Tech Lounge

Another great interview for Web Summit 2025, where I speak with Avery Pennarun of Tailscale, a product I use all the time to connect to my remote machines.

In this episode, I speak with Dana Lawson, CTO of Netlify, about the journey of the company so far, where they're heading and how it fits into the company's predictions on the future of the web.

In this episode, I speak with Nancy Wang, at the time SVP of engineering at 1Password, now Chief Technology Officer, and we talk about the growth of the company and how they plan to keep serving consumer and business needs.

In this episode, I speak with Ellen from Keyfactor about digital trust in the age of agentic AI and how the company uses their knowledge and history to help organisations, no matter the new challenges they face.

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.

Selvaraaju Murugesan of Kovai and I speak about the future of AI in tech writing.

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

Cate and Chris recap a month of events, including IFA, the Bologna Gathering, LF Energy, IT Arena, and How to Web.

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.

I am joined by Ed of Cribl, an observability and telemetry platform for security tracking and teams.

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.

I speak with Vadym Grin about his forthcoming book on good, bad, and ugly design for digital products and services.