Chinchilla Squeaks

Adobe Photolost — A weekly geeky squeak

What happened to German engineering, where did (some of) the vegans go, and a trip down (lack of) memory lane and early computing.

Jan 8 • Chris Chinchilla

December 2025

Talk to JQuery, cos Ruby ‘aint listening

Internet outages, make music through voice, Ruby is dead, and long live… jQuery?

Dec 4, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

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November 2025

A leaking bubble — tech news for 6th November

The AI bubble, memory leaks, startups in Syria, and more!

Nov 6, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

October 2025

RIPrivacy

Sorry for the extended break, conference season is in swing again, and I have also been exceptionally busy with organising the sell-out (!) Bicorn games…

Oct 9, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

September 2025

A cup of Tahoe

New Apple operating systems, the history of essential apps, nine-hour Monopoly, and more.

Sep 18, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

Fix the web and look good doing it

The web is drowning in JavaScript, and the vibe is that there will be more. Also, happy birthday MDN, and how to look good in your middle age 😎.

Sep 4, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

August 2025

Artificial arrogance

When is AI not AI? What became of the digital nomad dream? And what happens when an entire nation decides it’s time to go? All that and more in this…

Aug 21, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

July 2025

Live Lizard Model — Tech and geek news for July 31st 2025

A packed issue with music, AI, macOS history, work trends in tech, and so much more.

Jul 31, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

Hyper hype

This issue, I finally embrace a pro-user keyboard shortcut, containerization on macOS gets even better, AI bands storm the streaming charts, and more!

Jul 17, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

June 2025

WWWe’ll see

It's WWDC week. Sory/not sorry for all the Apple news. Oh, and Nokia…

Jun 18, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

Got a podcast in my pocket

Classic shows and services say goodbye, and new approaches try something new.

Jun 4, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla

May 2025

Disconnect the World

RIP Skype, tarifftastic, and LLM scraping costing sites twice

May 1, 2025 • Chris Chinchilla