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NC #1081 How I Borked Last Week's Audio, On Sprinkler's Smart Sprinkler, Withings Body Scan 2 Smart Scale, Adam Engst on Tahoe Menu Icons

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Withings Body Scan 2 measures more than 60 biomarkers from feet and hands.

1. NosillaCast #1081 centers on Allison Sheridan's repair of a broken audio post and a follow-up Chit Chat Across the Pond segment with Adam Engst on Tahoe menu icons. 2. Allison Sheridan is the host of NosillaCast, and Adam Engst is the guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond because his Tahoe menu icon article from 10 Bits sparked the discussion. 3. The episode asks what happened when last week's show file was borked, how she fixed it, and why Tahoe's menu icons matter to different users. 4. Allison recounts discovering that Adam Engst had written about Panel Editor in 2019 after she had proudly treated it as a new discovery. 5. She links that memory to MacTech, where she and Adam sat next to each other while Sal Soghoian demonstrated Panel Editor. 6. A listener email from Eris Skamagakis in Greece says, 'In the third chapter of the podcast, there are two chapters playing at the same time,' and Michael Westbay in Japan reports that the CES segment overlaps the next segment. 7. Allison opens Hindenburg, finds that the second CES interview is on the wrong track, and drags the following audio to the right to line it up. 8. She also has to move chapter marks manually because Hindenburg does not move them with the audio. 9. The repair continues through Auphonic, Feeder, Libsyn, and Podfeet.com as she exports a new AAC file, uploads it, and replaces the bad file. 10. She then discovers a second mistake in the bookmarks, where Airelium appears twice instead of Birdfee and Airelium. 11. Allison explains that Steve handles the CES interviews, from YouTube videos to subtitles and audio exports, and that she had asked for noise suppression on the files. 12. She shows how toggling between the noise-suppressed and original Birdfee recordings in Hindenburg led her to choose the version that listeners preferred. 13. The actual error came when she meant to restore Birdfee but accidentally dragged Airelium in again, which made the later overlap worse. 14. Allison says she fixed the problem by exporting a B version, deleting the A version in Libsyn 5, and reissuing the feed and blog post. 15. She notes that Auphonic's extra credits cost $12, which she bought after running the 90-minute podcast through the pipeline three times. 16. Antony Rioux demos OnSprinkler, a portable watering system for irregular garden shapes that uses NFC bases and a rotating head that can cover areas from two meters to nine meters. 17. Caroline Lagarde of Withings presents Body Scan 2, which she calls a 'longevity station' rather than just a scale, and says it measures more than 60 biomarkers. 18. The Withings segment covers hypertension-risk screening, heart age, vascular age, glycemic impact, data-center handling, and a U.S. price of $599 with Q2 2026 delivery. 19. The tone is practical, self-deprecating, and technical, with Allison narrating her own mistake in detail and asking detailed questions on the CES floor. 20. People who enjoy Apple software workflows, podcast production, and CES hardware demos will likely enjoy this episode, while listeners avoiding interface debates and troubleshooting may skip it.

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A self-correcting tech discussion about icons, tooltips, and emoji, with a reminder that even careful writers can miss what they have already covered.

Allison opens by rediscovering Panel Editor after sending Adam Anks a pop quiz and learning he had already written about it in 2019. That small reversal gives the piece its strongest lift, turning a simple software misstep into a reminder that even careful tech writers can…

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