About Me

General Information

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

My PGP public key is on keys.openpgp.org.

Fingerprint: B635 3E23 8A7B 4779 28BF 87BE 936C 63A0 7DE4 A920

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 “useful” programming experience has been in C# to write Windows applications for myself (WPF and Windows Forms), as well as Python with Django for web apps and scripting purposes with NumPy and SymPy. I have also written C and C++ code for the OpenGL API in my spare time as well as for ARM Cortex and ATmega MCUs.

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
• Dell U2424HE - Desktop monitor
• Google Pixel 10a

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…

Other hardware I own:

• Raspberry Pi 5
• Pi 2B
• Pi Pico W
• Arduino Nano
• STM32 Nucleo G071RB

So far I haven’t found a permanent use for any of these - I bought the Pi 2 and 5 myself and was given the others.

My main camera is a Nikon Z50II, which I own a few of the DX lenses for.

Computer Software

• Browser: Firefox
• Code Editors: Vim and Neovim, 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 check my email most often, so I would prefer to be contacted through that. The only “social” platforms I check are Mastodon (@tedtriv@mastodon.social) mainly to follow people, Hacker News and Reddit.

My Mastodon account is mainly used to follow people. I have accounts created elsewhere but they’ve been unused for several years - they will be deleted eventually.

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