Tech Lounge

I speak with with Jonas van den Bogaard of Alliander about the Linux Foundation's energy community that fosters open source energy generation and distribution

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In this episode, I speak with Lydia Pintscher and Daniel Stenberg from the European Open Source Academy and their efforts to highlight excellence in European open source communities.

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Selvaraaju Murugesan of Kovai and I speak about the future of AI in tech writing.

The AI writing tool with unparalleled story smarts
Sudowrite is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps you brainstorm, outline, and write your stories.

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I speak with Daniel Temkin about his book, Fourty-Four EsoLangs and about the world of esoteric programming languages.

Formed the basis of this article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-programming-languages-daniel-temkin

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Cate and Chris recap a month of events, including IFA, the Bologna Gathering, LF Energy, IT Arena, and How to Web.

Write your way

Scrivener is the go-to app for writers of all kinds, used every day by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators and more.

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The AI writing tool with unparalleled story smarts

Sudowrite is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps you brainstorm, outline, and write your stories.

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I speak with Sagar Batchu about Speakeasy, the platform for crafting API experiences from simple definition files, including exposing them as MCP servers.

The AI writing tool with unparalleled story smarts

Sudowrite is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps you brainstorm, outline, and write your stories.

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In this episode, I speak with Romain Bouqueau of Motion Spell about GPAC, an open source framework that has revolutionized the way we handle audio-video streaming, transcoding and packaging.

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I am joined by Ed of Cribl, an observability and telemetry platform for security tracking and teams.

Capture your screen effortlessly

Simple and clear, but packed with features, Simple Screenshot is a drop in replacement.

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In this episode, I speak with Peter Zaitsev of Percona about the history of MySQL, his history with the venerable database, and his history with Percona.

Try the best git GUI for macOS and Windows

Grapple git without the grief and try Tower, the best graphical interface for git on macOS and Windows.

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I speak with Vadym Grin about his forthcoming book on good, bad, and ugly design for digital products and services.

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