Tech Lounge

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). https://chrischinchilla.com/ https://twitter.com/ChrisChinch http://facebook.com/chrischinchilla ---...

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! https://www.facebook.com/chrischinchilla https://chrischinchilla.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get ac...

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. https://www.manning.com/books/spark-in-action-second-edition Discount code for any Manning books for you all: podchinc19 And 5 free eBook codes for Jean's b...

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! https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...

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". https://konghq.com/kong/ https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchi...

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! https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts https://chrischinchilla.com/newsletters --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchilla...

In part 2 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes: Idit Levine of Solo.io 24:48 - Shiv Ramji of Digital Ocean 50:05 - Matthew Whittington of Atlassian https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...

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 https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subs...

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? https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/bosque-programming-language/ --- Send i...

In this episode Chris speaks with Matt Billman of Netlify, creating general game playing AI, browser wars past and present, and more! https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts https://chrischinchilla.com/newsletters https://www.netlify.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get ac...

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! https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts https://www.pengwin.dev --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this...

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! https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/projectlab/mojobot-ta...

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasquea...

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. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epi...

In this episode I cover old technologies and how to preserve them, the death of Childhood musicians and a little more. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com For show notes and...

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. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode....

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. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts https://arkhn.org/english.html --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would li...

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. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts @chrischinch --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a pu...

In this weekly geeky squeak I look at coworking, robot love, unhackability, CUPS, Docker, the male focussed world, article 13, and more. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com...

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. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts https://chrischinchilla.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss...

In this short episode I look at computing history, privacy vs usability and more. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chr...

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… chrischinchilla.com/podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with othe...

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you...

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. https://gregariousmammal.com/podcast https://gregariousmammal.com/support https://facebook.com/gregariousmammal . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasque...

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. https://www.gremlin.com https://gregariousmammal.com/podcast https://gregariousmammal.com/support https://facebook.com/gregariousmammal . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode....