Chris Chinchilla
chrischinchilla.bsky.social
Chris Chinchilla
@chrischinchilla.bsky.social
Independent technical content creator by day. Fiction, games, and music by night. 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺🗺️
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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 🥳

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#fiction #romantasy
The dead among us
The dead among us
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Want to come and work with me at supabase? We’re looking for a docs engineer!

A couple more days and we’ll close the job ad, so get those applications in quick!

jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/65b...

Fully remote, great company, open source at heart, and you get to work with me! (Yay?)
Frontend Engineer (Docs) @ Supabase
Supabase is an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for hundreds of thousands of indie developers, startups, and businesses. We’re looking for a Docs Engineer to help build our documentation https://supabase.com/docs site, API, and Docs AI tools. You’ll be responsible for our docs site and content pipelines, building the tools for product teams and Technical Writers to showcase Supabase features. We believe that documentation is more than just a tool. It’s part of our product. The documentation is where developers take their first step on their side project. We know our docs need a lot of work, and that’s why we need you. If you have ideas for what the best docs in the world would look like, we want you to join us and make that happen. WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR - Level up our documentation site. Make it a best-in-class experience for users ranging from indie vibe coders to enterprise engineering teams. - Maintain our docs tooling and content pipelines. Make working on docs a smooth experience for both internal and external contributors. - Work with our open source contributors through GitHub discussions, issues, and pull requests. YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU HAVE - Frontend experience. You can build and maintain a Next.js site and content pipelines. - Documentation experience. You know something about information architecture, and ideally have worked on a docs site. - Open source or community facilitation experience is a plus. Our docs are open source, and you’ll need to engage with the community through GitHub issues and pull requests. - Experience with automated testing and building pipelines for docs. WHAT WE OFFER - Fully Remote We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world. - ESOP Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together. - Tech Allowance Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work. - Health Benefits Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us. - Annual Off-Sites Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year. - Flexible Work We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when. - Professional Development Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth. ABOUT THE TEAM Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love. - 180+ team members - 40+ countries - 15+ languages spoken - $496M raised - 430,000+ community members - 30,000+ memes posted (and counting) We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities. HIRING PROCESS We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time: 1. Apply – Our team will review your application. 2. Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other. 3. Interviews – Up to four calls with: - Founders - Future teammates - Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role) 4. Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer. All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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.com focus feature to get a configurable, full-featured setup for focus.

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Increasing focus with macOS Focus Modes and Raycast — Chris Chinchilla
Increasing focus with macOS Focus Modes and Raycast
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November 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
@jonworth.eu do you know what happened to the Berlin to Paris direct train? Not seeing it on the schedule anymore :(
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This is definitely the week to wheel out this old chestnut.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
@ihnatko.bsky.social re grammar checkers, I also didn’t have much luck

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I also came across antidote, which was ok, but I didn’t end up sticking with it.
3 Grammarly desktop alternatives — Chris Chinchilla
3 Grammarly desktop alternatives
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October 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Reposted by Chris Chinchilla
I do developers docs in cloud native spaces, and I'm looking for work. If you need better docs for your project, let's chat.
October 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Controversial opinion… I'm kind of Ok with #liquidglass in #macos26 🤷‍♂️
October 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A general call out to all young things making websites and services from us old things, or just those with poor vision…

Please increase your default font sizes!

Or at the least just respect the system setting for the users default font size!

Thank you!
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October 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#bircon is next week and sold out! In the meantime watch our livestream covering some of the smaller RPGs you may have never heard of playing at the con.

@birconberlin.bsky.social

#rpg #berlin

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In this stream Tina and Frank look at some of the smaller press and games on offer at BIRCON. Perhaps they'll talk about your next favorite TTRPG darling! 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6224180546699264
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October 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The amount of running related ads in Berlin at the moment timed for the marathon this weekend make it feel like running is some kind of global cult… which I think it’s fast becoming?
September 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Bravo on the new website design posthog 🧑‍🍳💋

posthog.com

Though I do worry anyone under 35 might not get it….
PostHog is for product engineers
We’re building every tool for product engineers to build successful products.
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September 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Any of my extended Melbourne network looking for a housesitter mid January for a few weeks? 😬😬
September 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Is it me, or does #vantage look and feel a lot like #7thcontinent and #7thcitadel ? #boardgames
September 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Anyone in my network at the The Linux Foundation energy event next week? Or who lives in Aachen?

Say hello if you are and I'd love to say hello back in person!
September 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I have flash fiction and poems in the latest books from @storytellingco.bsky.social. Head to DriveThruFiction to grab copies!

And while you do, my novel is $2!

www.drivethrufiction.com/product/5312...
www.drivethrufiction.com/product/5312...
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September 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Who’s at #ifa this week to see some new cool stuff and room after room of “smart” nonsense?
September 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Quick reminder to all the marketers and email spammers at the moment…

NOT ALL countries have a holiday weekend this weekend.

Thank you, that is all, yours, the rest of the world.
August 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Notion finally works offline.

Oh I love cross platform “desktop” apps 😬
August 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Oh wow the new InDesign import from PDF feature is 💯👏👏. I can finally import an Affinity file :)
August 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Carrying back a cat tower and pack of chia seeds from the store must be the most middle class and middle aged thing I’ve done for a while
August 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"Allen's law"

No matter how many allen (hex) keys you have, you never have the right one.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Now I have a spare Mac and am building more native apps and automation content, I did it…. Will report back #macostahoe #macos26 #tahoe
August 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
@catelawrence.bsky.social is back with me on #techlounge where we discuss the state of European tech media in the wake of some recent downsizing and changes.

Search for "tech lounge" wherever you get podcasts or listen below.

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The state of European tech media,The state of European tech media — Chris Chinchilla
<p>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.</p><p><strong>Try Raycast</strong></p><p>Want to improve your productivity on macOS with a Shortcut to everything? Try Raycast, and get 10% off with the link, <a href="https://go.chrischinchilla.com/raycast">...
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August 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
To celebrate #28yearslater and #thelastofus season 2, my book #thedeadamongus is on sale all of July. It looks 20 years into the future to wonder if the "humans" and "zombies" could maybe, just about… get along

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July 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM