- 34 minutes 47 secondsOld man hands
In this episode:
- Alan talks about leaving Developer Relations for a grown-up job at Chainguard.
- Martin creates a simple (his words) note-taking workflow with zx, fsf, Fuzzel, Syncthing, markless, Manuscript, and weave.
- Mark plays some retro games after decorating his office.
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29 September 2026, 3:30 pm - 37 minutes 37 secondsOoh, you are nøughty
In this episode:
- Mark has been decorating his home office with hexagons and the help of Krita.
- Alan has been improving NøughtyLinux.
- Martin has been adding all the chat clients to herdr
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15 September 2026, 3:30 pm - 37 minutes 31 secondsPeering into the Tube
In this episode:
- Martin uses lan-mouse to use his main workstation to control two laptops, one sitting on a PUTORSEN 2 in 1 Laptop Arm Mount and connected via UGREEN Revodok Pro 14-in-1 USB-C Docking Station.
- Mark get a nostalgia hit from playing Agent 64: Spies Never Die
- Alan is challenged to create a PeerTube instance after our YouTube channel was deleted.
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1 September 2026, 3:30 pm - 40 minutes 35 secondsTalking to my Computer
In this episode:
- Alan introduces Canopy, a community insights tool he built.
- Martin finds talking to people isn’t enough, and now talks to his computer with Voxtype.
- Mark once again fights the fungi in The Last of Us Part II.
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18 August 2026, 3:30 pm - 29 minutes 57 secondsHerding online exams
In this episode:
- Mark explores the online exam center at ETH Zurich.
- Alan replaces a shell script with a node script, to keep track of his snaps
- Martin finally gets on board with terminal multiplexers, after discovering herdr
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4 August 2026, 3:30 pm - 25 minutes 31 secondsMoodling the Fediverse in Europe
In this episode:
- Martin is on a break, and will be back next time
- Mark attends MoodleMoot DACH 2026 in Zürich, and hacks together support for the Fediverse in Moodle.
- Alan buys a Mangmi Air X as a game development test-bed.
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21 July 2026, 3:30 pm - 34 minutes 53 secondsClearing the Decks
In this episode:
- Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit,
- Martin updates Jivetalking
- Mark combats the cordyceps in The Last of Us Part I
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7 July 2026, 3:30 pm - 42 minutes 5 secondsDOSing about with games
In this episode:
- Mark creates DOSsier, a system for retro PC gaming.
- Martin replaces his editor (again), this time with Fresh
- Alan creates a new app for event attendance.
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16 June 2026, 3:30 pm - 42 minutes 54 secondssnap install flatpak
In this episode:
- Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
- Some of this was achieved with novim-mode and snacks.nvim.
- Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister.
- Alan wants you all to install flatpak with a snap. Gather round children, it’s story time.
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9 June 2026, 3:30 pm - Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
- 33 minutes 37 secondsDitching Grammarly for Open Sauce
In this episode:
- Alan eschews one gaming fad for a more bespoke, artisanal gaming experience using R4 cards, and ZXDS.
- Martin no longer considers Grammarly his friend, new friend is Harper
- Mark continues his Kobo journey with ventures in NickelMenu and KOReader.
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26 May 2026, 2:30 pm - 32 minutes 42 secondsCooking up a framework desktop
In this episode:
- Mark throws his cook books in the bin and buys a Kobo Libra Colour.
- Alan tidies up Mojinav and puts the source on github.
- Martin builds his own Framework desktop.
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