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 (1 day ago) — Snap package for Libation, a tool to liberate your audio books
- OthmanAdi/planning-with-files (4 days ago) — Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and compaction, per-turn re-injection against context rot, deterministic completion gate. Manus-style. Install from npm, the Claude Code plugin marketplace, or npx skills. Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, 60+ agents.
- popey/sbom-vm (4 days ago) — Generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from virtual machine disk images, without booting the VM.
- popey/sfe (5 days ago)
- popey/snap-status (6 days ago) — Live channel and upstream version dashboard for snaps maintained by popey
- popey/halloy-snap (1 week ago) — Snapcraft configuration for the halloy irc client
- popey/slomore (1 week ago) — Slow More.
- popey/mamesnap (1 week ago) — Snap package for MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
- popey/grype-snap (1 week ago) — Snap package for Grype, a vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
- popey/tessl-snap (2 weeks ago) — Snap package for Tessl, spec-driven development for coding agents
- Use the selected GPU for context auto-tuning on lemonade-sdk/lemonade (1 day ago)
- Allow explicit system llama.cpp backend on lemonade-sdk/lemonade (1 day ago)
- Add agentic code review workflow on AINativeDev/agentic-cheat-sheets (4 days ago)
- Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on coralogix/cx-skills (4 days ago)
- Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on sawrus/agent-guides (4 days ago)
- Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on vogo/namer (4 days ago)
- Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on norsizu/comfyui-zimage-skill (4 days ago)
- Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on Fj-ivy/langchain4j-examples (4 days ago)
- Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (4 days ago)
- Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on Viniciuscarvalho/swift-code-reviewer-skill (4 days ago)
- jscraik/Agent-Skills (8) — Skills SDK for Codex/AI coding agents: author, validate, evaluate, and sync runtime projections through ask.
- githubnext/agentics (893) — 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 (431) — An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
- samber/cc-skills-golang (2885) — 🧑🎨 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 (10) — Basic toolkit to bootstrap vibe-coding mobile apps
- LerianStudio/ring (205) — 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:
- Herding online exams (6 days ago)
- Moodling the Fediverse in Europe (2 weeks ago)
- Clearing the Decks (1 month ago)
- DOSing about with games (1 month ago)
- snap install flatpak (2 months ago)
- Screenshotting the Car UI (5 months ago)
- SnapScope - Vuln Scanning Snap Packages (8 months ago)
- Open Source coding, maintenance and chat (8 months ago)
- Open Source coding, maintenance and chat (8 months ago)
- More Linux Terminal Noodling and open source stuff. (9 months ago)
- Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps (5 months ago)
- The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait (6 months ago)
- Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains (6 months ago)
- Spotlighting Community Stories (2 years ago)
- Where are Podcast Listener Communities (2 years ago)







