Chinchilla Squeaks - Getting to the bullet point

Podcast version

Acrolinx is an AI-powered platform/framework/tool/🤷‍♂️ for content optimisation. I have always wanted to know more about the product, and for this episode I speak with their CMO, Christopher Willis to finally find out more.

Cool 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.

It all started with Neopets for me. My best friend and I would spend sweltering summer afternoons in her basement writing HTML and CSS and sharing the new colors and effects we found to make pretty pet pages. We used blink tags a lot.

Language

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.

Maps and History

Can Age of Empires IV, a game about war and conquest, ever be historically accurate? Heck, should it even try? The key to a great historical game is to ensure that the history doesn’t spoil the game.

And Finally…