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Computing history with Sinclair Target of two-bit history
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm taking a short break, so something from the archives this week of my ill-fated podcast from last year, "The Enthusiastic Amateur". This interview ...
Patrick McFadin talks Datastax and Cassandra, MIDI 2.0 and how do planes fly?
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Patrick McFadin about Datastax and their plans with Apache Cassandra, ponder on the release of MIDI 2.0 after 37 years, p...
Paul Kuijf of learned.io, Wine, filter bubbles, and what is meat?
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Paul Kuijf of learned.io, look at the new Lovecraft film, burst some bubbles, learn new languages, and much more. chrisch...
The Tactigon, academic scandal, and gaming colonialism
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with the makers of the Tactigon wearable gesture controller, look at scandal in Oxford, DLC in D&D, decolonialising gaming, an...
Responsible AI with Shlomi Hod, the weird web and fax on the beach
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode I speak with Shlomi Hod about responsible AI, look at the worst D&D monster of all, hello world in assembly, and more. chrischinchilla.co...
Kin Lane the API evangelist, Linux revisited, and the lost story of Wolfenstein
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with the infamous Kin Lane, the API evangelist, now working with Postman. I also cover my new experiences with the Linux deskt...
5GTechritory, Y2K, BitTorrent, Monopoly, and future gazing
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Laszlo Toth, Nikolai Astrup, and Dr. Suncheol Gweon from the recent 5GTechritory about the current state, and future prom...
Chronosphere and fixing the internet, air conditioning and calculators
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Martin Mao of Chronosphere about the massive scale monitoring platform. I also cover fixing the internet, fixing air cond...
Raj Dutt of Grafana, Brave, WeWork, and Football manager
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Raj Dutt of Grafana. I also cover the rise of the Brave browser, keep an eye on Softbank, question Apple's design, look a...
A fantasy Greek perfect for your eyes
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh back from Tekom's TCWorld event, Chris covers the difference between different types of tech writers, fantasy maps, running D&D campaigns with i...
WeWorld
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I cover the WeWork/Meetup/Softbank world domination saga, the sad state of affairs of online journalism, and has Apple had enough of E...
The Apache Software Foundation, UNIX at 50 and the story of a floating hotel
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with David Nalley of the Apache Software Foundation about their roles in the projects they work with. Also features how an Aus...
Leemon Baird of Hedera Hashgraph, Wendys Horror, and GNU Start
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Dr. Leemon Baird of Hedera Hashgraph about their DLT (not a Blockchain), plus the Saga of Richard Stallman continues, the...
The Vermont Remote Workers Grant, Docker, Boeing, ICE and Thomas Jefferson
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Commissioner Goldstein of the Vermont State Government about the policy of paying remote workers to relocate to the state...
The nerd legacy
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I cover the resignation of Richard Stallman, historic installation windows, Apple and "sherlocking", COBOL, and the future of developm...
Xinshu Dong of RockX, Unix, the history of commuting and words
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Xinshu Dong of RockX about his new blockchain-based digital assets platform. Also features stories on the impact of our c...
Sky Guo of Cypherium, loss in the age of the cloud and fantasy islands
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Sky Guo of Cypherium, cover data loss in the era of digital memories, fantasy islands, the history of JQuery, and when cr...
Product Hunt award winner Krisp.ai, Ctrl+Alt+Del and HarmonyOS
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Davit Baghdasaryan of Krisp.ai about their small Windows, macOS and (soon) iOS application that removes background noise ...
Putting Blockchain in hotel rooms with Réda Berrehili of the Ki Foundation
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Réda Berrehili of the Ki Foundation about their plans to put blockchain-powered assistants into hotel rooms. I also cove...
Quantum Jerks - Brilliant Puppies, Pompeii, and what's so good about Medium?
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this Weekly Squeak I cover Quantum computing, removing brilliant jerks, the problems with Medium, the problems with office perks, arguments over Po...
Apache Spark with Jean Georges Perrin, Twine, Alexa and the NHS
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Jean Georges Perrin about his forthcoming book "Spark in Action", where we cover Apache Spark, writing books, and why man...
IOST Blockchain, downplaying air travel, computer sound design and JPEG joy
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with some of the team behind the IOST Blockchain project, cover recent Zoom woes, wonder if air travel is all that's it's hype...
Marco Palladino of Kong, Sugar, Sobriety and Vegetarian Tech
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I speak with Marco Palladino of Kong about their API gateway, microservice mesh and smart docs generation.Also features content on North Korea, increa...
