Tech Lounge

I am joined by hacker turned software entrepreneur, John Davenport to show me his new idea for using AI to summarise conversations and drill into topics covered.

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Hello all! It’s been a little while and I’ve been holding on to a really great interview the whole time. In summary, after a long few years of running the podcast through varying shapes and sizes… I …

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A big dive into questioning artificial intelligence and an interview with Avi from Scarf, who aims to help open source developers gain insights into their usage.

Questioning artificial …

Let’s start with some fun

This newsletter gets dark quickly, so first something to enjoy.

Farrago 2 soundboard for Mac arrives with 50 new features including Shortcuts and Stream Deck integration →

Rogu…

KubeCon, back to business

Ahead of the event I arranged some interviews with companies that piqued my interest and don’t all fit under the headings in my write up that you can read here - https://chin…

Podcast version

Find the podcast version of this newsletter, including my interview with Bertrand of Canonical on the Substack podcast page or wherever you find your podcasts.

Tech

A mixed bag this issu…

It's time for open-source users to open their wallets →

It was around the year 1999 and I was attending my first Linux convention at the Research Triangle where Red Hat was headquartered. I was, needl…

Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more.

This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview with M…

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Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more.

This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview…

Podcast version

Find the podcast version of this newsletter, including my interview with Daniel on the Substack podcast page or wherever you find your podcasts.

From me…

Read more about my experiments w…

From me…

Migrating a website from…

Read more about my journey overhauling my old old website, and my progress so far.

Storytelling Collective Flash February

Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fict…

Updates from me…

Alternative browsers for macOS

I was interested in diving into the many new browsers emerging right now, especially for macOS.

* Video

* Blog post

Flash fiction February 2023

This daily wr…

OGL 1.1/1.2/1.3/😱

Wizards of the Coast goes into firefighting mode to stop the exodus of D&D fans.

An Update on the Open Game License (OGL) →

When we initially conceived of revising the OGL, it was with…

“The Dead Among Us” is a post-post-apocalyptic love story that shows emotion and understanding can conquer history, resentment, and generational divides to create a truly new world.

I have been workin…

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So, I am quite late with this newsletter and podcast as I was travelling blah blah. But also Twitter owns the service I was using for newsletters (Revue), which meant I needed to look fo…

Hello all! Lots of lovely AI and machine learning links for you this issue as I am working on a new show! Also Twitter, Mozilla, and that internet thing? It's dead.

I'm back after two weeks of conferences. I interview speakers from Build Stuff in Lithuania, report back from other events, dig into the history of JavaScript frameworks, and hang out with Lana Moore…

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Kin Lane is back on the show. Also a week of announcements from companies that begin with "A", the speed behind Tech's sails starts to slow (and is that good or bad?) and life… Life not as …

This was my third invitation to attend in Lviv, Ukraine. But this was the first time, and indeed a first for me overall, that the conference happened during a war and in what was effectively a warzon…

In this episode I round up the latest geeky news that has caught my attention including the Ethereum merge, looking forward to macOS Ventura, AI images already getting banned in image stores, a histo…