Podcasts

Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more.

This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview with Marshall Jung of Tabnine you can hear in the voiceover section of this newsletter or wherever you find your podcasts. We spoke about the company’s take on AI coding assistants and how they’ve been doing things differently from some time.

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That aside I look at some of the best content...

Welcome

Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more.

This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview with Josh Koenig of Pantheon you can hear in the voiceover section of this newsletter or wherever you find your podcasts. I remember Pantheon from my Drupal days. And we spoke a lot about the past, present and future of content delivering what where they came from what they have been doing and what they're about to do with the proliferation of new ways of managing...

Podcast version

Find the podcast version of this newsletter, including my interview with Daniel on the Substack podcast page or wherever you find your podcasts.

From me…

Read more about my experiments with managing the macOS home folder with version control.

Storytelling Collective Flash February

Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium.

Using AI to generate music with Magenta and Ableton Live

How did I find creating music with AI?

Tech

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? →

That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads...

From me…

Migrating a website from…

Read more about my journey overhauling my old old website, and my progress so far.

Storytelling Collective Flash February

Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium.

In bots we trust

My new show with my friend Killian where we look at generative AI, because, well, everyone else is!

Tech

Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias →

Armed with a belief in technology’s generative potential, a growing faction of researchers and companies aims to solve the problem of bias in AI by creating...

Updates from me…

Alternative browsers for macOS

I was interested in diving into the many new browsers emerging right now, especially for macOS.

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Flash fiction February 2023

This daily writing challenge is back, read my entries on Medium, pretty much every day.

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Tech

Try Astro 2.0 Today →

Astro 2.0 is available on npm today. Upgrade an existing project by running npm i astro@latest or start a new Astro project right in your browser by visiting astro.new. Looking...

OGL 1.1/1.2/1.3/😱

Wizards of the Coast goes into firefighting mode to stop the exodus of D&D fans.

An Update on the Open Game License (OGL) →

When we initially conceived of revising the OGL, it was with three major goals in mind. First, we wanted the ability to prevent the use of D&D content from being included in hateful and discriminatory products.

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Wizards of the Coast Breaks Its Silence on Dungeons and Dragons' Open Game License →

Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro subsidiary...

“The Dead Among Us” is a post-post-apocalyptic love story that shows emotion and understanding can conquer history, resentment, and generational divides to create a truly new world.

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So, I am quite late with this newsletter and podcast as I was travelling blah blah. But also Twitter owns the service I was using for newsletters (Revue), which meant I needed to look for a replacement. I looked at a few but settled on where all the cool kids were… Substack. Then I noticed they also support podcasts, so migrated my podcast too. I wanted to give a good window of time to ensure everything had migrated, and now finally here we are!

Substack offers a lot of cool new features and options that I am only...

Hello all! Lots of lovely AI and machine learning links for you this issue as I am working on a new show! Also Twitter, Mozilla, and that internet thing? It's dead.

I'm back after two weeks of conferences. I interview speakers from Build Stuff in Lithuania, report back from other events, dig into the history of JavaScript frameworks, and hang out with Lana Moore… Or not.

Hey all 👋

Kin Lane is back on the show. Also a week of announcements from companies that begin with "A", the speed behind Tech's sails starts to slow (and is that good or bad?) and life… Life not as we know it Jim.

xxx Chinch

This was my third invitation to attend in Lviv, Ukraine. But this was the first time, and indeed a first for me overall, that the conference happened during a war and in what was effectively a warzone.

Read my blog post for full context - https://hackernoon.com/it-arena-2022-ukrainian-tech-braves-the-war



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In this episode I round up the latest geeky news that has caught my attention including the Ethereum merge, looking forward to macOS Ventura, AI images already getting banned in image stores, a history of ARM, and much more!

In this episode I speak with Dotan Horowits from Logz.io about Observability and OpenTelemetry. Also features how much GPT-3 truly knows about you, the life of clippy and why you should always have an air of scepticism in what you read.

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In this episode I speak with the authors of Tiny CSS projects, Michael Gearon and Martine Dowden. I also look at Apple's new repair program, the saviour of Moore's law, and more!

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On this episode I have Matt Butcher of Fermyon to talk about their cloud-hosted webassembly platform. I also cover Tauri, tech settings you should change, Umbrella Academy, ask if Veganism is really hype, and much more!

I have Patrick McFadin back on the show to discuss using Apache Pulsar for distributed cloud-native streaming and how it fits into Data Stax's plans and business goals.

On this episode I speak with Shahar Azulay of ground cover who claim an all-in one observability solution with minimal change to your existing application code. Too good to be true? I find out. But they do have a very cheerful interface at least ;)

In this episode I speak with Barak Brudo of Scribe Security about software bills of material and their impact on software supply chains.

https://scribesecurity.com

Cross-post from my Solo Adventurer channel and podcast.



Will my musical past help me win a battle of the bands… Against myself? I compose a song, and maybe even sing it… Live!

This game by Dustin Winter was featured in the latest Level 1 anthology part of Free RPG day.