episodes featuring James Bilsbrough

James has worked in technology for most of his adult-life, mostly in the support space. He’s a proud nerd who isn’t afraid to tell you he knows far more about Federation starships than one would normally expect.

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Amazon S3

Cloud Backup & Storage

James and Jae are joined by Pat Patterson, the Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze to discuss all things backup and cloud storage.

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Charging

Solar Powered

James talks to Rees (aka Ctrl Alt Rees) about his recent DIY solar setup that got a lot of attention on YouTube. We chat about what was involved, as well as what it’s like to have a video go so viral.

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ActivityPub

Mastodon – Into the Fediverse

With the massive chaos going on over at the bird-site, James chats with another James, this one being a Mastodon instance owner, as well as an experienced open-source software developer.

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Audio

All About Podcasts

James is joined by self-confessed podcast addict, Arielle Nissenblatt to talk about podcasts and podcasting from both a creator and listener perspective.

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Cars

Charging Status: November 2022

James and Alex are back with all EV news from October 2022, along with Alex’s test drive of the Mini Electric.

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Digital Identity

Digital Identity

It’s our great pleasure to have Helen Horstmann-Allen, Fastmail’s COO, with us this week to chat about email and how it fits into our digital identities and our online privacy.

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Amiga

Music on the Amiga

This week, James talks to Ravi Abbott, one-third of the Retro Hour, all about how he uses two Amiga A600s as DJ decks using trackers and good old .mod files.

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Clients

Floating Hippy Villages

Jae’s back in the host seat to welcome Amanda to the show, we talk all about freelancing and how technology can both help and hinder it.

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Audio

Sleep With Us

Jae and James talk with Drew of the ‘Sleep With Me’ podcast about his show that, literally, puts people to sleep. We also talk about how technology can help, as well as hamper, our ability to sleep.

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Cars

Charging Status: October 2022

The first episode of our brand new monthly show in partnership with Alex from The Interface. We take a UK focussed look at the latest EV and charging news from the previous month, September 2022.