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<h1>Hi, I'm Alaric!</h1>
<p>Who are you?</p>
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Welcome to my vanity page.
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In my spare time, I'm an Assistant Explorer Scout Leader for The White
Stags ESU in Cranham (Gloucestershire), treasurer
at <a href="https://www.cheltenhamhackspace.org/">Cheltenham
Hackspace</a>, and I
pursue <a href="http://www.kitten-technologies.co.uk/">my own open source
software projects</a>, experiment with metalwork and electronics, and
learn things. I work from my little lab at the end of the garden, and I
enjoy tinkering with the structure of the building itself too! My goal in
life is to develop technology, to make everything more awesome.
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<p>What I'm learning at the time of writing:</p>
<ul>
<li>Morse code</li>
<li>Drawing (still terrible at it)</li>
<li>Lock picking</li>
<li>Welding</li>
<li>Amateur radio</li>
<li>Lojban</li>
<li>Analogue signal/power electronics</li>
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<p>Things I'd like to learn, but aren't pursuing right now:</p>
<ul>
<li>Archery</li>
<li>FPV quadrotor piloting</li>
<li>Advanced mathematics</li>
<li>How to compose music</li>
</ul>
<p>Things I've learnt in the past:</p>
<ul>
<li>Krav Maga</li>
<li>Digital logic design</li>
<li>Pretty much every area of computer science</li>
<li>First aid / survival</li>
<li>Rifle shooting</li>
</ul>
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I live in Gloucester, England with my wife Sarah and our
children. Sarah and I share a
blog, <a href="https://www.snell-pym.org.uk/">www.snell-pym.org.uk</a>,
so our mutual friends can keep track of us. However, I've been
putting rather a lot of technical ramblings up there, so I've
divided it into categories. For just my writings,
visit <a href="https://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/author/alaric/">https://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/author/alaric/</a>;
for just technical things (by either of us),
visit <a href="https://www.snell-pym.org.uk/categories/sci-tech/">https://www.snell-pym.org.uk/categories/sci-tech/</a>;
and for stuff relating purely to our personal lives, instead
see <a href="https://snell-pym.org.uk/categories/the-family/">https://snell-pym.org.uk/categories/the-family/</a>.
I'm also to be found
on the Fediverse as <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kitten_tech">@kitten_tech@fosstodon.org</a>, on amateur radio as M0KTN, <a href="https://reddit.com/u/AlaricSP">Reddit</a>, and if you must,
<a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alaric">LinkedIn</a>.
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My mental health isn't great - not in ways most people would
notice, but the bit of my brain that's supposed to detect
imminent threats to my life triggers when it doesn't need to, so
I spend a lot of time distractingly full of adrenaline and
fear. Sometimes this just happens randomly, and sometimes it's
triggered by particular things: I'm very cautious about going to
parties and pubs as they're full of things I struggle with, so
please don't be offended if I don't come to yours, or leave
early!
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You can find more about me by
exploring <a href="http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/foaf/explorer/?foaf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snell-pym.org.uk%2Falaric%2Falaric-foaf.rdf"><img src="foaf-explorer.32.png"
alt="">my FOAF</a>. My face looks something like <a href="me-photo.jpeg">this</a>.
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My Amazon wishlist
contains <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/wishlist/2R5MPFM6TL0DE/ref=wl_em_to">A
tiny subset of the things I want</a>; you can send me
some <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a>
to <a href="bitcoin:1ALAricQjEj5ErpDCLDZWYHGv15jMq1gEM">1ALAricQjEj5ErpDCLDZWYHGv15jMq1gEM</a>,
or <a href="https://nano.org">Nano</a> to <a href="nano:nano_13mzub66o8ue7gp68mq19ny9p87qq8fhantgawxnby8fz6jk6rnz9fs5khti">nano_13mzub66o8ue7gp68mq19ny9p87qq8fhantgawxnby8fz6jk6rnz9fs5khti</a>.
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One day I'd like to:
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<li>Go rock climbing frequently.</li>
<li>Take up archery and/or clay pigeon shooting.</li>
<li>Build
a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth-Hirsch_Fusor">Farnsworth-Hirsch
Fusor</a>,
a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil">Tesla
coil</a>,
a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsator">compulsator</a>-powered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun">railgun</a>,
an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator">Explosively
pumped flux compression generator</a>,
a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computer">wearable
computer</a>, and
a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine">Tesla
turbine</a>, amongst other things. You get the idea.</li>
<li>Implement all of <a href="https://www.open-research.org.uk/">Open Research</a> and <a href="http://www.argon.org.uk/">ARGON</a>.</li>
<li>Master metalcasting, blacksmithing, and machining.</li>
<li>Write lots of technical books.</li>
<li>Publish my fiction.</li>
<li>Invest in the stock markets and all that.</li>
<li>Be a gentleman scientist, spending all my time doing bizarre and eccentric research out of pure curiousity.</li>
<li>Build a Seastead, and then establish a habitable colony offworld.</li>
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<p>Lastly, I of course have a PGP key. My key ID is 50633C18
(replacing my old C38DBA49 and 7371086A), my fingerprint is B608 66B6 BC24 B19F E4D0 BD08 F1D6 C29E 5063 3C18, and <a href="publickey.asc">my public key</a> can be found on the SKS keyserver pool.</p>
<p>I'm a proponent of the Web of Trust model - I will happily sign keys. Show me a government photo ID and I'll use caff to sign your key at cert level 2, or level 3 if I know you personally anyway. Give me reasonable evidence of your ownership of a pseudonym and I'll sign that too. Since I'm also into RDF, as well as sending you signatures by email using caff, I'll also publish my assertion about the mapping between your name and your key in my signed FOAF file (linked above); if you receive the signature caff sends you and I notice it's been uploaded to the keyservers, or I have other reason to trust your email address is yours, I'll add an mbox:sha1sum statement to my RDF on you, thus publishing the same statement in RDF.</p>
<p>There's a <a href="index.html.sig">detached signature</a> for <a href="index.html-source">the raw source of this page</a>.</p>
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