Linux, Open Source & Unrelated Topics by Paul Barker

Professional Software Engineer, Embedded Linux expert & Open Source enthusiast.

Amateur wildlife photographer, rambler and craft beer/whisky appreciator.


Posts

Rekeying

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Tags: pgp, ssh, home-network

I've recently made a couple of changes to my development environments. As I've been configuring these environments, I've taken the opportunity to extend the lifetimes of my PGP keys (as they were nearing expiry) and generate new SSH keys.


Syndication

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Tags: open-culture, writing, indieweb

Inspired by Cory Doctorow, I've been thinking about the IndieWeb idea of POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) and how to extend the reach of my blog posts. So I'm trying something new and syndicating blog posts to dev.to, a mid-sized social media site for software developers.





A mental health update

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Tags: meta

It's been a while since I posted here. I had high expectations of writing more and publishing regular YouTube videos. Then the "2nd wave" of COVID-19 in the UK happened...



Goals and Rationale

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Tags: meta

This website may evolve in other directions in the future but these are the initial goals: to act as a landing page and to allow me to keep a professional blog.