The state of mobile networks with OpenSignal
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Ian Fogg of OpenSignal about our current 4G network, and the future 5G one. Also featured is D&D for product teams, educa...
KubeCon - Solo.io, Digital Ocean and Atlassian
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes: Idit Levine of Solo.io 24:48 - ...
KubeCon - IBM, Canonical and Rancher
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part 1 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes: 1:27 - Jason McGee of IBM 25:26...
Mark Marron of Bosque, Microsoft's new programming language
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I speak with Mark Marron of Microsoft about their new language that is simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines.I also c...
Matt Billman of Netlify, game playing AI, and Sim City hell
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chris speaks with Matt Billman of Netlify, creating general game playing AI, browser wars past and present, and more!https://chrischin...
A Linux for Windows? Pengwin, Polymaths, Login and Coffee Pods
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chris speaks with Hayden Barnes about the Pengwin project, an optimised Linux for the Windows Linux Subsystem. Also features articles ...
Your smart essential dungeon
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chris covers why the Essential phone isn't as bad you might have thought, how smart speakers are changing music, new programming langu...
The Caffeinated Cthulhu Desktop
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I look at advice on writing weird fiction, the future of Linux, the latest version of Opera, wether Google cloud offers an open source...
Robocall hyphen king
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chris covers the trail of the robocall king, programmer's obsession with efficiency, prisoners training AI, all you wanted to know abo...
Ranking full stop
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I cover old technologies and how to preserve them, the death of Childhood musicians and a little more.https://chrischinchilla.com/podc...
Tendermint, Cosmos and developer-focused Blockchains
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Jae Kwon of Tendermint about their Byzantine-fault tolerant state machine replication. Or blockchain, for short.Also in this episode...
Revolutionising health data with Arkhn
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chris speaks with Alexis of Arkhn about their plans to standardise medical data. Also featured are stories on D&D, the connections bet...
Brian Platz of Fluree, the Feature Packed Blockchain-based Database
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Brian Platz of Fluree, a database that packs Blockchain, GraphQL, change reversion and much more. I also cover my geeky s...
Ethical Robot Love Hack
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this weekly geeky squeak I look at coworking, robot love, unhackability, CUPS, Docker, the male focussed world, article 13, and more.https://chrisc...
Decentralised Privacy with Loki Network
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chris covers links of the week including ancient relics, and toys old and new. Also features an interview with Simon Harman, the proje...
Emulate History
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this short episode I look at computing history, privacy vs usability and more.https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: http...
Monique Morrow, missing aliens, and the death of RSS
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Monique Morrow about creating technology that people actually need. Also featured the death of RSS, is Bitcoin the new Oi...
15th January - Rachel Black of Lisk
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode for 2019, Chris covers EU funding for open source, EU cyber security, accessibility, open source controversies and the apocalyps...
Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET and Hanson Robotics
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cate and Chris speak to the infamous Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET and Hanson Robotics at Web Summit about Sophia the robot, SingularityNET, AI on th...
Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus of Gremlin
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cate and Chris speak with Kolton Andrus of Gremlin, about Chaos Engineering, ensuring reliability at scale and the plans the company has over the next...
Monetising Health Data on the Blockchain with Embleema
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Robert Chu of Embleema, a company looking to help (US) patients monetise their health data.https://www.embleema.comhttps://gregariou...
The Future of 5G at 5GTechritory
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Cate recently attended 5GTechritory in Riga, Latvia to discover what business and government leaders are doing with 5G and what it will mean...
The Google Walkout - Is Tech Culture to Blame?
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Live from a Lisbon hotel, Cate and Chris discuss the recent sexual harassment stories from Google and dig into the story and what aspects of tech and ...
Real World Blockchain Use with Anatoliy Lytovchenko
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Anatoliy Lytovchenko of Eleks at the recent IT Arena in Ukraine about real world Blockchain use cases he worked on with his clients....
The Aeternity Blockchain with Emil Wagner
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Emil Wagner of æternity, who aim to make blockchains more usable for developers and end users.https://aeternity.comhttps://www.greg...
IFA Interviews - eBlocker, Snips and Conrad Connect
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cate and Chris speak with eBlocker (IoT security), Snips (Voice Assistant software and hardware) and Conrad Connect (Smart Home platform) at this year...
IFAlicious
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Cate talk about the European consumer electronics fair IFA. Expect dancing robots.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillas...
