Episodes

  • Lets get Trippy
    Jan 6 2026

    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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    29 mins
  • Give me the Aux
    Dec 23 2025

    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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    32 mins
  • Grummaging Gophers & Gods
    Dec 9 2025

    In this episode:

    • Martin has been learning Go and created:
      • Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
      • Jivefire - Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser. Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
    • Mark, true to form, has been playing Hades II, a fast-paced rogue-like that runs beautifully on the SteamDeck.
    • Alan revisits Grummage, an interactive terminal frontend to Grype, the vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
      • This new release focuses on UI and usability improvements ✨

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    34 mins
  • He's a very nøughty boy
    Nov 25 2025

    In this episode:

    • Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books.
    • Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux
      • Nøughty Linux GitHub Project
    • Alan has been live streaming.

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    32 mins
  • Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes
    Nov 11 2025

    In this episode:

    • Alan dusts off his newsletter.
    • Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
    • Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode.

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    28 mins
  • Panache, for men
    Oct 28 2025

    In this episode:

    • Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole.
    • Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications.
    • Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey.

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    28 mins
  • Terminal Full of Sparkles
    Oct 14 2025

    In this episode:

    • Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala.
    • Mark has been debugging his car charger.
    • Alan swapped from Plex to Jellyfin.

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    23 mins
  • macOS Made Me Snap!
    Sep 30 2025

    In this episode:

    • Alan has been manifesting Snaps.
    • Martin has snapped and switched from macOS to Linux with a Framework.
    • Mark used Immich to find family favourite snaps.

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    27 mins