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Old Man Yells At GMail
In this episode: Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development. Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop. Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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.
Old Man Yells at GMail
In this episode: Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development. Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop. Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips. Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips. Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Nerdy Day Trips
Show notes here in Markdown, No HTML. No relative links. In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website. Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascinating places to visit around the world - science museums, observatories, maker spaces, research facilities, and other spots that’ll scratch a curiosity itch. Mark has been pushing the limits of his Steam Deck playing Avowed. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Nerdy Day Trips
In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website. Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascinating places to visit around the world - science museums, observatories, maker spaces, research facilities, and other spots that’ll scratch a curiosity itch. Mark has been pushing the limits of his Steam Deck playing Avowed. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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.
Python A-Go-Go
In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Python a-Go-Go
In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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.
Thoccing Heavy
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, that pretend not to be bots. Martin fell down a rabbit hole filled with keyswitches and keycaps. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Thoccing Heavy
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, that pretend not to be bots. Martin fell down a rabbit hole filled with keyswitches and keycaps. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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.
High Precision Solid Metal Balls
In this episode: Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩 L-Trac Trackball 🇬🇧 L-Trac Trackball 🇺🇸 Kensingston SlimBlade™ Pro Trackball input-remapper: An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices. Alan refines his contribution workflow to Savannah and brings it bang up to date. Mark self-hosts an ONLYOFFICE integrated with Nextcloud. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
High Precision Solid Metal Balls
In this episode: Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩 L-Trac Trackball 🇬🇧 L-Trac Trackball 🇺🇸 Kensingston SlimBlade™ Pro Trackball input-remapper: An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices. Alan refines his contribution workflow to Savannah and brings it bang up to date. Mark self-hosts an ONLYOFFICE integrated with Nextcloud. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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.
Crafting Bookshelf Buddy
In this episode: Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025 Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players. Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Crafting Bookshelf Buddy
In this episode: Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025 Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players. Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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.
Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits!
Show notes here in Markdown, No HTML. No relative links. 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. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.