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   2 define(__title, `How I do my Computing')dnl
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   8 <p class="box">Inspired by the computing pages of
   9 <a href="//stallman.org/stallman-computing.html">rms</a> and
  10 <a href="//blog.vimuser.org/leah-computing.html">Leah Rowe</a>.</p>
  11
  12 <h2>Computers</h2>
  13 <p>My <a href="//libreboot.org">librebooted</a> ThinkPad X200 computer
  14 is the machine I use the most and where I do most of my computing.  I
  15 also have the privilege of having access to a fleet of servers through
  16 our school's
  17 <a href="//csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club</a> that I use
  18 for some more computationally intensive tasks every now and again, and
  19 also for hosting this very website.</p>
  20
  21 <h2>GNU/Linux distributions</h2>
  22 <p>I have used a wide variety of GNU/Linux distros over the years; but
  23 as of late, I find myself using
  24 <a href="//trisquel.info">Trisquel</a>,
  25 <a href="//guix.gnu.org">Guix System</a>, and
  26 <a href="//www.debian.org">Debian</a> (with no <code>contrib</code> or
  27 <code>non-free</code>) almost exclusively.  For the kernel, I mostly
  28 use <a href="//www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/">GNU
  29 Linux-libre</a>.  Guix System comes with GNU Linux-libre out of the
  30 box, and on Debian-based distros I tend to install it from
  31 jxself's <a href="//jxself.org/linux-libre/">APT repository</a>.</p>
  32
  33 <h2>Actual computing</h2>
  34 <p>I spend most of my time in
  35 <a href="//www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>.</p>
  36 <p>TODO: elaborate</p>
  37
  38 <h2 id="colophon">Maintaining this site</h2>
  39 <p>I took a great amount of inspiration
  40 from <a href="//technomancy.us/colophon">Phil Hagelberg</a>'s setup.
  41 The pages of this site are written in plain HTML using GNU Emacs,
  42 with <a href="//gnu.org/s/m4">GNU M4</a> acting as a full-featured
  43 template engine.
  44 A <a href="/GNUmakefile"><code>GNUmakefile</code></a> provides
  45 convenient <code>make</code> rules to build and publish the site.  The
  46 bibliography of my <a href="/publications">publications</a> is
  47 generated from <a href="/bandali.bib"><code>bandali.bib</code></a>
  48 using <a href="//www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/">bibtex2html</a>,
  49 and further processed and put together
  50 using <a href="//gnu.org/s/sed">GNU sed</a> and another
  51 <code>GNUmakefile</code>.  The git repository containing all the
  52 sources used to build this site is
  53 available <a href="//git.emacsconf.org/bandali/bndl.org">here</a>.</p>
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