple designs medical face shield and says it will donate millions Apple gives money to a variety of charities including BBC 'Big Night In' May Apple & Google's Exposure Notification API goes live FBI continue to attack Apple about encryption Apple says it supports BLM Tim Cook pens open letter on racism June Apple announce $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative The UK U-turn on not using Apple's API, but do so with bad grace WWDC with iOS 14, macOS 11, watchOS 7 and Apple announce they are going to custom silicon Controversy over censorship and the Hey app prompt some app store changes July Public Betas of iOS 14, iPadOS 14 and tvOS 14 Apple continues support of BLM Apple starts spending its pledged $2.5bn on housing crisis in California Apple win against EU over Irish tax in ECJ Greyhound film a hit, Apple win Emmys August TikTok war opens Phil Schiller moves from SVP to Apple Fellow iMacs get updates but no Apple Silicon Epic pulls its App Store stunt to start the Fortnite war Anti-trust investigations start to snowball around the world (not just for Apple) September EU appeal the ECJ ruling Will streaming games work on iOS furore starts Judge "excoriates" Epic tactics Apple launches AppleWatch SE, and Series 6 Apple launches new iPad 8 and new Air 4 Apple One Bundle announced UK Apple Maps updated October Apple make all the moneys Anti trust and Epic stuff rumbles on Subscrition streaming game situation confused and unclear Apple announces iPhones 12 range and HomePod Mini November Apple cuts app store commission for "small developers" netting less than $1 million (98% of devs some say) Big Sur goes official Apple drops the M1 Macs... Reviewers go mad over them December Apple releases the AirPods Max at $549... Reviewers are baffled but mostly positive Facebook disses Apple privacy improvements... TC replies Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

David & James discuss AirPods Max, more M1 Macs, and doorbells. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bluebubblepod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bluebubblepod/support

Welcome to Episode 101 of the snobOS Podcast!The Lowdown: Patched iOS vulnerability would have let users seize control of iPhones over Wi-Fi. UVideo details ARM Windows virtualization on M1 Macs, nearly 2x faster performance than Surface Pro X. Apple seeds iOS 14.3 beta 3 and iPadOS 14.3 beta 3 to developers.2nd String: Google Authenticator for iOS gets dark theme redesign, bulk 2FA account transfers. Hulu's Watch Party feature is now available to all subscribers.For The Culture: Respectability or Good Business: True Kitchen & Kocktails Owner goes viral in twitter video.The Hookup: Event Countdown appBe sure to Listen, rate, review and share on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts & SpotifyEngage on all social platforms @snobOScast Leave comments and suggestionsWeb: snobOScast.comEmail: snobOScast@gmail.comSupport the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/snobOScastFollow Nica Montford @TechSavvyDivaFollow Terrance Gaines @BrothaTech

We missed so much! Catching up on the iPhone 12, M1 Macs and also a few games and cameras Watch the video (https://youtu.be/3gQVnAVrezs) Special Guest: Rene Ritchie.

