Paul Barker

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

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

     
     

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A Change of Seasons

Well, I've been pretty quiet here the last couple of months....

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Some Links: May 2023

Some interesting links I found in May 2023.

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Thoughts on PyPI, PGP and Sigstore

A recent grumble about PGP signatures on PyPI has quickly led to PyPI dropping support for PGP. While I agree that there are major issues with PGP, I don't agree that its use in PyPI is "worse than useless" and I'm disappointed to see support dropped before a replacement has been deployed. Sigstore seems to be a promising replacement, but I think further work is needed before this can become a key pillar for securing the open source ecosystem.

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A decade of contribution to OpenEmbedded & the Yocto Project

I realised recently that I have now been involved in OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project for over a decade! I thought I'd take the opportunity to look back at how I first got involved with the project and my early contributions.

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Attenborough Nature Reserve in April 2023

Photos taken at Attenborough Nature Reserve, Nottingham, UK, in the month of April 2023.

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Rekeying

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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Syndication

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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Content Licensing

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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New release: mirrorshades v0.2.0

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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Rebooting 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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