Podcasts

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

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

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

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 mind, a little green bottle of goodness that helps your focus and energy. Head over to magicmind.com/chinchillasqueaks and use the code "CHINCHILLASQUEAKS20" for 48% of subscriptions or 20% off one-time purchases.

In this episode Mustafa and Chris discuss what their own personal and global utopias could be. We discuss things that are currently making us happy and our "babies".

Mustafa scrapes the bottom of the joke barrel and we discuss upcoming trips "home".

Whisk(e)ys drunk:

• Tamnavulin tempranillo cask edition
• The Gospel rye
• Aberlour 18 YO Double Sherry Cask Finish

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 poor sleep and too much to do. If you also need that helping hand, head over to magicmind.com/chinchillasqueaks and use the code "CHINCHILLASQUEAKS20" for 48% of subscriptions or 20% off one time purchases.

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.

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

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.

Mustafa and Chris talk about writing and the price of… wine(!). Mustafa gives Chris tips on Turkey, TV shows, books, old man health, learning to play guitar, and more. Along the way, we drink our favourite whisk(e)ys, and Mustafa tells some "jokes."

Whiskey's drunk:

• Talisker 10
• Suntory Nikka
• Spey Fumaré

I speak with Saravana Kumar of Document 360 about their enterprise-level solution for documentation and knowledge management and what AI could mean for the industry.

In this episode, I look at the history of Dell, Apple, and Nokia, as well as current efforts to stop the AI machine from gobbling all and sundry.

In the first round-up of interviews from KubeCon EU 2024 in Paris, I focus on developer platform-related tools and productivity. The episode features interviews with Humanitec, Scalr, and Dagger.

I cover AI's limitations in understanding sheet music, musicians facing financial challenges while touring, and share updates on my recent Medium post and YouTube interview with Sysdig.

I speak with Asif Awan of AppCD about their generative AI tool that creates the infrastructure as code configuration you need based on application code.