Episode 467

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November 18th, 2025

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About this Episode

This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design.

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00:52 Self Hosting After Death - Michael

  • Steve's thought process
  • Important things
  • Steve's plan
    • Draw.io
    • LLMs
  • No desire to be trained
  • Open Source
  • Documentation
  • Noah's plan
  • Self hosted vs Cloud
  • Techie Friends

12:21 Scott Jenson - UX/UI Design

  • Product Strategist For Home Assistant and Mastodon
  • Scott's Website
  • Coloring outside the lines
  • Mobile vs Desktop
  • Desktop UI shortcomings
  • UX in Audacity and Penpot
  • Where can UX designers grow?
  • Articulating the business use case
  • Ink & Switch

18:23 News Wire

Linux Knowledge

  • The "Mythical New User"
  • People use all sorts of UI/UX today
  • Knowledge we take for granted
  • Teaching is the highest form of learning
  • See one, do one, teach one
  • Talk radio principle: Watering plants that are already there
  • Linux and Windows architectures are different

39:50 Source Command

  • How it works
  • Variables
  • Environment Variable
  • What the source command does
  • Getting started with source and python

48:00 Know your short comings

  • Know what you don't know
  • Know how to explain it simply
  • Keeping things simple

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