If you’re coming to GUADEC 2016 and bringing your kids along, there’s a handy wiki page where you can look at for tips on what to do while in Karlsruhe:

https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2016/Kids

If you’re coming with small kids, I’ll bring along …

At GUADEC in Brno, I gave a talk about usability and security prompts.

The video and slides is now online. I’m really impressed with how fast the videos became available this time around.

I’ve sorta dabbled in using code coverage off and on, but it never really grabbed me as super useful and fit well within my workflow.

When hacking on open source I want to try out patches, run tests against them, whether automatic unit tests or manually diddling things during …

Ray and I and some others have been working on making it easy to use Kerberos single sign on with GNOME 3.6. The feature itself isn’t super revolutionary. You sign in with your realm login (eg: your Active Directory user name and password) and then you can go …

As part of the work on getting smart cards into Seahorse, there’s some design work that needs to be done to make the new functionality usable. In particular, the overarching design goal is that Seahorse isn’t a tool we expect users to “learn”. Actions should follow mostly from …

I’ve been working on an importer for keys and certificates that can work with PKCS#11 key storage, such as smart cards, NSS or gnome-keyring.

Here’s a demo of it in action. If you want to try this out yourself, you’ll need:

• latest gcr library from gnome-keyring …

Today I merged in a contribution from Evan Nemerson for GObject introspection support into the Gcr and Gck libraries. I ended up tweaking thousands of lines of comments and code, filed some bugs and so forth.

But the end result is you use PKCS#11 and stuff like the Gcr …

I’ve been working on smart card integration into Seahorse, and as part of that we need icons for smart cards. I had fun putting together something today:

Obviously not perfect, but I’m happy with the result. The tools and info in gnome-icon-theme are really nice.

At some point …

Listened to Moxie’s talk about Trust Agility and ‘Convergence’. Sounds like a viable candidate for ditching the Certificate Authority mess, or at least part of a solution. Go watch the video if you haven’t already.

I was thinking about how we could implement support for Convergence in GNOME …

So a lot of the work I do doesn’t have any user interface. The best user interface is no user interface, well one that isn’t needed. But recently I’ve been working some tools to view the plethora of certificate and key formats out there. So I couldn …