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I speak with Daniel Temkin about his book, Fourty-Four EsoLangs and about the world of esoteric programming languages.Formed the basis of this article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-programming-languages-daniel-temkinLearn something new todayStart learning something new or up-skilling with a book or course. 30% off anything at Manning.https://go.chrischinchilla.com/manning 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Cate and Chris recap a month of events, including IFA, the Bologna Gathering, LF Energy, IT Arena, and How to Web.Write your wayScrivener is the go-to app for writers of all kinds, used every day by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators and more.https://go.chrischinchilla.com/scrivenerThe AI writing tool with unparalleled story smartsSudowrite is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps you brainstorm, outline, and write your stories.https://go.chrischinchilla.com/sudowrite 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I speak with Sagar Batchu about Speakeasy, the platform for crafting API experiences from simple definition files, including exposing them as MCP servers.The AI writing tool with unparalleled story smartsSudowrite is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps you brainstorm, outline, and write your stories. 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, I speak with Romain Bouqueau of Motion Spell about GPAC, an open source framework that has revolutionized the way we handle audio-video streaming, transcoding and packaging.Capture your screen effortlesslySimple and clear, but packed with features, Simple Screenshot is a drop in replacement for macOS.https://go.chrischinchilla.com/simple-screenshot 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I am joined by Ed of Cribl, an observability and telemetry platform for security tracking and teams.Capture your screen effortlesslySimple and clear, but packed with features, Simple Screenshot is a drop in replacement.https://go.chrischinchilla.com/simple-screenshot 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, I speak with Peter Zaitsev of Percona about the history of MySQL, his history with the venerable database, and his history with Percona.Try the best git GUI for macOS and WindowsGrapple git without the grief and try Tower, the best graphical interface for git on macOS and Windows.https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tower 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I speak with Vadym Grin about his forthcoming book on good, bad, and ugly design for digital products and services.Find the book here: https://www.manning.com/books/emotional-digital-designUse the voucher "CSgrin" to get 40% off the bookText based video and audio editingAre you looking to make editing audio and video easier and more powerful with a suite of AI-powered features? Try Descript, I use it for editing all my podcasts and you can to!https://go.chrischinchilla.com/descript 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, Cate and Chris discuss some of the recent downsizing of European tech media and ask how we got here, what's next, and what does it all mean for the European tech industry.Try RaycastWant to improve your productivity on macOS with a Shortcut to everything? Try Raycast, and get 10% off with the link, go.chrischinchilla.com/raycast.Learn something new with a book or course from ManningStart today with learning something new or up-skilling, get 30% of ANYTHING at manning.com by visiting go.chrischinchilla.com/manning 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A packed container of an episode where I speak with Madhura Maskasky of Platform9 about their long-running container management platform and efforts to help people migrate from VMware and John Amaral of root.100s of amazing Mac apps with SetappLooking to supercharge your Mac with 100s of apps to choose from and one low monthly price? Take a look at Setapp from MacPaw.http://go.chrischinchilla.com/setappTry RaycastWant to improve your productivity on macOS with a Shortcut to everything? Try Raycast, and get 10% off with the link, go.chrischinchilla.com/raycast. 