Rebroadcast: Scott Heiferman - founder of meetup.com
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There's a high chance that if you have attended an event in a city in recent years, it was arranged through meetup.com. The site now has over 32 milli...
Eyeo, Adblock Plus and Flattr with Rachel Brochado
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Rachel Brochado about Eyeo and their products, Adblock Plus, Flattr, and the Acceptable Ads program. We also discuss the future of f...
Stefan Thomas, ripple and Malta blockchain summit
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Stefan Thomas, ex CTO of ripple about his past and new projects. Also, featured is the Malta blockchain summit, happening in Nove...
Tales from Lithuania - Connected fishing with Deeper
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Donatas Malinauskas of deeper, a smart device for anglers to find the fish they are looking for.http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast/http...
Tales from Lithuania - Telesoftas and general impressions
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Cate and Chris discuss more of their recent trip to Lithuania. This time about Telesoftas, an innovation house with an enigmatic leade...
The Future of Cities and Frankenstein AI
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with URBAN-X’s Managing Director Micah Kotch to speak about the startups they fund, and to Rachel Ginsberg about the Frankenstein AI pr...
Marketing Blockchain with Consensys and Lisk
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Amanda Gutterman of Consensys and Thomas Schouten of Lisk about their projects and how to market something as complex as Blockchain....
Tales from Lithuania - bit&byte and infobalt
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We begin our series of interviews from our recent trip to Lithuania. First a coding school for children and the trade association for ICT. Thanks to t...
Computational Knowledge with Stephen Wolfram
13 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with the venerable Stephen Wolfram about his career, company and the future of how we process data into something meaningful.http://grega...
The JavaScript and Hyperledger foundations
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with the leads of two open source software foundations, Kris Borchers of the JavaScript Foundation, and Brian Behlendorf of the Hyperledg...
The future of Big Data with Datical and Pepperdata
30 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Sean Suchter of Pepperdata and Robert Reeves of Datical about the future of DevOp and deployment for Big Data applications.http://gr...
A fast train to the World
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Cate and Chris discuss their extensive travels, public transport, the first victims of GDPR, should we be worried about China and more...
Marty the Robot and Robotical
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Cate speak with Myles from Robotical about their all-singing-all-dancing Marty the robot for education.https://robotical.iohttp://gregarious...
The Weekly Squeak - Team Assemble!
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Cate discuss ChromeOS, Robots, GDPR, Bromads, games, and is Ready Player One really not a work of fiction, but a manifesto of what's w...
Zilliqa - High throughput Blockchain
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chris speaks with Xinshu Dong of Zilliqa about their ideas on how to implement a high throughput blockchain output.https://www.zilliqa...
Artificial Millennial Intelligence
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Cate and Chris talk about AI and the human machine era, the end of the 8 hour work day, when crypto conferences go wrong and more…-...
Putting your brain in control - With Max Newton of BrainCo
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Max Newton of BrainCo about how their brain-interfacing devices help people focus better.http://www.brainco.tech/#/aboutPrevious epi...
Open Source Deep Learning with Skymind - Chris Nicholson
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris interviews Chris Nicholson, the CEO of Open Source Deep Learning platform, Skymind.https://skymind.aihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvnicholson...
The World's First Emotional Processing Unit
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do We Need the World's First Emotional Processing Unit?Chris interviews the founder of Emoshape, a company who thinks we do, and has created the first...
The Center for Social Media Responsibility
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Garlin Gilchrist II and Aviv Ovadya at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan about their mission....
SWSW, social credit, and the right to be forgotten
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode, Chris reports back from SXSW and we talk about interesting articles from the week including the creation of the internet, China...
Creative Industries on the Blockchain - Zach LeBeau of SingularDTV
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Zach LeBeau of SingularDTV at SXSW about their ambitious plans to bring music and video production, distribution, rights management ...
Mobile World Congress 2018
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris & Cate are back at Mobile World Congress and bring your their highlights from this whopper of a show.Show notes: gregariousmammal.com/podcas...
Red Hat acquires CoreOS, an interview with Brian Gracely
28 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Brian Gracely, director, OpenShift product strategy about the container space more generally and how the acquisition might fit into ...
Aiva - The Ai that composes music
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Pierre Barreau, CEO of Aiva who's AI has helped compose music for presentations, games, concerts, and even has its own album.http://aiva...
