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Tech Lounge
Every two weeks, the tech lounge invites tech luminaries, entrepreneurs, and creatives from small scrappy startups and open source enthusiasts to those working in large global companies. If you're interested in deep and creative technology and conversations with some of its most interesting practitioners, this is the show for you. Come in and get yourself comfortable. Ten years and still going strong. Hosted by Chris Chinchilla. Show notes can be found at - chrischinchilla.com/podcast Formerly…
Episodes
Tech LoungeCircleCI CTO Rob Zuber on continuous integration that 'just works'
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 work, test…
Tech LoungeLove in the time of artificial intelligence
In this episode Cate and Chris tackle the rise of cryptocurrencies, love (past and present) in the time of artificial intelligence, the prevalence of software…
Tech LoungeAugmented reality and IoT with Tanveer Saifee of Thingworx
Chris speaks with Tanveer Saifee of Thingworx about creating interactive AR tools that help workers in modern industry understand and analyse the machinery and…
Tech LoungeJohannes Schickling of Graphcool, The GraphQL Backend
Chris speaks with Johannes Schickling of Graphcool, The GraphQL Backend Framework. The interview covers their love of GraphQL, community and how they try to…
Tech LoungeAre Coders King?
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 naivety…
Tech LoungeWhat can musicians and programmers learn from each other? A conversation with Ryan Blunden
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 what…
Tech LoungeThe Ukrainian Startup scene with Anastasia Sleptsova
As part of a forthcoming article on the Ukrainian tech/startup scene, I interview Anastasia Sleptsova Head of Ecosystem Partnerships at UNIT.City…
Tech LoungeHow to program a robot - Interview with Gestalt Robotocs
Robots are appearing everywhere in our lives and workplaces, but how does a developer actually program one? Chris spoke with Jans Lembrecht of Gestalt Robotics…
Tech LoungeManaging Your Business Apps with Apperian, An Interview with Mark Lorion
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. But for…
Tech LoungeThe Ethics of Tech
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 voice…
Tech LoungeUbuntu Core and Snaps
Chris spoke with Dustin Kirkland, VP of product development and Jamie Bennett, VP of Devices and IoT Engineering at Canonical to understand more the strategy…
Tech LoungeThierry Carrez, release manager for the OpenStack project
Chris interviews Thierry Carrez, release manager for the OpenStack project about how he coordinates a large amount of contributors to the project, balancing…
Tech LoungeInterviews from IFA 2017 and Startup Night Berlin
Chris and Cate interview numerous people from IFA and Startup Night Berlin 2017. https://www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeDataiku Interview
Dataiku Interview by Gregarious Mammal --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to…
Tech LoungeIFA, IoT night, Armenian startups and Startup night - The Berlin week that was
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…
Tech LoungeMark Brocato of Sencha - Bringing cross platform components to React
Chris speaks with Mark Brocato of Sencha about their new cross platform data-driven components for the React framework, and how the company made JavaScript…
Tech LoungeTech in Board Games, an Interview with Ben Maddox
Chris speaks with Ben Maddox of the Perfect Information podcast to talk about the past, present and future of technology in Board Games. --- Send in a voice…
Tech LoungeLove, life, leisure and technology
This week Cate and Chris discuss the intersections of journalism, immortality, music, romance and government with technology. Show notes at…
Tech LoungeDatical - Bringing DevOps practices to Database Administrators
I spoke with Robert Reeves, CTO and Co-founder of Datical, a company that aims to remove the pain that database administrators (DBAs) experience on a regular…
Tech LoungePepperdata - Bringing DevOps Practices to the Big Data World
Big Data analysis generally involves piping large data sets into processing systems such as Apache Spark and Hadoop, walking away for a very long coffee and…
Tech LoungeGeneration what now?
This week Cate and Chris discuss how smart phones are destroying a generation, cybersecurity, documentation, tech diversity and more. Show notes -…
Tech LoungeSteadily Serving the Web for 12 years, Liam Crilly from NGINX
NGINX is one of the most popular web servers on the internet. Just a shade behind the market leader it emerged roughly ten years ago to provide an alternative…
Tech LoungeScott Heiferman - The past, present and future of meeting people with meetup founder
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 million…
Tech LoungeWhat Affect Is Tech Having on Society? An Interview With Yael Eisenstat
Chris speaks to Yael Eisenstat about technology, how it can divide society into tribal bubbles and what we or tech companies can and should do about it. ---…
Tech LoungeBecoming the First Cyborg with Liviu Babitz
Chris and Cate speak to Liviu Babitz from Cyborgs Nest about the past, present and future of Cyborgs. Image from -…
Tech LoungeJeff Luszcz of Flexera - Helping make Open Source Secure and Compliant
Chris speaks to Jeff Luszcz about how Flexera aims to make software that relies on open source components more secure, compliant and sustainable. --- Send in a…
Tech LoungeLucas Carlson of Automic - Taking DevOps beyond developers
Chris speaks with Lucas Carlson, novelist and strategist about Automic and how they are working to take DevOps beyond developers. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeBrian Behlendorf of Hyperledger
I speak with Brian Behlendorf, one of the key developers behind the Apache Web Server, a Mozilla and EFF board member, and Executive Director of the…
Tech LoungeThe Missing Link(s)
Cate and Chris discuss the latest news, tech developments, and events from the past couple of days. Including Chat Bots, Ethereum, Petya and Cats writing…
Tech LoungePravin Halady of NodeSource
I sat down with Pravin Halady, product manager at NodeSource to discuss why enterprise developers might need a safer and more secure version of Node.JS and NPM…
Tech LoungePioneers 2017 interviews part 2 - Blockchain, IoT and Education
