Chinchilla Squeaks — Careful where you put that data

I am back! Did you miss me? 😬

The podcast is back too, kind of relaunched with something of an eye to how it used to be, take a listen.

I hope everyone had a good summer, I spent it making the most of it as possible, but it’s time to restart a few projects that I put on pause for a little while including this newsletter and my podcast. I’ve changed a few things, and there’s more in progress, but in the meantime, settle in and let’s get started.

Cool Tech!

A loose collection of content this week, there’s a few loose themes. Maybe 🤔.

A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps — arstechnica.com
Google Talk, Google’s first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed.

The multifaceted eBPF Linux program gets its own foundation — www.zdnet.com
Back in 1992, the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) was introduced in Unix circles as a…