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Chris Chinchilla

A weekly podcast from Chris Chinchilla covering technology, board and role play games, history, current affairs, and frankly whatever I feel like covering.

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Bouncing stereo drums over a bed of bass and guitar confusion. Only a rasping synth pierces through the mess.

Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloudsecurity.apple.com

Depending on who you speak with and how much attention they actually paid to the event, WWDC was either one of the best or worst events Apple has ever done. Personally, I was excited by a lot of the user and developer-facing announcements and can't wait to try them. Among all the announcements was this detailed post on how Apple intends to keep its new AI cloud services private and secure. It is a fascinating insight from a company that isn't typically so forthcoming with details.

Smartphones May Affect Sleepbut Not Because of Blue Lightwired.com

For years, I, like many others, have tried to reduce screen time before bed due to it and the infamous "blue light" effect on my sleep. It turns out that many of the reports we based this belief on were not as accurate as we maybe thought and that, as always, "it depends".

13 Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventionsgetpocket.com

Grim, but I am always a fan of hearing of those who, well, erm, died, for what they loved and believed in.

Musicians outraged as Spotify CEO claims the "cost of creating content" is "close to zero" : "Our albums took hundreds of hours of human effort hard work and creativity"musicradar.com

As a sometime professional musician from the pre-streaming times, no streaming service is exactly great for musicians, but Spotify, ever since they created the idea, have always had disdain for artists, and I refuse to use them. Well, the latest news from the company has not changed my opinion.

AI Writing Will Feel Real Eventuallyevery.to

A balanced and pragmatic discussion on how we always get used to new things. Eventually.

The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboardsspectrum.ieee.org

Anyone who regularly follows me knows that I love computing history. But most of what I know has a Western bias, and I have also always had a side fascination with different keyboard layouts, especially those that don't use Latin characters. Unsurprisingly, one of the largest nations in the world has quite a history of its own keyboard layout.

I spoke with Kalyan of Datacebo, a company that creates open-source and enterprise tools for generating synthetic data for testing, load testing, and more.

I speak with Saravana Kumar of Document 360 about their enterprise-level solution for documentation and knowledge management and what AI could mean for the industry.

00:00 Introduction to the Podcast
00:50 Interview with Saravana Kumar Begins
01:11 Document360: Use Cases and Benefits
02:18 The Origin Story of Document360
06:52 Customization and Integration Options
15:21 AI and the Future of Document360
22:50 Wrapping Up the Interview
31:37 Chris's Latest Updates and Sign-Off

Mac Power Users #745: “Inventing the Future” with John Buck — Relay FMrelay.fm

Another MPU recommendation from me and a trip down Apple memory lane. John Buck published a book covering the “Apple Technology Group,” a division within Apple that operated back in the 1980s and 1990s and experimented with many forward-looking bits of technology that we take for granted today.

Stack Overflow suspends user for editing posts in OpenAI protestbleepingcomputer.com

It was a matter of time before Stack Overflow admitted defeat in their own AI efforts and asked Open AI for a big pile of money to access their data instead. However, as an almost entirely user-generated content site, the people who write said content aren’t happy, and unsurprisingly, Stack Overflow isn’t handling this well.

Dell turns 40: How a teenager transformed $1000 worth of PC parts into a tech giantzdnet.com

Less noisy than other long-lasting competitors, Dell have been there longer than most, quietly in the background making a big pile of money in varying degrees.

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia’s phone unit then killed it as a tax write-offtheregister.com

Nokia, once a diamond of European tech, slowly sold off parts of its business until even those who bought those sold them on again.

Flood of AI-Generated Submissions Final Straw for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher404media.co

Publishers, small and large, are already asking for hopeful submitters to sign disclaimers on AI-generated content. But even this is not enough to prevent the flood of AI-generated crap flooding publishers and ruining it for those of us who actually want someone to read our very human words.

In the first round-up of interviews from KubeCon EU 2024 in Paris, I focus on developer platform-related tools and productivity. The episode features interviews with Luca Galante of Humanitec, Sebastian Stadil of Scalr, and Lev Lazinskiy of Dagger.

0:00 Intro
02:26 Humanitec
17:23 Scalr and OpenTofu
40:27 Dagger
01:01:23 Outro

In this episode of Chinchilla Squeaks, I delve into two main topics. First, a series of articles on how AI, specifically GPT-4 and other models, struggle to understand and generate sheet music, highlighting issues with tempo, dynamics, and basic music theory.

Second, the financial hardships faced by touring musicians today, with insights into the low profitability and high costs of touring, even for bands with significant chart success.

I also shares updates, including recent work on writing for robots and a demo of the cloud-native security tool Falco.

Can AI read music? By Yennie Jun
‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour by Daniel Dylan Wray
Writing for robots
Cloud-native threat detection with Falco

00:00 Welcome to Chinchilla Squeaks!

00:38 Exploring AI's Understanding of Sheet Music

03:37 The High Cost of Touring for Musicians

06:46 Personal Updates and Engagements

08:04 Looking Ahead: KubeCon Coverage and More

I speak with Asif Awan of AppCD about their generative AI tool that creates the infrastructure as code configuration you need based on application code.

In this episode I feature the following:

https://writingcooperative.com/the-ai-revolution-and-the-economy-have-killed-my-highly-skilled-job-4795551399be
https://www.vox.com/culture/24127542/alcohol-alternatives-kava-shrooms-weed-sleepygirl-mocktail
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-we-get-kids-off-smartphones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KoIzOu_8io&t=64s
https://www.relay.fm/mpu/740
https://barti-maeus.itch.io/every-wednesday-we-roll-volume-2

I have Venkat from Rockset back to discuss their search and analytics database built for the cloud, with real-time indexing and full-featured SQL on JSON, time series, geospatial and vector data.

In this news episode:

https://danluu.com/slow-device/
https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo47qPvs3HQ
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/26/1090129/how-adobes-bet-on-non-exploitative-ai-is-paying-off/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714980/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork.html
https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/

I speak with Feross Aboukhadijeh of Socket.dev about their smarter and more considered solution for securing software supply chains.

A light news show where I cover the growing need to label what "open" AI really is, local LLMS reprised, and long live the Twiggy drive!

In this episode, I speak with Atlas about their AI tool for generating 3D assets for games and architectural use and with Gathers about their AI tool for market research and competitive analysis.Generative AI tools all the way down!https://www.atlasai.co/https://gathers.ai/

It’s been a while! I have decided to split my podcast and newsletter into two streams:

Every two weeks a news and resources round up. You’re reading it! I am not 100% sure where else I will archive those yet.

With that out the way, time to dig in. AI (of course), music, and SciFi this issue.

Rise of Local LLMs ? →In the not-so-distant past, dabbling in generative AI technology meant leaning heavily on proprietary models. The routine was straightforward: snag an OpenAI key, and you're off to the races, albeit tethered to a pay-as-you-go scheme.

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why. →Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri Edwards, researchers at the San Francisco–based firm OpenAI, were trying to find out what it would take to get a language model to do basic arithmetic.

AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead →Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering—finding a clever way to phrase your query to a large language model (LLM) or AI art or video generator to get the best results or sidestep protections.

Build a Website with ChatGPT, byPaul McFedriesA new book published by Manning covers how to use OpenAI’s chatbot to build all you need for a website. How deep will it go?

“A generous update stuffed with ideas and real potential”: Ableton Live 12 Suite review →MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends hours testing products to help you choose the best music-making gear for you. Find out more about how we test.

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement →You've heard the call to action at the end of nearly every podcast you've ever listened to: "Listen to us on your favorite podcast app", or in the phrasing of podcaster extraordinare Roman Mars, "...wherever you find podcasts".

Lessons in instrument design from Star Trek →Editor’s Note: Longtime fans of this site may be familiar with its “tag line,” “Stop watching sci-fi. Start using it.

In this episode I speak with Corey Harrison of Flip.ai, one of a handful of new companies bringing generative AI to the DevOps space. In Flip.ai's case, this is leveraging to bring intelligence and flexibility to observability data.

In this episode I speak with Simon Wistow of Fastly about their work to keep the internet running and Christian Nielsen of BevArt who aim to keep cultural artefacts in museums and galleries lasting for as long as possible.

I have a fascinating conversation with Alex from Respeecher, a Ukranian startup whose work you have probably heard in high-profile games, movies, and campaigns.

Two interviews from Web Summit 2023 in this episode.First, with Irina and Dmitri of Datuum, an interesting data processing platform powered by AI.Second, Anna from Viseven, where we talk about Ukraine's DIA app and how the company she works for handles marketing with the pharmaceutical industry.

In this episode, I speak with Anna Skoulikari about her new book, "Learn Git" from O'Reilly.https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-git/9781098133900/Use the code "learngit23" for a 30% discount!

In this episode, I finish up my interviews from last year's Open Source Summit with two amazing interviews.First is Leszek Manicki, engineering manager at the Wikimedia FoundationSecond is Jessica Tegner an advocate for diversity, inclusivity, and equity in open source

In this episode, I finish up my interviews from We Are Developers earlier in the year and speak with Filip Hrick about testing websites with Cypress and Dennie Declercq about creating vision-accessible websites.

Enjoy!

Full show notes at: http://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/

I speak with Chris Adams, the director of the Green Web Foundation.

We discuss their mission, tools, programs, and plans for making the online world as sustainable as possible.

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrchrisadams/

In this episode, I share interviews from the IT Arena event in Lviv, Ukraine. As I dive into conversations with tech innovators from around the world, we discusses a range of topics, from a digital platform for airports to remote hiring of developers and the future of education in tech. I also explores the state of the tech industry in Ukraine, the influence of artificial intelligence, and my own journey in the tech world.

