Martin Wimpress

Episode 93 of Linux Matters: Flatpak Stats vs. Snap Stats 🐧️🎙️ Mark spies on the postman, Alan spins up yet more websites, and Martin tailors his, and, possibly your git repo.

Episode 92 of Linux Matters: Shonky WonKey Donkey 🐧️🎙️ Martin makes some shonky software, Mark gets lightning fast 5G broadband, and Alan helps you find your next Linux machine.

Episode 91 of Linux Matters: Old man hands 🐧️🎙️ Alan does a job switcheroo, Martin does a notes switcheroo, and Mark does a backdrop switcheroo.

Episode 90 of Linux Matters: Ooh, you are nøughty 🐧️🎙️ Mark’s been colouring in his walls, Alan’s been reviving NøughtyLinux and Martin’s been chatting in herdr.

Episode 89 of Linux Matters: Peering into the Tube 🐧️🎙️ Martin connects a mouse and keyboard over Tailscale, Mark plays a recreation of an N64 classic, and Alan creates a PeerTube instance.

Hey, check this out. We now have a peertube: video.linuxmatters.net

Episode 88 of Linux Matters: Talking to my Computer 🐧️🎙️ Alan introduces a community insights tool called Canopy, Martin is chuntering from a sedentary position, and Mark plays The Last of Us Part II.

Episode 87 of Linux Matters: Herding online exams 🐧️🎙️ Mark find out how to run online exams, Alan migrates a shell script to Node, Martin finds a terminal multiplexer he likes.

Episode 86 of Linux Matters: Moodling the Fediverse in Europe 🐧️🎙️ Martin is on a break, Mark leaves the country to conduct experiments with Moodle, and Alan buys a portable gaming device (not that one).

Episode 85 of Linux Matters: Clearing the Decks 🐧️🎙️ Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit, Martin updates Jivetalking, and Mark is a fun guy.

Episode 84 of Linux Matters: DOSing about with games 🐧️🎙️ Mark plays DOS games, Martin discoveres a new editor (again), and Alan makes an events app

Episode 83 of Linux Matters: snap install flatpak 🐧️🎙️ Martin fixes Neovim, Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister, and Alan does something unspeakable with snaps and flatpak.

Episode 82 of Linux Matters: Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce 🐧️🎙️ Alan enjoys a particular kind of gaming, Martin consigns Grammarly to the bin, and Mark does some brewing with Kobo.

Episode 81 of Linux Matters: Cooking up a framework desktop 🐧️🎙️ Mark organises recipes, Alan tidies up an app, Martin builds a new desktop.

Episode 80 of Linux Matters: Passing the Gourd 🐧️🎙️ Martin pours out his last MATE, Mark boldly goes where he’s been before, and Alan gets himself an assistant.

Episode 79 of Linux Matters: Pouring out the Sidra 🐧️🎙️ Alan crafts another Snap website, Martin brews up some Sidre, and Mark saves a very small fortune on block storage.

Episode 78 of Linux Matters: VNC? No way! 🐧️🎙️ Mark runs commands on boot, Alan flexes his LXD muscles, and Martin uses remote desktops

Episode 77 of Linux Matters: Tailor Snaps for Big Iron 🐧️🎙️ Martin has been tailoring GitHub repository templates and settings, Mark has had Microserver woes, and Alan has been running Linux on Big Iron

Episode 76 of Linux Matters: The Smell of Git 🐧️🎙️ Mark explains the links between Linux and North Hampshire, Alan spring cleans hit GitHub profile, and Martin gets busy with lazy git.

Episode 75 of Linux Matters: Mark's Meshing About 🐧️🎙️ Alan builds a website (link soon), Martin reviews Zed Editor, and Mark joins the mesh life.

Alan discovers crypto malware in the Snap Store #linux #security linuxmatters.sh/74/

Episode 74 of Linux Matters: Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers 🐧️🎙️ Martin makes a software audio engineer, Mark creates a Roku remote and Alan accidentally becomes a security blogger.

Episode 73 of Linux Matters: Points of You 🐧️🎙️ We round up listener feedback and discuss HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket, Kazeta, FossFLOW, Toniebox Reverse Engineering, Tonuino and Yarg-lang.

Episode 72 of Linux Matters: Lets get Trippy 🐧️🎙️ Mark revisits the classic Timesplitters game. Alan has entered a coding contest he can’t win. Martin gets trippy with network diagnostics.

Happy new year (if you celebrate it). Trying out this shorts thing... www.youtube.com/shorts/f6x9b... #ffmpeg

Episode 71 of Linux Matters: Give me the Aux 🐧️🎙️ Alan discovers new music on Spotify with a shonky Python script. Martin makes a Go module for ffmpeg. Mark slices up his monitor with Tiling Assistant.

