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   2 define(__title, `How I do my Computing')dnl
   3 define(__pub, 2019-09-14T12:00:00Z)dnl
   4 define(__upd, 2020-07-17T12:00:00Z)dnl
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   8 <p class="box">Inspired by the computing page of
   9 <a href="https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html">rms</a>.</p>
  10
  11 <h2>Computers</h2>
  12 <p>My <a href="https://libreboot.org">librebooted</a> ThinkPad X200
  13 computer is the machine I use the most and where I do most of my
  14 computing.  I also have the privilege of having access to a fleet of
  15 servers through our school's
  16 <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club</a> that I
  17 use for some more computationally intensive tasks every now and again,
  18 and also for hosting this very website.</p>
  19
  20 <h2>GNU/Linux distributions</h2>
  21 <p>I have used a wide variety of GNU/Linux distros over the years; but
  22 as of late, I find myself using
  23 <a href="https://trisquel.info">Trisquel</a>,
  24 <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">Guix System</a>, and
  25 <a href="https://www.debian.org">Debian</a> (with
  26 no <code>contrib</code> or <code>non-free</code>) almost exclusively.
  27 For the kernel, I mostly use
  28 <a href="https://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="https://jxself.org/linux-libre/">APT
  32 repository</a>.</p>
  33
  34 <h2>Actual computing</h2>
  35 <p>I spend most of my time in
  36 <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>.</p>
  37 <p>TODO: elaborate</p>
  38
  39 <h2 id="colophon">Maintaining this site</h2>
  40 <p>I took a great amount of inspiration
  41 from <a href="https://technomancy.us/colophon">Phil Hagelberg</a>'s
  42 setup.  The pages of this site are written in plain HTML using GNU
  43 Emacs, with <a href="https://gnu.org/s/m4">GNU M4</a> acting as a
  44 full-featured template engine.
  45 A <a href="/GNUmakefile"><code>GNUmakefile</code></a> provides
  46 convenient <code>make</code> rules to build and publish the site.  The
  47 bibliography of my <a href="/publications">publications</a> is
  48 generated from <a href="/bandali.bib"><code>bandali.bib</code></a>
  49 using <a href="https://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/">bibtex2html</a>,
  50 and further processed and put together using
  51 <a href="https://gnu.org/s/sed">GNU sed</a> and
  52 another <code>GNUmakefile</code>.  The git repository containing all
  53 the sources used to build this site is available
  54 <a href="https://git.emacsconf.org/bandali/bndl.org">here</a>.</p>
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