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: https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/abfb369c-8021-48ba-8b66-d21035dcd92c
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://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/d0a80971-13fc-4636-b0a6-4686e06e34d0
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.
Full notes: https://chinchil...
In this episode, I speak about the sustainability of cloud-native workloads and infrastructure and how the Linux Foundation spearheads efforts for open-source energy generation, distribution, and monitoring.
Also features links to the latest Ubuntu and Canonical releases, the death of Unity, how the US military wants to understand Linux, and much more!
Full notes: https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/f91ef238-6636-4ab5-9090-5ca46f7d8d91
Greetings from a hotel room in Lviv where I am attending IT Arena for the fourth time 😱.
In this episode, I continue clearing my interview backlog to speak with Dragos Nedelcu of the Senior Dev, a company that provides training, upskilling, and mentoring for JavaScript developers looking to advance their careers.
Full show notes: https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/4228d861-88ea-4641-a25f-18eb052fd9c1
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/8334...
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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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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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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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.
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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...
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 lo...
Let’s start with some fun
This newsletter gets dark quickly, so first something to enjoy.
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.
Thanks fo...
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 Nd...
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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.
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.
The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from...
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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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 bee...
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From me…
Read more about my experiments with managing the macOS home folder with version control.
Storytelling Collective Flash February
Every da...
From me…
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
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Alternative browsers for macOS
I was interested in diving into the many new browsers emerging right now, especially for macOS.
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Flash fiction February 2023
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