ChrisChinchilla

@chrischinchilla
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Writer on technology, speculative fiction, games, interactive fiction, podcasts, video, and a lot of other wondrous things. 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🌐
websitehttps://chrischinchilla.com
First App Store submission in a decade. First review rejection in a decade. I’m in the game!

Grammarly annoyed a bunch of people with new features this week. Seems like a good time to share this. Might be time for an update to see if alternatives have improved.

Ps. Vale desktop is in testing and is getting closer to a private beta ;)

https://chrischinchilla.com/blog/2025/grammarly-desktop-alternatives

Final week to win me running a d&d session (and a lot of other prizes) and help a good cause!

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Also works in all vscodium forks

V0.34.0 of the vale for vscode extension is out and features two new features that add more of an “interface” to two underlying vale features.

You can manually and automatically sync vale packages.

You can add words to the accept and reject list of vocabularies.

https://github.com/ChrisChinchilla/vale-vscode

And finally https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/connecting-all-the-things-with-avery-pennarun-of-tailscale/

Avery Pennarun from @tailscale where we discuss how the balance open source and SaaS

https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/the-evolution-of-the-web-with-dana-lawson-of-netlify/

Dana Lawson of @netlify.com where we discuss the evolution of hosting.

https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/security-and-password-management-for-all-with-nancy-wang-of-1password/

Nancy Wang of @1password.bsky.social where we talk about security and identity in the age of AI agents.

Big podcast promo backlog! All from #websummit 2025

Listen on the links in the thread or search "Tech Lounge" wherever you get podcasts!

My Wife is running a fundraiser for a psychiatric hospital in Odessa, and one of the prizes I am running a D&D game… Bid/share :)

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