I'm Alan Pope, an open-source enthusiast and self-taught coder. I work in Developer Relations at Tesslio. I co-present the Linux Matters podcast with @flexiondotorg and @marxjohnson.
I created grummage, sbommage, slomore and a bunch of other projects.
- popey/libation-snap (today) — Snap package for Libation, a tool to liberate your audio books
- popey/halloy-snap (today) — Snapcraft configuration for the halloy irc client
- popey/lincubate (today) — Run AI coding agents in sandboxed LXD containers
- popey/slomore (today) — Slow More.
- popey/mamesnap (1 day ago) — Snap package for MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
- popey/piqueserver-snap (1 day ago) — Snap package for piqueserver, an Ace of Spades server
- popey/spectrum-analyser-snap (2 days ago)
- popey/rota-snap (2 days ago)
- popey/emoj-snap (2 days ago) — Snap package for emoj, an emoji search tool
- popey/snap-status (2 days ago) — Live channel and upstream version dashboard for snaps maintained by popey
- Automate cheat sheet updates on AINativeDev/agentic-cheat-sheets (1 week ago)
- Add Tessl CLI cheat sheet (v0.89.0), overflow check, and README previews on AINativeDev/agentic-cheat-sheets (3 weeks ago)
- Consolidate repo-assist cleanup fixes on popey/sbom-vm (3 weeks ago)
- ci: finish repo assist cleanup on popey/halloy-snap (3 weeks ago)
- docs: flag review auth as breaking change + bump pinned SHA to #36 on tesslio/skill-review-and-optimize (3 weeks ago)
- chore: add gitignore on popey/halloy-snap (3 weeks ago)
- test: add packaging check script on popey/halloy-snap (3 weeks ago)
- docs: add contributing guide on popey/halloy-snap (3 weeks ago)
- fix: keep review results when CLI exits non-zero on validation failure on tesslio/skill-review (1 month ago)
- fix: score from review.reviewScore (canonical) instead of contentJudge.normalizedScore on tesslio/skill-review (1 month ago)
- jscraik/Agent-Skills (8) — Governed skill foundry and Skills SDK for Codex/AI coding agents: author, validate, evaluate, and sync runtime projections through ask.
- githubnext/agentics (872) — A sample pack of GitHub Agentic Workflows!
- ladyeklipse/ZX-Pokemaster (29) — Tool for sorting/renaming files for ZX Spectrum
- lirantal/repolyze (51) — Analyze a git source code repository for health signals and project vitals
- castrojo/bootc-ecosystem (1) — What's going on in bootc?
- wimpysworld/sidra (381) — An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
- samber/cc-skills-golang (2748) — 🧑🎨 A collection of Golang agentic skills that works
- ecappa/web-dev-estimation (4) — Agent Skill for Claude Code — estimates dev task time calibrated for AI agents, not humans.
- vivqu/SwiftUIAgentToolkit (9) — Basic toolkit to bootstrap vibe-coding mobile apps
- LerianStudio/ring (204) — 89 skills and 38 specialized agents that enforce proven engineering practices for AI-assisted development. TDD, systematic debugging, parallel code review, and 10-gate development cycles — as a Claude Code plugin marketplace.
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @flexiondotorg and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- Moodling the Fediverse in Europe (5 days ago)
- Clearing the Decks (2 weeks ago)
- DOSing about with games (1 month ago)
- snap install flatpak (1 month ago)
- Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce (2 months ago)
- Screenshotting the Car UI (4 months ago)
- SnapScope - Vuln Scanning Snap Packages (7 months ago)
- Open Source coding, maintenance and chat (7 months ago)
- Open Source coding, maintenance and chat (7 months ago)
- More Linux Terminal Noodling and open source stuff. (8 months ago)
- Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps (5 months ago)
- The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait (5 months ago)
- Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains (6 months ago)
- Spotlighting Community Stories (1 year ago)
- Where are Podcast Listener Communities (2 years ago)







