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
I endlessly discover cool digital tools, apps, and websites for enhancing board games and roleplay games and needed an excuse to try them. So I wrote a blogpost!
In this podcast, we discuss the newly released book Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing with Jared Bhatti, staff technical writer at Google, and Zachary Sarah Corleissen, staff technical writer at Stripe (two of the co-authors). This book on writing documentation focuses on the end-to-end writing process (from audience analysis to drafting, editing, publishing, and more) and is written specifically with developers in mind. The authors use the scenario of documenting Corg.ly, an API that translates barks, as a common thread through each of the chapters.
With the Shortcuts app finally making it to macOS with Monterey I thought it was high time I figured out how to get to work and how it can accompany Zapier, AppleScript, Hammerspoon etc.
Ooh, I want a new M1 Mac, but must wait until my tax return… Or is it all marketing baloney?
With Apple's iPhone refresh on deck as well as a rollout of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and MacOS Monterey, the company is adding a bevy of features designed to entice enterprise admins with easier management tools.
Last week, Apple had unveiled their new generation MacBook Pro laptop series, a new range of flagship devices that bring with them significant updates to the company’s professional and power-user oriented user-base.
It was April of 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic where everybody was at home, quarantining. Suddenly, there was noise around a new social networking platform called ‘Clubhouse’.
I am unsure what I think about more and more applications coming to the web. Does it give browser manufacturers too much power?
I thought it was a big deal when Adobe Photoshop arrived on the iPad in 2019. It was, at the time, the culmination of a 30-year journey that saw the bitmap image editor step out of Adobe Illustrator’s shadow to become the go-to creative tool for, by Adobe's count, 90% of creative professionals.
Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop.
Back in 2016, Adam J. Calhoun wrote a fascinating Medium post in which he showed off something quite cool: What novels look like if you strip away the words, and show just the punctuation. He’d written some Python code to do this, then processed several famous books.
In 2001, the record business was in freefall due to digital piracy, and the best way out of this accelerating crisis came in the shape of a white device the size of a deck of cards.
More and more people are collecting vintage computers. And they’re getting more than they bargained for In May, Sean Malseed hauled the latest addition to his computer collection into his Philadelphia home.
An epic of solo gaming, I am back with a game that provides everything you need to undertake perilous quests solo, co-op, or guided play. This video is edited highlights of my playthrough and thoughts on the game.
Spoilers follow for the entire Halloween series except for Halloween Kills. (You can also read our Halloween Kills review when you're done here.) On the night of October 31, 1978, Michael Myers, AKA The Shape, killed three people… and then a whole bunch of other people that same night.
