Chit Chat Across the Pond
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CCATP #791 – Bart Busschots on Submarines, Lasers, and Vacuum Cleaners???
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk Dyson vacuums. I know that doesn't sound too technical but you'd be surprised how advanced the tech is in the new devices. I share a few of my Dyson stories too and we both
CCATP #790 — Bart Busschots on PBS 164 of X – jq: Working with Lookup Tables
In our previous episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots taught us how to create lookup tables with jq from JSON data using the `from_entries` command. Just when we have that conquered, this time he teaches us how to do the exact opposite – disas
CCATP #789 — Bart Busschots on PBS 163 of X – jq: Lookups & Records
In this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots as usual works through his solution to the challenge from last time, and as usual I learn a lot more about how to use jq to solve problems. He takes a bit of a detour to explain a fun email we got
CCATP #788 — Bart Busschots on PBS 162 of X — jq: Altering Arrays & Dictionaries
Bart Busschots is back to teach us how to alter arrays and dictionaries in JSON files using jq. Bart went through his challenge solution on cleaning up the Nobel Prize database and I learned a lot from it. Maybe he’d already taught all of it to us before
CCATP #787 — Bart Busschots on PBS 161 — jq: Maths, Assignment & String Manipulation
In this weeks episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart continues to expand our knowledge on how to use jq to query and manipulate JSON files. We learn how to use mathematical operators on data in our JSON files along with fun functions like floor and abso
CCATP #786 — Bart Busschots on PBS 160 of X — jq as a Programming Language
In this week's installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us how to use jq as a programming language. Before we get into the new stuff, Bart takes us through his solution to the challenge, and I have to say I was pretty chuffed when he
CCATP #785 — Helma van der Linden on Porting XKPASSWD from Perl to JavaScript
This weeks Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is a stretch to the word Lite. Id call it a crossover episode of Lite and Programming By Stealth. Helma van der Linden joins me to tell the story of how she has successfully started the new version of Barts f
CCATP #784 — Bart Busschots on PBS 159 of X - jq: Building Data Structures
In this very meaty episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us how to build data structures using jq with JSON files. Were not just querying existing data, were rebuilding the data the way we want to see it. We learn how to build string
CCATP #783 — Bart Busschots on PBS 158B - jq: More Advanced Queries
Two weeks ago, Bart Busschots and I recorded a Programming By Stealth episode covering more queries using the jq language on our JSON files. We spent so much time working through the challenges from the previous installment that we only made it halfway th
CCATP #782 — Bart Busschots on PBS 158A – jq: More Queries
In Programming By Stealth this week, Bart Busschots and I start off by going through the challenges from our previous installment. Remember how I said I was really digging jq and querying JSON files because at heart I’m a data nerd? Well, I failed complet