Once a year I venture onto camera for the holiday gift guide with @chuckjoiner.bsky.social — great fun this year as always 🙂🎄 macvoices.com/macvoices-25...

Let's Talk Apple 147, the show for November 2025 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta147 The main stories are the updated MLS deal, Digital IDs, OS 26.1, and an unusual pair of iPhone accessories!

Let's Talk Photo 146 "Two Years of Phone Camera Evolution" with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp146

Let's Talk Apple 146, the show for October 2025 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta146 The two main stories are Apple's Q4 2025 earnings and the M5 hardware refreshes.

A perfect example of the point @bartb.ie was making in LTP 140 (lets-talk.ie/ltp140)

Let's Talk Photo 145 "Back to Basics" with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp145 Bart shares his basic advice for getting better photos in general, being careful to pay extra attention to getting the most from phone cameras because those are the cameras most of us have with us most of the time.

Let's Talk Apple 145 for September 2025 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta145 The three main stories are a brief Trump/Apple update, the 'Awe Dropping' new hardware, and the new OSes

Let's Talk Photo 144 "Understanding Modern Smartphone Cameras" with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp144 (Hat-tip to @podfeet.bsky.social for the inspiration 🙂)

Let's Talk Apple 144, the show for August 2025 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta144 The two main stories are Tim Cook's 'Made in America' charm offensive, and Apple's clever trick to get blood oxygen sensing back onto US Apple Watches.

If this amazing photo from a photographer I follow on glass is not the perfect example of luck combined with awareness and skill producing the most stunning photos I don't know what is! glass.photo/number.five/3zsAV... (See Let's Talk Photo 140: lets-talk.ie/ltp140)

Let's Talk Photo 143 on Urban Photography with @bartb.ie & @podfeet.bsky.social is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp143

Listen to @bartb.ie’s letter to Philleas: overcast.fm/+AA0ebIno-5A (cc @notpatrick.com)

Let's Talk Apple 143 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta143 The three main stories are Apple's Q3 earnings, AI, and AppleCare One.

Let's Talk Photo 142 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp142 This show is dedicated to one piece of advice — don't try to use a phone camera as if a DSLR, it isn't, so let that reality guide your use. Avoid the the inherent weaknesses, and lean into the inherent strengths!

Let's Talk Apple 142, the show for June 2025 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta142 The two main stories are another bad month for Apple's app store practices on both sides of the Atlantic, and this year's bumper WWDC!

Let's Talk Photo 141 "Alt Text, do it for You!" with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp141 Sure, add alt text because it's the right things to do, but don't think of it as a chore, embrace it as an opportunity to improve your photography!

Let's Talk Apple 141 for May 2025 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta141 The four main stories are the tariff omni-shambles, app store anti-steering under fire from all sides, accessibility improvements, and CarPlay Ultra.

Let's Talk Photo 140 "Luck", the show for May 2025 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp140 Luck essential, but not sufficient, and understanding its role will transform it from your nemesis into an opportunity.

It’s been a while brewing, but I had great fun writing and recording this segment for @podfeet.bsky.social on the NosillaCast. It gave me a little hint of just how hard it is to produce the language podcasts I love 🙂 overcast.fm/+ABJFaIyfCZg...

. @notpatrick.com has resurrected the Phileas Club podcast with a new ‘dear Phileas’ format, and @bartb.ie will be contributing his views from Ireland a few times a year. His first ‘letter’ went live today: overcast.fm/+AA0ebJ4DQEQ

Let's Talk Apple 140 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta140 The four main stories are President Trump's continuing tariff chaos, Apple's Q2 2025 earnings, a bad month for Apple's App Store business model, and the continuing big shakeup within the Apple Intelligence and Siri teams.

A whopping 14 minutes earlier than my soft self-imposed deadline, my Guest-Hosted NosillaCast is out 😀 www.podfeet.com/blog/2025/04... Obviously no live show tonight, but business as usual next week when @podfeet.bsky.social returns from her Japanese adventures!

Let's Talk Photo 139 “From Pet Peeve and Snark to Evangelism” with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp139 At the heart of the show are ten simple tips to get people from snapshots to photographs to be proud of using just their smartphones.

Let's Talk Apple 139 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta139 The three main stories are President Trump's (not-)reciprocal tariffs, a big shakeup in the Apple Intelligence and Siri teams, and the release of this OS cycle's fourth round of feature updates.

Let's Talk Photo 138 “Seeking Symmetry” with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp138 In this solo show Bart shares his expanded understanding of the symmetries all around, how a simple photographic challenge triggered that rethink, and how it led to an appreciation of art of designing car wheels!

In this installment on PBS about the static site generator Jekyll to create free websites on GitHub, @bartb.ie digs into the build process, and how the location, naming, and content of files automatically turn into web pages. pbs.bartificer.net/pbs178 #Programming #Jekyll #GitHubPages

www.podfeet.com/blog/2025/03... with @bartb.ie

Let's Talk Apple 138 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta138 This is an absolute bumper show with more news that you can shake a proverbial stick at!

Let's Talk Photo 137 "Copilots not Replacements" with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp137 In this solo show Bart shares some recent experiences engaging with creative professionals, and how those experiences helped clarify his thinking on whether AI bots can replace photographic creatives.

Let's Talk Apple 137, the show for ary 2025 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta137 The three main stories are President Trump's impact on Apple, the latest OS point-releases, and Apple's Q1 2025 earnings call.

@bartb.ie launches us into a new miniseries in #ProgrammingByStealth where we'll learn how to make a website (for free) using #GitHub Pages as a static site generator. pbs.bartificer.net/pbs175 #Programming #OpenSource

Let's Talk Photo 136 “New Year's Challenges” with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp136 Bart shares his idea of “New Year's Challenges” instead of traditional resolutions, looks back to his 2024 Monochrome challenge, and forward to his 2025 colour-as-subject challenge.