I speak with Ricarhd Roger of VoxGig to discuss what exactly developer relations is, its history, future, and potential impact.

Show notes: chrischinchilla.com/podcasts

I'm back with a great interview covering Sysdig and its journey in helping secure cloud computing. Accompanied by a healthy dose of news.

We speak about the history of the company, Falco, eBPF, and cloud security and observability from a person who has been involved in the ecosystem for some time.

Full notes: https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/

This episode is another round of interviews from OSS Summit in Bilbao and features interviews with Gab Columbro, the general manager of LF Europe and Dawn Foster of the CHAOSS project. We talk about open source strategy and challenges in Europe and measuring the health of large and small open source projects.

It also features more announcements from Canonical, a round-up of less well-known audio editors, and getting ready for Halloween… Mystical texts.

https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/oss-summit-linux-foundation-europe-and-open-source-metrics

In this episode I speak with Molham Aref from Relational AI. we discuss the concept of an AI co-processor for data and its relevance to those working with Snowflake. We delve into the importance of data management in machine learning and AI projects. The interview covers topics such as the integration of Relational AI with Snowflake, the company's roadmap for the future, and the possibility of expanding to other platforms.

Find out more at: https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/8334dac6-34b6-4a06-90a0-a1708ae0220e

It's a busy weekend of tech in Berlin, but have things cooled or are we all taking a well-earned break?

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First, a couple of linksThe best iPad score reader for most people →

Even before Apple announced the iPad, seeing the first Amazon Kindle had me excited for the day that I would be able to leave my giant stacks of music scores at home.

How the iMac saved Apple →

The original iMac entered a computing world that desperately needed a shake-up. After the wild early days of the personal computer revolution, things had become stagnant by the mid-1990s.

Elegy for the Native Mac App →The first Macintosh came out in 1984 with a familiar formula: expensive, limited, but elegant and easy to use. From the start it was something of a cult classic. Apple was struggling financially, and spent most of the 90s on hair-brained ideas: the Newton, the Pippin, the QuickTake.

The rise of the tech ethics congregation →Just before Christmas last year, a pastor preached a gospel of morals over money to several hundred members of his flock.

Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 →Get your sites sustainable! Officially.

My highlights of IFA and Startup night Berlin 2023

https://medium.com/@chrischinchilla/my-highlights-of-ifa-and-startup-night-berlin-2023-d0417bbcb610

Something of a music theme in this issue. My interview is with Sefi Carmel of Spheretrax, a new take on selecting, synchronising, and licensing music for TV, films, and games. I also look at what “noise” really is, ancient music software, the continuing sage of Terraform, the end of Google, and maybe one of the most famous Rock and roll fights of all time.

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The end of the Googleverse →Is Google’s business model coming to an end? Or are they just changing?

Is Terraform still open-source? Yes, but… →OpenTF promises to fill the gap now (maybe) left behind by Terraform. But what are those gaps?

“I made my first album on that actually,” he reveals. I used it long after I should have stopped using it.” →Turns out I wasn’t the only one to use an obscure piece of music software on an Amiga. I have famous company.

A Well-tempered History of Noise →What is noise? Different cultures make music differently, and different genres have different concepts of “good”. As always, it’s in the ear of the beholder.

"Never call me your drummer again": remembering the time Charlie Watts punched Mick Jagger in the face →A year on from Charlie Watts’ sad passing, the world fondly remembers the late Stones drummer’s shy, slightly retiring nature: never one to give interviews unless absolutely necessary, and - for the most part - unimpressed by the trappings of the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle.

A packed issue full of AI content, what powers the internet, the real cost of food, offline-first, and an interview all about CK editor and TinyMCE.

Full show notes here: https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/bd2d57e5-b110-4963-947b-5afaa19130c8

This episode I speak with Ines Akrap at the recent We Are Developers event about how we can make the web greener. Trust me on this one, nothing captured the enthusiasm I felt from her in the room, but I try 😁.

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State of Open: The UK in 2023 Phase Two, Part 1 “Show us the Money - The Economics of Open Source Software” Download the full report.
Green energy tycoon to launch UK’s first electric airline →
How to create a personal website, but it’s 1999 →
Wikipedia’s value in the age of generative AI →
How Do Lit Mags Make Money, Anyway? →
Paul Nurse: The power of genetics, battling politicians, and the fight against cancer →
The World’s Last Internet Cafes →
The Wrath of Goodreads →
Logitech buys editing console maker Loupedeck →

From me* CSS in Depth, Second Edition by Keith J Grant. Find the early version on manning.com. * It’s Setapp month and all month I will be producing content around how I use this macOS application subscription service but I begin with an overview of my favourite apps that I use on a regular basis. If you like what you read and want to get your hands on a Setapp subscription to try some of those applications, then follow my referral link to get started, much appreciated 🙇!

This episode is a links show and I cover Red Hat’s latest open source upsets, lab grown meat, AI ‘aint that bad, happy birthday ethernet, and more!

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I am joined by hacker turned software entrepreneur, John Davenport to show me his new idea for using AI to summarise conversations and drill into topics covered.

Also features…

AI and Music-Making Part 2: Tomorrow Is The Question →This is Part 2 of our deep-dive into AI music-making. In Part 1, we learned what AI is; examined the challenges of applying AI technology to music-making; and explored uses of AI such as MIDI generation, timbral transfer, and analog modeling.
Back to the Monolith: Why Did Amazon Dump Microservices? →It’s been a harsh couple of years for buzzy digital products and services. Crypto exchanges have been closing left and right. NFTs haven’t been panning out.
Let’s Talk About YouTube Face and Clickbait →Today I’m taking off my publisher hat and putting on my content creator hat to examine “YouTube face” and clickbait titles. A few weeks ago, someone asked for my thoughts on YouTube face on my weekly livecast.
Five big takeaways from Europe’s AI Act →This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here.
Your Fave Band Is Reuniting – But Not For the Reasons You Think →Blur, The Walkmen and Pulp are some of the bands staging comebacks. Is it a cynical sign of the times or has something changed? Nostalgia: It’s a hell of a drug, and the 2023 gig calendar is packed with reunion tours that show it’s more potent than ever.
30 years of change, 30 years of PDF →We live in a world where the only constant is accelerating change. The twists and turns in the technology landscape over the last 30 years have drained some of the hype from the early days of the consumer digital era. Today we are confronted with all-new, even more disruptive, possibilities.
AI and Music-Making Part 1: The State of Play →Listen to this article. This is Part 1 of two-part aricle. Read Part 2 here.

Song © Les Fruitbat Carter

Hello all! It’s been a little while and I’ve been holding on to a really great interview the whole time. In summary, after a long few years of running the podcast through varying shapes and sizes… I am joining a podcast network and agency! This is great news for me and will help me move the show to the next level, however I need to do a few technical transfers behind the scenes and that made me pause for a few weeks to avoid downtime. Unfortunately we hit a few issues here and there and that switch over will happen after this issue and episode now.

Podcast version

So, with that news over, the great interview mentioned above is with Aaron A. Reed, author of the amazing “50 years of text games”. I backed the book on Kickstarter, but Aaron gave me an advanced press copy and it’s a fantastic read! We spoke about the book, text adventures in general, and had a great conversation around the intersection of technology and writing.

Flop or future?

WWDC happened, and nestled amongst other announcements that actually excited me much more, was the new Vision Pro. I am extremely un-excited by VR, and while AR has interesting applications, we have seen many large projects from equally large companies fail. But who am I to know? Here’s some interesting links from the discussion around WWDC.

With Vision Pro, Apple shows computing's future. But who's it for? →

Tomorrow belongs to somebody, but Apple’s much-talked-about mixed-reality device, Vision Pro — unveiled Monday during a glitzy presentation at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference — won’t ship until early 2024.

Apple will face an uphill battle convincing developers to build apps for its headset →

The ‘one more thing’ announced by Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year was the industry’s worst-kept secret. The Apple Vision Pro, the tech giant’s gamble on making mixed reality headsets a thing, has received a mixed welcome.

News from WWDC23: WebKit Features in Safari 17 beta →

It’s been a fantastic year for WebKit. We’ve shipped eight Safari releases since WWDC22, with more than 140 new web technologies in the first half of 2023 alone. Now, we are pleased to announce another 88 web features coming this fall in Safari 17. Web apps are coming to Mac.

AInt so smart?

It wouldn’t be a tech newsletter without AI news would it? This week, efforts to regulate and the sites feeding all those “smarts”.

Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart →

An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

Ethics — what ethics? For Microsoft, it’s full speed ahead on AI →

Microsoft is all in on artificial intelligence (AI) for a very simple reason: it believes its lead in the technology will make it the tech world’s top dog again.

Who should take responsibility for evil UX design and digital ethics? →

Ethics = moral philosophy. It defines what’s good and what’s evil.

And finally

Digital nomadism is on the decline and behind the scenes at Raycast’s developer experience.

How the Raycast API and extensions work →

Since releasing our API, lots of developers have asked how it all works under the hood. It’s a great question, if a little knotty, especially because we’ve intentionally tried to hide when users interact with extensions in Raycast.

The workers quitting digital nomadism →

The digital nomad has become an iconic character of the modern remote-work era. The words often conjure the image of a professional writer or tech worker with a computer, meandering through the streets of a picturesque foreign city, or tapping away at a keyboard in a beachfront café.

From me

7 macOS native generative AI apps

Video version coming soon, but in the meantime, I explored 7 offline first, macOS native apps for using AI tools.

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Hello everyone!

