Tech Lounge

What's new with Java and JDK26 with Simon Ritter

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Simon Ritter of Azul about what's new in the JDK26 release and how you maintain community interest with a language that ...

Storytelling and AI with Victor of Supreme Robot

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with the fascinating Victor of Supreme Robot about their AI-powered projects to help storytellers, screenwriters, game design...

Automating complexity for all with Fabia Q Veit of make.com

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I speak with Fabian Q Veit, CEO of make.com, a long established automation platform, that like many others has moved into AI orchestra...

Connecting all the things with Avery Pennarun of Tailscale

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Another great interview for Web Summit 2025, where I speak with Avery Pennarun of Tailscale, a product I use all the time to connect to my remote mach...

The evolution of the web with Dana Lawson of Netlify

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Dana Lawson, CTO of Netlify, about the journey of the company so far, where they're heading and how it fits into the com...

Security and password management for all with Nancy Wang of 1Password

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Nancy Wang, SVP of engineering at 1Password, and we talk about the growth of the company and how they plan to keep servi...

Digital trust in the age of AI with Keyfactor

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Ellen from Keyfactor about digital trust in the age of agentic AI and how the company uses their knowledge and history t...

The story of Apple's advanced technology group with John Buck

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with John Buck about the book "Inventing the Future" about Apple's advanced technology group and the myriad technologies they...

Open source in Energy with Jonas van den Bogaard of Alliander

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with with Jonas van den Bogaard of Alliander about the Linux Foundation's energy community that fosters open source energy generation and dist...

The European Open Source Academy with Lydia Pintscher and Daniel Stenberg

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Lydia Pintscher and Daniel Stenberg from the European Open Source Academy and their efforts to highlight excellence in E...

AI and Tech Writing with Selvaraaju Murugesan

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Selvaraaju Murugesan of Kovai and I speak about the future of AI in tech writing.The AI writing tool with unparalleled story smartsSudowrite is an AI-...

Fourty-Four Esoteric languages with Daniel Temkin

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The width and breadth of European tech: Events roundup

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Craft exceptional API experiences with Speakeasy.

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Sagar Batchu about Speakeasy, the platform for crafting API experiences from simple definition files, including exposing them as MCP serv...

Empowering open source multimedia innovation with GPAC

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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-vid...

Telemetry and observability for Security with Cribl

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I am joined by Ed of Cribl, an observability and telemetry platform for security tracking and teams.Capture your screen effortlesslySimple and clear, ...

30 years of MySQL with Peter Zaitsev of Percona

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Perco...

Emotional Digital Design with Vadym Grin

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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.man...

The state of European tech media

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 al...

Container management and security with Platform9 and Root

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A packed container of an episode where I speak with Madhura Maskasky of Platform9 about their long-running container management platform and efforts t...

Voices from FOSDEM 2025

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fast rewind back to February and I had some fascinating conversations with various projects at FOSDEM in Brussels, including the Rust Foundation, Sysd...

Precious metal recovery with Regenx

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

From Berlin to Bono

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Robust, Turnkey Caching at Massive Scale with Momento

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Using AI to assist breast cancer examination with Jessica Baladad

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Chris and Cate speak with Jessica Baladad, of feelforyourlife.com, an advocacy platform that utilizes digital and print resources for...

Defending the internet with the EFF and delivering the Internet with Harness

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two interviews from Web Summit 2024… Corynne McSherry from the EFF and Nick Durkin from Harness. Quite the variety of topics, but both fascinating!1...

Italian Tech and Opera

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 wit...

Build faster and waste less time with Depot.dev

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 y...

Automate any workload with Northflank

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Will of Northflank, a self-service developer platform for apps, databases, and jobs. Start with one workload, scale to hundreds on comput...

Functional licenses and the open source pledge with Chad Whitacre of Sentry

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Onehouse: Your Universal Data Lakehouse

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Vinoth Chandar about Onehouse, a Universal Data Lakehouse and the only data platform instantly accessible from any engin...

MedTech and FOSSBackstage

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Cate talks about the state of European medical tech and Chris talks about the recent FOSSBackstage event that covered topics around op...

30 years of pragmatic programming with Dave Thomas

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with the infamous Dave Thomas about his programming journey, his book, the pragmatic programmer and his publishing history, and much more!Text...

What is the future of European tech?

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Cate and Chris talk about the future of European tech in the wake of the many challenges the block faces from the US, Russia, China, a...

