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"
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 331
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
1st August: Classic crunch crawl
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
01:33 AI Crawlers and Content Scraping
04:17 TechCrunch and the State of Tech Journalism
06:12 Retro Tech: Classic Mac OS and Image Formats
08:25 Web Browsing Privacy Enha…
Kubecon: Docker Build Cloud and Aiven
I am literally powered by Magic Mind right now. It’s helping me focus and keep going in some tough weeks of poor sleep and too much to do.
If you also need that helping hand, head over to magicmind.co…
18th July: A verbiage-filled delve
I am literally powered by Magic Mind right now. It’s helping me focus and keep going in some tough weeks of poor sleep and too much to do.
If you also need that helping hand, head over to magicmind.co…
Kubecon 2: CIVO and the Open infrastructure foundation
In this episode, more interviews from KubeCon Paris.
I speak with Dinesh from CIVO, a European cloud-native hosting company, and Thierry of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, whose projects typically…
5th July: Sim Life, AI vs Music, and after cloud comes?
I am literally powered by Magic Mind right now. It's helping me focus and keep going in some tough weeks of poor sleep and too much to do. If you also need that helping hand, head over to magicmind.c…
Voices from UK tech: Lorna Mitchel and Amanda Brock
Two of my interviews from the State of Open Con in London back in February. Featuring Lorna Mitchell, VP of developer experience at Redocly and Amanda Brock, CEO of open UK.
Lorna and I cover open sou…
20th June: WWDC, Streaming vs Music, and Chinese keyboards
Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
security.apple.com
Depending on who you speak with and how much attention they actually paid to the event, WWDC was either one of the b…
Make Synthetic Data a reality with Datacebo
I spoke with Kalyan of Datacebo, a company that creates open-source and enterprise tools for generating synthetic data for testing, load testing, and more.
- For show notes and an interactive transcrip…
Enterprise-level knowledge bases with Saravana Kumar of Document 360
I speak with Saravana Kumar of Document 360 about their enterprise-level solution for documentation and knowledge management and what AI could mean for the industry.
- 00:00 Introduction to the Podcast
- 0…
25th May: Batten down the hatches, AI is here
Mac Power Users #745: “Inventing the Future” with John Buck — Relay FM
Another MPU recommendation from me and a trip down Apple memory lane. John Buck published a book covering the “Apple Tech…
KubeCon EU 2024: Humanitec, Dagger, Scalr
In the first round-up of interviews from KubeCon EU 2024 in Paris, I focus on developer platform-related tools and productivity. The episode features interviews with Luca Galante of Humanitec, Sebast…
10th May: Music is hard for humans and AI
In this episode of Chinchilla Squeaks, I delve into two main topics. First, a series of articles on how AI, specifically GPT-4 and other models, struggle to understand and generate sheet music, highl…
Generative Infrastructure as code with AppCD
News 25th April: A vice-like grip
In this episode I feature the following:
Real-time analytics at cloud scale with Rockset
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…
Software supply chain security with Socket.dev
News 28th March: What is open AI and long live the Twiggy drive!
Generative AI for 3D asset creation and market research with Atlas and Gathers
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 th…