Linux Matters

By Linux MattersTechnology

Linux Matters episodes

August 19, 2025Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles
In this episode:
Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo.
Martin sidesteps complexity with Just.
Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.
You can send your feedback via [email protected]. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
34 min
August 05, 2025Coding in my pants
In this episode:
Martin has a fancy GitHub profile.
Shields.io - Concise, consistent, and legible badges
github-readme-stats - Dynamically generated GitHub stats.
readme-scribe - Automatically generates & updates markdown content, like your README.md
Latest blog posts, podcasts, live streams, YouTube videos from RSS
Latest release, starred repos.
Thank and mention sponsors.
Uses git-auto-commit-action to automatically commit and push changed files and push-files-to-another-repository to push the rendered README.md to my wimpysworld GitHub org.
snk - GitHub user contributions graph as animated snake game
Uses ghaction-github-pages to update a branch everynight
Alan is busy maintaing lots of Snaps.
Mark retired Advanced Volume Control for GNOME.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
31 min
July 22, 2025Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework
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 Framework laptop in the most elaborate way, e-v-e-r!
Alan masters gh to build reports and automate GitHub operations.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
32 min
July 08, 2025Old Man Yells At GMail
In this episode:
Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development.
Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop.
Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
33 min
June 24, 2025The Very Hungry Caterpillar
In this episode:
Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations.
Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips.
Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
28 min
June 10, 2025Nerdy Day Trips
In this episode:
Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix
This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions
Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website.
Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascinating places to visit around the world - science museums, observatories, maker spaces, research facilities, and other spots that’ll scratch a curiosity itch.
Mark has been pushing the limits of his Steam Deck playing Avowed.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
35 min
May 27, 2025Python a-Go-Go
In this episode:
Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS!
Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy
Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
31 min
May 13, 2025Thoccing Heavy
In this episode:
Mark has been prototyping Bookshelf Buddy devices with Raspberry Pi. See the demo here.
Alan has been using bots, to build bots, that pretend not to be bots.
Martin fell down a rabbit hole filled with keyswitches and keycaps.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
34 min
April 29, 2025High Precision Solid Metal Balls
In this episode:
Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩
L-Trac Trackball 🇬🇧
L-Trac Trackball 🇺🇸
Kensingston SlimBlade™ Pro Trackball
input-remapper: An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.
Alan refines his contribution workflow to Savannah and brings it bang up to date.
Mark self-hosts an ONLYOFFICE integrated with Nextcloud.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
37 min
April 15, 2025Crafting Bookshelf Buddy
In this episode:
Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025
Mark 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
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
28 min

About Linux Matters

From the publisher's feed

Experienced Open Source professionals exploring the tech we actually use. If it runs on Linux, we're into it. Whether you're tweaking your desktop, gaming, self-hosting, developing software, improving…