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Fast rewind back to February and I had some fascinating conversations with various projects at FOSDEM in Brussels, including the Rust Foundation, Sysdig about StratoShark, Nextcloud, and Mastodon. Want the power of Mermaid for enterprises?Mermaid chart brings WYSIWYG editing, generative AI, collaboration, and more to the flexible syntax of Mermaid.https://go.chrischinchilla.com/mermaid Try the best git GUI for macOS and WindowsGrapple git without the grief and try Tower, the best graphical interface for git on macOS and Windows.https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tower 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I spoke with Dom Weatherbee of Regenx to discuss their precious metal recovery technology and how it can benefit the circular economy for new gadgets and devices.Want the power of Mermaid for enterprises? Try Mermaid Chart Mermaid chart brings WYSIWYG editing, generative AI, collaboration, and more to the flexible syntax of Mermaid.Sign up at go.chrischinchilla.com/mermaid 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, Cate and Chris discuss a flurry of events over the past months, including Deep Tech Momentum, Gitex, London Tech Week, Super Invest, and more!Learn something new with a book or course from ManningStart today with learning something new or up-skilling, get 30% of ANYTHING at manning.com by visiting go.chrischinchilla.com/manningText based video and audio editing with DescriptAre you looking to make editing audio and video easier and more prowerful with a suite of AI-powerd features? Try Descript, I use it for editing all my podcasts and you can to!http://go.chrischinchilla.com/descript 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I speak with Daniela Miao of Momento to discuss her journey from DynamoDB at AWS to creating an alternative caching platform for large scale real time applications.Try the best git GUI for macOS and WindowsGrapple git without the grief and try Tower, the best graphical interface for git on macOS and Windows.go.chrischinchilla.com/tower 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, Chris and Cate speak with Jessica Baladad, of feelforyourlife.com, an advocacy platform that utilizes digital and print resources for better breast health.Write your way with ScrivenerScrivener is the go-to app for writers of all kinds, used every day by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators and more.https://go.chrischinchilla.com/scrivener 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Two interviews from Web Summit 2024… Corynne McSherry from the EFF and Nick Durkin from Harness. Quite the variety of topics, but both fascinating!100s of amazing Mac apps with SetappLooking to supercharge your Mac with 100s of apps to choose from and one low monthly price? Take a look at Setapp from MacPaw.http://go.chrischinchilla.com/setappTry the best git GUI for macOS and WindowsGrapple git without the grief and try Tower, the best graphical interface for git on macOS and Windows.go.chrischinchilla.com/tower 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, Cate discusses the state of Italian tech, and Chris and Cate discuss the recent Opera Days announcements.100s of amazing Mac apps with SetappLooking to supercharge your Mac with 100s of apps to choose from and one low monthly price? Take a look at Setapp from MacPaw.http://go.chrischinchilla.com/setappLinkshttps://tech.eu/2025/04/11/italy-defies-global-slowdown-with-315m-in-q1-tech-funding-with-jeff-bezos-to-headline-italian-tech-week/https://tech.eu/2025/04/09/italian-medtech-medicud-raises-1-3m-for-wound-pressurising-device/https://tech.eu/2025/03/18/italy-s-startup-renaissance-closing-in-on-spain-s-lead/https://tech.eu/2024/12/19/ekore-secures-1-3m-seed-leading-italy-s-largest-digital-twin-investment-of-2024/ 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I speak with Kyle from Depot.dev, which promise to speed up your your Docker image builds and GitHub Actions workflows. Depot easily integrates with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.Learn something new with a book or course from ManningStart today with learning something new or up-skilling, get 30% of ANYTHING at manning.com by visiting go.chrischinchilla.com/manning 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I speak with Will of Northflank, a self-service developer platform for apps, databases, and jobs. Start with one workload, scale to hundreds on compute or GPUs.Try the best git GUI for macOS and WindowsGrapple git without the grief and try Tower, the best graphical interface for git on macOS and Windows.go.chrischinchilla.com/tower 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, I speak with Chad Whitacre of Sentry about their functional software license and the open-source pledge.Want the power of Mermaid for enterprises? Try Mermaid Chart Mermaid chart brings WYSIWYG editing, generative AI, collaboration, and more to the flexible syntax of Mermaid.Sign up at go.chrischinchilla.com/mermaid 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, I speak with Vinoth Chandar about Onehouse, a Universal Data Lakehouse and the only data platform instantly accessible from any engine, from BI to AI.Try RaycastWant to improve your productivity on macOS with a Shortcut to everything? Try Raycast, and get 10% off with the link, go.chrischinchilla.com/raycast. 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/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.