Alan Pope's blog
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- 210 from 14 Feb 2006 to 21 Feb 2026
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- now and then (3 in the last year)
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2026 3
2025 1
2024 15
- Where are Podcast Listener Communities
- Windows 3.11 on QEMU 5.2.0
- Virtual Zane Lowe for Spotify
- Text Editors with decent Grammar Tools
- Application Screenshots on macOS
- The Joy of Code
- Do you know Simone?
- SAP Upgrade: The Sound of Silence
- Today is my Birthday! I got ADHD
- Guess Who's Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!
- popey snaps
- Snap charts
- Mini EV: Two Years On
- Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up 2.0
- Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle
2023 60
- Ubuntu Summit 2023 was a success
- Ubuntu Core Snapdeck
- Heading to Ubuntu Summit 2023
- You stole my lighter!
- Ninety percent updated in a week
- Updating snap packages: OBS Studio
- Updating snap packages: Spot
- Boot to BBC BASIC: Agon Edition
- Snapcraft metrics
- Easy Korean BBQ chicken loaded fries
- Hand over the PCMCIA card, Sir
- Fixing a broken snap build - part two
- Game development in GitHub Codespaces
- Fixing a broken snap build
- Multi-presenter podcast transcription
- Recovering my NextCloud Box
- RetroDECK > EmuDeck
- Where's my hard drive?
- There is still no Linux app store
- Publishing Hugo site via GitHub Actions
- CAPS LOCK BEHAVIOUR DISABLED IN GNOME
- AMD GPU blob crashing
- Waking up a sleeping Minecraft server
- Touching joysticks
- You did something!
- Thanks, Mastodon contributors
- Monitor bandwidth usage with bandwhich
- The 90mph office
- Go manic for mantic
- Ringtones on iOS
- Outdated snap packages
- Backup the caravan
- 95 bits per second
- Small phone is best phone
- Happy Birthday Steam
- My 2023 podcast listening list
- A virus for the BBC Micro
- Code page 437 aesthetic
- It's MY monitor
- Developer Tools
- ThinkPad Z13 SSD replacement
- Every cellphone I have owned
- Using bimmer connected with my Mini
- Updated 'Must-Have' GNOME extensions list
- You know your life is over...
- Full text content in Hugo
- ZeroTier is my personal VPN
- Silly brain
- Why use Microsoft Edge on Linux
- Six months of crashes in Ubuntu
- i386 in Ubuntu won't die
- Goodbye ZX Spectrum Next
- It's not working from home
- Eufy RoboVac: Three years later
- Only good vibes
- Charting EV Car Charging
- Why I use Ubuntu
- Monitorama PDX 2023 Retrospective
- Simple RSS Mastodon Bot
- Year of The Broken Desktop
2022 6
2021 85
- Team Building via Chess
- LXD - Container Manager
- My Least Used Favourite App
- Adrift
- Disabling snap Autorefresh
- New Pastures
- Diamond Rio PMP300
- Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week
- GNOME OS 40 without GNOME Boxes
- Actually Upgrading Ubuntu Server
- Upgrading Ubuntu Server
- Ubuntu Wiki Reboot
- Linux Application Summit: Call For Papers
- Book Review: We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- The Old Desktop Switcheroo
- Back In The Studio
- Perfect Poached Eggs
- Desktop Webapps
- Learning Dart & Flutter
- Finding Ubuntu Crash Reports
- Hirsute Yaru Call for Testing
- Fourty Years On
- Unbreaking Unbootable Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Voltage
- Updating Snap Bases
- You Don't Need To Ask
- Mix and Match Rocketbooks
- Snapcraft Clinic Successes
- Pro Breeze Air Fryer Review
- Snapcraft Clinic
- A Tale of Two Updates
- Book Review: Split Second
- Jamming with Sonobus
- Coffee Overload
- Scanning Frustration
- Season Fourteen
- Spotty Connection
- Migrating Two Factor Auth
- All Ahead Stop
- Going Backwards
- Don't Use Proposed
- Messaging Overload
- Hunting Down A New Laptop
- Mastodon Instances, Everywhere
- My Podcast Listening List
- Command-Line only Laptop
- The Allure of The Terminal
- Chromium on Linux
- Trying 'Proper' Coffee
- Pitchforks set to Stun
- Reboot Aversion
- Let's Go Snapping
- Book Review: UnPresidented
- Dry January 2021
- Late Night Linux Extra: 14 - Transcription
- TikTok for Breakfast
- Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
- The Best Toaster
- Magewell HDMI Capture with ffmpeg
- Snapcraft GNOME Extension Update
- Raspberry Pi: Boot to BASIC
- The Black Oblong of Monospace Mystery
- Kingdom Rush
- Book Review: Off to Be the Wizard: Magic 2.0, Book 1
- Building Nothing
- Xiaomi Redmi AirDots S Review
- Embarrassing Bugs
- Upgrading Ubuntu
- Discovering Rocketbooks
- 13th Twitter-versary
- Distrowatch is Not a Measure of Popularity
- Breaking my Crowdfunding Hiatus
- Null
- Digital Hoarding: Ubuntu Mirror
- Digital Hoarding: Gaming Edition
- My Crowdfunding Stats
- Two Displays & Two Computers
- A Problem with Notebooks
- Hush Keyboards with Hushboard
- My GNOME Tweaks
- Ouya was a Success
- Downloading Twitter Data or Not
- Check for Outdated Snaps
- Eufy RoboVac 30C Review
- Great Timing
2020 15
- The Best Portable Spectrum
- Snap Along With Me
- Contributing without Code
- Notifications on Task Completion
- Double Your Network Speed with This One Trick
- My 'Must-Have' GNOME Extensions
- Keyboards, Old and New
- Deliciously Easy Chicken Wings Recipe
- Snap Tips
- Goodbye Pebble - Hello FitBit
- Blogging with Hugo
- Counting to 100 Million
- Multiple GPUs in a Skull Canyon NUC
- Straightforward Linux Backups with rsnapshot
- Spotify on the Raspberry Pi 400