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Linux Matters @linuxmatters.sh · 29/09/2026

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

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Old man hands

Alan does a job switcheroo, Martin does a notes switcheroo, and Mark does a backdrop switcheroo.

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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Support building understanding of the use of open source in the UK and its value by completing our survey by 5 Oct. Share information on your organisation's use of open source, regardless of sector. International survey closes on 31 Oct. openuk.uk/report/survey/

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 28/09/2026

#Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS released... discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-...

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 27/09/2026

Sunday night, so here’s your reminder that AI DevCon tickets are open and I’m sitting on a discount code that makes a real difference to the price. Brooklyn, 2-4 November. DM me.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Linuxiac @linuxiac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Incus 7.5 brings OVN child networks, live instance moves between projects, improved VM support, new metrics, and 11 security fixes. linuxiac.com/incus-7-5-ad... #Containers #Virtualization #OpenSource

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Incus 7.5 Adds OVN Child Networks, Live Instance Moves

Incus 7.5 brings OVN child networks, live instance moves between projects, improved VM support, new metrics, and 11 security fixes.

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 26/09/2026

I made a snap of Calibre which will help #Ubuntu (and other #Linux) users, who want to keep up with the latest releases of the upstream app.

snapcraft.io

Install Calibre on Linux | Snap Store

Get the latest version of Calibre for Linux - The one stop solution to all your e-book needs

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 25/09/2026

Remember Banshee? The #Linux music player, not the screaming spirit. I’ve dusted it off, fixed a bunch of things, and put it in the Snap Store. Podcasts, LastFm scrobbling and Internet Archive playback work again! 🎵 snapcraft.io/banshee

snapcraft.io

Install Banshee on Linux | Snap Store

Get the latest version of Banshee for Linux - Your music collection, podcasts and a little nostalgia

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 24/09/2026

The best thing about AI DevCon is who turns up. Mostly people who’ve had coding agents loose on a real codebase for a year and have firm opinions about how that went. Brooklyn, 2-4 November. DM me for a chunky discount code.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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OggCamp @oggcamp.org · 24/09/2026

Interested in the next OggCamp? We're on hold, for the moment... but, you can help! www.oggcamp.org/posts/oggcam...

oggcamp.org

Oggcamp... "Next" | OggCamp 2026

OggCamp is a free software & free culture unconference.

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Retronaut @retronaut-tech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We’re setting up a brand-new retro computing event in SW London! Join me on a quick scout of St Mark’s Church Hall in Surbiton as we check out the hall layout, scope out desk space, and sort the all-important food and fuel situation. youtu.be/j0g9pOliSkg

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Retronauts Assemble: London’s New Retro Computing Event!

YouTube video by Retronaut

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 21/09/2026

I made a not-quite-screensaver for my MangMi Air X. It's a little virtual lounge with a console on the shelf and a TV playing clips from my retro game collection, lit mostly by the TV. #blender #godot www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_K...

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I built a screensaver for my retro handheld

Quick demo of a not-quite-screensaver for my MangMi Air X. You run it manually, so it's really just an app that sits there looking nice.It renders a small ro...

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 17/09/2026

AI DevCon is at Industry City in Brooklyn, so the corridor conversations happen somewhere with daylight and decent coffee instead of a windowless convention hall. Underrated feature. 2-4 November. DM me for a discount code.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 16/09/2026

Finally found a good use for my 1st generation iPad running iOS 5. A world clock web app served over http only to avoid ssl/tls issues with ancient Safari. 😂

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 15/09/2026

Two days of AI DevCon in Brooklyn is $300, or $400 with the workshop day. That’s already cheap for a conference in New York. My discount code takes a serious chunk off that. DM me for it, more off again if you’re bringing a team.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 13/09/2026

Anyone in or near New York, this one’s on your doorstep. AI DevCon is at Industry City in Brooklyn on 2-4 November, so for once the good agentic coding conference doesn’t involve a flight. DM me, I’ve got a chunky discount code going spare.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 12/09/2026

Banshee lives! 🎶 Bringing a classic #Linux music player back with a fresh snap, working podcasts, LastFM scrobbling and a little Yaru polish.

Music library: Banshee music player with the light Yaru theme, showing a grid of album covers, an artist list and a track table. The library contains 3,256 songs.

Linux Matters: Banshee’s podcast browser showing Linux Matters episodes with cover artwork and descriptions. “Peering into the Tube” is selected and loaded for playback.

Last.fm: Banshee showing Erasure’s Abba-esque album and “S O S,” with Last.fm recommendations below, including related artists, top albums and popular tracks.

Internet Archive: Banshee displaying the LibriVox audiobook Alice Dugdale by Anthony Trollope, with cover artwork, a description and ten streamable chapters. Chapter one is loaded and paused.

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 12/09/2026

Got an old, slow laptop gathering dust? Bring it to Glasgow's Software Freedom Day repair café on 19 Sept — #OpenSource Glasgow will help you fix it up or install #Linux, free. Details: discourse.ubuntu.com/t/software-f...

