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/grummage (2 days ago) — Grummage is an interactive terminal frontend to Grype
- popey/slomore (2 days ago) — Slow More.
- popey/libation-snap (2 days ago) — Snap package for Libation, a tool to liberate your audio books
- popey/fab-agon-emulator-snap (2 days ago) — Snap package for the Fab Agon Emulator
- tesslio/skill-eval (3 days ago) — GitHub Action to run Tessl evals against tiles with scenarios in pull requests
- popey/halloy-snap (3 days ago) — Snapcraft configuration for the halloy irc client
- popey/snapupdates (3 days ago) — An unofficial alternative view of new and updated snaps in the snapcraft store.
- popey/mojinav (3 days ago) — Emoji-only walking navigation app
- popey/sbom-vm (3 days ago) — Generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from virtual machine disk images, without booting the VM.
- popey/syft-snap (4 days ago) — Snap package for Syft, an SBOM generator
- [repo-assist] Fix simulate_key action on popey/grummage (2 days ago)
- Fix repo-assist model not supported error on popey/slomore (3 days ago)
- fix(ci): add GH_TOKEN to repo-assist pre-activation check on popey/grummage (4 days ago)
- Add agentic workflow repo-assist on popey/halloy-snap (4 days ago)
- fix: use gpt-5-mini model for repo-assist workflow on popey/grummage (4 days ago)
- fix: use gpt-5-mini model for repo-assist workflow on popey/snapupdates (4 days ago)
- fix: use gpt-5-mini as fallback model for repo-assist workflow on popey/mojinav (4 days ago)
- fix: use gpt-5-mini model for repo-assist workflow on popey/sbom-vm (4 days ago)
- Add agentic workflow repo-assist on popey/sbom-vm (5 days ago)
- Add agentic workflow repo-assist on popey/slomore (5 days ago)
- githubnext/agentics (744) — A sample pack of GitHub Agentic Workflows!
- ladyeklipse/ZX-Pokemaster (29) — Tool for sorting/renaming files for ZX Spectrum
- lirantal/repolyze (50) — Analyze a git source code repository for health signals and project vitals
- castrojo/bootc-ecosystem (1) — What's going on in bootc?
- wimpysworld/sidra (199) — An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
- tesslio/skill-review (14) — A GitHub Action that automatically reviews SKILL.md files changed in a pull request and posts results as a PR comment
- tesslio/setup-tessl (3) — GitHub Action to install the Tessl CLI
- samber/cc-skills-golang (2003) — 🧑🎨 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 (7) — Basic toolkit to bootstrap vibe-coding mobile apps
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @flexiondotorg and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce (1 week ago)
- Cooking up a framework desktop (3 weeks ago)
- Passing the Gourd (1 month ago)
- Pouring out the Sidra (1 month ago)
- VNC? No way! (2 months ago)
- Screenshotting the Car UI (3 months ago)
- SnapScope - Vuln Scanning Snap Packages (5 months ago)
- Open Source coding, maintenance and chat (6 months ago)
- Open Source coding, maintenance and chat (6 months ago)
- More Linux Terminal Noodling and open source stuff. (6 months ago)
- Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps (3 months ago)
- The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait (4 months ago)
- Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains (4 months ago)
- Spotlighting Community Stories (1 year ago)
- Where are Podcast Listener Communities (2 years ago)