Episode 70 of Linux Matters: Grummaging Gophers & Gods 🐧️🎙️ Martin writes an MP3 encoder using Go. Mark has been playing the fast-paced rogue-like Hades II, and Alan has another Grummage.

Episode 69 of Linux Matters: He's a very nøughty boy 🐧️🎙️ Mark’s been buying audiobooks, Martin discusses Nøughty Linux, and Alan’s been streaming again!

Episode 68 of Linux Matters: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes 🐧️🎙️ Alan dusts off his newsletter, Martin encrypts his new Framework laptop, and Mark noodles with Moodle tools.

What's worth another look? Which past Linux Matters topics need a 2025 update, in a future episode?

After three brilliant years as part of the Late Night Linux family, Linux Matters is becoming an independent podcast. We're incredibly grateful to Joe for his support in launching and producing the show - it wouldn't exist without him. 🧵 1/3

A wild subreddit has appeared. reddit.com/r/LinuxMatte...

Episode 67 of Linux Matters: Panache, for Men 🐧️🎙️ Alan has been using Nix, Martin has been adding panache to his terminal, and Mark’s been playing Rimworld Odyssey.

Episode 66 of Linux Matters: Terminal Full of Sparkles 🐧️🎙️ Martin found a fancy alternative to apt, Mark debugged his car charger, and Alan moved from Plex to Jellyfin.

Episode 65 of Linux Matters: MacOS Made Me Snap! 🐧️🎙️ Alan has been manifesting Snaps, Martin snapped, and migrated from MacOS to Linux, and Mark found family snaps in Immich.

Episode 64 of Linux Matters: Ethical Retro Gaming 🐧️🎙️ Mark’s been retro gaming, Martin’s been syncing, and Alan’s been Gryping.

Episode 63 of Linux Matters: Running Linux on an IPad 🐧️🎙️ Martin runs Linux on an iPad, Alan has been to an AI hackathon, and Mark has a new phone running GrapheneOS

Episode 62 of Linux Matters: Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles 🐧️🎙️ Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo], Martin sidesteps complexity with Just, and Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.

Episode 61 of Linux Matters: Coding in My Pants 🐧️🎙️ Martin has a fancy GitHub profile, Alan is busy with maintenance, and Mark retired a project.

Episode 60 of Linux Matters: Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework 🐧️🎙️ Martin overrides default browser behaviour, Alan automates GitHub using gh, and Mark creates a monster using Ubuntu Server and his Framework laptop!

Episode 59 of Linux Matters: Old Man Yells at GMail 🐧️🎙️ Alan continues his Nerdy cloud-native journey, Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new laptop, and Martin moves GMail to the junk folder.

Episode 58 of Linux Matters: The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐧️🎙️ Martin gets his Linux all rusty, Alan continues day trippin’, and Mark makes a timelapse.

Episode 57 of Linux Matters: Nerdy Day Trips 🐧️🎙️ Martin heists disk space from GitHub. Alan reboots a very nerdy website. Mark has been punishing his Steam Deck.

Stop staring at diffs like they owe you money 💸 faff - another bloody AI commit generator (yes, we definitely needed one more!) after GitKraken's AI ate my credits but refused to write conventional commits 😡 wimpysworld.com/posts/faff-o... Drop the faff, dodge the judgment, get back to coding 🦙

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Episode 56 of Linux Matters: Python A-Go-Go 🐧️🎙️ Alan uses all the models, Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy from Go to Python, and Martin completes his GotoSocial migration.

Nobody 2 is coming. Ultra violence. The only genre that matter 🎬

Tired of "no space left on device" errors when building #NixOS configs in GitHub Actions? ️❄️ I've created Nothing but Nix, a GitHub Action that ruthlessly reclaims disk space 🪓 Get up to 130GB for your #Nix store instead of the measly 20GB default! Learn more 👇 wimpysworld.com/posts/nothin...

Lazy trees have landed in Determinate #Nix 3.5! This is possibly the most consequential thing we've shipped yet. Evaluation times down by 3x and reductions in disk usage of 20x—or more. The result: a snappier Nix across the board (especially in large repos). determinate.systems/posts/change...

Get a 𝟏𝟑𝟎𝐆𝐁 /𝑛𝑖𝑥 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞-𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 #𝐆𝐢𝐭𝐇𝐮𝐛 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 ️❄️ with the 𝑁𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑁𝑖𝑥 GitHub action 🐙 - Purges unnecessary software from GitHub Actions runners 😈 - Creates an optimised /𝚗𝚒𝚡 volume from multiple partitions 🗄️ Learn more 👇 #nix #nixos - github.com/marketplace/...