Chris Chinchilla

My new book is #1 on Amazon (in Technical writing 😁) It's the sum of a ten-year career and available in "all good bookstores." Whilst you're there, buy one of my fiction books too! Review and share. This really helps! 💯🙇‍♂️ #technical-writing-for-software-developers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">chrischinchilla.com/books/#technic…

There are now 7M developers using @supabase Signups have been accelerating since the start of the year Our growth rate right now is as fast as it was during YC, except that we are doing it from a base of millions of developers instead of thousands

@ChrisChinch made a video about TypeBoost! Even if he's not fully sold, it’s a great review and gives an good idea of what’s possible. But the real magic is that it's fully customizable, and you can build your own AI productivity toolkit 🤙 youtube.com/watch?v=IjAObC…

Today, we are releasing iceberg-js, a lightweight, vendor-neutral JavaScript client for the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog API iceberg-js provides a 1:1 mapping to the API, simplifying the management of namespaces and tables from any JavaScript or TypeScript environment

My old London buddies, go see Katerina, she's awesome.

The latest #techlounge podcast episode is an interview with Jonas van den Bogaard where we discuss open source in the energy sector and The @linuxfoundation Energy community. Listen below, or search for "Tech Lounge" wherever you listen to podcasts! chrischinchilla.com/podcast/open-s…

Agentic browsers… Are they the future of using the web, or a gimmick? There's another contender to consider, and this time it's @opera Neon. What does it add to the landscape, and how did I find using it? Well, you'll have to watch! youtube.com/watch?v=G85Gp4…

We have a great RSVP amount so far, but another quick reminder, we have a @supabase meetup here in Berlin next week featuring our lead of self-hosting and others speaking! And me serving you pizza :) luma.com/329xl654

One of my favourite features in #macOS is focus modes, but they don't go far enough, so I wrote a little something on how to combine them with the @raycast focus feature to get a configurable, full-featured setup for focus. chrischinchilla.com/blog/2025/focu…

What "cunning plan" went out the window during the writing of The Pragmatic Programmer? Chris Chinchilla chats with @pragdave in the Tech Lounge. link in 🧵 @ChrisChinch #techlounge chrischinchilla.com/podcast/30-yea…

Set up an open-source, distributed machine learning pipeline that runs compute in the same location as your data. This post gets you started using Bacalhau to set up nodes in three different regions, send, process, and analyze data, all while respecting data sovereignty.

Oops, don't post here much anymore, but do I know anyone at #WAICF23 ? Feels odd to be at an event and not know a single person here so far 😅

In September I attended Europe's pre-eminent Ruby event @EuRoKu in wonderful Sarajevo and wondered, as it comes up to its 30th birthday, what's it's place in the programming landscape? Somehow this was published in November and I missed it 😅 buff.ly/3BQd86I

Last interview episode of the year is with @testcontainers now part of @docker which lets you create throwaway, lightweight instances of anything that can run in a container. Search for "Tech Lounge" wherever you get podcasts, or listen below! buff.ly/49QMKXe

Today, I soft launch my debut fiction novel, a post-post-apocalyptic thriller love story. eBook available now, print soon, with a variety of ways to buy, including from me, stores, and by signing up to a membership program. Lots more to come 🥳 buff.ly/3ZJINPp

Ok Deutsche Bahn! Nine hour journey, two changes, one of which is ten minutes. We can do this! 😬😬💪💪

@40PercentGerman Not just Americans

In fairness, I've never been that good at geography, but having lived in the south of Germany for a few years, these maps seem fairly accurate.

I use @astrodotbuild , and the project announced version 5 this week! I spoke with @ElianCodes about the project and the features you can expect in version 5. Search for "Tech Lounge" wherever you get podcasts, or listen below (on an Astro page). chrischinchilla.com/podcast/astro-…

@astrodotbuild Great! I had an interview for my podcast waiting for the release, will put it out this week :)

elegance. luxury. astro. 5.0 coming soon...

Anyone else attending #apidays the next couple of days? And more crucially, are there any side social events, dinners, etc, I can invite myself to? 😁 I'll be speaking tomorrow about using AI to help polish API docs.