I am a technical communicator with a love of explaining technical concepts in documentation, blog posts, videos, books and more. I run a small agency called Gregarious Mammal if youâre interested in hiring me for that kind of thing.
This website is a home for all my blog posts, podcasts, newsletters and creative projects.
Itâs also new and very much in development, so watch this space. đ
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June 20 2019 to June 20 2019
Ethics in Tech: a Practical Discussion about AI to speak about Developer ethics
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Revolutionizing Health Data With Arkhn
for dzoneA discussion of what the team at Arkhn is doing with health data and the impact they hope it will have.
In this interview, see what one companyâs philosophy about open source products and development for enterprise apps holds.
Learn more about Fluree and listen to an interview one of our Zone Leaders had with Co-CEO Brian Platz.
Learning to code with a board game? Sounds too good to be true.
April 25th 2019 Newsletter
for kauriKauri aims to make building with Ethereum as straightforward as existing web 2.0 developer tools and frameworks. To help reach that goal, we are building a content platform for experts in the ecosystem to share their knowledge with those looking to grow theirs.
Latest podcasts
moreI 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/
In this episode Chris speaks with Matt Billman of Netlify, creating general game playing AI, browser wars past and present, and more!
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
Your smart essential dungeon
for podcastIn 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-tangible-coding-robot
The Caffeinated Cthulhu Desktop
for podcastIn 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!
Recommendations and Newsletters
I currently curate 4 newsletters on Ethics (mostly in technology), Blockchain, Language and Linguistics, see my latest recommendations and join those newsletters below.
The Weekly Squeak Newsletter
My general newsletter "The Weekly Squeak" draws content from all these sources and a couple more, sign up to that below.
Latest ethics posts
moreNewsletter coming soon, for now enjoy the posts below.
We All Work for Facebook
from Longreads
Whoâs Really Buying Property in San Francisco?
from The Atlantic
The grim reality of life under Gangs Matrix, London's controversial predictive policing tool
from WIRED UK
Latest language posts
moreNewsletter coming soon, for now enjoy the posts below.
The most important tech boom designers are ignoring
from Fast Company
A Harvard Linguist's (and Bill Gates's Favorite Author) 13 Simple Tips for Becoming a Great Writer
from Inc. Magazine
12 open source tools for natural language processing
from Opensource.comLatest blockchain posts
moreNewsletter coming soon, for now enjoy the posts below.
Did the Cryptocurrency Revolution Fail?
from Hacker Noon