Tech Lounge
Chris Chinchilla
A weekly podcast that welcomes you to explore technology with an insightful interview every two weeks and topic-deep dives every other two weeks.
If you're interested in deep and creative technology and conversations with some of its most interesting practioners, this is the show for you. Come in and get yourself comfortable.
Show notes can be found at - chrischinchilla.com/podcast
Formerly known as "Chinchilla Squeaks"
If you're interested in deep and creative technology and conversations with some of its most interesting practioners, this is the show for you. Come in and get yourself comfortable.
Show notes can be found at - chrischinchilla.com/podcast
Formerly known as "Chinchilla Squeaks"
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Jan 30, 2025 • 37min
EdTech and Open Source in Europe
In this episode, Cate and Chris discuss the state of education tech in Europe, and as the open source community gears up for FOSDEM and side events week, how does open source look in Europe?drewdevault.com/2025/01/23/2025-01-23-Transparency-and-governance-FOSDEM.htmltech.eu/2025/01/27/meet-codecrafters-the-upskilling-platform-trusted-by-devs-from-google-github-and-microsofttech.eu/2024/09/27/how-brighterly-is-addressing-the-us-math-education-crisistech.eu/2024/09/20/berlin-startup-sirius-raises-4m-for-online-music-schoolWant to Build Your Mental Wealth in 2025?Get 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with with my link:https://www.magicmind.com/techJAN
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Jan 27, 2025 • 31min
Intelligent Telemetry Data Management & Observability with Apica
I speak with the CPTO of Apica, Ranjan Parthasarathy, about how they bring AI to the big and busy world of telemetry and observability data.Want to Build Your Mental Wealth in 2025?Get 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with with my link:https://www.magicmind.com/techJAN
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Jan 17, 2025 • 46min
2025 tech trends
A few weeks late but what they hey. In this episode Cate and Chris share their tech trends and predictions for 2025.Want to Build Your Mental Wealth in 2025?Get 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with with my link:https://www.magicmind.com/techJAN
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Jan 9, 2025 • 32min
The Developer Relations Foundation
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.https://lists.dev-rel.org/g/community/wiki
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Dec 19, 2024 • 34min
Testcontainers
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.
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Dec 13, 2024 • 47min
Tech layoffs and what even is tech anyway?
In this episode Cate and Chris discuss recent tech layoffs and how to handle them better, plus what even is tech anyway?
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Dec 5, 2024 • 33min
Astro version 5 with Elian Van Cutsem
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!
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Nov 28, 2024 • 29min
Accessible quantum computing with Horizon
I speak with Joe Fitzsimmons of Horizon Quantum, who are attempting make the move from traditional computer programming easier.
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Nov 21, 2024 • 56min
Circularity startups and alternatives to X
In this deep dive episode Cate and Chris dig into circular economy startups and how all the alternatives to Twitter/X/Twix compare.
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Nov 14, 2024 • 39min
The graph renaissance with neo4j
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.
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