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/mamesnap (today)
- rohitg00/pro-workflow (today) — Battle-tested AI workflows from power users. Self-correcting memory, parallel worktrees, wrap-up rituals, and the 80/20 AI coding ratio.
- popey/halloy-snap (1 day ago) — Snapcraft configuration for the halloy irc client
- callstackincubator/agent-skills (1 day ago) — A collection of agent-optimized React Native skills for AI coding assistants.
- hotovo/aider-desk (1 day ago) — AI coding agent for software engineers
- OthmanAdi/planning-with-files (2 days ago) — Claude Code skill implementing Manus-style persistent markdown planning — the workflow pattern behind the $2B acquisition.
- onmax/nuxt-skills (3 days ago) — Vue, Nuxt, and NuxtHub skills for AI coding assistants.
- popey/popey.com-blog (3 days ago) — Source for my Hugo-based blog at blog.popey.com
- popey/mindustry-snap (6 days ago)
- popey/popey.me (6 days ago) — Personal website
- feat: improve skill descriptions and content across all 9 skills on rohitg00/pro-workflow (today)
- feat: improve skill descriptions, content clarity, and error handling… on intellectronica/agent-skills (1 day ago)
- feat: improve skill descriptions and content quality across 18 AWS sk… on itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills (1 day ago)
- feat: improve skill review scores across 11 skills on JimLiu/baoyu-skills (1 day ago)
- feat: optimize skill structure and improve content scores on subsy/ralph-tui (1 day ago)
- feat: improve skill quality scores across all 6 DevOps skills on ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills (1 day ago)
- feat: improve skill description specificity and content conciseness on AvdLee/Swift-Concurrency-Agent-Skill (1 day ago)
- feat: improve karpathy-guidelines skill description for better discoverability on forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills (1 day ago)
- feat: improve logging-best-practices skill quality scores on boristane/agent-skills (1 day ago)
- feat: improve skill quality scores across 4 skills on kepano/obsidian-skills (1 day ago)
- onmax/nuxt-skills (564) — Vue, Nuxt, and NuxtHub skills for AI coding assistants.
- chrisboden/cursor-skills (12)
- jnsgruk/brewlog (4) — B{rew}log is a self-hosted coffee logging platform for tracking your roasters, roasts, brews, cafes and brewing gear.
- fernandezbaptiste/trode (5) — Claude Code skills usage bar + skill evals
- linuxmatters/jivetalking (57) — Raw microphone recordings into broadcast-ready audio in one command. No configuration, and no surprises🕺
- linuxmatters/terminal-velocity (43) — The A to Z of Modern Unix 🐧
- spiffcs/triage (1) — CLI for interacting with github notifications
- linuxmatters/jivefire (8) — Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
- yarg-lang/yarg-lang (7) — Yarg-Lang is an experiment: a dynamic language for microcontroller firmware.
- frappe/hrms (7562) — Open Source HR and Payroll Software
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @flexiondotorg and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- Mark's Meshing About (1 week ago)
- Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers (3 weeks ago)
- Points of You (1 month ago)
- Lets get Trippy (1 month ago)
- Give me the Aux (2 months ago)
- SnapScope - Vuln Scanning Snap Packages (2 months ago)
- Open Source coding, maintenance and chat (2 months ago)
- Open Source coding, maintenance and chat (2 months ago)
- More Linux Terminal Noodling and open source stuff. (3 months ago)
- Just Testing out my setup (3 months ago)
- Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps (5 days ago)
- The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait (2 weeks ago)
- Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains (1 month ago)
- Spotlighting Community Stories (1 year ago)
- Where are Podcast Listener Communities (1 year ago)







