Chinchilla Squeaks - Kubernetes powered time travel

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!

A new terminal application that promises lots of new useful features, is cross platform, and isn’t based on Electron? I’m intrigued! Will I switch from iTerm? Let’s see!

When a book of brazenly surrealistic poetry and prose was published in 1984, attributed to a mysterious figure named “Racter,” it was hard to know what to make of it. The Policeman’s Beard Is Half-Constructed was a fever vision of weirdness.

There is now a very thin line, easily broken, which separates our physical and digital identities. Social networks have evolved from the days of MySpace to valuable, data-slurping machines that have information on everything from our friends and family to our voting habits.

Language

Audio can be a bit of a contentious subject among written word lovers. But we're not here to re-litigate the age-old debate over whether listening to audiobooks counts as "reading" (it does, by the way).

Gaming

I am on a mission to learn a bunch of new gaming-related tools and languages and Unity has been top of my list for a while. Join me over several forthcoming sessions as I work my way through books and courses… Live.

And Finally…

Time: ravager of youth, spoiler of milk—humanity’s oldest and deadliest foe. Yet in films we can conquer time easily, running it forward and back, skipping into the future or past with a simple edit.

People! At a conference!