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.
We dust off our memory from where we left off learning about Jekyll back in PBS 181 in June of last year. After some housekeeping, Bart takes us through the challenge solution from PBS 181, and then teaches us how to add metadata to our static sites. After the new material, he sets up where we're going next in learning how to organize our content with Jekyll taxonomies. He even explains what the weird term "information architecture" means in this context.
26 Sept 2026
PBS Tidbit 19C — Building a JavaScript CLI App with NodeJS
In this final episode of Tidbit 19, Bart walks us through the very few libraries he used for the final design of his Linkifier CLI App. His choices on tooling to build nice terminal commands and provide color in the terminal (like red for error messages) were based on simplicity, the fewest dependencies, and active support. It was a very fun episode to record as he wrapped the entire story up in a bow.
You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes and the audio podcast at pbs.bartificer.net (https://pbs.bartificer.net/tidbit19).
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30 Aug 2026
PBS Tidbit 19B — Building a JavaScript CLI App with NodeJS
We're back with Part B of Tidbit 19, where Bart walks us through the architecture of his Linkifier module. He starts with the three data modeling classes that he's been using for decades, but explains how hard it is today to extract article headlines. He walks through how he developed an extraction logic but had to do it per domain. That sounds crazy but he uses surprisingly few sites for his articles for Security Bits and Let's Talk Apple.
You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes and the audio podcast at pbs.bartificer.net (https://pbs.bartificer.net/pbs19b).
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