A big dive into questioning artificial intelligence and an interview with Avi from Scarf, who aims to help open source developers gain insights into their usage.

Questioning artificial intelligence

It’s another AI-heavy issue, but this time I want to highlight some content that questions the technology and attitudes to it in some nuanced ways. I start with how AI creators and users are “hallucinating” its potential, wonder if it’s as smart as it looks, and look at the discussions around how to block AI using your content.

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are →

Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”.

ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 Per Hour →

ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot, is powered by machine learning systems, but those systems are guided by human workers, many of whom aren’t paid particularly well. A new report from NBC News shows that OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, has been paying droves of U.S.

A 23-year-old Snapchat influencer used OpenAI’s technology to create an A.I. version of herself that will be your girlfriend for $1 per minute →

These boyfriends are dating a virtual version of Marjorie, powered by the latest artificial intelligence technology and thousands of hours of recordings of the real Marjorie.

AI Tools Are Scraping Your Website. Is That a Good Thing? →

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been disruptive. Things are changing rapidly. And it seems like this technology is posing new moral, ethical, and existential questions each day. There are plenty of stories and opinions to choose from. But one recent incident caught my eye.

Inside the Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music →

On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott's voice, and labels are trying to kill it.

Before AI Takes Over, Make Plans to Give Everyone Money →

The U.S. needs policies now to support workers made redundant by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is coming for all our jobs.

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Let’s start with some fun

This newsletter gets dark quickly, so first something to enjoy.

Farrago 2 soundboard for Mac arrives with 50 new features including Shortcuts and Stream Deck integration →

Rogue Amoeba is releasing a major update to Farrago, the great soundboard app for Mac. Farrago 2.0 includes 50 new features ranging from fun emoji art to well-designed Stream Deck interactivity.

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Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust →

Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in the Rust programming language, and the more memory-safe code is already reaching developers.

David Rumsey Map Collection →

111,792 RESULTS Media Type Year Collection Creator Language

Tech makes cutbacks

For years we’ve told people with less job prospects to “learn to code”, now tie cutbacks and AI, what do we tell people instead?

Learning to code isn’t enough →

A decade ago, tech powerhouses the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon helped boost the nonprofit Code.org, a learn-to-code program with a vision: “That every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science as part of their core K–12 education.

Tech companies are finally firing tech workers →

Software engineers made up the biggest portion of tech layoffs in 2023. That advice is starting to feel even less welcome.

Amazon and Microsoft’s AI Gains Mask Cloud Slowdown →

(Bloomberg) -- The buzz around artificial intelligence that’s helped juice gains for Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. this year may also be masking struggles in a business far more critical to the pair’s bottom lines.

AI, when and where will it stop?

Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It →

Palantir, the company of billionaire Peter Thiel, is launching Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), software meant to run large language models like GPT-4 and alternatives on private networks. In one of its pitch videos, Palantir demos how a military might use AIP to fight a war.

The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born →

Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they’d designed and sent it by DHL to New York City.

Why I'm no longer writing stories with AI →

Preface: Stories by AI is on hiatus. We may or may not be back soon. If you’d be interesting in writing stories for us, get in touch! contact@storiesby.ai I won’t be publishing any more stories with storiesby.ai. What was once a quirky lark of a side-side-project hits darker now.

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KubeCon, back to business

Ahead of the event I arranged some interviews with companies that piqued my interest and don’t all fit under the headings in my write up that you can read here - https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/9c266812-78f0-4985-a719-2b745ff7053c

SLIM.AI

I previously covered the slim toolkit from Slim.ai and in the interview I am joined by Nnenna Ndukwe, developer advocate at the company, to discuss their new vulnerability scanning and hardening features.

MINIO

Another company I covered previously, I speak with Daniel Valdivia, MinIO’s Kubernetes expert to cover how their S3 compatible API helps users streamline object storage.

INCIDENT.IO

I speak with Christopher and Stephen about their new(ish) companythat attempts to solve the human side of incident management. The company also had some awesome T-Shirts that channeled their english roots with “Don’t Panic” emblazoned across them.

HIVEMQ

Dominik Obermaier joins me to explain why message queues may not be new, but there are still many niche use cases where companies like HiveMQ can excel, and for them it’s IoT end edge computing.

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Tech

A mixed bag this issue covering everything from the slow death of Russia’s tech scene, a visual history of Android, GPT-4 in role-play games in role-play games in classified comment leaks. Erm, yes, you read that right.

How Russia killed its tech industry →

Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family’s belongings, canceled the lease on his apartment in Moscow, withdrew his kids from kindergarten, and started a new life outside of Russia.

My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM →

My two oldest kids Taylor Anne and Liam, are 26 and 23 (respectively). My youngest son Tenzin is 15 years old. All of us are together at my house in Mexico City this week, and the discussion topic generating the most heat is OpenAI and GPT4.

Leaked Classified Documents Also Include Roleplaying Game Character Stats →

Over the past month, classified Pentagon documents have circulated on 4chan, Telegram, and various Discord servers. The documents contain daily intelligence briefings, sensitive information about Ukrainian military positions, and a handwritten character sheet for a table-top roleplaying game.

Android versions: A living history from 1.0 to 12 →

What a long, strange trip it's been. From its inaugural release to today, Android has transformed visually, conceptually and functionally — time and time again. Google's mobile operating system may have started out scrappy, but holy moly, has it ever evolved.

And finally…

The Most Spoken Languages In The World, Ranked →

There are over 7,000 languages in use across the globe, but for various reasons (like, for example, colonialism), some are spoken a lot more around the world than others.

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It's time for open-source users to open their wallets →

It was around the year 1999 and I was attending my first Linux convention at the Research Triangle where Red Hat was headquartered. I was, needless to say, excited.

Internet Arcade →

The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package.

MS-DOS Meets ChatGPT →

ChatGPT has to be one of the hottest buzz words right now. It seems to constantly be in the news as well as gaining more attention and users by the day. In addition, OpenAI has also released APIs allowing developers to integrate chatbots into their applications.

Content from me

Creating interactive fiction with Inform 7

Dynamic repositories with GitHub Blocks

Could you work all day on a phone?

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Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more.

This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview with Marshall Jung of Tabnine you can hear in the voiceover section of this newsletter or wherever you find your podcasts. We spoke about the company’s take on AI coding assistants and how they’ve been doing things differently from some time.

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That aside I look at some of the best content for digging into what happened with Silicon Valley Bank, what will AI to do music, and more!

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Tech

"It's always going to be very biased towards the data it's trained on" – Red Hot Chili Peppers and Adele mixing engineer Andrew Scheps shares his views on AI machine learning, and his tips →

Three-time Grammy Award-winning mixing engineer Andrew Scheps worked on Adele's 21, RHCP's Stadium Arcadium (both of which is won Grammys for) and has mixed for Black Sabbath, Metallica, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Neil Diamond and man, many others.

How the Weekend-Long Freakout Over Silicon Valley Bank Ended →

Unless you happened to take a digital detox this weekend, you probably witnessed a lot of online commotion regarding tech startups, the banking system, and the institution formerly known as Silicon Valley Bank.

The Silicon Valley Bank Contagion Is Just Beginning →

When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on March 10, Garry Tan, president and CEO of startup incubator Y Combinator, called SVB’s failure “an extinction level event for startups” that “will set startups and innovation back by 10 years or more.

What you need to know about the SVB bank rescue plan →

Question and answers about the federal government's plan to stop bank runs.

Language

The Moral Case Against Equity Language →

What’s a “justice-involved person”? The Sierra Club’s Equity Language Guide discourages using the words stand, Americans, blind, and crazy. The first two fail at inclusion, because not everyone can stand and not everyone living in this country is a citizen.

Content from me

My creative writing setup

How do I write my creative works? I tell you how…

Technical writing with JetBrains' Writerside and Grazie

And finally

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Welcome

Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more.

This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview with Josh Koenig of Pantheon you can hear in the voiceover section of this newsletter or wherever you find your podcasts. I remember Pantheon from my Drupal days. And we spoke a lot about the past, present and future of content delivering what where they came from what they have been doing and what they're about to do with the proliferation of new ways of managing and providing content.

Tech

After 20 years are developers now ready for Nix?

First something that relates nicely to the interview I had last week with Jetpack.io who have built some tools on top of NixOS. This article from John Leonard pondered if Nix was ahead of its time, and only now are companies and users (at scale) building on top of it. Most of this ties into increased requirements for “software bills of materials” and an operating system that you can rebuild from configuration and is comprised a literal bill of materials is compelling.

I try something similar with my own solutions for macOS, but that isn’t an operating system designed from the ground up to function this way.

LastPass tells (mostly) all

Months later, LastPass finally revealed what happened to cause their large data breach last year. I stopped using LastPass ages ago in favour of 1Password mostly as LastPass is so ugly to use. However, this was a huge betrayal of faith for a company whose main business is to keep things safe and I wonder how their competitors have benefited?

ChatGPT vs Writers

Of course, it wouldn’t be a tech newsletter without a quick mention of ChatGPT.

S.E. Ireland worries about the implications for tech writers and as that’s where I make money, so am I. For the more precudural aspect of that job, I am already worried. For the more human “how to connect the dots” content, not quite yet. We shall see…

Clarkesworld had to close submissions due to a flood of content written by people using ChatGPT and I would imagine they aren’t the only ones. As someone attempting to get short stories published right now, this is another shot fired by ChatGPT for aspiring writers, but is this akin the zoom bombers or spam comments on blogs and will all the trolls just get bored in a few weeks?