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 10/09/2026

Three weeks left on the AI DevCon CFP. Closes 1 October. The one I’d most like to see is where the agent rollout went sideways and you had to unpick it. Nobody submits that talk and everybody wants to watch it.

sessionize.com

AI Native DevCon New York 2026 : Call for Speakers

Rolling CFP: submit early to boost your chances of being accepted. That said, because AI moves fast, we're keeping the CFP open as long as we can, so ...

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 09/09/2026

AI DevCon’s programme splits four ways: context and harness engineering, orchestrating multiple agents, the platforms teams build so agents can’t do damage, and rolling any of it out across a big org. Brooklyn, 2-4 November. DM me for a code.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 05/09/2026

Not a bad little haul from the herb garden 🪴

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 04/09/2026

I found this thread quite interesting. Someone set their computer date to 4026 and the machine no longer boots. (no, not DNS). www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode...

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 03/09/2026

Small thing people miss about AI DevCon: there’s a workshop day on 2 November before the conference proper. Hands on keyboards, not slides. The all-access pass covers it. DM me for a discount code.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 02/09/2026

Glasgow: bring your old laptop to Software Freedom Day (19 Sept) and Open Source Glasgow will repair it or install #Linux for free: discourse.ubuntu.com/t/software-f...

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Linux Matters @linuxmatters.sh · 01/09/2026

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.

linuxmatters.sh

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.

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 01/09/2026

Back from a week off and still banging on about AI DevCon. Brooklyn, 2-4 November, and the room is mostly people running agents against real codebases rather than demoing them. DM me for a chunky discount code.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 01/09/2026

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 29/08/2026

Major release 0.83.0 of DOSBox Staging is out with a bunch of updates. snapcraft.io/dosbox-staging www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/rel...

snapcraft.io

Install DOSBox Staging on Linux | Snap Store

Get the latest version of DOSBox Staging for Linux - Open Source PC/MS-DOS emulator

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 27/08/2026

Previous AI DevCons have had Gene Kim, Birgitta Böckeler, Dana Lawson and Ryan Lopopolo, who coined “harness engineering”. The Brooklyn one in November is shaping up the same way.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 27/08/2026

It’s castle time! Even during the inclement weather.

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 25/08/2026

Can’t get to Brooklyn in November? AI DevCon has a free virtual ticket. Keynotes and a decent slice of the sessions get streamed, recordings turn up afterwards. Costs you an email address.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 22/08/2026

Blaze, eternal king of blankets, reigns supreme. #caturday

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 20/08/2026

The AI DevCon CFP is open until 1 October. Brooklyn, 2-4 November. If you’ve built something with agents and never written it up, this is the nudge. The talks people remember are the ones that admit what went wrong.

sessionize.com

AI Native DevCon New York 2026 : Call for Speakers

Rolling CFP: submit early to boost your chances of being accepted. That said, because AI moves fast, we're keeping the CFP open as long as we can, so ...

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 18/08/2026

New Linux Matters ep 88: Talking to my Computer 🎙️ I've been building Canopy, a community insights tool. Martin's ditched typing for Voxtype. Mark's still fighting fungi in TLOU2. linuxmatters.sh/88/ #linux #podcast

linuxmatters.sh

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.

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Alan Pope @popey.me · 18/08/2026

AI DevCon lands in Brooklyn on 2-4 November. Three days of people who ship with coding agents talking about what actually worked. I’ve got a chunky discount code for tickets. DM me and it’s yours.

aidevcon.io

Devcon Fall 2026

The best place to master agentic coding, helping developers and organisations build with agents

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Maria Gorinova @mgorinova.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Never thought I'd be a part of an intense netflix-style documentary, but here we go 😅 Want to learn more about the #softwarefactory and how we built one that the whole @tessl.io team is using? Stay tuned for the full video!

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Maria Gorinova @mgorinova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

2/ A Framework for Evaluating Agentic Skills at Scale We evaluate 500 real-world skills, 1,000 tasks & 19 agent-model configurations, asking when skills actually make agents better. You can already use our evals as part of @tessl.io's offering! arxiv.org/abs/2606.17819 #AgenticAI #AIEvaluation

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A Framework for Evaluating Agentic Skills at Scale

Agent skills -- structured, reusable knowledge artifacts that augment LLM agent capabilities -- have been rapidly adopted in industry, yet their cross-domain impact and use across commercial and open-...

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Maria Gorinova @mgorinova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🎉 So excited to share we are presenting two @tessl.io AI Research papers at #KDD2026 workshops in Jeju on Sunday! Both papers ask: how do we meaningfully evaluate increasingly complex agentic AI systems and the components around them? Rob Willoughby will be presenting both — come say hi! 🇰🇷 🧵👇

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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It wouldn't be possible to have our 2026 Awards recognising UK leadership in open technology without the generosity of our sponsors. 🙏 Nominations close at midnight BST on 6 September. Get nominating now: openuk.uk/awards/ 🚀 #OpenSourceAwards #TechAwards #OpenUK #OpenHQ

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