Chinchilla Squeaks

News 12th April: Coding in the 80s, flaws in the open, and the floppy Jonathan

In this news episode: https://danluu.com/slow-device/ https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo47qPvs3HQ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/26/1090129/how-adobes-bet-on-non-exploitative-ai-is-paying-off/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714980/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork.html https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/

Software supply chain security with Socket.dev

I speak with Feross Aboukhadijeh of Socket.dev about their smarter and more considered solution for securing software supply chains.

News 28th March: What is open AI and long live the Twiggy drive!

A light news show where I cover the growing need to label what "open" AI really is, local LLMS reprised, and long live the Twiggy drive!

Generative AI for 3D asset creation and market research with Atlas and Gathers

In this episode, I speak with Atlas about their AI tool for generating 3D assets for games and architectural use and with Gathers about their AI tool for market research and competitive analysis. Generative AI tools all the way down! https://www.atlasai.co/ https://gathers.ai/

News for 14th March: What lurks in LLMs, Ableton 12, and Star Trek musical instruments

It’s been a while! I have decided to split my podcast and newsletter into two streams: Every two weeks a news and resources round up. You’re reading it! I am not 100% sure where else I will archive those yet. With that out the way, time to dig in. AI (of course), music, and SciFi this issue. Rise of Local LLMs ? → In the not-so-distant past, dabbling in generative AI technology meant leaning heavily on proprietary models. The routine was straightforward: snag an OpenAI key, and you're of...

Generative AI meets Observability with Flip AI

In this episode I speak with Corey Harrison of Flip.ai, one of a handful of new companies bringing generative AI to the DevOps space. In Flip.ai's case, this is leveraging to bring intelligence and flexibility to observability data.

Internet and cultural preservation with Fastly and BevArt

In this episode I speak with Simon Wistow of Fastly about their work to keep the internet running and Christian Nielsen of BevArt who aim to keep cultural artefacts in museums and galleries lasting for as long as possible.

Voice cloning with Respeecher

I have a fascinating conversation with Alex from Respeecher, a Ukranian startup whose work you have probably heard in high-profile games, movies, and campaigns.

Data processing made easy, e-governance in Ukraine, and marketing Pharma

Two interviews from Web Summit 2023 in this episode. First, with Irina and Dmitri of Datuum, an interesting data processing platform powered by AI. Second, Anna from Viseven, where we talk about Ukraine's DIA app and how the company she works for handles marketing with the pharmaceutical industry.

Learning git with Anna Skoulikari

In this episode, I speak with Anna Skoulikari about her new book, "Learn Git" from O'Reilly. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-git/9781098133900/ Use the code "learngit23" for a 30% discount!

Open source at Wikimedia and Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity in Open Source

In this episode, I finish up my interviews from last year's Open Source Summit with two amazing interviews. First is Leszek Manicki, engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation Second is Jessica Tegner an advocate for diversity, inclusivity, and equity in open source

Testing websites and accessible websites

In this episode, I finish up my interviews from We Are Developers earlier in the year and speak with Filip Hrick about testing websites with Cypress and Dennie Declercq about creating vision-accessible websites. Enjoy! Full show notes at: http://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/

A more sustainable internet with Chris Adams of the Green Web Foundation

I speak with Chris Adams, the director of the Green Web Foundation. We discuss their mission, tools, programs, and plans for making the online world as sustainable as possible. https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrchrisadams/

Stories from Ukraine, IT Arena 2023: The future of airports, hiring, and education.

In this episode, I share interviews from the IT Arena event in Lviv, Ukraine. As I dive into conversations with tech innovators from around the world, we discusses a range of topics, from a digital platform for airports to remote hiring of developers and the future of education in tech. I also explores the state of the tech industry in Ukraine, the influence of artificial intelligence, and my own journey in the tech world.

