Synopsis
Gregarious Mammal is a regular ramble that covers topics such as technology, robots, coding, IoT, current affairs, travels, writing and so much more.Show notes can be found at - gregariousmammal.com/podcast
Episodes
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Putting Blockchain in hotel rooms with Réda Berrehili of the Ki Foundation
09/08/2019 Duration: 46minIn this episode I speak with Réda Berrehili of the Ki Foundation about their plans to put blockchain-powered assistants into hotel rooms. I also cover the Linux desktop wars are over, the Nintendo power glove, and those pesky under water cables giving us all the internet we need (most of the time). https://chrischinchilla.com/ https://twitter.com/ChrisChinch http://facebook.com/chrischinchilla--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Quantum Jerks - Brilliant Puppies, Pompeii, and what's so good about Medium?
01/08/2019 Duration: 20minIn this Weekly Squeak I cover Quantum computing, removing brilliant jerks, the problems with Medium, the problems with office perks, arguments over Pompeii and more! https://www.facebook.com/chrischinchilla https://chrischinchilla.com--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Apache Spark with Jean Georges Perrin, Twine, Alexa and the NHS
19/07/2019 Duration: 01h11minIn this episode I speak with Jean Georges Perrin about his forthcoming book "Spark in Action", where we cover Apache Spark, writing books, and why many are wrong about IBM. I also cover Twine, Open Source and Alexa and the UK's health service.https://www.manning.com/books/spark-in-action-second-editionDiscount code for any Manning books for you all: podchinc19And 5 free eBook codes for Jean's book if it caught your interest! spchc-3424 spchc-552D spchc-445B spchc-3087 spchc-F63D They are already activated and will last for two months. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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IOST Blockchain, downplaying air travel, computer sound design and JPEG joy
12/07/2019 Duration: 45minIn this episode I speak with some of the team behind the IOST Blockchain project, cover recent Zoom woes, wonder if air travel is all that's it's hyped to be, dig into JPEGs, and so much more! https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Marco Palladino of Kong, Sugar, Sobriety and Vegetarian Tech
04/07/2019 Duration: 44minI speak with Marco Palladino of Kong about their API gateway, microservice mesh and smart docs generation.Also features content on North Korea, increased sobriety, Sugar and Vegetarian tech events.And I announce how you can get involved in my new show, "The Enthusiastic Amateur". https://konghq.com/kong/ https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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The state of mobile networks with OpenSignal
27/06/2019 Duration: 01h11minIn this episode I speak with Ian Fogg of OpenSignal about our current 4G network, and the future 5G one. Also featured is D&D for product teams, educating on the history of the British Empire, Visual Basic, Project Catalyst, Libra, escaping the smart city and more!https://chrischinchilla.com/podcastshttps://chrischinchilla.com/newsletters--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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KubeCon - Solo.io, Digital Ocean and Atlassian
14/06/2019 Duration: 01h13minIn part 2 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes: Idit Levine of Solo.io 24:48 - Shiv Ramji of Digital Ocean 50:05 - Matthew Whittington of Atlassianhttps://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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KubeCon - IBM, Canonical and Rancher
10/06/2019 Duration: 01h11minIn part 1 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes: 1:27 - Jason McGee of IBM 25:26 - Carmine Rimi of Canonical 48:16 - Sheng Liang of Rancher Labshttps://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Mark Marron of Bosque, Microsoft's new programming language
28/05/2019 Duration: 01h05minI speak with Mark Marron of Microsoft about their new language that is simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines.I also cover Edge arriving on macOS, Android Q desktop mode, Vale for the desktop, and why no one builds underground lines anymore?https://chrischinchilla.com/podcastshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/bosque-programming-language/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Matt Billman of Netlify, game playing AI, and Sim City hell
15/05/2019 Duration: 55minIn this episode Chris speaks with Matt Billman of Netlify, creating general game playing AI, browser wars past and present, and more!https://chrischinchilla.com/podcastshttps://chrischinchilla.com/newslettershttps://www.netlify.com--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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A Linux for Windows? Pengwin, Polymaths, Login and Coffee Pods
07/05/2019 Duration: 01h03minIn this episode Chris speaks with Hayden Barnes about the Pengwin project, an optimised Linux for the Windows Linux Subsystem. Also features articles on Coffee Pods, Polymaths, digital newspapers and more!https://chrischinchilla.com/podcastshttps://www.pengwin.dev--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Your smart essential dungeon
25/04/2019 Duration: 57minIn this episode Chris covers why the Essential phone isn't as bad you might have thought, how smart speakers are changing music, new programming languages, and is D&D becoming too mainstream?Also features an interview with Pooh from Mojobot, a cool new coding board game that's on kickstarter right now!https://chrischinchilla.com/podcastshttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/projectlab/mojobot-tangible-coding-robot--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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The Caffeinated Cthulhu Desktop
17/04/2019 Duration: 19minIn this episode I look at advice on writing weird fiction, the future of Linux, the latest version of Opera, wether Google cloud offers an open source friendly alternative to AWS, and more!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Robocall hyphen king
04/04/2019 Duration: 21minIn this episode Chris covers the trail of the robocall king, programmer's obsession with efficiency, prisoners training AI, all you wanted to know about hyphenation, and much more.https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Ranking full stop
27/03/2019 Duration: 15minIn this episode I cover old technologies and how to preserve them, the death of Childhood musicians and a little more.https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Tendermint, Cosmos and developer-focused Blockchains
20/03/2019 Duration: 55minChris speaks with Jae Kwon of Tendermint about their Byzantine-fault tolerant state machine replication. Or blockchain, for short.Also in this episode Chris looks at the history of the Ottoman empire, ageing coders, the psychology of Magic the Gathering and more.https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Revolutionising health data with Arkhn
14/03/2019 Duration: 49minIn this episode Chris speaks with Alexis of Arkhn about their plans to standardise medical data. Also featured are stories on D&D, the connections between crypto and gambling, the real intentions of Facebook and more.https://chrischinchilla.com/podcastshttps://arkhn.org/english.html--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Brian Platz of Fluree, the Feature Packed Blockchain-based Database
06/03/2019 Duration: 57minIn this episode I speak with Brian Platz of Fluree, a database that packs Blockchain, GraphQL, change reversion and much more. I also cover my geeky squeaks for the week including cashless society, the number 3 mobile OS, mapping works of ancient history and more.https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts@chrischinch--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Ethical Robot Love Hack
28/02/2019 Duration: 17minIn this weekly geeky squeak I look at coworking, robot love, unhackability, CUPS, Docker, the male focussed world, article 13, and more.https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Decentralised Privacy with Loki Network
13/02/2019 Duration: 47minIn this episode Chris covers links of the week including ancient relics, and toys old and new. Also features an interview with Simon Harman, the project lead at Loki, a decentralised privacy network.https://chrischinchilla.com/podcastshttps://chrischinchilla.com/support--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com