popey - Overview

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.

Recent project contributions

• popey/libation-snap (2 days ago) — Snap package for Libation, a tool to liberate your audio books
• popey/halloy-snap (6 days ago) — Snapcraft configuration for the halloy irc client
• popey/fab-agon-emulator-snap (6 days ago) — Snap package for the Fab Agon Emulator
• popey/grype-snap (1 week ago) — Snap package for Grype, a vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
• popey/syft-snap (1 week ago) — Snap package for Syft, an SBOM generator
• popey/slomore (1 week ago) — Slow More.
• popey/grummage (1 week ago) — Grummage is an interactive terminal frontend to Grype
• popey/sbom-vm (1 week ago) — Generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from virtual machine disk images, without booting the VM.
• tesslio/skill-eval (1 week ago) — GitHub Action to run Tessl evals against tiles with scenarios in pull requests
• popey/snapupdates (1 week ago) — An unofficial alternative view of new and updated snaps in the snapcraft store.

Recent pull requests

• [repo-assist] Fix simulate_key action on popey/grummage (1 week ago)
• Fix repo-assist model not supported error on popey/slomore (1 week ago)
• fix(ci): add GH_TOKEN to repo-assist pre-activation check on popey/grummage (2 weeks ago)
• Add agentic workflow repo-assist on popey/halloy-snap (2 weeks ago)
• fix: use gpt-5-mini model for repo-assist workflow on popey/grummage (2 weeks ago)
• fix: use gpt-5-mini model for repo-assist workflow on popey/snapupdates (2 weeks ago)
• fix: use gpt-5-mini as fallback model for repo-assist workflow on popey/mojinav (2 weeks ago)
• fix: use gpt-5-mini model for repo-assist workflow on popey/sbom-vm (2 weeks ago)
• Add agentic workflow repo-assist on popey/sbom-vm (2 weeks ago)
• Add agentic workflow repo-assist on popey/slomore (2 weeks ago)

Recent starred projects

• githubnext/agentics (784) — 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 (238) — 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 (2180) — 🧑‍🎨 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

Podcast

I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @flexiondotorg and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:

• DOSing about with games (1 day ago)
• snap install flatpak (1 week ago)
• Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce (3 weeks ago)
• Cooking up a framework desktop (1 month ago)
• Passing the Gourd (1 month ago)

YouTube

Blog

• 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 (5 months ago)
• Spotlighting Community Stories (1 year ago)
• Where are Podcast Listener Communities (2 years ago)