Linux Matters

Passing the Gourd

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin goes over why and how he’s stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉...

Pouring out the Sidra

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website. Martin swaps Cider for Sidra. Mark dives deep int...

VNC? No way!

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher Alan has been confining th...

Tailor Snaps for Big Iron

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔 Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has fin...

The Smell of Git

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user, Alan spring cleans his GitHub, Martin gets busy wi...

Mark's Meshing About

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time. Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor. ...

Points of You

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss: HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket Kazeta Recipe-Scribe FossFLOW Terminal Velocity - The A to...

Lets get Trippy

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters. Alan enters a coding competition and creates the ...

Give me the Aux

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl. Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ff...

Grummaging Gophers & Gods

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been learning Go and created: Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩 Jivefire - Spin y...

He's a very nøughty boy

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books. Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux Nø...

Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan dusts off his newsletter. Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=s...

Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan dusts off his newsletter. Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=s...

Panache, for men

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole. Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications. Mark has lost a...

Panache, for men

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole. Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications. Mark has lost a...

Terminal Full of Sparkles

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala. Mark has been debugging his car charger. Alan swapped fr...

Terminal Full of Sparkles

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala. Mark has been debugging his car charger. Alan swapped fr...

macOS Made Me Snap!

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan has been manifesting Snaps. Martin has snapped and switched from macOS to Linux with a Framework. Mark used Immich to find fami...

macOS Made Me Snap!

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan has been manifesting Snaps. Martin has snapped and switched from macOS to Linux with a Framework. Mark used Immich to find fami...

Ethical Retro Gaming

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade. Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral. Alan created an MCP server f...

Ethical Retro Gaming

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade. Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral. Alan created an MCP server f...

Running Linux on an iPad

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: 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 ...

Running Linux on an iPad

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: 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 ...

Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo. Martin sidesteps complexity with Just. Mark gives his first thought...

Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo. Martin sidesteps complexity with Just. Mark gives his first thought...

Coding in my pants

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has a fancy GitHub profile. Shields.io - Concise, consistent, and legible badges github-readme-stats - Dynamically generated...

Coding in my pants

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has a fancy GitHub profile. Shields.io - Concise, consistent, and legible badges github-readme-stats - Dynamically generated...

Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 l...

Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 l...

Old Man Yells At GMail

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development. Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying ...

Old Man Yells At GMail

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development. Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying ...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working on Nerdy Da...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working on Nerdy Da...

Nerdy Day Trips

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other purposes....

Nerdy Day Trips

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other purposes....

Python a-Go-Go

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon...

Python a-Go-Go

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon...

Thoccing Heavy

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, tha...

Thoccing Heavy

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, tha...

High Precision Solid Metal Balls

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩 L-T...

High Precision Solid Metal Balls

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩 L-T...

Crafting Bookshelf Buddy

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025 Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted...

Crafting Bookshelf Buddy

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025 Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted...

Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits!

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 di...

Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits!

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 di...

Moodling Myself Silly

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has created smiti18n (pronounced smitten) - A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support 🌕💕 ...

Moodling Myself Silly

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has created smiti18n (pronounced smitten) - A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support 🌕💕 ...

Syfting Through a LÖVEly Rack

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable. Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance....

Syfting Through a LÖVEly Rack

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable. Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance....

Mark Down in the Console Caves

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 rob...

Mark Down in the Console Caves

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 rob...

Algorithms, Actions, and GitHub Adventures

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act. Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping ski...

Algorithms, Actions, and GitHub Adventures

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act. Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping ski...

Not a Bar or a Camp

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Not a Bar or a Camp

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Streaming your way to freedom

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 migr...

Streaming your way to freedom

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 migr...

Working remotely on the Savannah

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page. Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/...

Working remotely on the Savannah

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page. Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/...

A textual rummage with Jason

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype. Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial,...

A textual rummage with Jason

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype. Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial,...

Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

Somewhere over the Keybow

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus Alan has been creating...

Somewhere over the Keybow

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus Alan has been creating...

Punch up in the garden

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs. CLI setup: gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets: Create encrypted storage ...

Punch up in the garden

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs. CLI setup: gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets: Create encrypted storage ...

The Reply Guys

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more. So...

The Reply Guys

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more. So...

Rock around the underclock

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools: gpuviewer GreenWithEnvy Which needs a Coolbits bit mask...

Rock around the underclock

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools: gpuviewer GreenWithEnvy Which needs a Coolbits bit mask...

A pair of comfortable GPUs

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android: Tempo GoSonic Ultrasonic Symphonium Martin names a whole new category of &l...

A pair of comfortable GPUs

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android: Tempo GoSonic Ultrasonic Symphonium Martin names a whole new category of &l...

Lipstick on a font

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile ch...

Lipstick on a font

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile ch...

Themes, Streams and Audio Machines

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin. Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with strea...

Themes, Streams and Audio Machines

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin. Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with strea...

Mark was right, twice

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin is migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors. Alan attempts to contribute package updates to Vo...

Mark was right, twice

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin is migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors. Alan attempts to contribute package updates to Vo...

All of a Flutter

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter. Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sn...

All of a Flutter

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter. Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sn...

Welcome Homepage

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extens...

Welcome Homepage

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extens...

Quick, quicker, quickest

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin announces what’s new in quickemu. Mark explains how quickgui came to be. Alan starts testing with quicktest. You can s...

Quick, quicker, quickest

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin announces what’s new in quickemu. Mark explains how quickgui came to be. Alan starts testing with quicktest. You can s...

Searching for a New Voice

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of t...

Searching for a New Voice

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of t...

Quickemu rising from the Bashes

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines. Alan...

Quickemu rising from the Bashes

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines. Alan...

Desktop of the gods

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been perfecting the Pantheon desktop environment. Alan has been writing Go, and enjoying it. Mark has been playing Agains...

Desktop of the gods

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been perfecting the Pantheon desktop environment. Alan has been writing Go, and enjoying it. Mark has been playing Agains...

Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his sh...

Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his sh...

If I could just interject

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us. Here a...

If I could just interject

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us. Here a...

Snappy Snap Snapshots

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now! Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with ...

Snappy Snap Snapshots

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now! Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with ...

The joy of Linux torture

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark is migrating services between servers Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng Alan is coding for fun in PHP You can send...

The joy of Linux torture

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark is migrating services between servers Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng Alan is coding for fun in PHP You can send...

A mini swap adventure

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan has been Driving an electric Mini for two years. Mark is migrating to a new home server. Martin is using a modern version of sw...