Chinchilla Squeaks Podcast
1) Fourty-Four Esoteric languages with Daniel Temkin
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-...Show More
2) The width and breadth of European tech: Events roundup
Cate and Chris recap a month of events, including IFA, the Bologna Gathering, LF Energy, IT Arena, and How to Web.
3) Craft exceptional API experiences with Speakeasy.
I speak with Sagar Batchu about Speakeasy, the platform for crafting API experiences from simple definition files, including exposing them as MCP servers.
4) Empowering open source multimedia innovation with GPAC
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.
5) Telemetry and observability for Security with Cribl
I am joined by Ed of Cribl, an observability and telemetry platform for security tracking and teams.
6) 30 years of MySQL with Peter Zaitsev of Percona
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.
7) Emotional Digital Design with Vadym Grin
I speak with Vadym Grin about his forthcoming book on good, bad, and ugly design for digital products and services.
8) The state of European tech media
In this episode, Cate and Chris discuss some of the recent downsizing of European tech media and ask how we got here, what's next, and what does it all mean for the European tech industry.
9) Container management and security with Platform9 and Root
A packed container of an episode where I speak with Madhura Maskasky of Platform9 about their long-running container management platform and efforts to help people migrate from VMware and John Amaral ...Show More
10) Voices from FOSDEM 2025
Fast rewind back to February and I had some fascinating conversations with various projects at FOSDEM in Brussels, including the Rust Foundation, Sysdig about StratoShark, Next Cloud, and Mastodon.