Infobip's global startup program with Nikola Pavesic

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Nikola Pavesic about Infobip's global startup program, Tribe.Try RaycastWant to improve your productivity on macOS with a Shortcut to eve...

Copy editing game rules with Rachel Lapidow

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Rachel Lapidow about tips and tricks for copy editing role play and board game rules.Want to get dozens of helpful Mac apps for only $9.9...

EdTech and Open Source in Europe

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 we...

Intelligent Telemetry Data Management & Observability with Apica

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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.Want to Bu...

2025 tech trends

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A few weeks late but what they hey. In this episode Cate and Chris share their tech trends and predictions for 2025.Want to Build Your Mental Wealth i...

The Developer Relations Foundation

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Stacey and Phil of the newly launched Developer Relations Foundation, recognising the work of tech workers with community, marketing, and...

Testcontainers

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Oleg of Testcontainers, an open source library for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brok...

Tech layoffs and what even is tech anyway?

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Cate and Chris discuss recent tech layoffs and how to handle them better, plus what even is tech anyway? For show notes and an interac...

Astro version 5 with Elian Van Cutsem

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ab...

Accessible quantum computing with Horizon

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Circularity startups and alternatives to X

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this deep dive episode Cate and Chris dig into circular economy startups and how all the alternatives to Twitter/X/Twix compare. For show notes and...

The graph renaissance with neo4j

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 A...

Government bailouts in tech and tech influence in government

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this topic deep dive, Cate and I discuss government bailouts for tech companies, EU investment in tech companies, and the possible manipulation of ...

Creating an Open Source AI definition

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Workbrew, turning Homebrew into a business with Mike McQuaid

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Mike McQuaid, long-term maintainer of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, about Workbrew, a new commercial version of Homebrew that brin...

Tech events

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

AI-powered code reuse with Crowdbotics

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 oth...

WASM at KubeCon EU 2024

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Alternative meats and what actually is AI?

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 jarg...

Sustainable infrastructure and AI powered IDEs

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the tech lounge this episode, I have Leonard Pahlke talking about bringing sustainability to infrastructure and the work of the CNCF sustainability...

Programming update

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No real episode, but rather a small update on some changes coming to the show. For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chrischinchilla.com...

1st August: Classic crunch crawl

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 00:00 Introduction and Welcome01:33 AI Crawlers and Content Scraping04:17 TechCrunch and the State of Tech Journalism06:12 Retro Tech: Classic Mac O...

Kubecon: Docker Build Cloud and Aiven

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 als...

18th July: A verbiage-filled delve

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 als...

Kubecon 2: CIVO and the Open infrastructure foundation

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 In...

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

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Voices from UK tech: Lorna Mitchel and Amanda Brock

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

20th June: WWDC, Streaming vs Music, and Chinese keyboards

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloudsecurity.apple.comDepending on who you speak with and how much attention they actuall...

Make Synthetic Data a reality with Datacebo

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke with Kalyan of Datacebo, a company that creates open-source and enterprise tools for generating synthetic data for testing, load testing, and ...

Enterprise-level knowledge bases with Saravana Kumar of Document 360

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Saravana Kumar of Document 360 about their enterprise-level solution for documentation and knowledge management and what AI could mean fo...

25th May: Batten down the hatches, AI is here

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mac Power Users #745: “Inventing the Future” with John Buck — Relay FMrelay.fmAnother MPU recommendation from me and a trip down Apple memo...

KubeCon EU 2024: Humanitec, Dagger, Scalr

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

10th May: Music is hard for humans and AI

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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, strug...

Generative Infrastructure as code with AppCD

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Asif Awan of AppCD about their generative AI tool that creates the infrastructure as code configuration you need based on application cod...

News 25th April: A vice-like grip

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I feature the following:https://writingcooperative.com/the-ai-revolution-and-the-economy-have-killed-my-highly-skilled-job-4795551399b...

Real-time analytics at cloud scale with Rockset

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I have Venkat from Rockset back to discuss their search and analytics database built for the cloud, with real-time indexing and full-featured SQL on J...

News 12th April: Coding in the 80s, flaws in the open, and the floppy Jonathan

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this news episode:https://danluu.com/slow-device/https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo47q...

Software supply chain security with Socket.dev

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Feross Aboukhadijeh of Socket.dev about their smarter and more considered solution for securing software supply chains. - For show note...

News 28th March: What is open AI and long live the Twiggy drive!