Recorded 22nd November 2020 This week Adam “Maccast” Christianson joins Simon, Nick and Donny to talk about M1 Macs, iOS on M1, Emulation, Apple's App Store commission cut for “small” developers and more. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom Essentials free as well. Steve at Geeks Corner has restarted his podcast which is a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye on his site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk to watch for regular giveaways. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: ADAM CHRISTIANSON @maccast on Twitter and Instagram Maccast Maccast podcast wherever you get your podcasts NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo DONNY YANKELLOW @rtteachr on Twitter Find his work at hedgehogalley.com Books in Apple Book Store DesignBundles.net as Skrbly Skrbly Studio on YouTube Skrbly Store Leo the Lonely Guitar Donny's Classes on Outschool.com for kids 7-18 APPLE Watch Apple's M1 MacBook Pro Obliterate 2020 Intel MacBook Pro in Speed Tests – Mac Rumors Restoring Apple Silicon M1 Macs Leading to macOS Installation Errors – Mac Rumors Apple cuts App Store commission to 15% for developers paid less than $1M per year – Apple Insider Craig Federighi says Windows can run natively on M1 Macs but is 'really up to Microsoft' – 9to5 Mac CodeWeavers gets Windows apps running on Apple Silicon – Apple Insider Apple embraces iOS 14 home screen customization by fixing how app shortcuts work – TechCrunch Apple aware of display issues affecting some iPhone 12 models –9to5 Mac Apple suggests display issue with iPhone 12 may be solved with iOS update – iMore Apple has released a revised version of iOS 14.2 for iPhone 12 owners – iMore Apple M1 Mac reviews: Impressive performance and battery life, iOS apps are a mixed bag – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 Win Comes From An Unlikely Source... Apple – Forbes SECURITY & PRIVACY Most common passwords of 2020 – Nord WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Geekbench of M1 v Intel Macs M1 destroys all the other Macs in single core - comes 13th in multi core - as these are the first of their kind that's pretty good I think – tw 13th might not sound too dope but that's only the Xeon Macs (Pros and iMac Pro's) and the latest 27in iMacs. That means M1 beats Trash can Pro and the 2020 MBP 16” and all the others Is Apple Silicon Ready – isapplesiliconready.com Jason Snell podcast 20 Macs for 2020 Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode 101 of the snobOS Podcast!The Lowdown: Apple slashes App Store commissions. Unlock your account with your Apple Watch with 1Password Update. Reviewers love the M1 Macs.2nd String: Google updates Chrome for M1 Macs. Republicans soften tough talk to Big Tech. Google announces revamped Google Pay for iOS and Android.For The Culture: New Verzuz: Young Jeezy vs. Gucci Mane: Will there be drama? The Hookup: How to manage Menu bar in macOS Big Sur Be sure to Listen, rate, review and share on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts & SpotifyEngage on all social platforms @snobOScast Leave comments and suggestionsWeb: snobOScast.comEmail: snobOScast@gmail.comSupport the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/snobOScastFollow Nica Montford @TechSavvyDivaFollow Terrance Gaines @BrothaTech

Recorded 15th November 2020 This week the gang (including Donny) get together to talk about the only news in town! The one more thing event, M1 Macs and Big Sur. Also because Big Sur went live and Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba is as good as his word his team got all their apps working on Big Sur! So this podcast comes courtesy of Rogue Amoeba on Big Sur! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom Essentials free as well. Steve at Geeks Corner has restarted his podcast which is a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye on his site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk to watch for regular giveaways. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo DONNY YANKELLOW @rtteachr on Twitter Find his work at hedgehogalley.com Books in Apple Book Store DesignBundles.net as Skrbly Skrbly Studio on YouTube Skrbly Store Leo the Lonely Guitar Donny's Classes on Outschool.com for kids 7-18 APPLE Apple “One more thing” event The M1 The Macs Simon's MacBook Air order Big Sur goes public Apple VPs talk M1 Macs, Rosetta 2 translation, and more in new interviews – 9to5 Mac Apple server problems PSA: macOS is a little broken this morning, with many non-Apple apps hanging at launch – TechCrunch Mac users couldn't launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue – The Verge MFi hearing aid static issues reported by iPhone 12 users – AppleInsider macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models – Mac Rumors https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/macos-big-sur-update-bricking-some-macbook-pros/ TECHNOLOGY Amazon's Ring video doorbells catch fire because wrong screw used – BBC Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee announces first step in privacy-for-all project, Solid – 9to5 Mac Popular app T&Cs 'longer than Harry Potter' – BBC SECURITY & PRIVACY New 'Platypus' attack can extract data from Intel chips, but Macs are mostly safe – AppleInsider Microsoft tells users to ditch SMS multi-factor authentication – Verdict WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS macOS Big Sur and Carbon Copy Cloner - Bootable clones are back – Bombich Blog Pixelmator Pro 2.0 - All new, M1, Big Sur and free to existing users! – Pixelmator Pixelmator Pro 2.0 brings macOS Big Sur support and huge Apple silicon boost. – iMore Bartender 4 for Big Sur – Bartender Satechi Mac Mini Hub – CNN Nick returned this as the USB ports aren't powered so you can't charge from them... 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In this episode: News: Saint Nicholas in Corona times, Covid update Movies/TV: The Mandalorian, Star Trek, Fantastic Beasts 3 and a Star Wars movie directed by Taika Waititi? Peculiar Bunch: Catholic winter traditions: Saint Hubert, Saint Martin and Saint Nicholas Books: Anton Chekhov's Short Stories – read by Stephen Fry (Amazon link) Sci-fi: The LastContinue reading "Catholic Winter Traditions, The Last Skywalker, Apple's M1 Macs" The post Catholic Winter Traditions, The Last Skywalker, Apple's M1 Macs appeared first on Father Roderick.