Conor, Mike and Shane discuss how they learn and retain information, from brute forcing your brain to watching helpful videos and reading documentation.

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The WebGPU Sourcebook

Mike's WebGPU practice

AstroNvim

Moodle

Veritasium's Learning Styles video

Blender

Shane's game

Fireship on YouTube

Godot docs

three.js

Mike's school project

OggCamp 2026 from 25th to 26th April 2026, in Manchester

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Shane's game dev is going well. Conor recommends some interesting videos. Amolith's learning Rust and contributing to a browser extension.

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Meet Conor and Shane at OggCamp 2026, from 25 to 26 April in Machester, UK

The Dublin Games Co-Op

Shane's game

Solar panels and renewables deep dive by Technology Connections

ColdFusion on everything being a subscription

Brown University's Rust Book fork

Lunatask browser extension

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Mike and Amolith talk about their experience using the self-hosted streaming platform Jellyfin and then talk about the future of LLMs and their place in our society.

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Watch these talks from 39C3:

“End Of 10”: How the FOSS Community is Combatting Software-Driven Resource and Energy Consumption

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

Jellyfin

Jellyfin Clients:

jellyfin-mpv-shim

Findroid

Delfin

Roku

Sky Streaming

Google's Chromecast Certificate Expiry - Ars Technica Article

Anthropic AI

Crush

Claude AI

Anthropic makes it impossible for third-party harnesses

Anthropic's Twitter thread

A Medium article outlining the whole saga

Decoder Podcast from The Verge

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Christmas episode, released exactly at the right time. Amolith, Conor, Mike and Shane talked about their plans for the holiday break.

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Nasin Pali

Crush

Mike's project TortiePad

The WebGPU Sourcebook

Hodges Figgis

Godot documentation

Tamron 18-300mm lense

Flint 3

Networking for System Administrators

Lunatask

Yudane

Shane's game The Void Survival

Mitchell Hashimoto

Walden Pond - it looks like this hasn't been updated since Pocket was shut down.

wallabag

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Conor and Shane start by discussing the new Steam hardware, and guess at the price of the Steam Machine. Then they talk about YunoHost. Conor got a new router. Shane went to a Games Co-Op. They end up reminiscing about living abroad as Irishmen.

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Valve's new hardware announcement

Steam Machine

Steam Controller

Steam Frame

Bazzite

YunoHost

Flint 3

OpenWrt

The Games Co-Op

Shane's game

Digital Games Relief government page

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Conor went to Ubuntu Summit. Amolith expanded his agentic tooling. Mike messed around with simple authentication. Shane worked with Claude on his project.

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The Ubuntu Summit talk recordings YouTube playlist

DOOM in space talk recording

The WSL talk recording

The RISC-V talk

DeepComputing's mainboard

MUSE Book

The Cosmic Desktop talk

Amolith's Crush fork

Functional Source License

Charm

Nasin Pali

Sift

Bin binary manager

Brew on Linux

Mike's authentication example repo

The Mailsender component

Marimo

Shane's game repo

Groq

Newelle

Synthetic

The new Steam gear announcement

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The lads are joined by Máirín Duffy a Red Hat distinguished engineer who works on the Linux user experience. They talk about her work, her Irish language journey, hardware setups, LLMs, progress and society.

Because of an issue on our end with the recording, there is unfortunately increased background noise in some parts. We apologise for the noise.

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508 Standards

GIMP

Inkscape

Penpot

Evolution

Gnome Fonts

Red Hat Satellite

Cockpit

Podman Desktop

Podman AI Lab

Docker Compose

minikube

Irish Language

County Mayo

Genealogy.ie

Learning Irish by Micheál Ó Siadhail

TG 4

Turas Teanga (no longer available on RTÉ)

Gaelchultúr

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom

Kneecap

Blindboy

Goose

Thomas Piketty

Máirín's blog

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This week we're joined by friend of the show Pierre who is a professional graphic designer and game developer using open source tools. We talk about the whole gamut of creativity on Linux including game development, graphics, music, video and much more.

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Check out Pierre's itch.io profile here! -> https://itch.io/profile/frenchdilettante

Blender

Unreal Engine

Godot Game Engine

Ardour

Surge XT synthesiser- Open source synthesiser.

Kdenlive - Open source video editor.

Bitwig studio - Proprietary digital audio workstation with a supported Linux version.

Sunless Skies - A game that Mike enjoys.

Adobe Substance Designer - Proprietary texturing tool from Adobe.

three.js - Graphical Javascript library.

GLSL - OpenGL shading language.

What is shading anyway?

GIMP - Open source image manipulation software.

Krita - Open source 2D painting software.

Game Maker's Toolkit YouTube channel

Shane's long-term game project

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We have been doing this for 150 episodes, so this time we bummed some questions off the listeners and used them for content.

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Dublin Linux

NixNet

Blender video editing

Shane's YouTube Channel

Kdenlive

Nextcloud self-hosting

Snikket self-hosting

Jellyfin Server Flatpak

Immich self-hosting

Ethan Chlebowski's channel

ProtonDB

NPR

PBS

End of Windows 10 event

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Shane is finally getting fibre. Mike's messing with containers on Coolify and Amolith gets an OpenWrt One router and makes his network setup more pleasing with Tailscale and NextDNS. Continuing in the same vein, Shane talks about a Meshtastic device that a listener sent (thank you, Enistello!). Also, we have a gaming Discord server!

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Cloudflare speed test

Coolify

Umami

NocoDB

Codeberg

Ansible Tower

OpenWrt One

Tailscale

NextDNS

Amolith's new network gear

FRITZ!Box

Meshtastic

LoRa

seeed studio WM1110a

Invite link to our gaming Discord server

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