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A light news show where I cover the growing need to label what "open" AI really is, local LLMS reprised, and long live the Twiggy drive! - For show ...

Generative AI for 3D asset creation and market research with Atlas and Gathers

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Atlas about their AI tool for generating 3D assets for games and architectural use and with Gathers about their AI tool ...

News for 14th March: What lurks in LLMs, Ableton 12, and Star Trek musical instruments

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 readin...

Generative AI meets Observability with Flip AI

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I speak with Corey Harrison of Flip.ai, one of a handful of new companies bringing generative AI to the DevOps space. In Flip.ai's cas...

Internet and cultural preservation with Fastly and BevArt

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I speak with Simon Wistow of Fastly about their work to keep the internet running and Christian Nielsen of BevArt who aim to keep cult...

Voice cloning with Respeecher

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I have a fascinating conversation with Alex from Respeecher, a Ukranian startup whose work you have probably heard in high-profile games, movies, and ...

Data processing made easy, e-governance in Ukraine, and marketing Pharma

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Two interviews from Web Summit 2023 in this episode. First, with Irina and Dmitri of Datuum, an interesting data processing platform powered by AI. S...

Learning git with Anna Skoulikari

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Anna Skoulikari about her new book, "Learn Git" from O'Reilly. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-git/97810...

Open source at Wikimedia and Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity in Open Source

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I finish up my interviews from last year's Open Source Summit with two amazing interviews. First is Leszek Manicki, engineering mana...

Testing websites and accessible websites

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I finish up my interviews from We Are Developers earlier in the year and speak with Filip Hrick about testing websites with Cypress a...

A more sustainable internet with Chris Adams of the Green Web Foundation

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Chris Adams, the director of the Green Web Foundation. We discuss their mission, tools, programs, and plans for making the online world a...

Stories from Ukraine, IT Arena 2023: The future of airports, hiring, and education.

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I share interviews from the IT Arena event in Lviv, Ukraine. As I dive into conversations with tech innovators from around the world,...

What is Developer relations with Richard Roger

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with Ricarhd Roger of VoxGig to discuss what exactly developer relations is, its history, future, and potential impact.Show notes: chrischinch...

Loris Degioanni of Sysdig

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I'm back with a great interview covering Sysdig and its journey in helping secure cloud computing. Accompanied by a healthy dose of news.We speak abou...

OSS Summit Linux Foundation Europe and Open Source metrics

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is another round of interviews from OSS Summit in Bilbao and features interviews with Gab Columbro, the general manager of LF Europe and ...

OSS Summit Energy and Sustainability

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chrischinchilla.com/podcast/To reach out and say hello, visit chrischinchilla.com/contact/To suppo...

Dragos Nedelcu of the Senior Dev

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chrischinchilla.com/podcast/To reach out and say hello, visit chrischinchilla.com/contact/To suppo...

Molham Aref of RelationalAI, the AI coprocessor

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I speak with Molham Aref from Relational AI. we discuss the concept of an AI co-processor for data and its relevance to those working ...

IFA and Startup night Berlin 2023, slow but steady

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's a busy weekend of tech in Berlin, but have things cooled or are we all taking a well-earned break?No ads for this episode, but instead, a persona...

Sefi Carmel of Spheretrax and what is music?

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Something of a music theme in this issue. My interview is with Sefi Carmel of Spheretrax, a new take on selecting, synchronising, and licensing music ...

Elise Bently on TincyMCE and CKEditor, AI in the developing world

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A packed issue full of AI content, what powers the internet, the real cost of food, offline-first, and an interview all about CK editor and TinyMCE.Fu...

A greener web with Ines Akrap

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode I speak with Ines Akrap at the recent We Are Developers event about how we can make the web greener. Trust me on this one, nothing captur...

Lab grown forks

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a links show and I cover Red Hat’s latest open source upsets, lab grown meat, AI ‘aint that bad, happy birthday ethernet, and more...

Replacing people with machines that play Mad Libs with John Davenport

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 topi...

50 years of text adventures and 50 weeks of AI adventures

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 run...

Open Source insights with Scarf and questioning AI

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

The life and death of AI

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s start with some funThis newsletter gets dark quickly, so first something to enjoy.Farrago 2 soundboard for Mac arrives with 50 new features in...

KubeCon EU 2023, back in business

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

KubeCon, back to businessAhead of the event I arranged some interviews with companies that piqued my interest and don’t all fit under the headings i...