As a creative writer, I like writing and don’t necessarily want an AI interfering with that process. But others (ab)using it to flood publications still affects writers indirectly as I can’t get anything published right now…

New content from me

DiffusionBee and Amazing AI for generating images on macOS with Stable Diffusion

Mixing documentation and React components with Mintlify

And finally!

Never been a better “and finally”. My new website is ready… Mostly… But I am happy it’s live.

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Podcast version

Find the podcast version of this newsletter, including my interview with Daniel on the Substack podcast page or wherever you find your podcasts.

From me…

Read more about my experiments with managing the macOS home folder with version control.

Storytelling Collective Flash February

Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium.

Using AI to generate music with Magenta and Ableton Live

How did I find creating music with AI?

Tech

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? →

That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected.

Microsoft finally authorizes Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs →

Microsoft is finally supporting the practice of running Windows 11 on Macs powered by Apple's M1 and M2 chips, opening the door for VMware and Parallels to offer full support for running virtualized Windows 11 on Arm.

1Password is saying goodbye to passwords in favor of passkeys. Here's why →

Password manager provider 1Password has announced that it will allow users to abandon passwords in favor of passkeys as the company pushes towards a passwordless future.

Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives →

Linux 6.2 was released yesterday, and Linus Torvalds described the latest Linux kernel release as, "Maybe it's not a sexy LTS release like 6.1 ended up being, but all those regular pedestrian kernels want some test love too." For once, I disagree with Torvalds.

And finally…

Scientists Warn of A “Friendship Recession” →

A few weeks ago, I joined a local “comedic acting” class. The instructor asked us to introduce ourselves and explain why we were there — probably assuming we’d say things like I’ve always wanted to be on stage! or I did improv in college and it was fun.

The people who live inside airplanes →

After losing her house to a fire, Jo Ann Ussery had a peculiar idea: to live in an airplane. She bought an old Boeing 727 that was destined for the scrapyard, had it shipped to a plot of land she already owned, and spent six months renovating, doing most of the work by herself.

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From me…

Migrating a website from…

Read more about my journey overhauling my old old website, and my progress so far.

Storytelling Collective Flash February

Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium.

In bots we trust

My new show with my friend Killian where we look at generative AI, because, well, everyone else is!

Tech

Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias →

Armed with a belief in technology’s generative potential, a growing faction of researchers and companies aims to solve the problem of bias in AI by creating artificial images of people of color.

Tech CEOs screwed up →

Now laid-off employees are paying the price Download the app CEOs made mistakes, workers bear the bruntWith great power comes no responsibility

Google's ChatGPT competitor spaces out at the start →

Google and other major tech companies this week have been showcasing how conversational chatbots can help improve internet search. In one instance, however, Google may have inadvertently showcased the technology's shortcomings.

Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit rule →

Updated Mozilla is planning for the day when Apple will no longer require its competitors to use the WebKit browser engine in iOS.

How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? →

The Duck Hunt gun, officially called the NES Zapper, seems downright primitive next to today’s technology. But in the late ’80s, it filled plenty of young heads with wonder.

And finally

The death of the customer service hotline →

Need to call Facebook? Frontier? Good luck. There’s been a breach of the Jonny Boston’s International Facebook page.

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Updates from me…

Alternative browsers for macOS

I was interested in diving into the many new browsers emerging right now, especially for macOS.

Video
Blog post

Flash fiction February 2023

This daily writing challenge is back, read my entries on Medium, pretty much every day.

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Tech

Try Astro 2.0 Today →

Astro 2.0 is available on npm today. Upgrade an existing project by running npm i astro@latest or start a new Astro project right in your browser by visiting astro.new. Looking for more? Tune into a special Twitter space this afternoon at 12pm PST feat.

After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts →

When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and media giant also hinted that it would soon be bringing its own generative AI too.

This 1980s computer was a huge leap forward. Now you can download its source code →

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Apple Lisa computer, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has released the source code for the first graphical user interface computer.

The Calculator Drawer →

Remember scientific calculators? The Internet Archive now has dozens for you to play with in emulators and remember how we all used to live.

Writing

I Finished My Novel. Now What? →

Most people have ideas for a novel. Many people start a novel. Some people even bang out a good chunk of manuscript. But few ever finish a real novel with an actual conflict, characters, climax, and all that jazz — and it’s no wonder. That s**t is no joke.

And finally

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It →

Sarah Stewart Johnson was a college sophomore when she first stood atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano. Its dried lava surface was so different from the eroded, tree-draped mountains of her home state of Kentucky.

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OGL 1.1/1.2/1.3/😱

Wizards of the Coast goes into firefighting mode to stop the exodus of D&D fans.

An Update on the Open Game License (OGL) →

When we initially conceived of revising the OGL, it was with three major goals in mind. First, we wanted the ability to prevent the use of D&D content from being included in hateful and discriminatory products.

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Wizards of the Coast Breaks Its Silence on Dungeons and Dragons' Open Game License →

Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro subsidiary that publishes Dungeons & Dragons, revealed details of its new Open Game License on Friday and attempted to answer questions about the future of the D&D community that were raised after io9 broke the news about the contents of a draft of the document last

Cancelled D&D Beyond Subscriptions Forced Hasbro's Hand →

Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast finally broke its silence regarding the game’s Open Game License on Friday, attempting to calm tensions in the D&D community and answer questions that were raised after Gizmodo broke the news about the contents of a draft of the document last week.

Looking for D&D alternatives? →

FATE WORLDS AND TOOLKITS MEETS ITS FATE TONIGHT! Today is your last chance to get our resurrected July 2021 Fate Worlds and Toolkits Bundle featuring the Fate rulebooks, expansions, campaigns, standalone RPGs, and many Worlds of Adventure from Evil Hat Productions.

Generative AI starts to monetise

Microsoft Considers $10 Billion Investment in ChatGPT Creator →

Microsoft Corp. is in discussions to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI, the creator of viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT, according to people familiar with its plans.

The ChatGPT revolution? Microsoft seems to have very big plans for this AI chatbot →

Microsoft is reportedly in talks to invest $10 billion into OpenAI, the maker of the popular ChatGPT chatbot, according to a report citing people familiar with deal.

Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic →

ChatGPT was hailed as one of 2022’s most impressive technological innovations upon its release last November.

The beginning and ends of eras in tech

History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today →

History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today Many tried, few remain... Last updated: January 2023 The loss of browser diversity since the rise of Chromium has been greatly lamented.

Twitterrific: End of an Era →

Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming.

The world around us in games

Unreal city: Digital versions of Berlin in video games →

In Real Racer 3, you can speed around Tempelhofer Feld in an e-vehicle, just like those kids on scooters.

Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Civilization II →

How do you make a sequel to a game that covers all of human history?

Updates from me

In the past week over on Twitch I looked at Ableton synths, Spline 3D, and Retool. I am also now streaming my learning livestreams back on YouTube.

My new website should be ready very soon as well as a new podcast and video show! See you next time.

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“The Dead Among Us” is a post-post-apocalyptic love story that shows emotion and understanding can conquer history, resentment, and generational divides to create a truly new world.

I have been working on this novel for just over two years and now after several drafts I am ready for public feedback.

If you are interested, then fill in this Google form, I won’t accept everyone, but will be very pleased to hear from everyone who is interested. If you just want to know about updates, then you're already in the right place!

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Hey everyone!

So, I am quite late with this newsletter and podcast as I was travelling blah blah. But also Twitter owns the service I was using for newsletters (Revue), which meant I needed to look for a replacement. I looked at a few but settled on where all the cool kids were… Substack. Then I noticed they also support podcasts, so migrated my podcast too. I wanted to give a good window of time to ensure everything had migrated, and now finally here we are!

Substack offers a lot of cool new features and options that I am only starting to explore, so the newsletter will change look a little over the next few issues. OK, enough of that, it’s 2023, it’s going to be a great year. Here we go!

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Hello all! Lots of lovely AI and machine learning links for you this issue as I am working on a new show! Also Twitter, Mozilla, and that internet thing? It's dead.

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I'm back after two weeks of conferences. I interview speakers from Build Stuff in Lithuania, report back from other events, dig into the history of JavaScript frameworks, and hang out with Lana Moore… Or not.

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Hey all 👋

Kin Lane is back on the show. Also a week of announcements from companies that begin with "A", the speed behind Tech's sails starts to slow (and is that good or bad?) and life… Life not as we know it Jim.

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This was my third invitation to attend in Lviv, Ukraine. But this was the first time, and indeed a first for me overall, that the conference happened during a war and in what was effectively a warzone.

Read my blog post for full context - https://hackernoon.com/it-arena-2022-ukrainian-tech-braves-the-war

And daily diaries starts at about 26:00

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In this episode I round up the latest geeky news that has caught my attention including the Ethereum merge, looking forward to macOS Ventura, AI images already getting banned in image stores, a history of ARM, and much more!

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In this episode I speak with Dotan Horowits from Logz.io about Observability and OpenTelemetry. Also features how much GPT-3 truly knows about you, the life of clippy and why you should always have an air of scepticism in what you read.

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In this episode I speak with the authors of Tiny CSS projects, Michael Gearon and Martine Dowden. I also look at Apple's new repair program, the saviour of Moore's law, and more!

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On this episode I have Matt Butcher of Fermyon to talk about their cloud-hosted webassembly platform. I also cover Tauri, tech settings you should change, Umbrella Academy, ask if Veganism is really hype, and much more!

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I have Patrick McFadin back on the show to discuss using Apache Pulsar for distributed cloud-native streaming and how it fits into Data Stax's plans and business goals.