Chris speaks to dozens of interesting people at this years Pioneers conference in Vienna, in part 2 are: Salix - 00:00 ubirch - 09:02 Fable - 30:19 More…
Tech LoungeHow do techies and creatives learn best with Jessica Lovegood
In this episode Cate and Chris talk with Jessica Lovegood, a UX designer with a passion for understanding how people in the tech industry learn…
Tech LoungePioneers 2017 interviews part 1 - BioTech and Education
Chris speaks to dozens of interesting people at this years Pioneers conference in Vienna, in part 1 are: Oculyze - 00:00 Pepticom - 16:43 Robowunderkind -…
Tech LoungeChip Childers, CTO of Cloud Foundry
Chris speaks with Chip Childers about the history, use cases and components of Cloud Foundry. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chipchilders/ --- Send in a voice…
Tech LoungeEurope unites, startup homogeneity and getting older in tech
In this episode Cate and Chris discuss European startups uniting, startup homogeneity and getting older in tech. More at gregariousmammal.com/podcast --- Send…
Tech LoungeFounder of Opera and Vivaldi, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner
Chris speaks with Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, founder of Opera and Vivaldi about browsers, web history and making the web personal without invading privacy…
Tech LoungePilosa - Creating a new kind of database index
Chris speaks with H.O. Maycotte and Troy Lanier of Pilosa, a new kind of index, a distributed bitmap index, that aims to solve a major problem for everyone who…
Tech LoungeManish Gupta of Redis Labs
Chris speaks with Manish Gupta of Redis Labs about how redis became one of the most popular data stores for developers. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeMobile and Web App testing with Sauce Labs
Chris speaks with Jonathan Lipps and Ken Drachnik about Sauce Labs, Selenium, Appuim and testing the internet of things. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeMatthew Setter - ownCloud, PHP, Technical Writing and more
In this episode Cate and Chris speak with Matthew Setter about ownCloud, PHP, Technical Writing and more. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeOverOps interview, The future of online learning, ex-military in tech and much more
In this episode Cate and Chris speak with Tal Weiss from OverOps, discuss the future of education, ex-military in tech, standing desks and more. --- Send in a…
Tech LoungeThe future of work, Interview with Postman, and Skilled Migrants
In this episode Cate and Chris speak with Abhinav Asthana from Postman, discuss the future of work, and skilled migrant visas. gregariousmammal.com/podcast ---…
Tech LoungeGregarious Mammal 18/04/17 - What is Biohacking?
In this episode Cate and Chris speak with Paul Laeuner from BioMonkey about BioHacking to improve your physical and mental self and what (if anything) it has…
Tech LoungeLogz.io, Israel, Robots for Seniors and is the Laptop Dead?
Cate and Chris the latest news, tech developments, and events from the past couple of days. Logz.io, Israel, Robots for Seniors and is the Laptop Dead?…
Tech LoungeBlockchain music and tech cooperatives with Resonate
Chris talks with Peter Harris from resonate about music streaming on the blockchain, tech cooperatives and much more. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeGregarious Mammal at Mobile World Congress
In this episode Chris and Cate report back from Mobile World Congress about IoT, robots and much more. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeGregarious Mammal 13/02/17
Cate and Chris the latest news, tech developments, and events from the past couple of days. Failure, diabetes wearables, lady problems and potatoes…
Tech LoungePicking over 2016
In this episode, Chris and Cate discuss 2016 and look forward (maybe) to 2017. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is…
Tech LoungeWeb Summit, Trump, tech, news, opinions and solutions
In this solo episode Chris gives a brain dump on his thoughts from the news of the past weeks to try and make a semblance of sense from it all. Find show notes…
Tech LoungeThe Weekly Squeak: Our Robot Overlords - Death or Desperation
In this episode we discuss what our robot overloads even are and wonder if they will kill us all, ruin our relationships, or just take our jobs… --- Send in a…
Tech LoungeTech Community, Imposter syndrome and more with Jessica Rose
In this Episode we discuss many topics with the infamous Jessica Rose. Technical communities, imposter syndrome, public speaking and more. --- Send in a voice…
Tech LoungeThe Weekly Squeak, 5th September - IFA and The Long Night of Startups
In this episode we discuss companies and people we met at IFA and the Long night of Startups here in Berlin. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeBrexit, The Australian Election, Greece, International events and IoT in Football
In this episode of the increasingly inaccurately titled 'Weekly Squeak' we discuss Brexit, The Australian Election, DroidCon in Greece, Greece in General…
Tech LoungeThe Weekly Squeak, 6th August - Pitching your Idea to the Press
In this Weekly Squeak we discuss how to effectively pitch your technical idea to the press. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeThe Weekly Squeak - 11th June 2016
The Weekly squeak has a co-host this week. Cate Lawrence joins me as we discuss our trip to Bitspiration and Warsaw, Brexit and other miscellaneous topics. ---…
Tech LoungeThe Weekly Squeak - 9th May 2016
In this episode I discuss teaching beginners to program and how maybe we're all doing it wrong. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeThe Weekly Squeak - 28th March 2016
In this episode I speak to Steve Tauber and Marin Todorov about Developer Health --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This…
Tech LoungeTech Tribes and Being an Outsider Amongst Outsiders
In this episode I discuss being an outsider in a group of outsiders. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public…
Tech LoungeCelebrity Death, Netflix vs Digital Nomads and Introducing the Enthusiastic Amateur
In this episode I discuss celebrity death and Netflix vs the digital Nomad. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a…
Tech LoungeBerlin Winter, Art Exhibitions and Submarine Cables
In this episode I discuss the coldest winter I have ever experienced, art exhibitions and submarine cables. --- Send in a voice message…