Tech Lounge

There is a good dose of retro computing, tech trends, and edge technologies in this issue, so let's dive in. 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 need that helping hand, head over to magicmind.com/chinchillasqueaks and use the code "CHINCHILLASQUEAKS20" for 48% of subscriptions or 20% off one time purchases.

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 Brock, CEO of open UK.

I am back from Melbourne with a good dose of developer news, AI, and computing history

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

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

In this episode, I look at the history of Dell, Apple, and Nokia, as well as current efforts to stop the AI machine from gobbling all and sundry.

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 interviews with Humanitec, Scalr, and Dagger.

I cover AI's limitations in understanding sheet music, musicians facing financial challenges while touring, and share updates on my recent Medium post and YouTube interview with Sysdig.

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

In this episode, I discuss how Mcdonald's inspires good management, alcohol and other vices, AI, and more!

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 JSON, time series, geospatial and vector data.

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

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!

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 for market research and competitive analysis. Generative AI tools all the way down! https://www.atlasai.co/ https://gathers.ai/