@popey

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Developer relations at Tessl.

Previously: Open Source Communications and Compliance Lead at Orcro.co.uk , Developer Relations Manager at Axiom, InfluxData, Canonical / Ubuntu

Podcaster for over a decade. Currently on Linux Matters. Get it wherever you find podcasts.

Contacthttps://popey.me/
Bloghttps://popey.com/blog
GitHubhttps://github.com/popey
Newsletterhttps://newsletter.popey.com/
Show threadpopey16h ago
Every time I go past it, I check if it's still there.
Someone in the car usually announces "Still a label making town".
Six years later: It's still there.
Show threadpopey16h ago

... someone asked if we lived in a label making town ...

We do.

Show threadpopey16h ago
... it continued ...
popey16h ago
Back in 2020, during [The Event] (stay indoors!), I went a bit mad with my label maker ...
popey6d ago
€1m+ from Sovereign Tech Fund into KDE — Plasma, KDE Linux, and the bits underneath that nobody notices until they break. Properly good news.
https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/
Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development

Big Tech’s disregard for privacy laws and individuals’ personal data has become a matter of national security. As news of willful mismanagement fill the headlines on an almost daily basis, the world is beginning to turn away from expensive and insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, et al.

popeyMay 12
I spy someone probing the #Ubuntu snap store.
..again
popeyMay 12
Linux Matters PodcastMay 12

Episode 81 of Linux Matters: Cooking up a framework desktop 🐧️🎙️

Mark organises recipes, Alan tidies up an app, Martin builds a new desktop.

https://linuxmatters.sh/81/

Cooking up a framework desktop

Mark organises recipes, Alan tidies up an app, Martin builds a new desktop.

Linux Matters
popeyMay 12
Trying out external display support on #Ubuntu #Asahi #Linux on my M1 MacBook Air. This is pretty much the final step for daily driving! 🎉
popeyMay 12
Another day where I love working in the office. Today, Copper joins us. 🐶
#GoodDogsOfTessl
popeyMay 12
I scanned a lot (not all) of the #Ubuntu launchpad PPAs, to see which ones are most popular. PPAs (Personal Package Archives) are Deb repos that developers can use to build and share software, libraries, and anything else you can jam in a deb package.
#php #python #libreoffice