Programming By Stealth

Oct 26 2024 188 ep. 70 mins 1k

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A collaborative project between Bart Busschots and Allison Sheridan to sneak up on real programming in small easy steps, using the allure of the web as the carrot to entice people forward.

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PBS 172 of X: Git Submodules

Oct 26 2024 37 mins

Bart takes us back into our Git miniseries to explain Git submodules, which are essentially nested Git repos. After we learn what they are, he explains why nesting is needed. Then he takes us through three use cases as a way of illustrating the kinds of problems Git submodules can solve. You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at pbs.bartificer.net. Join our Slack at podf

PBS Tidbit 9 – Using Git on iOS

Oct 10 2024 37 mins

In ye olden days, iOS kept everything sandboxed in a way that apps weren't allowed to reach outside of their own data to open individual files. But with the aptly named Files app, and an API to allow a human to do the picking, apps can now open files directly on iOS. This "innovation" allows us to have a Git client on iOS and have it use a linked repo that's stored in the Files ap

PBS 171 of X: MVC in XKpasswd-js

Sep 28 2024 78 mins

We have a bit of a changeup for today's lesson. While Bart Busschots is in attendance for this episode, he is not be the instructor, he is a student like me. Our instructor today is the delightful Helma van der Linden and she's going to teach us about how she applied the Model View Controller pattern to our project XKPasswd. You can find Helma's fabulous tutorial shownotes at pbs

PBS 170 of X: Model View Controller (MVC)

Sep 14 2024 54 mins

We're back from our summer hiatus (actually scheduled for the first time ever instead of accidentally happening!) In this week's episode, Bart takes on the task of explaining the philosophy behind why having a framework for software development is useful and even crucial as projects get bigger and more complex. We chose this topic because the XKPasswd project has already started u

PBS Tidbit 8 – Interview with jq Maintainer Mattias Wadman

Aug 06 2024 65 mins

In this Tidbit version of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots interviews Mattias Wadman, one of the maintainers of the jq project. This was great fun as we just finished learning jq in Programming By Stealth. Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: PBS_2024_08_06 You can find out more about Mattias & the various projects he is working on at the link

PBS Tidbit 7 – jq to Analyze macOS Installed Apps with Helma van der Linden on

Jul 20 2024 60 mins

In this special tidbit installment of Programming By Stealth, Helma van der Linden joins Allison to walk through how she solved a real-world problem using jq. The problem to be solved was a need to analyze the installed applications on her Intel-based Mac before migrating to her new Apple Silicon Mac. She used a built-in Terminal command to access System Information to create a J

PBS 169 of X — Advanced YAML Topics

Jul 06 2024 66 mins

In this second (and final) installment about YAML, Bart teaches us who to write multi-line strings and how not to write multi-line strings. He teaches us about String Blocks which is a bit head-bendy but allows you to write human-readable strings and also tell YAML what to do with empty lines and white space. After that slightly heavy lift, we learn about how to write much simpler

PBS 168 – Introduction to YAML

Jun 22 2024 56 mins

In Programming By Stealth, we’ve completed our series on the jq language and now Bart Busschots brings us a two-part miniseries about the YAML data format. He takes us through the history of data formats we’ve “enjoyed” such as fixed-width text files, Comma Separated Value files, through to JSON and XML. All of them had their place in history but also had their downsides. Y

PBS 167 of X – jq: Recursion, Syntactic Sugar, Some old Friends and a Few Honourable Mentions

Jun 07 2024 80 mins

It was actually bittersweet for Bart and me this week as he taught the final installment in our series of Programming By Stealth about jq. As Bart says partway through our recording, he thought this would just be a few episodes but it took 13 episodes to go through everything Bart thought was fun about this deceptively simple programming language. This final installment in the jq

PBS 166 of X — jq: Processing Arrays & Dictionaries sans Explosion

May 25 2024 57 mins

In this penultimate jq episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart introduces us to three new ways to process arrays and dictionaries without exploding them first. I know that sounds crazy – we’ve always exploded our arrays first. He teaches us how to use the `reduce` operator which lets us take an entire array or dictionary and reduce it down to one thing. The `map` function lets