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• Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com.
• Martin swaps Cider for Sidra.
• Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up richer! This time next year, Rodney.

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• Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher
• Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
• Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.

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• Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
• Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
• Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.

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• Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
• Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
• Martin gets busy with lazygit.

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• Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time.
• Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor.
• Mark gets started with Meshtastic supher-highway country lanes.

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• Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
  • Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺
• Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP)
• Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger.

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• Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters.
• Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source)
• Martin ups his network diagnostics game with trippy and gping.
  • trippy: a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping
  • gping: ping, but with a graph.

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• Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl.
• Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo.
  • “Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚”
• Mark carves up his monitors with Tiling Assistant.

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• Martin has been learning Go and created:
  • Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
  • Jivefire - Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser. Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
• Mark, true to form, has been playing Hades II, a fast-paced rogue-like that runs beautifully on the SteamDeck.
• Alan revisits Grummage, an interactive terminal frontend to Grype, th...

• Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books.
• Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux
  • Nøughty Linux GitHub Project
• Alan has been live streaming.

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• Alan dusts off his newsletter.
• Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
• Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode.

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• Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole.
• Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications.
• Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey.

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• Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala.
• Mark has been debugging his car charger.
• Alan swapped from Plex to Jellyfin.

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• Alan has been manifesting Snaps.
• Martin has snapped and switched from macOS to Linux with a Framework.
• Mark used Immich to find family favourite snaps.

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• Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade.
• Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral.
• Alan created an MCP server for Grype.

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• Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty.
• Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl. If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you.
• Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a.

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• 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.

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• 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 automati...