What is Developer relations with Richard Roger

I speak with Ricarhd Roger of VoxGig to discuss what exactly developer relations is, its history, future, and potential impact. Show notes: chrischinchilla.com/podcasts

Loris Degioanni of Sysdig

I'm back with a great interview covering Sysdig and its journey in helping secure cloud computing. Accompanied by a healthy dose of news. We speak about the history of the company, Falco, eBPF, and cloud security and observability from a person who has been involved in the ecosystem for some time. Full notes: https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/

OSS Summit Linux Foundation Europe and Open Source metrics

This episode is another round of interviews from OSS Summit in Bilbao and features interviews with Gab Columbro, the general manager of LF Europe and Dawn Foster of the CHAOSS project. We talk about open source strategy and challenges in Europe and measuring the health of large and small open source projects. It also features more announcements from Canonical, a round-up of less well-known audio editors, and getting ready for Halloween… Mystical texts. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/o...

OSS Summit Energy and Sustainability

Dragos Nedelcu of the Senior Dev

Molham Aref of RelationalAI, the AI coprocessor

In this episode I speak with Molham Aref from Relational AI. we discuss the concept of an AI co-processor for data and its relevance to those working with Snowflake. We delve into the importance of data management in machine learning and AI projects. The interview covers topics such as the integration of Relational AI with Snowflake, the company's roadmap for the future, and the possibility of expanding to other platforms. Find out more at: https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/8334dac6-...

IFA and Startup night Berlin 2023, slow but steady

It's a busy weekend of tech in Berlin, but have things cooled or are we all taking a well-earned break? No ads for this episode, but instead, a personal request to anyone I’ve interviewed or featured or if you’re a long-term or short-term follower. Please spread the word by rating, reviewing, or sharing the newsletter or podcast. First, a couple of links The best iPad score reader for most people → Even before Apple announced the iPad, seeing the first Amazon Kindle had me excited for th...

Sefi Carmel of Spheretrax and what is music?

Something of a music theme in this issue. My interview is with Sefi Carmel of Spheretrax, a new take on selecting, synchronising, and licensing music for TV, films, and games. I also look at what “noise” really is, ancient music software, the continuing sage of Terraform, the end of Google, and maybe one of the most famous Rock and roll fights of all time. Sponsored by Zencaster This issue is sponsored by Zencaster, who’s all-in-one podcasting platform helps me deliver my show episode. Us...

Elise Bently on TincyMCE and CKEditor, AI in the developing world

A packed issue full of AI content, what powers the internet, the real cost of food, offline-first, and an interview all about CK editor and TinyMCE. Full show notes here: https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/bd2d57e5-b110-4963-947b-5afaa19130c8

A greener web with Ines Akrap

This episode I speak with Ines Akrap at the recent We Are Developers event about how we can make the web greener. Trust me on this one, nothing captured the enthusiasm I felt from her in the room, but I try 😁. This issue is sponsored by Zencaster, who’s all-in-one podcasting platform helps me deliver my show episode. Use my special link zen.ai/chinchillasqueaks to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan. State of Open: The UK in 2023 Phase Two, Part 1 “Show us the Money - ...

Lab grown forks

This episode is a links show and I cover Red Hat’s latest open source upsets, lab grown meat, AI ‘aint that bad, happy birthday ethernet, and more! This episode is sponsored by Zencaster, who’s all-in-one podcasting platform helps me deliver my show episode. Use my special link zen.ai/chinchillasqueaks to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan. Find full show notes here: https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/lab-grown-forks?sd=pf

Replacing people with machines that play Mad Libs with John Davenport

I am joined by hacker turned software entrepreneur, John Davenport to show me his new idea for using AI to summarise conversations and drill into topics covered. Also features… AI and Music-Making Part 2: Tomorrow Is The Question →This is Part 2 of our deep-dive into AI music-making. In Part 1, we learned what AI is; examined the challenges of applying AI technology to music-making; and explored uses of AI such as MIDI generation, timbral transfer, and analog modeling. Back to the Monol...

50 years of text adventures and 50 weeks of AI adventures

Hello all! It’s been a little while and I’ve been holding on to a really great interview the whole time. In summary, after a long few years of running the podcast through varying shapes and sizes… I am joining a podcast network and agency! This is great news for me and will help me move the show to the next level, however I need to do a few technical transfers behind the scenes and that made me pause for a few weeks to avoid downtime. Unfortunately we hit a few issues here and there and that...

