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Tech Lounge

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"

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Update frequency
every 10 days
Average duration
39 minutes
Episodes
331
Years Active
2015 - 2025
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Copy editing game rules with Rachel Lapidow

Copy editing game rules with Rachel Lapidow

I speak with Rachel Lapidow about tips and tricks for copy editing role play and board game rules.

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00:40:09  |   Thu 06 Feb 2025
EdTech and Open Source in Europe

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?

00:37:15  |   Thu 30 Jan 2025
Intelligent Telemetry Data Management & Observability with Apica

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.

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00:31:01  |   Mon 27 Jan 2025
2025 tech trends

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.

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00:45:41  |   Fri 17 Jan 2025
The Developer Relations Foundation

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/comm…

00:32:02  |   Thu 09 Jan 2025
Testcontainers

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 ca…

00:33:51  |   Thu 19 Dec 2024
Tech layoffs and what even is tech anyway?

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?

00:46:49  |   Fri 13 Dec 2024
Astro version 5 with Elian Van Cutsem

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, whic…

00:33:25  |   Thu 05 Dec 2024
Accessible quantum computing with Horizon

Accessible quantum computing with Horizon

I speak with Joe Fitzsimmons of Horizon Quantum, who are attempting make the move from traditional computer programming easier.

00:28:53  |   Thu 28 Nov 2024
Circularity startups and alternatives to X

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.

00:56:03  |   Thu 21 Nov 2024
The graph renaissance with neo4j

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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00:39:11  |   Thu 14 Nov 2024
Government bailouts in tech and tech influence in government

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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00:58:16  |   Tue 05 Nov 2024
Creating an Open Source AI definition

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 announcement

Learn more about the definition

00:33:38  |   Thu 31 Oct 2024
Workbrew, turning Homebrew into a business with Mike McQuaid

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 Home…

00:40:34  |   Thu 17 Oct 2024
Tech events

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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00:55:28  |   Thu 10 Oct 2024
AI-powered code reuse with Crowdbotics

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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00:31:23  |   Thu 03 Oct 2024
WASM at KubeCon EU 2024

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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00:30:07  |   Fri 20 Sep 2024
Alternative meats and what actually is AI?

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 intelligen…

00:49:59  |   Thu 12 Sep 2024
Sustainable infrastructure and AI powered IDEs

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 …

00:51:57  |   Thu 05 Sep 2024
Programming update

Programming update

No real episode, but rather a small update on some changes coming to the show.

00:02:31  |   Thu 08 Aug 2024
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