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1 dnl -*- html -*-
2 define(__title, `How I do my Computing')dnl
3 define(__pub, 2019-09-14T12:00:00Z)dnl
4 define(__upd, 2021-02-28T12:00:00Z)dnl
5 define(__id, 1)dnl
6 include(header.html)dnl
7
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 distribution</h2>
21 <p>I used a wide variety of distros over the years; but I have since
22 found <a href="https://trisquel.info">Trisquel</a> to be my favourite
23 and it's put my "distro-hopping" days behind me. Sometimes I pair it
24 up with <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">GNU Guix</a>. For the kernel,
25 I usually use
26 <a href="https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/">GNU
27 Linux-libre</a> from jxself's
28 <a href="https://jxself.org/linux-libre/">APT repository</a>.</p>
29
30 <h2>Actual computing</h2>
31 <p>I spend most of my time in
32 <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>.</p>
33 <p>TODO: elaborate</p>
34
35 <h2 id="colophon">Maintaining this site __anc(`colophon')</h2>
36 <p>I took a great amount of inspiration
37 from <a href="https://technomancy.us/colophon">technomancy</a>'s
38 setup. The pages of this site are written in plain HTML using GNU
39 Emacs, with GNU M4 acting as a full-featured template engine.
40 A <a href="__p/GNUmakefile"><code>GNUmakefile</code></a> provides
41 convenient <code>make</code> rules to build and publish the site. The
42 bibliography of my <a href="__p/publications.html">publications</a> is
43 generated from <a href="__p/bandali.bib"><code>bandali.bib</code></a>
44 using <a href="https://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/">bibtex2html</a>,
45 and further processed and put together using GNU sed and
46 another <code>GNUmakefile</code>. The git repository containing all
47 the sources used to build this site are available
48 <a href="https://git.shemshak.org/~bandali/site">here</a>.</p>
49
50 define(__copy, `2019, 2020')dnl
51 include(footer.html)dnl