Open Source insights with Scarf and questioning AI

Hello everyone! A big dive into questioning artificial intelligence and an interview with Avi from Scarf, who aims to help open source developers gain insights into their usage. Questioning artificial intelligence It’s another AI-heavy issue, but this time I want to highlight some content that questions the technology and attitudes to it in some nuanced ways. I start with how AI creators and users are “hallucinating” its potential, wonder if it’s as smart as it looks, and look at the disc...

The life and death of AI

Let’s start with some fun This newsletter gets dark quickly, so first something to enjoy. Farrago 2 soundboard for Mac arrives with 50 new features including Shortcuts and Stream Deck integration → Rogue Amoeba is releasing a major update to Farrago, the great soundboard app for Mac. Farrago 2.0 includes 50 new features ranging from fun emoji art to well-designed Stream Deck interactivity. Thanks for reading Chinchilla Squeaks! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work....

KubeCon EU 2023, back in business

KubeCon, back to business Ahead of the event I arranged some interviews with companies that piqued my interest and don’t all fit under the headings in my write up that you can read here - https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/9c266812-78f0-4985-a719-2b745ff7053c SLIM.AI I previously covered the slim toolkit from Slim.ai and in the interview I am joined by Nnenna Ndukwe, developer advocate at the company, to discuss their new vulnerability scanning and hardening features. MINIO Anothe...

The strangest of places

Podcast version Find the podcast version of this newsletter, including my interview with Bertrand of Canonical on the Substack podcast page or wherever you find your podcasts. Tech A mixed bag this issue covering everything from the slow death of Russia’s tech scene, a visual history of Android, GPT-4 in role-play games in role-play games in classified comment leaks. Erm, yes, you read that right. How Russia killed its tech industry → Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir B...

MS-Wot?

It's time for open-source users to open their wallets → It was around the year 1999 and I was attending my first Linux convention at the Research Triangle where Red Hat was headquartered. I was, needless to say, excited. Internet Arcade → The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. MS-DOS Meets ChatGPT → ChatGPT has to be one of the hottest buzz words right ...

Silicon Valley Tank(s)

Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more. This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview with Marshall Jung of Tabnine you can hear in the voiceover section of this newsletter or wherever you find your podcasts. We spoke about the company’s take on AI coding assistants and how they’ve been doing things differently from some time. Thanks for reading Chinchilla Squeaks! Subscribe for free...

We'll fight them on the breaches

Welcome Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more. This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview with Josh Koenig of Pantheon you can hear in the voiceover section of this newsletter or wherever you find your podcasts. I remember Pantheon from my Drupal days. And we spoke a lot about the past, present and future of content delivering what where they came from what they have been doing a...

Developer experience with Jetpack and Mac for Linux and Windows

Podcast version Find the podcast version of this newsletter, including my interview with Daniel on the Substack podcast page or wherever you find your podcasts. From me… Read more about my experiments with managing the macOS home folder with version control. Storytelling Collective Flash February Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium. Using AI to generate music with Magenta and Ableton Live How did I find creating music with AI? Tech What Is ChatGPT...

Babylon.js, artificial everything, and customer care?

From me… Migrating a website from… Read more about my journey overhauling my old old website, and my progress so far. Storytelling Collective Flash February Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium. In bots we trust My new show with my friend Killian where we look at generative AI, because, well, everyone else is! Tech Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias → Armed with a belief in technology’s generative potential, a growing faction of rese...

Artificial terrestrial

Updates from me… Alternative browsers for macOS I was interested in diving into the many new browsers emerging right now, especially for macOS. * Video * Blog post Flash fiction February 2023 This daily writing challenge is back, read my entries on Medium, pretty much every day. Thanks for reading Chinchilla Squeaks! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Tech Try Astro 2.0 Today → Astro 2.0 is available on npm today. Upgrade an existing project by running npm...

Artificial terrestrial

Updates from me… Alternative browsers for macOS I was interested in diving into the many new browsers emerging right now, especially for macOS. * Video * Blog post Flash fiction February 2023 This daily writing challenge is back, read my entries on Medium, pretty much every day. Thanks for reading Chinchilla Squeaks! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Tech Try Astro 2.0 Today → Astro 2.0 is available on npm today. Upgrade an existing project by running npm...

