Professional Software Engineer, Embedded Linux expert & Open Source enthusiast.
Amateur wildlife photographer, rambler and craft beer/whisky appreciator.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Tags: open-source, open-culture, writing, photography
For my photography and writing I'm now using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license. I'll continue to release software under open source licenses.
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Tags: open-source, python, mirrorshades, release-announcement
I'm happy to announce that version 0.2.0 of mirrorshades, a tool for mirroring data from remote sources, has been released.
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Tags: yocto, embedded-linux, meta-linux-mainline
meta-linux-mainline is a Yocto Project layer I created in May 2020 when I needed to test a few hardware boards with unpatched, upstream kernel sources. The project has undergone a few changes recently so now is a good time to give an updated overview of how the layer works and when you might want to use it.
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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...
While at Konsulko I wrote Using Rust with Yocto, a blog post on the Rust programming language, its build system, and how it can be integrated into a Yocto Project based system.
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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.
This was my first conference talk, presented at FOSDEM 2014.
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Tags: necropost
This is a resurrection of a post from my old personal website. The info here is long out of date, but I don't like information to die.