Paul Fawkesley

I've got a few favourites

Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu 16.04

Your device’s MAC address can be used to track you across the WiFi networks you connect to. That data can be shared and sold, and often identifies you as an individual. It’s possible to limit this tracking by using pseudo-random MAC addresses.

Expirybot emails PGP users before their key expires

A month ago I started a side project to try and make the world a little easier for PGP users. This is how I started small.

Building Software Users Love

This was originally posted on the NHS.UK Alpha project blog.

I’m Paul, and I’m a developer on the NHS.UK Alpha project. I wanted to share some thoughts about different ways of delivering software, and why we’re working in the way we are.

Resisting the Urge to Build

You may remember a few months back I launched a new site - minutemate.co.uk - which helps you to monitor your mobile phone usage and alert you if you’ve overspent your monthly minutes, texts and so on.

Arduino Isn't Just For Hackers

Arduino turned out to be the perfect match for JF Machines Ltd, a manufacturer of industrial digital printing machines. The open source platform offered them supply security, enormous flexibility and simple PC interfacing, all at an incredible price.

I've written a few more things

• Shutting down keyserver email address monitoring
• Smart TVs in the bedoom
• Interesting reads, 2 July 2018
• Interesting reads, 25 June 2018
• Interesting reads, 18 June 2018
• Interesting reads, 11 June 2018
• Interesting reads, 4 June 2018
• Interesting reads, 28 May 2018
• How The Light Gets In 2018
• Interesting reads, 21 May 2018
• Interesting reads, 14 May 2018
• Interesting reads, 7 May 2018
• Interesting reads, 30 April 2018
• Interesting reads, 23 April 2018
• Interesting reads, 16 April 2018
• Google Analytics with Do Not Track
• Interesting reads, 9 April 2018
• A personal retrospective
• Signing automated Expirybot emails with GPG
• Sabbatical, week 3
• Sabbatical, week 1
• Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu 16.04
• Writer's block
• Expirybot emails PGP users before their key expires
• Don't Like It? Block it! Internet filtering in libraries
• The Internet Freedom Festival 2017 (Friday)
• The Internet Freedom Festival 2017 (Wednesday)
• The Internet Freedom Festival 2017 (Tuesday)
• The Internet Freedom Festival 2017 (Monday)
• Taking Back My Data, Part 1: Move from Dropbox to Nextcloud
• Thoughts about decoupling PGP and email clients
• Hardening my Development Machine
• Playing with Network Rail Train Movements Data Feed
• Hack the Hive: Connecting a Beehive to the Internet
• Setting up a UK Limited Company
• Building Software Users Love
• My Barcamp 2015 Highlights
• Hello, Thinking Digital 2015!
• The Difference Between GPG, GnuPG, PGP and OpenPGP
• GPG For Humans, Part 4: Preparing an Offline Machine
• GPG For Humans, Part 3: Protecting your Primary Key
• GPG For Humans, Part 2: Public Key Crypto Primer
• GPG For Humans, Part 1: Why Care About Cryptography?
• Bar Camp for Beginners
• How Open Wifi Can Make a City Smarter
• Improving Freecycle with SMS Alerts
• Automating our Heroku deployments from Jenkins
• Your Private Medical Record May Be At Risk From March 2014
• Screen Scrape Your Utility Bills
• Resisting the Urge to Build (My New Startup Checklist)
• Chilli Cam: Stop Motion Video using old Netbook
• Painless merge conflicts in Git
• Arduino Isn't Just For Hackers
• MongoDB helps you be Lean - Brilliant for Startups
• Python PEP8 Style Guide Checker for Vim
• Arduino Due, Cortex-M3 and robots with radios
• Packaging Python for Windows with Pyinstaller and Wine
• Raspberry Pi project ideas
• Speaking at Breakerfaire, 11th December 2012

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