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Tech Lounge podcast

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.

Workbrew, turning Homebrew into a business with Mike McQuaid

Workbrew, turning Homebrew into a business with Mike McQuaid

17/10/2024

I speak with Mike McQuaid, long-term maintainer of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, about Workbrew, a new commercial version of Homebrew that brings extra security and governance features to Homebrew.

Tech events

Tech events

10/10/2024

In this episode, Cate and Chris dive into tech events. The different types, how they work, how they feel, and how they've changed the past few years.

AI-powered code reuse with Crowdbotics

AI-powered code reuse with Crowdbotics

03/10/2024

Corey from Crowdbotics joins me in the Tech Lounge to talk about their six year journey in creating an AI-powered code reuse platform, long before others jumped on the bandwagon.

WASM at KubeCon EU 2024

WASM at KubeCon EU 2024

20/09/2024

This episode is all about WASM at KubeCon EU 2024 way back in March. I speak with WASMEdge and Cosmonic to find out what they bring and their thoughts on WASM.

Alternative meats and what actually is AI?

Alternative meats and what actually is AI?

12/09/2024

It's a discussion episode! And this time, Cate Lawrence from Tech.eu joins me to talk about alternative meats and proteins, and I ask in a sea of jargon and hype, what really is artificial intelligence?

Sustainable infrastructure and AI powered IDEs

Sustainable infrastructure and AI powered IDEs

05/09/2024

In the tech lounge this episode, I have Leonard Pahlke talking about bringing sustainability to infrastructure and the work of the CNCF sustainability TAG and Dedy Kredo from Codium AI talking about their AI-powered IDE…

Programming update

Programming update

08/08/2024

No real episode, but rather a small update on some changes coming to the show.

1st August: Classic crunch crawl

1st August: Classic crunch crawl

01/08/2024

My news episode featuring AI crawlers roaming wild, classic MacOS tools, Tech Crunch loses its way, and more!

Kubecon: Docker Build Cloud and Aiven

Kubecon: Docker Build Cloud and Aiven

25/07/2024

More interviews from KubeCon Paris. This time, Matt Wilson, a colleague from Docker Build Cloud, and Sebastian Blanc of Aiven.

18th July: A verbiage-filled delve

18th July: A verbiage-filled delve

18/07/2024

Cracking open LLMs, 45 years of the Walkman, How the UK's new Government plans to invest in tech, and more!

Kubecon 2: CIVO and the Open infrastructure foundation

Kubecon 2: CIVO and the Open infrastructure foundation

12/07/2024

In this episode, I speak with Dinesh from CIVO, a European cloud-native hosting company, and Thierry of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, whose projects typically power data centres. This episode is powered by magic m…

5th July: Sim Life, AI vs Music, and after cloud comes?

5th July: Sim Life, AI vs Music, and after cloud comes?

05/07/2024

There is a good dose of retro computing, tech trends, and edge technologies in this issue, so let's dive in. I am literally powered by Magic Mind right now. It's helping me focus and keep going in some tough weeks of po…

Voices from UK tech: Lorna Mitchel and Amanda Brock

Voices from UK tech: Lorna Mitchel and Amanda Brock

27/06/2024

Two of my interviews from the State of Open Con in London back in February. Featuring Lorna Mitchell, VP of developer experience at Redocly and Amanda Brock, CEO of open UK.

20th June: WWDC, Streaming vs Music, and Chinese keyboards

20th June: WWDC, Streaming vs Music, and Chinese keyboards

20/06/2024

I am back from Melbourne with a good dose of developer news, AI, and computing history

Make Synthetic Data a reality with Datacebo

Make Synthetic Data a reality with Datacebo

13/06/2024

I spoke with Kalyan of Datacebo, a company that creates open-source and enterprise tools for generating synthetic data for testing, load testing, and more.

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