I am Chris Chinchilla 👋

I tell stories through documentation, blog posts, videos, books and more. I am a podcaster, video maker, writer of interactive fiction, and games.

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Here's all I do, well mostly…

Writing

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Writing
Podcasts

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Podcasts
Videos

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Videos
Games

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Games
Events

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Events
Work

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Work
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Latest content

6 new macOS and iOS tools for April 2025

6 new macOS and iOS tools for April 2025

16/04/2025
Welcome to a new newsletter/post/radar/term-yet-to-be-defined from me that I have been planning for ages. I intend it to be something of a round up of tools and services i’ve been trying recently, plus also industry analysis and trends. To begin with it’s just the tools and service round up as the analysis part requires more thought that I haven’t had time for yet.
European cloud hosts are offering an escape from AWS, Azure, and GCP

European cloud hosts are offering an escape from AWS, Azure, and GCP

13/03/2025
When the modern-day internet began emerging in the early 2000s, finding hosting services and resources to run the new wave of dynamic web applications was hard. You needed a database to store application data. These were slow, expensive, and unreliable, regularly bringing applications to a grinding halt when a single instance failed. You needed a server to run interpreted languages like PHP, Python, or Ruby. These were equally expensive, often needed configuration, had security issues, and frequently ran out of memory or CPU resources, again bringing applications to a grinding halt.
Using Orka Desktop to run and create OCI-compliant VMs on macOS

Using Orka Desktop to run and create OCI-compliant VMs on macOS

30/12/2024
Changes in recent versions of macOS have made running macOS and Linux virtual machines far easier and more performant. Primarily used for testing, a plethora of new applications that take advantage of these features emerged, so when Mac Stadium released a free desktop version of their long-running Okra range of virtualisation tools, one feature in particular stood out to me as something different and potentially useful.

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