Oh my oh my! Issue 100. I’ve been pumping out this nonsense to your for 100 issues 🥳.
Enjoy! xx Chris
Cool Tech!
A face from the past resurfaces, but not doing much, and a couple of videos of me getting acquainted with some cool tech projects.
Myspace Tom got it right — www.theverge.com
Two days after the DC insurrection, as the country was still processing the aftermath, MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson posted his second tweet of the past three years.
Hello everyone, sorry for the slight break in newsletters, I have been crazy busy with all sorts of things, and the newsletter kept slipping down my to do list, sorry! Second apology is that I don’t have that much content for you this issue for many of the same reasons 😅.
Enough excuses, here we go!
xx Chinch
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Some new content from me (and yes, check out my cool new video thumbnails!) and a few pieces from Wired about the growth in fake cheese, and countries going wild of crypto, when maybe they don’t really need to…
Less links this week due to Easter holidays and then the manic catchup post holidays, but it’s all about quality not quantity isn’t it! isn’t it?
xx Chinch
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An interview with the co-founder of Raycast who I previously featured in a hands on stream highlighted to me that there’s a growing body of people interested in making native applications again. Also a new/old operating system from Bell labs that underpins many we use now, Google and Oracle finally reach a sort of conclusion, and NFTs, hohum.
Q&A with Petr Nikolaev, Raycast — console.dev
Co-founder, Raycast — a quicklauncher that…
Hey all, I was on holiday last week, so took a little break. Back this time with lots of juicy content from the various things that interest me.
Please, if you like the newsletter, wherever you read it, leave a comment, share, tell your friends!
xx Chinch
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So much goodness this week! Including a classic piece from Nielsen about the Mac interface that channels some ideas on the future of interfaces that we’re only just starting to see realised.
The Weekly Squeak — Kubernetes native GitOps with Cornelia Davis of Flux — www.youtube.com …
GitOps takes familiar tools such as Git and Continuous Delivery pipelines to automate infrastructure. The GitOps approach is vendor-neutral, provides a clear history of changes, and allows you to reproduce or roll back deployments. Yet, we can’t ignore the problems with this approach: Proliferation of repositories, no help for secrets management, or simultaneous file writes. Let’s explore.
An introduction to GitOps
GitOps takes the familiar and proven DevOps practices such as version control and CI/CD and applies them to automating infrastructure. …
Greetings all, the second in my new look newsletter, and folks seem to be receiving it well. If you enjoy what you read here, please share with your friends and colleagues, I’d appreciate it. 😁
A lot of long reads this week, including some really meaty posts from the team behind migrating Linux to run on M1 Macs, deep reporting into responsible AI at Facebook, and much more.
Let’s get stuck in, Chinch xx
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This week I have been experimenting with a Next Cloud setup, paper from WeTransfer, and OBS.Ninja. Also (but not for the faint hearted) is an amazing…
Welcome to the new look to my newsletter! It’s not as tightly connected to my interviews, and features more links from me, organised loosely into different sections. I am not finished with the new structure quite yet, and as there’s been a couple of weeks break, it’s a little overfull, but you get the idea!
Enjoy
xx Chinch
Cool Tech!
A new video from me on an all-in-one file manager for macOS, and some great Zsh tips from the Twilio team.
Zsh Tricks to Blow your Mind — www.twilio.com
In UNIX-based programming, we often talk about shells, terminals, and the command…
I speak with Daniel Foster, Snagit strategy manager about the long running screenshot creation and management software.
I also cover the recent debacle in Australia, the business of zero-day exploits, why everyone should use Ethernet and more…
xx Chinch
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The past, present, and future of Snagit with Daniel Foster by The Weekly Squeak • A podcast on Anchor
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I speak with Daniel Foster, Snagit strategy manager about the long running screenshot creation and management software. I also cover the recent debacle in Australia, the business of zero-day exploits, why everyone should use Ethernet and more…
The past, present, and future of Snagit with Daniel Foster — www.youtube.com
I speak with Daniel Foster, Snagit strategy manager about the…
I speak with Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi about the book they are working on for Manning publications covering everything Jamstack.
I also cover Vivaldi, dependency hell, crazy laptops, and more.
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xx Chinch
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The Weekly Squeak — The Jamstack Book with Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi
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I speak with Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi about the book they are working on for Manning publications covering everything Jamstack.I also cover Vivaldi, …
The Jamstack Book with Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi by The Weekly Squeak • A podcast on Anchor
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I speak with Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi about…
I speak with Neela Jacque about eBPF and what does Cilium and Isovalent offer to cloud-native networking and security.
I also cover the rise of VSCode, the re-rise of co-working, Telegram v Signal, and more!
xx Chinch
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eBPF Cloud Native computing with Neela Jacques of Isovalant by The Weekly Squeak • A podcast on Anchor
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I speak with Neela Jacque about eBPF and what does Cilium and Isovalent offer to cloud-native networking and security. I also cover the rise of VSCode, the re-rise of co-working, Telegram v Signal, and more!
Articles from others…
Is this the end of WeWork? — www.wired.co.uk
WeWork chief executive Sandeep Mathrani is in an exceptionally bullish mood. In the midst of the pandemic…
Chris Chinchilla
I explain cool tech to the World. I am a Technical Writer and blogger. I have crazy projects in progress and will speak to anyone who listens.
