Alan Pope

@popey.me

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Developer Relations at Tessl Podcaster on @linuxmatters.sh Previously at Anchore, Orcro, Axiom, Canonical.

A screenshot of the ubuntu discourse post linked in the post.
Five Ubuntu T-shirts in transparent bags laid out on the lawn. One is back with orange writing, one is sand coloured with the Feisty Fawn logo, and the other three are lime green with the Intrepid Ibex logo on.
Screenshot of email from Rightmove app: "Your views could win you £150 Hi Alan, We’re excited to invite you to Living Room, our online research panel. Once you’ve joined, you could win up to £150 in our monthly prize draws. What’s involved? We’ll invite you to share your opinions on a range of topics through surveys and polls. You’ll have the chance to chat to other members, and share ideas which could shape the future of Rightmove. Your participation is entirely voluntary, and you can get involved as much or as little as you like. Anything you share is confidential, and only used for research purposes."
A photo of a sign. The sign has a label on it that reads "★★ A label-making Town ★★"
A photo of a tweet showing two photos of a road sign. The sign has a label on it that reads "★★ A label-making Town ★★"
Photo of a tweet showing an internal door with a label on it "Label making room". The tweet reads "...and the room it lives in..."
Photo of a tweet showing a label maker with "Cat" typed out on the screen. A cat is in the background. The tweet reads "Lockdown boredom means: Time to start labelling everything. Come here, Trigger! Your turn!"
A photograph of an Apple MacBook Air with an M1 chip running Ubuntu Asahi 24.04, connected to an external display (an LG Dual-Up).
A bar chart titled "Top PPAs by total downloads", showing a list of PPAs and the total cumulative downloads of packages from each. The top 5 features php, python, libreoffice, elementary OS and Pop OS PPAs.
A photograph of a bill detailing drinks and two portions of fries totalling £48.90 with £5.09 added and the text "12.5% service charge is added for parties of 1 or more.". Total £53.99.
A screenshot from an announcement on the Ubuntu discourse from Pierre Guillemin - VP Engineering Excellence at Canonical. "We sincerely apologize for the recent disruption to the availability of our services. At this stage, we have implemented mitigations and restored services affected by the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. You may experience partially degraded performance on some of the services as we continue to work diligently on resolving the situation. You can continue to monitor the situation using our public status page Thank you for your patience and understanding."
A screenshot from slack after joining the learning channel. Slack tells me this is "only visible to you" and then with a waving hand emoji says "Welcome to #learning! People in this channel tend to join #fun-no-context, #ask-legal and #ask-security-and-compliance too."
A frame from the launch video showing Ubuntu running on the new framework pro, and the Ubuntu Certified logo.
A terminal screenshot of an SSH login to Ubuntu 24.04, overlaid with orange text reading "Ubuntu explaining to me...mid-login...that I don't log in. ⤵️." An orange box highlights the text: "This system has been minimized by removing packages and content that are not required on a system that users do not log into."
Wolfie, a gorgeous white dog lays on the office carpet
A podcast set with two chairs, cameras, lights and background featuring flowers, logos and some retro tech…
A screenshot of an Ubuntu Asahi Linux desktop with only a terminal open. One pane shows neofetch, another shows a busy cpu output using btop, and the third shows a compiler running, building Telegram.
A screenshot of the server configuration screen from Forgejo. It shows we're running 14.0.2 of Forgejo on this system.
A photo of the interaction unit in a mini, showing speed (0mph), battery power, remaining mileage (141 miles), and the overhead navigation view, and view from one of the cameras.
A screenshot of btop running on my ThinkPad. All cores are pegged at almost 100% while something is building.
An opened fortune cookie with the text “Go take photos of your family member to reinforce the good times we had together”
Me, with a very professional hat and glasses on, in front of the Tessl logo.
Photo of the lid of a ThinkPad L14 adorned with stickers from Linux Matters, Chainguard, Tessl and an Ermine in pyjamas carrying a candle.
A brand new jar of horseradish sauce, purchased from the shop.