- 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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12 May 2026, 3:30 pm - 38 minutes 20 secondsPassing the Gourd
In this episode:
- Martin goes over why and how he’s stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉
- Mark discovers new life, and new civilisations in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the unknown 🖖
- Alan outsources busywork to Minnie Love, his OpenClaw personal AI assistant, with help from OpenClaw for dummies, and two gists 🤖
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28 April 2026, 3:30 pm - 33 minutes 22 secondsPouring out the Sidra
In this episode:
- Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com.
- Martin swaps Cider for Sidra.
- Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up richer! This time next year, Rodney.
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14 April 2026, 3:30 pm - 34 minutes 50 secondsVNC? No way!
In this episode:
- Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher
- Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
- Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.
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31 March 2026, 3:30 pm - 33 minutes 10 secondsTailor Snaps for Big Iron
In this episode:
- Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
- Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
- Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.
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17 March 2026, 5:00 pm - 42 minutes 12 secondsThe Smell of Git
In this episode:
- Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
- Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
- Martin gets busy with lazygit.
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3 March 2026, 7:00 pm - 35 minutes 4 secondsMark's Meshing About
In this episode:
- Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time.
- Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor.
- Mark gets started with Meshtastic
supher-highwaycountry lanes.
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17 February 2026, 5:30 pm - 37 minutes 48 secondsAudio Trainers and Wallet Drainers
In this episode:
- Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
- Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺
- Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP)
- Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger.
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3 February 2026, 3:30 pm - Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
- 23 minutes 24 secondsPoints of You
In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:
- HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket
- Kazeta
- Recipe-Scribe
- FossFLOW
- Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix
- Toniebox Reverse Engineering
- Tonuino
- Yarg-lang
Events
- SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) Pasadena, California, USA: March 5-8, 2026.
- Get 40% off your SCaLE ticket with the Linux Matters coupon code: LMAT
- OggCamp Manchester, UK: April 25th - 26th, 2026.
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20 January 2026, 3:30 pm - 28 minutes 42 secondsLets get Trippy
In this episode:
- Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters.
- Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source)
- Martin ups his network diagnostics game with trippy and gping.
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6 January 2026, 3:30 pm - 31 minutes 42 secondsGive me the Aux
In this episode:
- Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl.
- Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo.
- “Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚”
- Mark carves up his monitors with Tiling Assistant.
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