

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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Nov 5, 2024 • 58min
Government bailouts in tech and tech influence in government
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.
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Oct 31, 2024 • 34min
Creating an Open Source AI definition
I speak with Stephen Hood of Mozilla about their joint efforts with the Open Source Initiative to create a definition of open source AI.Read all about the announcementLearn more about the definition
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Oct 17, 2024 • 41min
Workbrew, turning Homebrew into a business with Mike McQuaid
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.This interview formed the basis of my article on The Next Web in July.
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Oct 10, 2024 • 55min
Tech events
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.
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Oct 3, 2024 • 31min
AI-powered code reuse with Crowdbotics
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.
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Sep 20, 2024 • 30min
WASM at KubeCon EU 2024
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.
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Sep 12, 2024 • 50min
Alternative meats and what actually is AI?
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?
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Sep 5, 2024 • 52min
Sustainable infrastructure and AI powered IDEs
In the tech lounge this episode, I have Leonard Pahlke talking about bringing sustainability to infrastructure and the work of the CNCF sustainability TAG and Dedy Kredo from Codium AI talking about their AI-powered IDE and text editor extension.
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Aug 8, 2024 • 3min
Programming update
No real episode, but rather a small update on some changes coming to the show.
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Aug 1, 2024 • 13min
1st August: Classic crunch crawl
00:00 Introduction and Welcome01:33 AI Crawlers and Content Scraping04:17 TechCrunch and the State of Tech Journalism06:12 Retro Tech: Classic Mac OS and Image Formats08:25 Web Browsing Privacy Enhancements10:08 Sleep Tracking and Orthosomnia11:05 Sign OffLike what you’re reading?It’s a tough time for content creators right now. If you enjoy what you read, then consider a contribution. Here are the ways you can help me out.Or please share or review the newsletter!Thanks :)AI crawlers need to be more respectfulabout.readthedocs.comThere’s a growing backlash against AI crawlers consuming websites, videos, and other content with little respect for robots.txt, copyright issues, or the spikes of traffic that hosts have to pay for. Now, more people are talking about the impact.Apple Nvidia Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AIwired.comSee above…Tech Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its waykeepgoingpod.comThis honestly feels like a summation of the trials and tribulations of tech journalism over the past 20 years, seen through the focus of one of the best-known sites. To some anyway.Orthosomniaen.wikipedia.orgI am a terrible sleeper, but one of the best pieces of advice I read is to stop worrying about it. In fact, I found out this week that worrying about sleep now has a medical term.Managing Classic Mac OS resources in ResEditeclecticlight.coSometimes, I miss the hackability of classic Mac OS. Then I remember how unstable it was 😬Here’s why you have to deal with so many annoying webPs nowpcgamer.comTurns out I am not the only one endlessly irritated by this odd image format that pops up more and more and never feels like a “real” image.Artifactingtedium.coOn the subject of webP, what’s the history of the JPEG? Maybe one of the most successful image formats of our time.Private Browsing 2.0webkit.orgWhen is private browsing truly private? When it’s version 2!
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