{"site":{"name":"Chris Chinchilla","url":"https://chrischinchilla.com","description":"A technical communicator with a love of explaining technical concepts in documentation, blog posts, videos, books and more. Also a podcaster, video maker, writer of interactive fiction, and games."},"type":{"slug":"newsletters","label":"Newsletters","description":"Newsletter issues.","count":31,"listUrl":"/newsletter","hasBody":true},"count":31,"items":[{"type":"newsletters","id":"141026","title":"Full disk regrets","url":"/newsletter/141026","summary":"Sovereignty, efficiency, acquisitions, and AI tools go rogue (again)","date":"2026-10-14","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"240926","title":"Don't let the Sun go down on Open Source","url":"/newsletter/240926","summary":"The legacy of Sun, the future of Open Source, decolonising maps, and more.","date":"2026-09-24","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"270826","title":"SimDystopia","url":"/newsletter/270826","summary":"Dystopian stories, AI safety, and stories of simulations","date":"2026-08-27","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"130826","title":"But can AI play Doom?","url":"/newsletter/130826","summary":"AI in places it's not needed, Doom in places it shouldn't be, and an engineer behind dozens of classic albums shares their advice.","date":"2026-08-13","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"310726","title":"Games, gear, and gregarious tales","url":"/newsletter/310726","summary":"I haven't been reading much news, so instead I haphazardly promote some of my work.","date":"2026-07-31","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"160726","title":"While my app gently memory leaks","url":"/newsletter/160726","summary":"Finally, I am back with a new newsletter.","date":"2026-07-16","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"050626","title":"Holy retro human","url":"/newsletter/050626","summary":"Pope vs tech. Music vs AI. A slice of ARM history.","date":"2026-06-05","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"220526","title":"A demonic plugin obsession","url":"/newsletter/220526","summary":"Too many plugins, too many layoffs, and too many… Awards? All that and more in this issue.","date":"2026-05-22","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"140526","title":"Gaining an artvantage","url":"/newsletter/140526","summary":"Game or art and has tech become boring?","date":"2026-05-14","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"300426","title":"Less tech, more me(c)h","url":"/newsletter/300426","summary":"Small newsletter today covering niche topics like Berlin tourism, the slow decline of an open source project, and other interesting tidbits.","date":"2026-04-30","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"160426","title":"Leaky Claudron","url":"/newsletter/160426","summary":"In this newsletter, Anthropic leaks, skills seep, sounds speak, and CSS leaps!","date":"2026-04-16","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"020426","title":"Vive la différence?","url":"/newsletter/020426","summary":"Squeezing this in before Europe vanishes for Easter, if they haven't already. On the subject of Europe, a great piece about Tech Bros in Europe, The dictionary sues OpenAI, and all sorts of mac tweaking power user wonder. Enjoy!","date":"2026-04-02","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"190326","title":"Opening the can of AI-generated worms","url":"/newsletter/190326","summary":"An open source community tAIrs itself apart, Grammarly upsets an awful lot of people, and RIP VC?","date":"2026-03-19","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"050326","title":"Autocomplete the fun in your life","url":"/newsletter/050326","summary":"New hardware, old hardware, making history fun, and more.","date":"2026-03-05","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"040326","title":"Autocomplete the fun in your life","url":"/newsletter/040326","summary":"New hardware, old hardware, making history fun, and more.","date":"2026-03-04","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"190226","title":"Close the gate on your way in","url":"/newsletter/190226","summary":"Sustainable festivals, age restricting the internet, and more.","date":"2026-02-19","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"040226","title":"Stop the slop!","url":"/newsletter/040226","summary":"More jQuery, open source has had enough, and many sad goodbyes","date":"2026-02-04","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"080126","title":"Adobe Photolost","url":"/newsletter/080126","summary":"What happened to German engineering, where did (some of) the vegans go, and a trip down (lack of) memory lane and early computing.","date":"2026-01-08","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"041225","title":"Talk to JQuery, cos Ruby 'aint listening","url":"/newsletter/041225","summary":"Internet outages, make music through voice, Ruby is dead, and long live… jQuery?","date":"2025-12-04","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"061125","title":"A leaking bubble","url":"/newsletter/061125","summary":"The AI bubble, memory leaks, startups in Syria, and more!","date":"2025-11-06","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"091025","title":"RIPrivacy","url":"/newsletter/091025","summary":"RIP your favourite browser, privacy, and music streaming?","date":"2025-10-09","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"180925","title":"A cup of Tahoe","url":"/newsletter/180925","summary":"New Apple operating systems, the history of essential apps, nine hour Monopoly, and more.","date":"2025-09-18","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"040925","title":"Fix the web and look good doing it","url":"/newsletter/040925","summary":"The web is drowning in JavaScript and the vibe is, there will be more.","date":"2025-09-04","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"210825","title":"Artificial arrogance","url":"/newsletter/210825","summary":"Quieter dog days of summer issue with what else, but tales of woe!","date":"2025-08-21","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"010825","title":"Live Lizard Model","url":"/newsletter/010825","summary":"A packed issue with music, AI, macOS history, work trends in tech, and so much more.","date":"2025-08-01","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"170725","title":"Hyper hype","url":"/newsletter/170725","summary":"This issue, I finally embrace a pro-user keyboard shortcut, containerization on macOS gets even better, AI bands storm the streaming charts, and more!","date":"2025-07-17","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"190625","title":"WWWe'll see","url":"/newsletter/190625","summary":"It was WWDC time, so this newsletter is unashamedly packed with Apple related news, but stay with me… It's in-depth!","date":"2025-06-19","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"050625","title":"Got a podcast in my pocket","url":"/newsletter/050625","summary":"Classic shows and services say goodbye and new approaches try something new.","date":"2025-06-05","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"300425","title":"Disconnect the World","url":"/newsletter/300425","summary":"Lots of interesting content regarding the fallout from tariffs this issue, the death of some infamous legacy technology, and the impact of generative AI on open source projects. In this increasingly divided world I'd love to hear from you on how you keep you're head above water but out of the sand.","date":"2025-04-30","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"130325","title":"Mr Writeside","url":"/newsletter/130325","summary":"Hopefully some of you are old enough to get the reference. If not, well, you missed pogoing around clubs in the early 2000s to a song, that frankly, most of us got sick of hearing. I digress. Time for some links!","date":"2025-03-13","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]},{"type":"newsletters","id":"190225","title":"Newsletter 3.0","url":"/newsletter/190225","summary":"It's nearly March 2025 and I am finally back with a Newsletter! Sorry about that 😬. I have been spending some time fixing up the toolchain behind the Newsletter as I intend to do more with it (and some new newsletters too) and wanted to build something that made it easier for me to get content together and keep a copy on my website. Anyway, back now, and with a fair backlog of content.","date":"2025-02-19","tags":[],"categories":["writing"]}]}