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Passing the Gourd Apr 28, 2026

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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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Pouring out the Sidra Apr 14, 2026

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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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VNC? No way! Mar 31, 2026

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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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Tailor Snaps for Big Iron Mar 17, 2026

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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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The Smell of Git Mar 03, 2026

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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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Mark's Meshing About Feb 17, 2026

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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-highway~~ country lanes.

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Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers Feb 03, 2026

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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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Points of You Jan 20, 2026

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In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:

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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Lets get Trippy Jan 06, 2026

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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.
- trippy: a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping
- gping: ping, but with a graph.

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Give me the Aux Dec 23, 2025

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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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