Episodes

  • Cooking up a framework desktop
    May 12 2026

    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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    33 mins
  • Passing the Gourd
    Apr 28 2026

    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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    38 mins
  • Pouring out the Sidra
    Apr 14 2026

    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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    33 mins
  • VNC? No way!
    Mar 31 2026

    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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    35 mins
  • Tailor Snaps for Big Iron
    Mar 17 2026

    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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    33 mins
  • The Smell of Git
    Mar 3 2026

    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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    42 mins
  • Mark's Meshing About
    Feb 17 2026

    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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    35 mins
  • Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers
    Feb 3 2026

    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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    38 mins