About Me

General Information

• Location: York, UK
• Website (here): tedtriv.co.uk
• Email: ted at tedtriv dot co dot uk

My PGP key exists on keys.openpgp.org.

I also exist on:

• Mastodon: @tedtriv@mastodon.social
• Codeberg: tedtriv
• YouTube: tedtriv

What I do

I study Electronic Engineering at the University of York, United Kingdom.

Most of my programming experience is in C# to write Windows applications and games with Godot. I also have experience using OpenGL with both C++ and C#, mainly for experimentation.

Other things which this blog might get used for:

• Photography on holiday in Europe and in other places I visit in the UK
• Train travel (UK & abroad)
• My interest in Civil Aviation and (maybe) learning to fly

Computer Hardware

• Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 4 - Windows 11, My main laptop
• Homebuilt PC - PCPartPicker List - Windows 11, Currently sat at home doing nothing
• Google Pixel 7a

I used to run Fedora Linux on my laptop, but installed Windows on it only because I can guarantee that the rest of the world is compatible with it. I try really hard to stop Windows working against me, but that is becoming more difficult…

Computer Software

• Browser: Firefox
• Code Editors: Vim, Visual Studio 2026, VSCode, PyCharm
• My (very basic) vimrc, if anyone is interested
• Other Software: Thunderbird (email + rss), uBlock Origin, RawTherapee (photo editing)

About My Site

I write all of the content myself in Markdown files, which get converted to HTML based on the templates I set Hugo. I keep a copy of my site on GitHub, where I use an action to automatically pull it onto the server and build it with Hugo. I used to self host on a Raspberry Pi, but it was easier in the long term to keep it on a VPS.

I used to run my email off the same VPS, however because of changes to Dovecot in Debian 13, I moved it to my domain provider. From there I was able to copy in the Dovecot IMAP files. Blog post about it

Using Social Media

I have a Mastodon account at @tedtriv@mastodon.social, mainly to follow people. While I have accounts created elsewhere, I probably haven’t logged into them in multiple years.

I check my email most often, so I would prefer to be contacted through that.

To keep up to date with other peoples’ sites, I follow their RSS feeds. Most of them can be found on the links page.