Every two weeks, the tech lounge invites tech luminaries, entrepreneurs, and creatives from small scrappy startups and open source enthusiasts to those working in large global companies. If you're interested in deep and creative technology and conversations with some of its most interesting practitioners, this is the show for you. Come in and get yourself comfortable.
In this episode, I speak with John Buck about the book "Inventing the Future" about Apple's advanced technology group and the myriad technologies they created.
I speak with with Jonas van den Bogaard of Alliander about the Linux Foundation's energy community that fosters open source energy generation and distribution
In this episode, I speak with Lydia Pintscher and Daniel Stenberg from the European Open Source Academy and their efforts to highlight excellence in European open source communities.
I speak with Daniel Temkin about his book, Fourty-Four EsoLangs and about the world of esoteric programming languages.
Formed the basis of this article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-programming-languages-daniel-temkin
I speak with Sagar Batchu about Speakeasy, the platform for crafting API experiences from simple definition files, including exposing them as MCP servers.
In this episode, I speak with Romain Bouqueau of Motion Spell about GPAC, an open source framework that has revolutionized the way we handle audio-video streaming, transcoding and packaging.
In this episode, I speak with Peter Zaitsev of Percona about the history of MySQL, his history with the venerable database, and his history with Percona.
In this episode, Cate and Chris discuss some of the recent downsizing of European tech media and ask how we got here, what's next, and what does it all mean for the European tech industry.
A packed container of an episode where I speak with Madhura Maskasky of Platform9 about their long-running container management platform and efforts to help people migrate from VMware and John Amaral of root.
Fast rewind back to February and I had some fascinating conversations with various projects at FOSDEM in Brussels, including the Rust Foundation, Sysdig about StratoShark, Nextcloud, and Mastodon.
I spoke with Dom Weatherbee of Regenx to discuss their precious metal recovery technology and how it can benefit the circular economy for new gadgets and devices.