Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 @popey@mastodon.social

Snapcraft Clinic returns!
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/snapcraft-clinic/

A Tale of Two Updates.
#ubuntu #linux
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/a-tale-of-two-updates/

This multi-monitor design blog post with clarifications & video mock-ups is good to read. As a multi-monitor user, I was concerned the experience might suck in GNOME 40. This clears a few things up for me! 🎉
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/23/gnome-shell-40-and-multi-monitor/

Book review: Split Second.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/book-review-split-second/

Jamming with SonoBus

https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/jamming-with-sonobus/

People who use static site generators for their blogs. What comment system (if any) do you use. Disqus is 100% off the table.

"Fun" with my HP scanner today!
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/scanning-frustration/

Season Fourteen of @ubuntupodcast

https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/season-fourteen/

Learned of SonoBus today. It's a really neat solution for multi-party remote recording of music, podcasts, meetings. So yeah, I snapped it.
https://snapcraft.io/sonobus

Added an arm64 build of Spot (Open Source Gtk Spotify app) to the Snap Store. Runs okay on my Raspberry Pi here. https://snapcraft.io/spot/

Migrating Two Factor Auth.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/migrating-two-factor-auth/

Having a play with Spot, a GTK spotify client. Early days, so it's a bit unstable, but pretty well done so far. https://github.com/xou816/spot

A follow-up to yesterday's blog post, today we're "Going Backwards".
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/going-backwards/

Gosh, 3 years I've been publishing that snap. Time flies!

New release of get-iplayer published. I use this on my Plex server to yoink programs from BBC Radio 4 each day. That way I can listen without the BBC Sounds app.

https://snapcraft.io/get-iplayer

A warning to future popey. "Don't use Proposed".
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/dont-use-proposed/

Messaging Overload.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/messaging-overload/

Hunting down a new laptop...
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/hunting-down-a-new-laptop/

Be interesting to see if this thing lives up to the hype. Went for the 16GB RAM / 512GB storage option.