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September 29Old man hands
In this episode:
Alan talks about leaving Developer Relations for a grown-up job at Chainguard.
Martin creates a simple (his words) note-taking workflow with zx, fsf, Fuzzel, Syncthing, markless, Manuscript, and weave.
Mark plays some retro games after decorating his office.
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35 min
September 15Ooh, you are nøughty
In this episode:
Mark has been decorating his home office with hexagons and the help of Krita.
Alan has been improving NøughtyLinux.
Martin has been adding all the chat clients to herdr
Concord - Discord
slk - Slack
Perch - Mastodon and Bluesky
iamb - Matrix
Senpai & Soju - IRC
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38 min
September 01Peering into the Tube
In this episode:
Martin uses lan-mouse to use his main workstation to control two laptops, one sitting on a PUTORSEN 2 in 1 Laptop Arm Mount and connected via UGREEN Revodok Pro 14-in-1 USB-C Docking Station.
Mark get a nostalgia hit from playing Agent 64: Spies Never Die
Alan is challenged to create a PeerTube instance after our YouTube channel was deleted.
Linux Matter PeerTube
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38 min
August 18Talking to my Computer
In this episode:
Alan introduces Canopy, a community insights tool he built.
Martin finds talking to people isn’t enough, and now talks to his computer with Voxtype.
Mark once again fights the fungi in The Last of Us Part II.
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41 min
August 04Herding online exams
In this episode:
Mark explores the online exam center at ETH Zurich.
Alan replaces a shell script with a node script, to keep track of his snaps
Martin finally gets on board with terminal multiplexers, after discovering herdr
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30 min
July 21Moodling the Fediverse in Europe
In this episode:
Martin is on a break, and will be back next time
Mark attends MoodleMoot DACH 2026 in Zürich, and hacks together support for the Fediverse in Moodle.
Alan buys a Mangmi Air X as a game development test-bed.
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26 min
July 07Clearing the Decks
In this episode:
Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit,
Alan’s SnapScope lightning talk
Martin’s Jivetalking lightning talk
Canonical introduces Workshop
The full playlist of videos
Martin updates Jivetalking
Mark combats the cordyceps in The Last of Us Part I
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35 min
June 16DOSing about with games
In this episode:
Mark creates DOSsier, a system for retro PC gaming.
Martin replaces his editor (again), this time with Fresh
Alan creates a new app for event attendance.
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43 min
June 09snap install flatpak
In this episode:
Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
Some of this was achieved with novim-mode and snacks.nvim.
Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister.
Alan wants you all to install flatpak with a snap. Gather round children, it’s story time.
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43 min
May 26Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce
In this episode:
Alan eschews one gaming fad for a more bespoke, artisanal gaming experience using R4 cards, and ZXDS.
Martin no longer considers Grammarly his friend, new friend is Harper
Mark continues his Kobo journey with ventures in NickelMenu and KOReader.
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34 min

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