ChrisChinchilla

@chrischinchilla
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Writer on technology, speculative fiction, games, interactive fiction, podcasts, video, and a lot of other wondrous things. 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🌐
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If you’re based near Berlin and into RPGs, larps, storytelling games, and everything adjacent, early bird tickets for the 3rd instalment of Berlins international gaming event finish tonight at 23:59.

Get in there and please promote and share!

https://bircon.berlin/

Crossposted with @openvibe

Berlin International RPG Convention

The Berlin International Roleplaying Games Convention, for tabletop pen and paper enthusiasts, in the heart of Berlin. For fans of Call of Cthulhu, Mörk Borg, Hypertellurians, Mothership, Troika!, Into the Odd, Dungeons and Dragons, Pirate Borg, Wolden, Knightcore, Daggerheart, Shadowdark, and many more.

It’s funny. It’s very easy and on trend to criticise Deutsche Bahn for constant unreliability and delays, but I also don’t think I’ve had a single Lufthansa group flight be on time in about two years either 🤦🇩🇪🔥🗑️

Late last year I moved back to Instapaper after Mozilla shut down Pocket…

I found links from ten years ago that took me on a trip down memory lane to see that some things and changed, and others… Well, they hadn't.

https://chrischinchilla.com/blog/2026/links-from-ten-years-ago/

Crossposted with @openvibe

Revisiting 2016 - Links from ten years ago

Revisiting links saved ten years ago, exploring what captured my attention and the world's interests back in 2016.

Chris Chinchilla

Anyone else had feedly just stop working the past few days?

Crossposted with @openvibe

Quite a few people across the #macos community recently mentioned the awesome CoTypist local AI writing assistant app from the same developer as Timing.

I was lucky enough that the solo indie developer was passing through Berlin and he dropped by in-person for an interview… Which I don't normally do, so the audio is terrible… 😬

Video: https://youtu.be/4J1HKrfnt1A

Audio: https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/daniel-grafe-of-timing-and-cotypist/

Daniel Gräfe of Timing and CoTypist

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why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"

My tech writing community… Write the Docs EU…

@writethedocs

Is back in Berlin again and we welcome your submissions for talks and sessions. Tech writing, like a lot of the tech industry is in a state of flux and we want to hear from you!

https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/berlin/2026/news/announcing-cfp/

Announcing our Website, Call for Proposals, and Sponsorship Prospectus

We’re excited to announce the full Berlin conference website, including: Our Call for Proposals., An updated sponsorship prospectus.. We’re expecting to open ticket sales and the Opportunity Grant ...

Write the Docs

Recorded at @pytorch con in Paris, I had Mark Collier from the foundation on the podcast to talk about its role in stewarding the most popular tool for machine learning and training models.

Listen here: https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/the-pytorch-foundation-with-mark-collier/

or search "Tech Lounge" wherever you get podcasts.

The PyTorch Foundation with Mark Collier

<p>In this episode, I speak with Mark Collier, executive director of the PyTorch Foundation, from PyTorch Con in Paris.<br>  </p> <p><strong>Try the best git GUI for macOS and Windows</strong><br> Grapple git without the grief and try Tower, the best graphical interface for git on macOS and Windows.</p> <p><a href="https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tower" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">h...

Chris Chinchilla
Every AI Bro: We are here to save humanity. We will start by making electricity, water, and electronics more expensive in order to build a machine to put you out of a job. You may begin showering us with gratitude now.
Is by any random chance anyone I know in Friedrichshafen for the European drum show? I have no idea why it’s in this pretty but tiny town 😂😂