I speak with Daniel Temkin about his book, Fourty-Four EsoLangs and about the world of esoteric programming languages.

Formed the basis of this article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-programming-languages-daniel-temkin

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Fourty-Four Esoteric languages with Daniel Temkin

Cate and Chris recap a month of events, including IFA, the Bologna Gathering, LF Energy, IT Arena, and How to Web.

Write your way

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Sudowrite is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps you brainstorm, outline, and write your stories.

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The width and breadth of European tech: Events roundup

I speak with Sagar Batchu about Speakeasy, the platform for crafting API experiences from simple definition files, including exposing them as MCP servers.

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Craft exceptional API experiences with Speakeasy.

In this episode, I speak with Romain Bouqueau of Motion Spell about GPAC, an open source framework that has revolutionized the way we handle audio-video streaming, transcoding and packaging.

Capture your screen effortlessly
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Empowering open source multimedia innovation with GPAC

I am joined by Ed of Cribl, an observability and telemetry platform for security tracking and teams.


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Telemetry and observability for Security with Cribl

In this episode, I speak with Peter Zaitsev of Percona about the history of MySQL, his history with the venerable database, and his history with Percona.

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30 years of MySQL with Peter Zaitsev of Percona

I speak with Vadym Grin about his forthcoming book on good, bad, and ugly design for digital products and services.

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Emotional Digital Design with Vadym Grin

In this episode, Cate and Chris discuss some of the recent downsizing of European tech media and ask how we got here, what's next, and what does it all mean for the European tech industry.

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The state of European tech media

A packed container of an episode where I speak with Madhura Maskasky of Platform9 about their long-running container management platform and efforts to help people migrate from VMware and John Amaral of root.

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Container management and security with Platform9 and Root

Fast rewind back to February and I had some fascinating conversations with various projects at FOSDEM in Brussels, including the Rust Foundation, Sysdig about StratoShark, Next Cloud, and Mastodon.

 

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