Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 @popey@mastodon.social
Snap Advocate at Canonical working on Ubuntu, podcaster, father, husband, cat lover & a geek through and through
Joined Apr 2017
The Allure of The Terminal.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/the-allure-of-the-terminal/
Chromium on Linux. I'm confused.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/chromium-on-linux/
Trying 'Proper' Coffee.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/trying-proper-coffee/
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I wrote some thoughts about the recent Raspberry Pi 'drama'.
New blog post, bit later than usual - Reboot Aversion.
I made a snap of "ticker" - the Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking. I also made a blog post detailing how. - snap install ticker ! https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/lets-go-snapping/
Ending Dry January on a positive note.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/dry-january-2021/
Mildly confused by which direction to rotate the wheel. I'll figure it out, I'm sure. 😕
Starting a "proper" coffee journey.
Smooth, rich and delicious, just like me. Ahem.
I like TikTok. There, I said it. I said more words about that on my blog. https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/tiktok-for-breakfast/
A bit of a rant for a Friday, sorry. Also, not sorry.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/lets-call-the-whole-thing-off/
A brief Public Service Announcement. This is the best toaster. Here, I wrote a blog post, so it must be true.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/the-best-toaster/
A little script which uses ffmpeg to save video from a Magewell HDMI capture device.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/magewell-hdmi-capture-with-ffmpeg/
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.
A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violen
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
#/etc/ #html5 #web #weeknotes #work
I configured a Raspberry Pi 400 to Boot to BASIC!
https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/raspberry-pi-boot-to-basic/
"The Black Oblong of Monospace Mystery". A bit of an opinion / minor rant blog post.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/the-black-oblong-of-monospace-mystery/
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Game Review: The Secret of Monkey Island – Special Edition
Blogging like it's 1991!
I'm pretty sure that I had the shareware version of the original Monkey Island. At any rate, I remember the amazing graphics...
But I don't remember getting further than the first few screens. I do remember a few years later, my brother and I completing the CD-ROM version of "Day Of
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/game-review-the-secret-of-monkey-island-special-edition/
Helping someone get their laptop fixed. Wedged on this. Read and tried about 10 different contradictory Microsoft official and community documents about it, none of them resolve the problem. Sadly "Install Linux" isn't an option here. So infuriating.
Got my son an iPad for Christmas, mostly so he can improve his video editing skills. He makes all his CS:GO montages with iMovie & CapCut. Love the creativity, and he is a pretty good shot too! https://youtu.be/w9m0bwVwMDA
Snap Advocate at Canonical working on Ubuntu, podcaster, father, husband, cat lover & a geek through and through
Joined Apr 2017
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