Tech Lounge

A few weeks late but what they hey. In this episode Cate and Chris share their tech trends and predictions for 2025.

I speak with Stacey and Phil of the newly launched Developer Relations Foundation, recognising the work of tech workers with community, marketing, and relations roles.

In this episode, I speak with Oleg of Testcontainers, an open source library for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers, or just about anything that can run in a Docker container.

In this episode Cate and Chris discuss recent tech layoffs and how to handle them better, plus what even is tech anyway?

In this episode, I speak with Elian Van Cutsem about one of my favourite web frameworks and what I use for my own website, Astro. We talk generally about the project, its history, and version 5, which was released this week!

I speak with Joe Fitzsimmons of Horizon Quantum, who are attempting make the move from traditional computer programming easier.

In this deep dive episode Cate and Chris dig into circular economy startups and how all the alternatives to Twitter/X/Twix compare.

I speak with Michael Hunger of neo4j about the history of graph databases and how they are finding new use cases with the current wave of generative AI tools.

In this topic deep dive, Cate and I discuss government bailouts for tech companies, EU investment in tech companies, and the possible manipulation of US politics by tech companies and cybercrime.

I speak with Stephen Hood of Mozilla about their joint efforts with the Open Source Initiative to create a definition of open source AI.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?