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On this episode I speak with Shahar Azulay of ground cover who claim an all-in one observability solution with minimal change to your existing application code. Too good to be true? I find out. But they do have a very cheerful interface at least ;)

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In this episode I speak with Barak Brudo of Scribe Security about software bills of material and their impact on software supply chains.

https://scribesecurity.com

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Cross-post from my Solo Adventurer channel and podcast.

Will my musical past help me win a battle of the bands… Against myself? I compose a song, and maybe even sing it… Live!

This game by Dustin Winter was featured in the latest Level 1 anthology part of Free RPG day.

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Back again after a lot of events, bouncing around the globe. So in this episode I report back on Open Infra Summit, OSCAL, HashiConf, and Monitorama. I also look at links from the past few weeks that caught my eye.

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Hey all, more KubeCon kontent for you, this time Vic and Yann from Kon and Koyeb, talking service meshes. Plus a few more details from WWDC and frameworks increase developer adoption.

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This episode I take a look at open source censorship in China, wether forms spelled the end of the WWW and I speak with Amanda Brock of Open UK about their projects and their current state of open survey.

The survey - https://bit.ly/OpenUKStateofOpen2022

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In this first interview recorded at KubeCon EU in Valencia I speak with Napptive, who aim to simplify Kubernetes environments to be usable by anyone.

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This issue I am back from (in-person!) KubeCon. I also look at time travel, erasing yourself from the internet, and how you'd better up your game if you want to read or write poetry, because the robots are coming…

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This episode I cover my recent trip to Riga and Tech Chill, a wonderful startup and tech event in the Latvian capital of Riga.

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Hey Gregarious Mammals 👋

Back after holidays, work travel, sickness, and general "bleh". Life is getting back to pre-2020 normality and it's taking a little getting used to! 😅

Anyway, as it's been a while, there's a lot to cover, so let's get down to it.

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In this issue I cover the far-reaching nuances of privacy, switching from Google, Twitter breaks itself, and D&D goes beyond! 🎲

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In this episode I speak with Kris Kowal, a software engineer at Agoric. We discuss the origins of securing code, the future of Javascript, and, Chinchillas.

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Some serious subjects for this issue, from forced human migrations, to what engineers can do about sustainability. Sometimes that's what's needed.

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In this episode I cover risks to the internet from various sources, technology for cyber defence, and more.

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In this Chinchilla Squeaks interview I speak with Rob Gibbon, Product Manager at Canonical about their flavour of Kubeflow and how it can be used for machine learning workloads with Kubernetes.

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This episode I take a look back at old tech concepts made new, Using AI to understand language, the future of Firefox and much more!

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In this interview and demo I speak with Damian Marquez of Kubermatic about their Kubernetes management and automation platform.

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In this episode I discuss ageing entrepreneur, staff exoduses, unsung heroes, futuristic interfaces, and more!

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I am back after a small break… And a spell of COVID 😷.

This issue I look far and wide at the "wonders" of Crypto, ponder why I should care if I take too long to reply to an email, and dig deep into a thorny issue I recently discovered with virtual cameras on M1 Macs 🤓.

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I take a look back on the year that was. What did I accomplish, what did I want to accomplish and what do I have planned for 2022?

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In this episode I look at the abstraction of code, writing rules (and why?), Mac migrations, and historical religions (ooh yeah).

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In this episode I look at the (un)intended consequences of tech utopias, why wired is back baby, why (oh why) are 15 minute delivery companies spreading so fast, reflections on Nanowrimo, and much much more.

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Acrolinx is an AI-powered platform/framework/tool/🤷‍♂️ for content optimisation. I have always wanted to know more about the product, and for this episode I speak with their CMO, Christopher Willis to finally find out more.

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This episode… The browser wars, developer tools you should now about, how could the Touch Bar have succeeded and much more!

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In this episode I discuss the latest releases from Apple, the tribulations of Clubhouse, 20 years of the iPod, what to do with files you find on old computers, and much more!

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Another KubeCon roundup from the recent hybrid event in Los Angeles. Featured are:

Nick Durkin of Harness
Buddy Brewer and Mark Robinson of New Relic
Anurag Gupta of Calyptia
Martin Mao of Chronosphere
Chang Li of Hashicorp
Laurent of Cast AI

Enjoy!

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How will the landline "die", adding emotion to games, Twitch.tv leaked, life coaches exposed, and much more!

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In this episode I cover AI coding, GitLab, filling all those tech vacancies, trusting VPNs, undersea cables, and obscure actors with popularity in equally obscure places…

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In this episode I look at attempts at a floating "paradise", AI in education, the race to delivery groceries, Umberto Eco's advice for writers and more!

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In this episode I cover… The history of smartphones, Docker, and Hyperlinks. Also is AI fast catching up to (bad) developers, and what will become of Afghanistans Internet?

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In this episode I look at the many facets of unintended data, Google's messaging journey, happy birthday Linux, and much more.

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I've been quiet for a while, here's why. I'm relaunching the show soon and here's what I have planned.

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Rockset promises The real-time indexing database for modern data applications. How does it compare to the competition? I speak with Venkat Venkataramani to find out.

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Many of us in software development know of, and have used HashiCorp projects. How do they stay innovative in a rapidly changing ecosystem? I speak with Ray (Consul) and Chang (Nomad) to find out more.

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I have Idit Levine back on the show to discuss how solo.io use Istio and Envoy Proxy to provide API Infrastructure from the Edge to Service Mesh.

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Netdata helps you troubleshoot slowdowns and anomalies in your infrastructure with thousands of per-second metrics, meaningful visualizations, and insightful health alarms with zero configuration. Observability is a busy space, how do they compare? I speak with Robin Schumacher to find out.

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How can slim.ai help you create production-ready containers quickly? I speak with CEO, John Amaral to find out how.

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Infrastructure as code offers many possibilities, but introduces a large amount of potential security vulnerabilities. How can Veeam help? I speak with Michael Cade to find out.

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I speak with Percona’s Chief Experience Officer to discuss their recent Percona live event, the future of data and how we store and collaborate with it, and what open source means to the company.

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Streamlit turns data scripts into shareable web apps in minutes. All in Python. All for free. No front‑end experience required. I speak with Adrien Treuille and Amanda Kelly to find out more about the company and how it fits into data pipelines.

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This episode starts a run of talks from KubeCon EU 2021, and I speak with William Morgan of Linkerd, the first service mesh for Kubernetes.

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This episode I speak Hybrid cloud object storage with AB Periasamy of MinIO.

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Service mesh is one of the keys to securing bleeding-edge microservices , and how can companies continue to capitalize on the containerization trends, without sacrificing security?

I speak with Reblaze founder, Tzury Bar Yochay to found out how…

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I speak with Cornelia Davis, CTO of Weaveworks about GitOps, Flux and simplifying the creation of Kubernetes clusters.

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Chris speaks with Anthony Woods of Grafana Labs about Grafana, Prometheus, Cortex, and about the current state of observability.

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I speak with Daniel Foster, Snagit strategy manager about the long running screenshot creation and management software.

I also cover the recent debacle in Australia, the business of zero-day exploits, why everyone should use Ethernet and more…

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I speak with Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi about the book they are working on for Manning publications covering everything Jamstack. I also cover Vivaldi, dependency hell, crazy laptops, and more.

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I speak with Neela Jacque about eBPF and what does Cilium and Isovalent offer to cloud-native networking and security. I also cover the rise of VSCode, the re-rise of co-working, Telegram v Signal, and more!

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This episode I speak with Jon Edvald of Garden about their cloud native automation platform.

I also cover Linux on the M1, Google Chrome, Web extensions on Safari, and more!

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This issue I speak with Geoff Schmidt of Apollo about their GraphQL offerings. I also cover general AI, decades old technology bets, is it wise to remove WhatsApp, and much more.

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I speak with Stepan Veselovskyi, the CEO at Lviv IT Cluster about what's been happening in the Ukraine tech and startup scene since my last visit.

I also cover JetBrains, Google, WhatsApp, and… The Amiga

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This week, I speak with Amit Goel, Director of Product Management for Embedded AI Platforms at NVIDIA about the Jetson platform. I also cover the M1 (again), Discord, the Romans, and the Archers… xx Chinch

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In this episode I cover the new Algolia integration with Netlify and look at the rapid growth of interest in their search solution. Also features news on Fuscia OS, taking Google offline, GPT-3, and much more!

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In this Weekly Squeak I speak with Mark and Martin and cover how the two teams worked together to make Ubuntu shine on Lenovo machines. Also features content on Slack acquisition, M1 on AWS, Garbage language, and much more…

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This week I speak with Brian Rue of Rollbar, The Continuous Code Improvement Platform. No links… Because apparently, I didn't read anything…

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I speak with with Aurélien Georget of Strapi, the leading open-source headless CMS, 100% Javascript, fully customizable and developer-first. I also cover substack, did 2020 get the startups it needed, and just how good is the new M1 chip for machine learning practitioners?

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In this episode I speak with Peter Pezaris of Codestream about their IDE plugin that allows you to integrate code review, pull and merge requests, and issue trackers directly where you work.

I also cover paying for podcasts, taxing working from home, tech acquisitions of 2020, and Big Sur.

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This week I speak with the cofounders of Pixie labs, that helps you instantly troubleshoot your applications on Kubernetes. I also cover immutable operating systems, the ISS, real world quantum computing, the Lord of the Rings that never was, and more…

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I have Gaurav Deshpande of TigerGraph back to talk about their recent conference covering the intersection of Graph and AI. I also cover Berlin airports, sci-fi recommendations, and bizarre operating systems.

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In this episode I speak with Linden Tibbets of IFTTT about the past, present, and future of their automation platform. I also look at the history of markdown, and legal frameworks for AI.

