Alan Pope (He/Him)

Alan Pope

Alan is a 1970’s era male human meatbag, cat fan, and dog enthusiast. He’s never far from a computer, often a ThinkPad or Mac. He works in London in Developer Relations for Tessl (who - at the time of writing - are hiring).

Alan started the Ubuntu Podcast back in 2008, which ran for 13 years with a variety of presenters. He worked at Canonical for 9 years on the Community Team and latterly the Snap Advocacy Team as an Engineering Manager, Community Manager, and Developer Advocate. Alan is still active in the Ubuntu community, and maintains a bunch of Snap packages in the snap store.

Ubuntu Podcast Final Episode was released in late 2021. In early 2023, Alan missed his friends and podcasting, so got the band back together to start Linux Matters.

Alan doesn’t consider himself a “proper developer”, but more “hobby coder”. His various hobby projects can be seen at popey.me.

Alan loves poached eggs and Chicken Wings.

Episodes Hosted By Alan Pope (He/Him)

79: Pouring out the Sidra 78: VNC? No way! 77: Tailor Snaps for Big Iron 76: The Smell of Git 75: Mark's Meshing About 74: Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers 73: Points of You 72: Lets get Trippy 71: Give me the Aux 70: Grummaging Gophers & Gods 69: He's a very nøughty boy 68: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes 67: Panache, for men 66: Terminal Full of Sparkles 65: macOS Made Me Snap! 64: Ethical Retro Gaming 63: Running Linux on an iPad 62: Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles 61: Coding in my pants 60: Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework 59: Old Man Yells At GMail 58: The Very Hungry Caterpillar 57: Nerdy Day Trips 56: Python a-Go-Go 55: Thoccing Heavy 54: High Precision Solid Metal Balls 53: Crafting Bookshelf Buddy 52: Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits! 51: Moodling Myself Silly 50: Syfting Through a LÖVEly Rack 49: Mark Down in the Console Caves 48: Algorithms, Actions, and GitHub Adventures 47: Not a Bar or a Camp 46: Streaming your way to freedom 45: Working remotely on the Savannah 44: A textual rummage with Jason 43: Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub 42: Somewhere over the Keybow 41: Punch up in the garden 40: The Reply Guys 39: Rock around the underclock 38: A pair of comfortable GPUs 37: Lipstick on a font 36: Themes, Streams and Audio Machines 35: Mark was right, twice 34: All of a Flutter 33: Welcome Homepage 32: Quick, quicker, quickest 31: Searching for a New Voice 30: Quickemu rising from the Bashes 29: Desktop of the gods 28: Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers 27: If I could just interject 26: Snappy Snap Snapshots 25: The joy of Linux torture 24: A mini swap adventure 23: An Exodus of Bitcoin 22: Magazines reloaded 21: Fetch is going to happen 20: Unfold Your Coding Potential 19: This is how I roll 18: Snap, Crackle and Desktop 17: Bottom is the new Top 16: Blogging to the Fediverse 15: Mish Mash Mesh 14: One Hundred Percent Colombian 13: Um, actually 12: Steam Deck Emulation Done Right 11: Using Two GPUs at Once 10: History All The Way Down 9: Big Backup Bonanza 8: Picking Apart the Steam Deck 7: Immutable Desktop Linux for Anyone 6: Writing A Game For Linux 5: Extending GNOME is hard 4: Automatic for the people 3: Soaking up the Cider 2: Lawful evil monitor alignment 1: Mastodon on my résumé 0: Introducing Linux Matters Podcast