Jon Seager from Canonical spoke at our AI Native Dev meetup on Tuesday. The big Ubuntu 26.04 news? apt install cuda that actually works. No manual repos, no driver nightmares. Full talk ->

Our AI Native Dev community meetup is tonight in London, featuring our own Tessl Head of Product, improv comedy expert Dru Knox, and #Ubuntu legend & VP of Engineering, Jon Seager. Grab a free ticket -> luma.com/jdjw648g

Finally put one of the many Sylvia Ritter designed, #Ubuntu inspired stickers on my ThinkPad! The rest are still sleeping in the lovely bag they shipped in. Get yours at shop.sylvia-ritter.com/

At the shops.. Me: Do we have any horseradish for tomorrow’s roast beef? Wife: No, I don’t thinks so. Me: (picks up jar) Back at home, unpacking the shopping… Me: Doh! Would you like some beef with your horseradish?

Discounted "Blind Bird" Tickets for the in-person AI DevCon are available until the end of Feb! The event is on 1st-2nd June in London, UK. Also, the CFP for the event closes the same day! Get tickets & submit talks: luma.com/aidevcon-ldn26

I know I am old, but the box below the flags is impossible to read from more than a few feet away. #winterolympics

SnapScope now has per-package and full-ecosystem vulnerability severity trending charts. Also, performance improvements, future-proofing, and reliability fixes. snapscope.popey.com/

I posted the same Windows complaint on three platforms - got 49x more engagement on Threads (my smallest following) than Mastodon (16x more followers). Turns out algorithms love rage bait.

Six months since I booted my Windows "gaming" PC. One game I want to play. GPU drivers. Windows updates. 27GB Steam update. Three hours later, I've played zero games.

IYHO: What is the best #Matrix client, and why?

Want to code with #Claude, but own your data and control costs. #Ollama can help with that. tessl.io/blog/ollama-...

Episode 73 of #Linux Matters is out! This week, with 100% more cheese. #yarg linuxmatters.sh/73/

My colleague Rotem wrote up how we're making #Claude better at #Go through context engineering at Tessl. Real benchmark: 100% success rate, 1.6x faster, 3x cheaper than baseline on a recent Kong bug fix. Top 50 Go libraries now in the registry. tessl.io/blog/making-...

Anthropic open-sourced their code-simplifier agent. The Reddit reactions are chef's kiss 😅 - ..waiting for cleanup to finish, only to hit the token limit with broken code. Oof. #opensource tessl.io/blog/anthrop...

Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains #linux #ubuntu #snapcraft

What a very odd email from the GNOME GitLab. "You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.gnome.org." is not a reason.

Oh dear. How does this get through any kind of validation!? #linux #snapcraft snapcraft.io/publisher/te...

Just #Matrix Things. This room has been replaced -> Join New Room -> MatrixError: [403] Ok then.

The Bad People are repeatedly, successfully uploading crypto malware to the #Linux #snapcraft Snap Store today! Way more than usual. Most masquerade as basic apps, then upload their malware as an update. snapscope.popey.com/

Deployed a new build of gitafix.com/ which adds translations to Welsh, Polish, Spanish, French, German, Indonesian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bri'ish English 🙂

I made a (sort of) "Tinder for Git" site to help developers find 'good first issues' in open-source projects. It's early days, but it could be helpful. gitafix.com/

Happy new year (if you celebrate it). Trying out this shorts thing... www.youtube.com/shorts/f6x9b... #ffmpeg

Poor charge experience with my Mini and Gridserve. Called them up and they said they have problems with Minis due to the locking mechanism??

Thought I'd take an opportunity to update my LinkTree / Link in Bio / Landing Page (whatever you call them these days). Has all (most) of the ways to get in touch with me, and some of my recent projects on it. All in a git repo, deployed automagically. popey.me/

I brought a London A-Z jigsaw into the office a couple of weeks ago. It was on an empty desk as people walked in. We didn't expect to finish it before the end of the year. Well, it's finally complete. 🧩🎉🎄

I usually get a turkey crown for Christmas dinner (cooking for six adults, with leftovers). This year I got a whole 5.5Kg bird. This recipe from Jamie Oliver looks good. Suggestions for improvements welcome!

What a year! Whether you're in the pro, anti or "meh" camps when it comes to AI, things have moved rather fast in the last 12 months. Here's a look back I pulled together for work. ainativedev.io/news/a-year-...

SnapScope now highlights malware in the snap store. e.g. snapscope.popey.com/package/heal... Also, listed on the front page

Here's a new episode of our little podcast, Linux Matters. In which we discuss Auxolotl, Spotify, ffmpeg-statigo, Jivefire, Jivedrop, hardware accelerated audio & video processing in Go, and tiling window managers! Phew! #linux

My "SnapScope" project got favourably covered on "The Linux Experiment" - Linux Weekly News. youtu.be/dIxcwRdS5n8?...

I made a thing.

Question: Is it technically/theoretically/hypothetically possible to fill in all red dots in the graphic on the bottom left of the screen?

Those hoopy froods over at Chainguard really know where their towels are at! They recognised me as an Emojimancer. Cos made MojiNav, an emoji-only walking navigation aid. mojinav.popey.com/

Friday night OWASP meet-up at the office with talks, beer and pizza!? Yes please! Thanks to Semgrep and of course Tessl :) opensource

Doing some more live open source noodling, now with functioning owncast chat! (in theory)

Live from popey towers. #caturday

Live stream starting soon on YouTube, Twitch and Owncast, in theory, at least. All the links are here:

This week's newsletter is now in the public archive.

Build AI tools for community growth at our hackathon with Lovable & Led By Community One day to collaborate with developers, designers, and community builders. Focus on real problems: onboarding, engagement, moderation, and events. 📅 Dec 3rd, 9 AM-5 PM 📍 Tessl HQ, London luma.com/ai-hackathon...

Me: How many devices has my app been installed on? Snapcraft: "Tower of Hanoi" picture! Me: What? Snapcraft: Sorry, I meant "Person lying down" picture! Never mind github.com/canonical/sn...

A brand new fresh episode of my favourite podcast that I'm in. :)

Woohoo! Made it to the office near Kings Cross in under an hour for the first time! Leaving home at 05:13 makes for a very calm journey.

Back in the UK and greeted with the “Activate Windows” watermark in Baggage Reclaim. Wonderful stuff.

It's currently 'free' to drive an EV into the centre of London. That changes soon. "A new 25% Cleaner Vehicle Discount for electric cars registered with Auto Pay, which would mean a daily charge of £13.50 instead of £18" Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.

First time flying to a work event for a while… Heathrow and Microsoft Windows always deliver some kind of failure. What a combo.

DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️ vole.wtf/doctype/ This is rather cool.

I made a Fisher-Price theme for my terminal. It didn't last long. That kerning... "If only there were a fixed-width version of Fisher-Price Gothic font." Said nobody, ever.

What is happening in the world of AI native development today? These are builders who've already solved the problems you're probably hitting right now. 📍 DevCon is November 18-19th in NYC. 🎫 Tickets and full lineup: ainativedev.co/z84 Use the discount code AIND-X-50 to get 50% off your tickets.

Oh no, not another one! Live streaming again... popey.com/live/

More terminal-based Linux noodling on a live stream. Also, trying to fix the owncast setup.