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This weekly squeak I talk with Matt Biilmann of Netlify about their recent announcements and the future of Jamstack presented at their recent Jamstackconf.

I also cover the ownership of Berlin startups, crypto hype, the history of search, new zoom integrations, and much more.

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In this Weekly Squeak I have my old cohost back to discuss recent trends in IoT and her visit to IFA in Berlin, will the hybrid format be the future of conferences in the medium term?

I also cover Goodreads, Flutter, Swift, Kubernetes, and famous historical deaths.

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In this episode I speak with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane of Planet Scale, a solution for scaling MySQL on Kubernetes. I also cover Mozilla, returning to the office, Canonical, and can open source be bought?

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In this episode I speak with Christian Nunciato, author of Pulumi in Action from Manning.

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I also cover news from ARM, editing a robot, and more.

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In this episode I speak with Paolo Negri about their API-first content platform. Also features the story of Bullfrog, history books for roleplayers, judging an open source project, and more.

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This episode I speak with Karthik Nagarajan about the advantages of running roleplaying games for teams, look at computer user groups, fraud, and a JavaScript version of Civilisation 6.

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In this episode I speak with Vijoy Pandey (Cisco), Amith Nair (HashiCorp), and Michael Friedrich (GitLab) about their announcements and highlights from KubeCon as well as my own personal highlights.

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Robert Reeves joins me after a 2 year gap to discuss bringing DevOps practices to the database world. I also cover Zoom's amazing quarter, the end of PhoneGap, the end of the Beatles, and the end of WW2 (in Japan).

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I speak with Tanmai Gopal about Hasura, an open source and hosted platform that brings instant GraphQL APIs to your data.

Also features my weekly round up of geeky news including the best game consoles ever, GPT-3, and more.

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In this episode I speak with Dan Rosanova from Confluent about Kafka, their cloud offering, and project Metamorphosis. I also cover news from the past week including Developer Experience 101, Google Docs as an act of resistance, news from the Linux Kernel, what happened next to the founder of Atari, and much more.

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This is a focussed episode, where I interview Alexander Wong of COVID-Net and DarwinAI about an open-source project last week to improve COVID-19 screening using artificial intelligence (AI).

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This week I speak with Tess Rinearson about the Interchain foundation and her past thoughts on running inclusive hackathons, privilege, and much more. Also features news from Microsoft Build, Surveillance Capitalism, and the lost Sim games of Maxis.

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This week I speak about in-memory computing with Dale Kim of Hazelcast. I also look at the changing world of in-person trade shows, offices, and restaurants.

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This week I speak with Spectro Cloud about their new Kubernetes as a service offering, and also take a look at operating system market share changes, Skype just isn't cool, Apple's T2 chip woes, gaming, and Stephen Wolfram's theory of everything.

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I speak with Gaurav Deshpande of TigerGraph about their highly scalable graph database. Also features GDPR 2 years later, Flutter, JavaScript, grounded airplanes, cats, and more.

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In this episode I speak with Troy Murray of breaker.io, a decentralized ecosystem that empowers creators and delivers fans classic and original content. Also features news items on technology in a time of crisis, self-editing, the bans before musicians were famous, and much more!

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This week I speak with Chris Longstaff of Mindtech about their curious plan to help machine learning by augmenting datasets with synthetic data.

I also cover alternative calendars, the woes of WeWork, robot writers and more.

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In this episode I speak with Quinn Slack of Sourcegraph about the universal code search tool. Also features news on AmigaOS, awesome repos for developers, the truths of lockdown, meetup spins out of WeWork, and early internet streamers.

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No links this week as I focus on an interview with Quentin Rhoads-Herrera of Critical Start where we talk about cyber security during a time of crisis.

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In this episode I speak with Peter Suma of Applied Brain Research about Nengo, a complete brain maker that allows you to develop and run models with deep learning, online learning, static weights, simple linear neurons, complex spiking neurons, and everything in-between.

Also features content covering tools for working from home, two player games, a "Hello World" for the modern era, and much more!

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In this episode I speak with Nick Millward of mGage about the past present and future of mobile engagement, especially RCS. I also cover the history of the URL, teaching an AI to play D&D, how to work from home, why Discord is bad, Brave is good, and so much more.

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I'm taking a short break, so something from the archives this week of my ill-fated podcast from last year, "The Enthusiastic Amateur". This interview is reproduced in entirety to get the listeners it deserved. A great interview with Sinclair Target of two-bit history about the hidden stories from computing history.

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In this episode I speak with Patrick McFadin about Datastax and their plans with Apache Cassandra, ponder on the release of MIDI 2.0 after 37 years, plane security, what happened in Iowa, and more

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In this episode I speak with Paul Kuijf of learned.io, look at the new Lovecraft film, burst some bubbles, learn new languages, and much more.

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In this episode I speak with the makers of the Tactigon wearable gesture controller, look at scandal in Oxford, DLC in D&D, decolonialising gaming, and much more.

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This episode I speak with Shlomi Hod about responsible AI, look at the worst D&D monster of all, hello world in assembly, and more.

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In this episode I speak with the infamous Kin Lane, the API evangelist, now working with Postman. I also cover my new experiences with the Linux desktop, how "the rise of skywalker" has visions of our dystopian future, and more!

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In this episode I speak with Laszlo Toth, Nikolai Astrup, and Dr. Suncheol Gweon from the recent 5GTechritory about the current state, and future promise of 5G. Also in this episode, the Y2K panic, incentivising BitTorrent, Monopoly, tech sexism, and so much more.

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In this episode I speak with Martin Mao of Chronosphere about the massive scale monitoring platform. I also cover fixing the internet, fixing air conditioning, the problem with calculators, switching from macOS to Linux, the death of Lil Bub and more!

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In this episode I speak with Raj Dutt of Grafana. I also cover the rise of the Brave browser, keep an eye on Softbank, question Apple's design, look at the new tabletop game, Tapestry, investigate the issues with coworking, and much more!

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Fresh back from Tekom's TCWorld event, Chris covers the difference between different types of tech writers, fantasy maps, running D&D campaigns with inconsistent players, is dark mode a myth, and why do so many cultures think Greek is so complicated?

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In this episode I cover the WeWork/Meetup/Softbank world domination saga, the sad state of affairs of online journalism, and has Apple had enough of Electron?

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In this episode I speak with David Nalley of the Apache Software Foundation about their roles in the projects they work with. Also features how an Australian floating hotel ended up in North Korea, D&D with sign language, long distance flights, and Happy birthday UNIX.

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In this episode I speak with Dr. Leemon Baird of Hedera Hashgraph about their DLT (not a Blockchain), plus the Saga of Richard Stallman continues, the history of Call of Cthulhu, and Wendys releases a RPG…

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In this episode I speak with Commissioner Goldstein of the Vermont State Government about the policy of paying remote workers to relocate to the state. I also cover Docker, the tech backlash against ICE, the Boeing 737 Max, and Thomas Jefferson's Bible…

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In this episode I cover the resignation of Richard Stallman, historic installation windows, Apple and "sherlocking", COBOL, and the future of development.

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In this episode I speak with Xinshu Dong of RockX about his new blockchain-based digital assets platform. Also features stories on the impact of our cities on commuting, products for the elderly, the power of words, the history of Unix and more.

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In this episode I speak with Sky Guo of Cypherium, cover data loss in the era of digital memories, fantasy islands, the history of JQuery, and when crowdfunding goes wrong.

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In this episode I speak with Davit Baghdasaryan of Krisp.ai about their small Windows, macOS and (soon) iOS application that removes background noise from online conversations. Also features news on Huawei's new OS, the history of Ctrl+Alt+del, moderating hacker news and more.

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In this episode I speak with Réda Berrehili of the Ki Foundation about their plans to put blockchain-powered assistants into hotel rooms. I also cover the Linux desktop wars are over, the Nintendo power glove, and those pesky under water cables giving us all the internet we need (most of the time).

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In this Weekly Squeak I cover Quantum computing, removing brilliant jerks, the problems with Medium, the problems with office perks, arguments over Pompeii and more!

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In this episode I speak with Jean Georges Perrin about his forthcoming book "Spark in Action", where we cover Apache Spark, writing books, and why many are wrong about IBM. I also cover Twine, Open Source and Alexa and the UK's health service.

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In this episode I speak with some of the team behind the IOST Blockchain project, cover recent Zoom woes, wonder if air travel is all that's it's hyped to be, dig into JPEGs, and so much more!

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I speak with Marco Palladino of Kong about their API gateway, microservice mesh and smart docs generation.

Also features content on North Korea, increased sobriety, Sugar and Vegetarian tech events.

And I announce how you can get involved in my new show, "The Enthusiastic Amateur".

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In this episode I speak with Ian Fogg of OpenSignal about our current 4G network, and the future 5G one. Also featured is D&D for product teams, educating on the history of the British Empire, Visual Basic, Project Catalyst, Libra, escaping the smart city and more!

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In part 2 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes:

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24:48 - Shiv Ramji of Digital Ocean
50:05 - Matthew Whittington of Atlassian

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In part 1 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes:

1:27 - Jason McGee of IBM
25:26 - Carmine Rimi of Canonical
48:16 - Sheng Liang of Rancher Labs

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I speak with Mark Marron of Microsoft about their new language that is simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines.

I also cover Edge arriving on macOS, Android Q desktop mode, Vale for the desktop, and why no one builds underground lines anymore?

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In this episode Chris speaks with Matt Billman of Netlify, creating general game playing AI, browser wars past and present, and more!