The Big Data Bikocalypse
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Cate and Chris discuss the birthday of open source, big data, transportation and how to conduct yourself at networking events.Show not...
Decentralised exchanges and AirSwap
03 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Sam Tabar, strategist at AirSwap about trading cryptocurrencies on decentralised exchanges and how we can solve the problems of VC b...
Optimize your cloud native infrastructure with Replex.io
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with the three founders of replex.io who aim to help you identify inefficiencies at every level of a stack, from discrete hardware compon...
Nuraphone - Best of Innovation award at CES 2018
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh from their Best of Innovation at CES Innovation Awards, we finally publish an interview with Nuraphone when Chris visited their office in Melbou...
Containers and Serverless Predictions with Lucas Carlson
17 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Lucas Carlson of Automic to discuss the current state of Containers and Serverless, plus predictions for 2018.Previous episodes &...
CES 2018 - The woeful and the wonderful
15 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Cate and Chris tackle CES, a crazy show of more than 4,500 exhibitors spread over 11 official venues. It's an exercise in stamina as y...
Daniel G. Siegel - the bullet hole misconception
08 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Daniel G. Siegel about his talk "the bullet hole misconception" covering topics such as how developers should challenge th...
CCC, recounting 2017 and predictions for 2018
31 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Cate recount the year that was, look forward to 2018 and discuss the recent CCC in Leipzig.Previous Episodes - gregariousmammal.com/podcastS...
Berlin Blockchain Day Panel
28 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris hosts a panel at the recent Berlin Blockchain day with three blockchain luminaries: Dmitry Meshkov, Alexander Chepurnoy, Vlad Zamfir and Alexand...
Dubai Startups - Wrappup, a meeting AI
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris interviews Dubai startup Wrappup about their meeting AI bot and running a startup in Dubai.https://www.wrappup.coPrevious episodes - gregariousm...
CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber on continuous integration that 'just works'
11 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber about creating a continuous integration platform that gets out of the way of developers and just lets them wo...
Love in the time of artificial intelligence
04 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Cate and Chris tackle the rise of cryptocurrencies, love (past and present) in the time of artificial intelligence, the prevalence of ...
Augmented reality and IoT with Tanveer Saifee of Thingworx
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Tanveer Saifee of Thingworx about creating interactive AR tools that help workers in modern industry understand and analyse the mach...
Johannes Schickling of Graphcool, The GraphQL Backend
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Johannes Schickling of Graphcool, The GraphQL Backend Framework. The interview covers their love of GraphQL, community and how they ...
Are Coders King?
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Cate and Chris tackle some difficult topics such as the backlash against tech, does the status quo even want to change, diversity, the...
What can musicians and programmers learn from each other? A conversation with Ryan Blunden
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris speaks with Ryan Blunden about what programmers and musicians can learn from each other, the affects of music on coding, what genres might be wh...
The Ukrainian Startup scene with Anastasia Sleptsova
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As part of a forthcoming article on the Ukrainian tech/startup scene, I interview Anastasia Sleptsova Head of Ecosystem Partnerships at UNIT.City.greg...
How to program a robot - Interview with Gestalt Robotocs
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Robots are appearing everywhere in our lives and workplaces, but how does a developer actually program one?Chris spoke with Jans Lembrecht of Gestalt ...
Managing Your Business Apps with Apperian, An Interview with Mark Lorion
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
To those of us addicted to our smartphones, the myriad of applications we can install and what we can achieve (or time waste) with them is astounding....
The Ethics of Tech
10 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Cate and Chris discuss smarter ways to hire developers, ethics in tech and more.Show notes at - gregariousmammal.com/podcast--- Send in a vo...
Ubuntu Core and Snaps
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris spoke with Dustin Kirkland, VP of product development and Jamie Bennett, VP of Devices and IoT Engineering at Canonical to understand more the s...
Thierry Carrez, release manager for the OpenStack project
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris interviews Thierry Carrez, release manager for the OpenStack project about how he coordinates a large amount of contributors to the project, bal...
Interviews from IFA 2017 and Startup Night Berlin
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Cate interview numerous people from IFA and Startup Night Berlin 2017.https://www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/--- Send in a voice message: ...
Dataiku Interview
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dataiku Interview by Gregarious Mammal--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would ...
IFA, IoT night, Armenian startups and Startup night - The Berlin week that was
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Cate recount one crazy week in Berlin covering IFA, the France vs Germany IoT battle, Armenian startups and the long night of Startups.grega...