Linux Matters
A weekly Technology podcast featuring Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress
Linux Matters
Episodes
Episodes of Linux Matters
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In this episode:Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources
In this episode:Mark has started developing a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.Alan has taken a look at Docs, but didn’t use it.Martin has upgraded his home networking with Deco and YuanLey devices.You can s
In this episode:Martin has created smiti18n (pronounced smitten) - A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support 🌕💕Mark has been hard at work Moodling himself silly on the run up to the Moodle 5.0 releaseAlan has
In this episode:Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable.Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance.Martin created the LÖVE Game Development & Automated Build System.You can send your feedbac
In this episode:Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD.Mark puts on his robe and wizard’s hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud.Martin switches his console to KMSCON.
In this episode:Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act.Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems.keyshield - A simple utility to protect y
In this episode:Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career.Alan is co-organising BarCamp Surrey, a free event at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025.Martin has switched from powerline-go to starsh
In this episode:Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter PacksMark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin.Martin migrates his life to the Fed
In this episode:Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page.Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy.Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely.Alan’s coding journey expands
In this episode:Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype.Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial, and has written a backup tool.Mark is listening to Critical Role with Audiobookshelf.You c
In this episode:Alan uses vhs to make a short videoMark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCampMartin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobsYou can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh. I
In this episode:Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatusAlan has been creating animated gifs of terminal sessions with t-rec.Mark picked up a Keybow MINI from the swaps ta
In this episode:Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs.CLI setup:gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets: Create encrypted storagegocryptfs ~/Syncthing/Secrets ~/Vault: Mount the decrypted secrets under ~/Vaultfusermount -u
In this episode:Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more.Some links and products mentioned in the show:funkwhaleSynergyElis’ monitors we “forced” the
In this episode:Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools:gpuviewerGreenWithEnvyWhich needs a Coolbits bit mask of 28 to enable power and fan control.Linux AMDGPU Configuration Tool or LACTRequires th
In this episode:Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android:TempoGoSonicUltrasonicSymphoniumMartin names a whole new category of “Top-like” tools for monitoring GPUS:nvtopintel_gpu_topnvitopamdgpu_topAlan, who is not
In this episode:Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinementMartin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile characters, to make it marginally better to look at.Mark went in search of a self-hosted stream
In this episode:Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin.Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with stream-sprout.Mark plays audio from his Android phone to his Linux desktop speakers.And Martin d
In this episode:Martin is migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors.Alan attempts to contribute package updates to Void and Apline linux.Mark discovers what happens when you plug a phone’s USB port into TV.Yo
In this episode:Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter.Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sniped into updating the Flutter-based Quickgui project.Martin digs into his pile-o-bits to cra
In this episode:Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extension for Firefox.Mark has been composing bass parts for an album using Tux Guitar.Alan has be
In this episode:Martin announces what’s new in quickemu.Mark explains how quickgui came to be.Alan starts testing with quicktest.You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other
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 generation of the old Mycroft AI apope voice.Martin has eschewed Google Search to use Kagi instead.Mark has
In this episode:Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines.Alan has a new job at Anchore, and tells us about their open-source vulnerability, SBOM, license s
In this episode:Martin has been perfecting the Pantheon desktop environment.Alan has been writing Go, and enjoying it.Mark has been playing Against the Storm, a town-builder with rogue-like elements.You can send your feedback via show@lin
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