Paul Barker

pbarker@social.afront.org

Professional <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/SoftwareEngineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineer</a>, <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/EmbeddedLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EmbeddedLinux</a> expert & <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> enthusiast.I also enjoy amateur <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/WildlifePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WildlifePhotography</a> and <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/Rambling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Rambling</a>.

Posts

Post #3610411
Completely pointless Sunday project done! Stratum 1 NTP server on a Raspberry Pi 4, with an RMS offset of ~0.5µs. ``` $ chronyc tracking Reference ID : 50505300 (PPS) Stratum : 1 Ref time (UTC) : Sun Jul 05 17:18:17 2026 System time : 0.000000368 seconds fast of NTP time Last offset : +0.000000479 seconds RMS offset : 0.000000579 seconds Frequency : 10.106 ppm fast Residual freq : +0.004 ppm Skew : 0.023 ppm Root delay : 0.000000001 seconds Root...
Post #2452722
Searching for results for the Leeds City Council election results, one of the first hits was the Manchester Evening News website. I wouldn&#39;t trust it if I were you... Time to write a complaint to the IPSO!
Post #2249411
I have the privilege of being the first speaker of #EmbeddedRecipes2026! Bright and early, 9:45am on the first day. I&#39;ll be speaking about Yocto Project and the Cyber Resilience Act. I&#39;ll be covering: - What the CRA means for the Yocto Project - How the Yocto Project already helps manufacturers meet their obligations with SPDX3 SBoMs, CVE tracking, reproducible builds, etc - A roadmap of where we can go in the future with your help https://cfp.embedded-recipes.org/er2026/talk...
Post #2046026
@jpmens This is absolutely what I need. I tried MinIO about 18 months ago, but it wanted to continuously scrub data (why not let the underlying filesystem handle this?) and is massively over-engineered unless you have 4 or more physical nodes and some 100&#39;s of TBs of data.
Post #2046025
This weekend (April 25th-26th) I&#39;ll be at OggCamp 2026 in Manchester, UK. If you&#39;re around then drop me a message, happy to chat about all things Open Source, Embedded Linux &amp; Yocto Project! @oggcamp #OpenSource #OggCamp2026
Post #2046024
Nothing speaks to the disconnect between management, sales and frontline staff better than a hotel chain that will sell you &quot;Early check in from 9AM&quot;, leaving the desk staff completely baffled why you&#39;re trying to check in so early as they desperately scramble to find a room. As ever, the fault is with management, not with the person on the front desk who has to deal with this.
Post #2046023
Good morning #OggCamp2026! My lack of sleep is being made up for with caffeine
Post #2046022
An 18.5km walk up hill and down dale justifies a beer... or two!
Post #2015940
The NHS is planning to move from an open source software development model to a closed one due to fear of Mythos. As far as unintended consequences go, this is a big one, it's terrible, but it's not entirely surprising. The PR around Mythos has been threatening that the sky is falling, the world is ending, and millions of vulnerabilities will be found in the coming months (or even weeks) - so, is it really surprising that some organisations are making knee-jerk reactions? Now is a time...
Post #902753
I&#39;m excited to announce that I&#39;ll be starting a new role as Ecosystem Engineering and Operations Lead for @yoctoproject on Monday 8th December. I started using and contributing to OpenEmbedded &amp; Yocto Project back in 2013 and since then it&#39;s been a key part of my career. I&#39;ve seen the project from many points of view over the last decade-and-a-bit: first as a hobbyist, then working with board vendors, silicon vendors, system integrators and end users. Now...
Post #902747
Less than two weeks to go until @fosdem 2026 😀 I&#39;m happy to meet up with anyone who wants to talk about @yoctoproject and @openembedded. If you&#39;ll be attending FOSDEM and want to chat, drop me a message and we&#39;ll figure out a time to meet. I&#39;ll also likely be bouncing between a couple of devrooms. Looking forward to the &quot;Embedded, Mobile and Automotive&quot; and &quot;Community&quot; tracks as usual! #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM #EmbeddedLinux #Ope...
Post #721035
It&#39;s a Saturday so I took a break from software development to, err, develop software? Of course. https://codeberg.org/pbarker/gpxtidy gpxtidy is a little Rust program to tidy up GPX files for publication - it removes dates, times and personally identifying data so that they can be safely shared online. It simplifies the track by removing points that introduce less than a configurable error threshold. Finally it writes the result as either a GPX file or a GeoJSON LineString. If you up...