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/sbom-vm (2 days ago) — Generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from virtual machine disk images, without booting the VM.
• popey/libation-snap (3 days ago) — Snap package for Libation, a tool to liberate your audio books
• popey/sfe (3 days ago)
• popey/snap-status (4 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 (1 week ago) — Snap package for Tessl, spec-driven development for coding agents
• popey/lincubate (1 week ago) — Run AI coding agents in sandboxed LXD containers

• Add agentic code review workflow on AINativeDev/agentic-cheat-sheets (2 days ago)
• Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on coralogix/cx-skills (2 days ago)
• Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on sawrus/agent-guides (2 days ago)
• Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on vogo/namer (2 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 (2 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 (2 days ago)
• Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (2 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 (2 days ago)
• Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on damusix/skills (2 days ago)
• Bump pinned Tessl skill-review-and-optimize SHA to the current release (pre-migration commit no longer works) on ankitjh4/indic-ai-skills (2 days ago)

• jscraik/Agent-Skills (8) — Skills SDK for Codex/AI coding agents: author, validate, evaluate, and sync runtime projections through ask.
• githubnext/agentics (890) — 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 (423) — An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
• samber/cc-skills-golang (2878) — 🧑‍🎨 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 (4 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 (7 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)