Exploring the Diverse Interests and Contributions of Tech Pioneers

Jon “gzip enthusiast” Johnson joins us for a history lesson on compression & how it impacts everything from containers to Alpine.

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Featuring:

• Jon Johnson – GitHub, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• Microsoft’s AI carbon footprint
• Copilot Plus

Interview

• Ship It #91, featuring Jason Hall from Chainguard
• RFC 1951
• Registry explorer
• ima.ge.cx
• How ima.ge.cx works
• aidansteele/ima.ge.cx-backend
• circulosmeos/gztool
• stargz snapshotter
• SOCI

Claude Shannon

• Wikipedia
• A Mind at Play
• The Bit Player

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