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Upbeat and family-friendly show including news, discussion, interviews and reviews from the Ubuntu, Linux and Open Source world.

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...

In this episode: Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com . Martin swaps Ci...

In this episode: Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher Alan has been con...

In this episode: Martin has created tailor : Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔 Mark's ageing Microserver N36L has f...

In this episode: Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user, Alan spring cleans his GitHub , Martin ge...

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...

In this episode: Martin creates a automated audio engineer. Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality resul...

In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss: HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket Kazeta Recipe-Scribe FossFLOW Terminal Velocity -...

In this episode: Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind , a remake of the classic Timesplitters . Alan enters a coding competition and c...

In this episode: Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl . Martin sharpens his cultlery and har...

In this episode: Martin has been learning Go and created: Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩 Jivefire -...

In this episode: Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm , and supporting Coles Books . Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty...

In this episode: Alan dusts off his newsletter . Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain6...

In this episode: Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole. Martin created Glyph Party , for adding panache to your terminal applications. Mark...

In this episode: Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala . Mark has been debugging his car charger. Alan...

In this episode: Alan has been manifesting Snaps . Martin has snapped and switched from macOS to Linux with a Framework . Mark used Immich t...

In this episode: Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade . Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral . Alan created an M...

In this episode: Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell , a-Shell mini , and iSH . He also used copyparty . Alan went to a h...

In this episode: Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo . Martin sidesteps complexity with Just . Mark gives his fi...

In this episode: Martin has a fancy GitHub profile . Shields.io - Concise, consistent, and legible badges github-readme-stats - Dynamically...

In this episode: Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway? Mark upgrades the SSD in his Fr...

In this episode: Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development. Mark fulfills his years-long dream o...

In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils , findutils , diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working...

In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other p...

In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from...

In this episode: Mark has been prototyping Bookshelf Buddy devices with Raspberry Pi. See the demo here . Alan has been using bots, to build...

In this episode: Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩 L-Trac Tr...

In this episode: Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025 Mark continues developing and names "Bookshelf Buddy", a self-hosted re...

In this episode: Mark has started developing a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players. Alan has taken a look at Doc...

In this episode: Martin has created smiti18n ( pronounced smitten ) - A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support...

In this episode: Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable . Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft pe...

In this episode: Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD . Mark puts...

In this episode: Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act . Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-h...

In this episode: Mark has been a STEM Ambassador , talking to school children about his career. Alan is co-organising BarCamp Surrey , a fre...

In this episode: Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft , Grype , and Anchore , and has fun with Starter Pac...

In this episode: Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a "link in bio" page. Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are...

In this episode: Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype . Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with G...

In this episode: Alan uses vhs to make a short video Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp Mart...

In this episode: Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus Alan has been...

In this episode: Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs . CLI setup: gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets : Create encrypted...

In this episode: Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and...

In this episode: Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools: gpuviewer GreenWithEnvy Which needs a Coolbits b...

In this episode: Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android: Tempo GoSonic Ultrasonic Symphonium Martin names a whole new category...

In this episode: Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and...

In this episode: Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin . Alan has been streaming to Twitch , YouTube and Owncast...

In this episode: Martin is migrating notes to Joplin and heynote , and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors. Alan attempts to contribute package upd...

In this episode: Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter . Mark gets guilt-tripp...

In this episode: Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Overri...

In this episode: Martin announces what's new in quickemu . Mark explains how quickgui came to be. Alan starts testing with quicktest . You c...

In this episode: Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new genera...