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I speak with Enclave, which is building an autonomous security team for the enterprise with always-on agents that map your attack surface, find attack paths, repair weaknesses, and verify the path is closed.

The only writing app you'll need

The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone: Powerful features and a pleasant, focused writing experience combined in one tool, made for people who love to write and write a lot — this is Ulysses.

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I speak with Greg Fawson of next.app dev con, the largest mobile app developer conference in the world, right here in my home of Berlin. We speak about how they got there, their plans for the future, and organising events in Berlin in 2026.

https://www.nextappcon.com

Great keyboards for work and play

Keychron makes some of the best mechanical keyboards around, wired or wireless, for Mac and Windows.

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In this episode, I speak with Luca Belli about his forthcoming Manning book, “Hidden Influences,” which explains how algorithmic recommendation systems work from socio-technical and ethical perspectives rather than teaching readers to build them. Belli describes how recommenders and users shape each other, why debates about societal harms (including misinformation) often lack nuance, and why “working properly” is hard to define because value is personal and difficult to measure, leading platforms to optimise for engagement as a proxy with harmful side effects like clickbait. Drawing on his background in math, data science, and his work at Twitter, where he co-founded a machine learning ethics, transparency, and accountability team, he outlines the book’s framework-based, timeless structure and its coverage of moderation, measurement, societal impacts, and individual and policy responses.

https://www.manning.com/books/hidden-influences

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In this episode I speak with Den Odell, author of a new comprehensive book on performance engineering about the practice technically as well as justifying to business and product stakeholders.

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I speak with Thede Loader of Rewarded Interest, another project and product attempting to make privacy and consent on the web better, while offering you an opportunity to make a slice of revenue. Too good to be true?

https://www.rewardedinterest.com

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I speak with Ricardo Noriega and Doug Smith from Red Hat about their experiments using VLLM Omni for video generation.

Your journey to stunning videos starts here

FlexClip is a simple yet powerful video maker and editor for everyone that helps users easily create compelling video content for personal or business purposes without any learning curve.

https://go.chrischinchilla.com/flexclip

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This episode, I am joined again by Mike McQuaid, Homebrew project leader, amongst many other things, including OSS Resistance, a new quiet call to encourage people to contribute to open source when they feel they should.

100s of amazing Mac apps

Looking to supercharge your Mac with 100s of apps to choose from and one low monthly price? Take a look at Setapp from MacPaw.

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In this episode, I speak with Peter Staar of Docling about the wonderful open-source project that converts messy documents into structured data, perfect for ingestion into AI tools and more. Recorded live at PyTorch con in 2026.

Want the power of Mermaid for enterprises?

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This episode, I am joined by Sharath Narayana of Sanas, and AI company working to remove the barriers in audio since 2020.

Your journey to stunning videos starts here

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Joining me in person (and thus the horrible audio quality) is Daniel Gräfe, independent developer of the amazing apps Timing and CoTypist. Based in Germany, we discuss how he builds his apps, why there are so many independent macOS developers in Germany, and what the future holds for independent developers.

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