Kushal Das 🐍🐍🐍 @kushal@toots.dgplug.org

Time for #reintroduction

I am a public interest technologist working at the Freedom of the Press Foundation https://freedom.press My day job is to work on https://securedrop.org using which people can leak information to the journalists securely. I also contribute to many #opensource projects. I am a core member of the @torproject and also core developer of the #Python programming language & a director and fellow of Python Software Foundation.

https://news.kushaldas.in/ published one more newsletter.

Do you know about the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of INA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rani_of_Jhansi_Regiment

Do you want to learn about Web3/NFT/Blockchains/crypto whatever? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g is the best thing I ever saw, over 2 hours of explanation which will help you to become an expert in these topics. Watch it, and share only with close friends and family.

Yesterday I wrote about using #Python to access #Solid pods https://kushaldas.in/posts/using-python-to-access-a-solid-pod.html

@lrvick Have you seen this tool https://kushaldas.in/posts/releasing-tumpa-for-mac.html ? Works on airgapped Tails :)

Learning about #rustlang
Error by trying to remove a million .unwrap() calls from my library :)

Back into writing the newsletter https://news.kushaldas.in/

What are you working on these days?

2021 blog review https://kushaldas.in/posts/2021-blog-review.html

My #OpenPGP #Python module, Johnnycanencrypt 0.6.0 released https://kushaldas.in/posts/johnnycanencrypt-0-6-0-released.html #Security #Privacy

Using your #OpenPGP key on #Yubiky for ssh https://kushaldas.in/posts/using-your-openpgp-key-on-yubikey-for-ssh.html #yubico #fedora #debian security #privacy

Setting up a local mTLS (Mutual TLS) development environment using #mkcert tool from Filippo
with #nginx on a #Podman
container in #Fedora
& accessing via #curl and #python

https://kushaldas.in/posts/setting-up-local-mtls-environment-using-mkcert.html

I attended an OpenSpace on Digitization, skills supply and lifelong learning, organized by #Sunet & #jobtechdev https://kushaldas.in/posts/openspace-on-digitization-skills-supply-and-lifelong-learning.html #Sweden #OpenSource

This week I started working at https://sunet.se https://kushaldas.in/posts/continuing-the-journey-at-sunet.html

A few bytes of #curl https://kushaldas.in/posts/a-few-bytes-of-curl.html

How to convert from standalone to webroot mode (using nginx) for certificate renewal via certbot https://anweshadas.in/how-to-convert-from-standalone-to-webroot-mode-using-nginx-for-certificate-renewal-via-certbot/ @anwesha

I will do a workshop on 17th July about reproducible wheels and dependency management for your #Python project. To join in, please comment in https://github.com/kushaldas/workshops/issues/3 The goal is to have better #security model in your #dependency management. Please RT for more reach.