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Linux Matters episodes

April 01, 2025Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits!
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.
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28 min
March 18, 2025Moodling Myself Silly
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 release
Alan has been wrangling with Django and has worries about contributing large patches to SavannahHQ
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32 min
March 04, 2025Syfting Through a LÖVEly Rack
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.
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24 min
February 18, 2025Mark Down in the Console Caves
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.
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26 min
February 04, 2025Algorithms, Actions, and GitHub Adventures
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 your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts.
archive-vbulletin-thread - A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums.
Mark has been flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler.
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:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
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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.
29 min
January 21, 2025Not a Bar or a Camp
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 starship, and shared his starship config.
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:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
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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.
27 min
January 07, 2025Streaming your way to freedom
In this episode:
Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter Packs
Mark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin.
Martin migrates his life to the Fediverse, contributing to Owncast along the way.
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:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
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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
December 24, 2024Working remotely on the Savannah
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 his horizons to the Savannah.
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.
26 min
December 10, 2024A textual rummage with Jason
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 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.
1Password1Password Extended Access Management secures every sign-in for every app on every device.
Support the show and check it out at https://1password.com/linuxmatters
25 min
November 26, 2024Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub
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
Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs
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.
27 min

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