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In this episode Chris speaks with Hayden Barnes about the Pengwin project, an optimised Linux for the Windows Linux Subsystem. Also features articles on Coffee Pods, Polymaths, digital newspapers and more!

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In this episode Chris covers why the Essential phone isn't as bad you might have thought, how smart speakers are changing music, new programming languages, and is D&D becoming too mainstream?

Also features an interview with Pooh from Mojobot, a cool new coding board game that's on kickstarter right now!

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In this episode I look at advice on writing weird fiction, the future of Linux, the latest version of Opera, wether Google cloud offers an open source friendly alternative to AWS, and more!

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In this episode Chris covers the trail of the robocall king, programmer's obsession with efficiency, prisoners training AI, all you wanted to know about hyphenation, and much more.

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In this episode I cover old technologies and how to preserve them, the death of Childhood musicians and a little more.

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Chris speaks with Jae Kwon of Tendermint about their Byzantine-fault tolerant state machine replication. Or blockchain, for short.

Also in this episode Chris looks at the history of the Ottoman empire, ageing coders, the psychology of Magic the Gathering and more.

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In this episode Chris speaks with Alexis of Arkhn about their plans to standardise medical data. Also featured are stories on D&D, the connections between crypto and gambling, the real intentions of Facebook and more.

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In this episode I speak with Brian Platz of Fluree, a database that packs Blockchain, GraphQL, change reversion and much more. I also cover my geeky squeaks for the week including cashless society, the number 3 mobile OS, mapping works of ancient history and more.

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In this weekly geeky squeak I look at coworking, robot love, unhackability, CUPS, Docker, the male focussed world, article 13, and more.

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In this episode Chris covers links of the week including ancient relics, and toys old and new. Also features an interview with Simon Harman, the project lead at Loki, a decentralised privacy network.

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In this short episode I look at computing history, privacy vs usability and more.

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In this episode I speak with Monique Morrow about creating technology that people actually need. Also featured the death of RSS, is Bitcoin the new Oil, robots that can read instructions, did we miss alien contact, and much more…

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In this first episode for 2019, Chris covers EU funding for open source, EU cyber security, accessibility, open source controversies and the apocalypse.

Interview segment with Rachel Black, Technical Evangelist for Lisk, where we discuss the company and tech evangelism in the blockchain space.

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Cate and Chris speak to the infamous Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET and Hanson Robotics at Web Summit about Sophia the robot, SingularityNET, AI on the Blockchain, distributed computing, managing data state and so much more.

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Cate and Chris speak with Kolton Andrus of Gremlin, about Chaos Engineering, ensuring reliability at scale and the plans the company has over the next few months.

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Chris speaks with Robert Chu of Embleema, a company looking to help (US) patients monetise their health data.

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Chris and Cate recently attended 5GTechritory in Riga, Latvia to discover what business and government leaders are doing with 5G and what it will mean to us.

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Live from a Lisbon hotel, Cate and Chris discuss the recent sexual harassment stories from Google and dig into the story and what aspects of tech and startup culture might have exacerbated the incidents.

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Chris speaks with Anatoliy Lytovchenko of Eleks at the recent IT Arena in Ukraine about real world Blockchain use cases he worked on with his clients.

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Chris speaks with Emil Wagner of æternity, who aim to make blockchains more usable for developers and end users.

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Cate and Chris speak with eBlocker (IoT security), Snips (Voice Assistant software and hardware) and Conrad Connect (Smart Home platform) at this years IFA in Berlin.

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Chris and Cate talk about the European consumer electronics fair IFA. Expect dancing robots.

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There's a high chance that if you have attended an event in a city in recent years, it was arranged through meetup.com. The site now has over 32 million members, over a quarter of a million meetup groups and over half a million meetups happening in 182 countries every month.

Aside from being a keen and regular user, meetup has always fascinated me, as it's a tech company with a core mission that is about getting people away from their technology and to in-person meetings with like-minded people. It's a service that creates so many positive outcomes, yet so many users focus on the negatives of the platform. And as one attendee of a meetup organizers meetup in Berlin put it, "you're a service where those who do all the work have to pay".

After his talk about "the future in 2027" at Berlin's Tech Open Air event, I sat down with the founder, Scott Heiferman to dig into the past, present and future of meeting people.

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Chris speaks with Rachel Brochado about Eyeo and their products, Adblock Plus, Flattr, and the Acceptable Ads program. We also discuss the future of funding creative activities.

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Chris speaks with Stefan Thomas, ex CTO of ripple about his past and new projects. Also, featured is the Malta blockchain summit, happening in November.

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We speak with Donatas Malinauskas of deeper, a smart device for anglers to find the fish they are looking for.

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In this episode Cate and Chris discuss more of their recent trip to Lithuania. This time about Telesoftas, an innovation house with an enigmatic leader, and their general impressions of the country and it's startup scene.

The trip to Lithuania was sponsored by Telesoftas.

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Chris speaks with URBAN-X’s Managing Director Micah Kotch to speak about the startups they fund, and to Rachel Ginsberg about the Frankenstein AI project that challenges how we interact with AI, and how they interact with us.

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Chris speaks with Amanda Gutterman of Consensys and Thomas Schouten of Lisk about their projects and how to market something as complex as Blockchain.

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We begin our series of interviews from our recent trip to Lithuania. First a coding school for children and the trade association for ICT. Thanks to telesoftas for sponsoring the trip.

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Chris speaks with the venerable Stephen Wolfram about his career, company and the future of how we process data into something meaningful.

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Chris speaks with the leads of two open source software foundations, Kris Borchers of the JavaScript Foundation, and Brian Behlendorf of the Hyperledge foundation at Collision conf. In the episode we speak about the progress of the foundations and open source software more broadly.

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Chris speaks with Sean Suchter of Pepperdata and Robert Reeves of Datical about the future of DevOp and deployment for Big Data applications.

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In this episode Cate and Chris discuss their extensive travels, public transport, the first victims of GDPR, should we be worried about China and more.

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Chris and Cate speak with Myles from Robotical about their all-singing-all-dancing Marty the robot for education.

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In this episode Cate discuss ChromeOS, Robots, GDPR, Bromads, games, and is Ready Player One really not a work of fiction, but a manifesto of what's wrong with the Tech Industry. 🤔

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In this episode Chris speaks with Xinshu Dong of Zilliqa about their ideas on how to implement a high throughput blockchain output.

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In this episode, Cate and Chris talk about AI and the human machine era, the end of the 8 hour work day, when crypto conferences go wrong and more…

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Chris speaks with Max Newton of BrainCo about how their brain-interfacing devices help people focus better.

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Chris interviews Chris Nicholson, the CEO of Open Source Deep Learning platform, Skymind.

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Do We Need the World's First Emotional Processing Unit?

Chris interviews the founder of Emoshape, a company who thinks we do, and has created the first EPU, wether we need it or not.

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Chris speaks with Garlin Gilchrist II and Aviv Ovadya at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan about their mission.

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In our latest episode, Chris reports back from SXSW and we talk about interesting articles from the week including the creation of the internet, China’s efforts at social credit, the ‘right to be forgotten’ and more.

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Chris speaks with Zach LeBeau of SingularDTV at SXSW about their ambitious plans to bring music and video production, distribution, rights management and monetisation to the Blockchain.

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Chris & Cate are back at Mobile World Congress and bring your their highlights from this whopper of a show.

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Chris speaks with Brian Gracely, director, OpenShift product strategy about the container space more generally and how the acquisition might fit into it.

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We speak with Pierre Barreau, CEO of Aiva who's AI has helped compose music for presentations, games, concerts, and even has its own album.

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In this episode Cate and Chris discuss the birthday of open source, big data, transportation and how to conduct yourself at networking events.

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Chris speaks with Sam Tabar, strategist at AirSwap about trading cryptocurrencies on decentralised exchanges and how we can solve the problems of VC backed startups.

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Chris speaks with the three founders of replex.io who aim to help you identify inefficiencies at every level of a stack, from discrete hardware components all the way up to a holistic picture of your overall architecture.

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Fresh from their Best of Innovation at CES Innovation Awards, we finally publish an interview with Nuraphone when Chris visited their office in Melbourne in December to discuss their unique headphones, and running a startup in Australia.

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Chris speaks with Lucas Carlson of Automic to discuss the current state of Containers and Serverless, plus predictions for 2018.

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In this episode Cate and Chris tackle CES, a crazy show of more than 4,500 exhibitors spread over 11 official venues. It's an exercise in stamina as you traverse the crowds trying to find the gems among the generic. There's a lot more 'nice to have' than 'need it now' devices. But every year a few things stand out, but not always for the right reasons.

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Chris speaks with Daniel G. Siegel about his talk "the bullet hole misconception" covering topics such as how developers should challenge themselves and preconceptions.

The Future of Programming, Bret Victor http://worrydream.com/dbx/

The Mother of All Demos, Doug Engelbart http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html

Augmenting Human Intellect, Doug Engelbart http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlrv7DIHllE

Neil Postman talks at Apple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqxgCoHv_aE

The bullet hole misconception https://www.dgsiegel.net/talks/the-bullet-hole-misconception

The lost medium https://www.dgsiegel.net/talks/the-lost-medium

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Chris and Cate recount the year that was, look forward to 2018 and discuss the recent CCC in Leipzig.

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Chris hosts a panel at the recent Berlin Blockchain day with three blockchain luminaries: Dmitry Meshkov, Alexander Chepurnoy, Vlad Zamfir and Alexander Ivanov.

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Chris interviews Dubai startup Wrappup about their meeting AI bot and running a startup in Dubai.

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Chris speaks with CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber about creating a continuous integration platform that gets out of the way of developers and just lets them work, test, build and deploy.

