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  • Sustainable infrastructure and AI powered IDEs

    Sustainable infrastructure and AI powered IDEs
    Sep 5 2024

    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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    52 m
  • Programming update

    Programming update
    Aug 8 2024

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

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    3 m
  • 1st August: Classic crunch crawl

    1st August: Classic crunch crawl
    Aug 1 2024

    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 Enhancements

    10:08 Sleep Tracking and Orthosomnia

    11:05 Sign Off

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    AI crawlers need to be more respectful

    about.readthedocs.com

    There’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 AI

    wired.com

    See above…

    Tech Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its way

    keepgoingpod.com

    This 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.

    Orthosomnia

    en.wikipedia.org

    I 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 ResEdit

    eclecticlight.co

    Sometimes, 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 now

    pcgamer.com

    Turns 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.

    Artifacting

    tedium.co

    On the subject of webP, what’s the history of the JPEG? Maybe one of the most successful image formats of our time.

    Private Browsing 2.0

    webkit.org

    When is private browsing truly private? When it’s version 2!

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    13 m
  • Kubecon: Docker Build Cloud and Aiven

    Kubecon: Docker Build Cloud and Aiven
    Jul 25 2024

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    More interviews from KubeCon Paris. This time, Matt Wilson, a colleague from Docker Build Cloud, and Sebastian Blanc of Aiven.

    00:00 Introduction and Podcast Overview
    01:42 Docker Build Cloud Explained
    03:22 Challenges in Docker Image Building
    04:33 BuildCloud Features and Benefits
    06:22 User Experience and Feedback
    18:50 Future Plans and Roadmap
    20:34 Aiven - Exploring Data Management Solutions
    22:17 Aiven - Open Source Commitment and Contributions
    25:23 Aiven - Competing in the Cloud Market
    31:39 Aiven - Developer Experience and Tools
    36:24 Aiven - Future Directions and Innovations
    40:57 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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    42 m
  • 18th July: A verbiage-filled delve

    18th July: A verbiage-filled delve
    Jul 18 2024

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    Peering Into The Black Box Of Large Language Models

    hackaday.com

    How do LLMs *actually* work? A surprisingly small amount of people know, or bother to find out. But slowly, their creators are starting to ask questions about their creations, like any good creator really should.

    A revolution in your hand: Happy 45th birthday to the Sony Walkman

    musicradar.com

    I had a depressing conversation with a 22 year old recently where they had no idea what ripping or burning CDs was. Imagine if I’d told them about cassettes, battery life, and changing sides…

    How Labour Can Fix the UKs Tech Industry

    wired.com

    I am still registered to vote in the UK, and I’m not going to get to optimistic (yet), but it’s nice to see some attempt to build upon an already fairly strong tech industry from the new government.

    The telltale words that could identify generative AI text

    arstechnica.com

    Have you noticed how overly verbose and full of verbiage AI-generated text is? And, of course, the more that goes in, the more comes out again in some kind of self-fueling flurry of verbs. Lovely.

    EuRuKo 2024

    2024.euruko.org

    EuRuKo is the annual European Ruby Conference. Join us in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024 on 11th — 13th of September.

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    15 m
  • Kubecon 2: CIVO and the Open infrastructure foundation

    Kubecon 2: CIVO and the Open infrastructure foundation
    Jul 12 2024

    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 power data centres.

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    Want to come see me do sounds and lights for a play in Berlin?

    https://www.eventbrite.de/e/the-house-of-bernarda-alba-tickets-920747038177

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    50 m
  • 5th July: Sim Life, AI vs Music, and after cloud comes?

    5th July: Sim Life, AI vs Music, and after cloud comes?
    Jul 5 2024
    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.com/chinchillasqueaks and use the code "CHINCHILLASQUEAKS20" for 48% of subscriptions or 20% off one time purchases.Like 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’s the ways you can help me out.Or please share or review the newsletter!Thanks :)‘The first few nights were punishing’: how sleep restriction cured my lifelong insomniatheguardian.comI am an on/off long-suffering poor sleeper. The middle-of-the-night insomnia is better than it used to be, but I still find it hard to stay in a deep sleep and wake up too early most of the time. I have also been trying to stay up later, hoping it might mean I wake up later, but it’s not working especially in summer. I am not sure I want to push things to this extreme, but maybe it’s worth trying.Managing Your Mac Menu Bar: A Roundup of My Favorite Bartender Alternativesmacstories.netI love macOS’s menu bar, but it can get cluttered quite quickly. Thanks to Setapp I’ve been using Bartender for some time to keep mine tidy. Recently, the developer sold the company to a new owner who, shall we say, didn’t handle the transition well. Most people’s concerns around security and privacy seem to now be resolved, but it still gave developers of alternative applications a great opportunity, and this list summarises some of the best.Training AI music models is about to get very expensivetechnologyreview.comDid I mention before I used to be a professional musician? I think I did 😅. Anyway, as I still make some money from that part of my life, it makes me more sensitive to those exploiting musicians’ work. Oddly, AI-generated music is one of the rare cases where the archaic archaeology of the music business works in favour of artists. They are not an industry with a reputation for taking a hit to their bottom line lightly, and now the AI companies are firmly in their sights.Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing?bbc.comWhile some companies are still beginning their journey with cloud-native, some of the early adopters are already moving to the next thing, which seems to be back to running your own servers. The promise of flexible costs hasn’t been the reality for many, and the loops and hoops providers make you jump through too much work. 37signals (and isn’t it great to hear from them again!?) are one of many recent examples of this trend. While I don’t think we need to worry about the big three providers yet, what’s next?EuRuKo 20242024.euruko.orgAnd on the subject of Ruby! EuRuKo is the annual European Ruby Conference. I’ll be there in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024 on 11th — 13th of September. Hope to see you there!SimCity Isnt a Model of Reality. Its a Libertarian Toy Landwired.comAnyone reading for a while might know I am a fan of building-style games (on the rare occasions I play games anyway). Sim City is a classic of this genre, and it became so popular that its influence spread further than you may realise. “Simulations” being something new meant that the game’s developer was asked to create simulation games for a lot of different industries, but not all of them were as successful as the original.Micropoliswebmicropolisweb.comAnd if all this talk of SimCity makes you nostalgic or experience what we oldies had to put up with, you can play it in the browser thanks to the power of WebAssembly.News from me2024 hasn’t been the best year for many of us. Unfortunately, the same applies to me. Especially in the past few weeks, I have had several projects cancelled, but there’s one I am most annoyed by and would like to try to find a new home for.I was working on a book covering Ableton Live 12, and the project was suddenly cancelled. I was quite enjoying the process and was building up a good plan and body of work covering the topic, bringing a dose of practical “analogue” music experience to a largely electronic topic.It’s too late for a specific Live 12 book now, but I would love to take some of what I have to a new home. A new book, a course, maybe. I was thinking of ideas around “Live for drummers”, or “Live for analogue musicians”, that kind of thing. If you, or anyone you know, might be interested in this, let me know!Finally, I am planning a rebrand of the podcast and newsletter. I still need to investigate a few things and all being well, I will push ahead in August, as it’s a quiet month.I’ve been painting For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chrischinchilla.com/podcast/To reach out and say hello, visit chrischinchilla.com/contact/To support the show for ad-free listening and extra content, visit chrischinchilla.com/support/
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    32 m
  • Voices from UK tech: Lorna Mitchel and Amanda Brock

    Voices from UK tech: Lorna Mitchel and Amanda Brock
    Jun 27 2024

    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 source developer experience and with Amanda, we discuss the unique role the UK can take in open tech in the world.

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    46 m