Open games, open AI, and the state of open con with Amanda Brock

OGL 1.1/1.2/1.3/😱 Wizards of the Coast goes into firefighting mode to stop the exodus of D&D fans. An Update on the Open Game License (OGL) → When we initially conceived of revising the OGL, it was with three major goals in mind. First, we wanted the ability to prevent the use of D&D content from being included in hateful and discriminatory products. Thanks for reading Chinchilla Squeaks! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Wizards of the Coast Breaks Its Silenc...

What happens when the living and the previously dead fall in love?

“The Dead Among Us” is a post-post-apocalyptic love story that shows emotion and understanding can conquer history, resentment, and generational divides to create a truly new world. I have been working on this novel for just over two years and now after several drafts I am ready for public feedback. If you are interested, then fill in this Google form, I won’t accept everyone, but will be very pleased to hear from everyone who is interested. If you just want to know about updates, then you...

Welcome to twenty twenty wee hee

Hey everyone! So, I am quite late with this newsletter and podcast as I was travelling blah blah. But also Twitter owns the service I was using for newsletters (Revue), which meant I needed to look for a replacement. I looked at a few but settled on where all the cool kids were… Substack. Then I noticed they also support podcasts, so migrated my podcast too. I wanted to give a good window of time to ensure everything had migrated, and now finally here we are! Substack offers a lot of cool ...

AI AI

Hello all! Lots of lovely AI and machine learning links for you this issue as I am working on a new show! Also Twitter, Mozilla, and that internet thing? It's dead. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com

Raytracing Llamas in the Metaverse - Interviews from Build Stuff

I'm back after two weeks of conferences. I interview speakers from Build Stuff in Lithuania, report back from other events, dig into the history of JavaScript frameworks, and hang out with Lana Moore… Or not. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com

Kin Lane of Postman, announcearama, and tech loses its shine

Hey all 👋 Kin Lane is back on the show. Also a week of announcements from companies that begin with "A", the speed behind Tech's sails starts to slow (and is that good or bad?) and life… Life not as we know it Jim. xxx Chinch --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com

IT Arena 2022 - Ukrainian tech braves the war

This was my third invitation to attend in Lviv, Ukraine. But this was the first time, and indeed a first for me overall, that the conference happened during a war and in what was effectively a warzone. Read my blog post for full context - https://hackernoon.com/it-arena-2022-ukrainian-tech-braves-the-war And daily diaries starts at about 26:00 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...

A legendary merge

In this episode I round up the latest geeky news that has caught my attention including the Ethereum merge, looking forward to macOS Ventura, AI images already getting banned in image stores, a history of ARM, and much more! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com

Dotan Horovits of Logz.io, watch your heroes and the life of Clippy

In this episode I speak with Dotan Horowits from Logz.io about Observability and OpenTelemetry. Also features how much GPT-3 truly knows about you, the life of clippy and why you should always have an air of scepticism in what you read. Magic mind discount codes The next 10 days, you can get 40% off your subscription at: https://www.magicmind.co/chinchilla A 20% discount code of any single purchase: CHINCHILLA20 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message ...

Tiny CSS and Moore's magic Mac

In this episode I speak with the authors of Tiny CSS projects, Michael Gearon and Martine Dowden. I also look at Apple's new repair program, the saviour of Moore's law, and more! Magic mind discount codes The next 10 days, you can get 40% off your subscription at: https://www.magicmind.co/chinchilla A 20% discount code of any single purchase: CHINCHILLA20 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss th...

Matt Butcher of Fermyon, GTA, Tauri, and is Veganism really that popular?

On this episode I have Matt Butcher of Fermyon to talk about their cloud-hosted webassembly platform. I also cover Tauri, tech settings you should change, Umbrella Academy, ask if Veganism is really hype, and much more! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com

Apache Pulsar with Patrick McFadin

I have Patrick McFadin back on the show to discuss using Apache Pulsar for distributed cloud-native streaming and how it fits into Data Stax's plans and business goals. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com