Chinchilla Squeaks - A world of wires

Podcast version

A weekly podcast from Chris Chinchilla covering technology, board and role play games, history, current affairs, and frankly whatever I feel like covering. Show notes can be found at - chrischinchilla.com/podcast

Cool Tech!

There are so many knowledge management and note taking applications available that all claim to redefine the ecosystem. How does Dendron compare? I take a look!

One of the best parts of using a Pixel is the way tasty little specks of Google intelligence get sprinkled all throughout the experience.

Humble ‘retro’ corded headphones are making an unexpected return, for both aesthetic and practical reasons

Language and writing

Reflecting on what you’re grateful for is one of the most important things you can do to keep your mental health in check. Gratitude journaling is when you use a journal to reflect on things you’re grateful for regularly.

For Nanowrimo (national novel writing month) 2021 I continued my novel from last year. To remind anyone who hasn’t followed my sparse updates on the novel, the novel is a speculative fiction set…

Responsible Tech

On a hard disk somewhere in the surveillance archives of Singapore’s Changi prison is a video of Jolovan Wham, naked, alone, performing Hamlet. In 2017, Wham was arrested for organizing a small protest on a metro train and charged with holding an illegal public assembly.

The CEO and cofounder of grocery app Gorillas looked nervous as he shifted on the spot. It was June 28 and Kağan Sümer was facing a crowd of riders protesting about missing salaries and injuries they claimed were caused by hauling heavy bags of booze around Berlin.

Gaming

A solo journaling game in a far off land that seems familiar, or does it? Join me and my callous engineer as we experience elicit midnight liaisons and funerals at dawn. This video is edited highlights of my playthrough and thoughts on the game.