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In this episode Cate and Chris tackle the rise of cryptocurrencies, love (past and present) in the time of artificial intelligence, the prevalence of software bugs, net neutrality from a non-American perspective, and more.

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Chris speaks with Tanveer Saifee of Thingworx about creating interactive AR tools that help workers in modern industry understand and analyse the machinery and processes around them.

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Chris speaks with Johannes Schickling of Graphcool, The GraphQL Backend Framework. The interview covers their love of GraphQL, community and how they try to help developers understand and use the API framework.

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In this episode Cate and Chris tackle some difficult topics such as the backlash against tech, does the status quo even want to change, diversity, the naivety of engineers and much more.

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Chris speaks with Ryan Blunden about what programmers and musicians can learn from each other, the affects of music on coding, what genres might be what programming language, computer generated music and much more.

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As part of a forthcoming article on the Ukrainian tech/startup scene, I interview Anastasia Sleptsova Head of Ecosystem Partnerships at UNIT.City.

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Robots are appearing everywhere in our lives and workplaces, but how does a developer actually program one?

Chris spoke with Jans Lembrecht of Gestalt Robotics about his experience programming industrial robots designed for single purpose tasks that use their own programming languages to newer robots that use C++ or Python to handle broader tasks that humans throw at them.

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To those of us addicted to our smartphones, the myriad of applications we can install and what we can achieve (or time waste) with them is astounding.

But for those of us working in corporate or other industries that value business privacy and secrecy, the freedom that apps give us and that we give them, is a little too risky.

Enter the role of mobile app management services that sit between a device and the limitations that a company wishes to impose upon it.

Apperian are one such company in the field, offering features such as app security, distribution, policies, logging and much more.

I sat down with Mark Lorion, President and General Manager at Apperian to discuss what the company offers and how they keep up with the constant demands and changes of their customers and mobile platform creators.

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This week Cate and Chris discuss smarter ways to hire developers, ethics in tech and more.

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Chris spoke with Dustin Kirkland, VP of product development and Jamie Bennett, VP of Devices and IoT Engineering at Canonical to understand more the strategy behind Ubuntu Core and Snaps.

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Chris interviews Thierry Carrez, release manager for the OpenStack project about how he coordinates a large amount of contributors to the project, balancing diverse commercial and cultural differences whilst still maintaining a regular release cycle.

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Chris and Cate interview numerous people from IFA and Startup Night Berlin 2017.

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Chris and Cate recount one crazy week in Berlin covering IFA, the France vs Germany IoT battle, Armenian startups and the long night of Startups.

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Chris speaks with Mark Brocato of Sencha about their new cross platform data-driven components for the React framework, and how the company made JavaScript more advanced years before anyone else.

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Chris speaks with Ben Maddox of the Perfect Information podcast to talk about the past, present and future of technology in Board Games.

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This week Cate and Chris discuss the intersections of journalism, immortality, music, romance and government with technology.

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I spoke with Robert Reeves, CTO and Co-founder of Datical, a company that aims to remove the pain that database administrators (DBAs) experience on a regular basis attempting to make changes to database heavy applications.

They do this by bringing easy to use tools inspired by practices from the DevOps world to the traditionally messy world of enterprise databases, with change simulation, rollbacks, rules engines, packaging databases as code and strong monitoring.

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Big Data analysis generally involves piping large data sets into processing systems such as Apache Spark and Hadoop, walking away for a very long coffee and returning later to a hopefully successful result. The DevOps and continuous build ecosystem has long employed linters, code analyzers and application profilers to discern potential trouble and optimization points in code, and Pepperdata want to bring that practice to the Big Data world.

I spoke with CEO Ash Munshi, formerly CTO of Yahoo and consultant to other data heavy tech companies about what the company offers, and how their customers save hours from running inefficient processing jobs.

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This week Cate and Chris discuss how smart phones are destroying a generation, cybersecurity, documentation, tech diversity and more.

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NGINX is one of the most popular web servers on the internet. Just a shade behind the market leader it emerged roughly ten years ago to provide an alternative to the venerable Apache, designed to suit modern traffic demands better and more appropriately.

On a hot Friday afternoon I spoke with Liam Crilly, the director of product management at NGINX to discuss the history of the project, the differences between the open and enterprise versions and answer questions posed by DZone readers. These questions included the status of HTTP/2, API access, and the choice of configuration file format.

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There's a high chance that if you have attended an event in a city in recent years, it was arranged through meetup.com. The site now has over 32 million members, over a quarter of a million meetup groups and over half a million meetups happening in 182 countries every month.

Aside from being a keen and regular user, meetup has always fascinated me, as it's a tech company with a core mission that is about getting people away from their technology and to in-person meetings with like-minded people. It's a service that creates so many positive outcomes, yet so many users focus on the negatives of the platform. And as one attendee of a meetup organizers meetup in Berlin put it, "you're a service where those who do all the work have to pay".

After his talk about "the future in 2027" at Berlin's Tech Open Air event, I sat down with the founder, Scott Heiferman to dig into the past, present and future of meeting people.

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Chris speaks to Yael Eisenstat about technology, how it can divide society into tribal bubbles and what we or tech companies can and should do about it.

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Chris and Cate speak to Liviu Babitz from Cyborgs Nest about the past, present and future of Cyborgs.

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Chris speaks to Jeff Luszcz about how Flexera aims to make software that relies on open source components more secure, compliant and sustainable.

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Chris speaks with Lucas Carlson, novelist and strategist about Automic and how they are working to take DevOps beyond developers.

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I speak with Brian Behlendorf, one of the key developers behind the Apache Web Server, a Mozilla and EFF board member, and Executive Director of the Hyperledger foundation, a project that aims to bring Blockchain mainstream.

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Cate and Chris discuss the latest news, tech developments, and events from the past couple of days.

Including Chat Bots, Ethereum, Petya and Cats writing Physics papers.

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I sat down with Pravin Halady, product manager at NodeSource to discuss why enterprise developers might need a safer and more secure version of Node.JS and NPM and what it's like running a business where your biggest competition is the creator of the product you sell.

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Chris speaks to dozens of interesting people at this years Pioneers conference in Vienna, in part 2 are:

Salix - 00:00 ubirch - 09:02 Fable - 30:19

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In this episode Cate and Chris talk with Jessica Lovegood, a UX designer with a passion for understanding how people in the tech industry learn.

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Chris speaks to dozens of interesting people at this years Pioneers conference in Vienna, in part 1 are:

Oculyze - 00:00 Pepticom - 16:43 Robowunderkind - 33:40

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Chris speaks with Chip Childers about the history, use cases and components of Cloud Foundry.

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In this episode Cate and Chris discuss European startups uniting, startup homogeneity and getting older in tech.

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Chris speaks with Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, founder of Opera and Vivaldi about browsers, web history and making the web personal without invading privacy.

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Chris speaks with H.O. Maycotte and Troy Lanier of Pilosa, a new kind of index, a distributed bitmap index, that aims to solve a major problem for everyone who works with data sets of 1TB or more.

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Chris speaks with Manish Gupta of Redis Labs about how redis became one of the most popular data stores for developers.

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Chris speaks with Jonathan Lipps and Ken Drachnik about Sauce Labs, Selenium, Appuim and testing the internet of things.

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In this episode Cate and Chris speak with Matthew Setter about ownCloud, PHP, Technical Writing and more.

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In this episode Cate and Chris speak with Tal Weiss from OverOps, discuss the future of education, ex-military in tech, standing desks and more.

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In this episode Cate and Chris speak with Abhinav Asthana from Postman, discuss the future of work, and skilled migrant visas.

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In this episode Cate and Chris speak with Paul Laeuner from BioMonkey about BioHacking to improve your physical and mental self and what (if anything) it has to do with embedding microchips in your body.

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Cate and Chris the latest news, tech developments, and events from the past couple of days.

Logz.io, Israel, Robots for Seniors and is the Laptop Dead?

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Chris talks with Peter Harris from resonate about music streaming on the blockchain, tech cooperatives and much more.

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In this episode Chris and Cate report back from Mobile World Congress about IoT, robots and much more.

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Cate and Chris the latest news, tech developments, and events from the past couple of days.

Failure, diabetes wearables, lady problems and potatoes.

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In this episode, Chris and Cate discuss 2016 and look forward (maybe) to 2017.

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In this solo episode Chris gives a brain dump on his thoughts from the news of the past weeks to try and make a semblance of sense from it all.

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In this episode we discuss what our robot overloads even are and wonder if they will kill us all, ruin our relationships, or just take our jobs…

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In this Episode we discuss many topics with the infamous Jessica Rose. Technical communities, imposter syndrome, public speaking and more.

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In this episode we discuss companies and people we met at IFA and the Long night of Startups here in Berlin.

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In this episode of the increasingly inaccurately titled 'Weekly Squeak' we discuss Brexit, The Australian Election, DroidCon in Greece, Greece in General, international conferences, IoT in sports and much more…

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In this Weekly Squeak we discuss how to effectively pitch your technical idea to the press.

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The Weekly squeak has a co-host this week. Cate Lawrence joins me as we discuss our trip to Bitspiration and Warsaw, Brexit and other miscellaneous topics.

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In this episode I discuss teaching beginners to program and how maybe we're all doing it wrong.

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In this episode I speak to Steve Tauber and Marin Todorov about Developer Health

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In this episode I discuss being an outsider in a group of outsiders.

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In this episode I discuss celebrity death and Netflix vs the digital Nomad.

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In this episode I discuss the coldest winter I have ever experienced, art exhibitions and submarine cables.

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In this first episode I look back on 2015.

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