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  1. '((article (@ (class "basic-section-padding"))
  2. (p "Hi! I'm Joshua Branson. I'm a tinker with a passion for "
  3. (a (@ (href "http://local.gnucode.me/about.html") (target "_blank")) "libre software")
  4. ". GNUcode.me is my journey towards aiding the "
  5. (a (@ (href "https://gnu.org")) "GNU project.")
  6. " Wanna be my friend? Send me an email: joshua AT gnucode.me.")
  7. (p "My git repositories are available at "
  8. (a (@ (href "https://notabug.org/jbranso")) "notabug.org/jbranso")
  9. ". You'll find my .emacs.d there, my guix config that runs this
  10. site, and the souce code for this site. It uses Haunt, which is a
  11. static site generator!")
  12. (p "I have been uploading some of my hacking videos online. You can view them "
  13. (a (@ (href "https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels")) "here")
  14. ". I've got videos about guile, emacs, guix, etc.")
  15. (p "My irc nick is jab or gnucode. I usually hang out in
  16. the #guix irc chatroom in libera.chat. I'm still on freenode too. My
  17. freenode nick is joshuaBPMan. Feel free to say hello sometime.")
  18. (p "I am particularly interested in the software below."))
  19. (section (@ (class "section-background"))
  20. (article (@ (class "basic-section-padding"))
  21. (img (@ (width "300px") (src "./images/guix.svg") (guix logo)))
  22. (p
  23. (a (@ (href "https://guix.gnu.org") (target "_blank")) "GNU Guix")
  24. " is the official GNU Operating system and universal package
  25. manager. It supports declarative system configuration, atomic updates,
  26. reverting to previous versions of packages and system state! With it
  27. you can declare developmental environments with packages from
  28. programming languages like javascript, python, ruby, rust, R,
  29. guile, etc. GNU Guix lets you declare your entire operating system
  30. environment as scheme code. It is super awesome. I use it on my
  31. laptop, and it powers this website!")))
  32. (section
  33. (article (@ (class "basic-section-padding"))
  34. (img (@ (width "300px") (src "./images/emacs.svg") (alt "emacs logo")))
  35. (p (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/emacs/emacs.html")
  36. (target "_blank"))
  37. "GNU Emacs")
  38. " is the world's best operating system. It also includes a
  39. fabulous text editor, email client, task manager, web browser, etc.
  40. There are people that open up their computer, and the only program
  41. they use is Emacs! You can do literate devops, play games, edit
  42. remote files, program in any programming language. It is a fabulous
  43. and extremely customize text editor.")))
  44. (section (@ (class "section-background"))
  45. (article (@ (class "basic-section-padding"))
  46. (img (@ (width "300px") (src "./images/guile.svg") (alt "guile logo")))
  47. (p (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/")
  48. (target "_blank")) "GNU Guile")
  49. " is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language
  50. for Extensions, the official extension language of the GNU system. It
  51. allows one to extend their application in what is perhaps the best
  52. programming language in the world: scheme. It supports most
  53. programming paradigms, is reasonably fast, has numerous features that
  54. many languages lack, and is famously flexible in the things that it
  55. can do.")
  56. (p "GNU Guile is an implementation of scheme, with the goal of
  57. helping programmers create flexible applications. If bits of your
  58. application need to be preferment, then you can write those bits in
  59. C. Guile has great support for inter operating with C.")))
  60. (section
  61. (article (@ (class "basic-section-padding"))
  62. (img (@ (width "300px") (src "./images/openbsd-textual-logo.svg")
  63. (alt "hurd logo")))
  64. (p (a (@ (href "https://www.openbsd.org/")
  65. (target "_blank")) "OpenBSD")
  66. " is perhaps the most secure operating systems know to man. They refuse to sign
  67. any NDAs or allow proprietary software in their OS (though they do allow
  68. proprietary firmware, which is needed for various hardware to function). They
  69. design of OpenBSD is pretty slick, and the developers are really prolific
  70. software developers. They have developed httpd, opensmtpd, and quite a few bits
  71. of software. They support 14 different platforms including riscv64, amd64,
  72. arm64, powerpc, and some other ones. That's really quite impressive! They have
  73. designed new security features including pledge and unveil. If you want a really
  74. powerful safe-by-default OS, then OpenBSD is really worth your time.")))
  75. (section (@ (class "section-background"))
  76. (article (@ (class "basic-section-padding"))
  77. (img (@ (width "300px") (src "./images/hurd.svg") (alt "hurd logo")))
  78. (p (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/")
  79. (target "_blank")) "The GNU Hurd")
  80. " is the GNU project's official kernel (of course I've
  81. saved the best for last). It is currently not as feature-complete as
  82. it ought to be, but it has a ton of amazing features like the
  83. possibility of extending the kernel with high level languages like
  84. scheme or python. It is based on the design of a microkernel. It's
  85. kernel is only about 90,000 lines of code, whereas the Linux kernel is
  86. approaching 30 million lines of code. The GNU/Hurd wants to support
  87. an extensible operating system, where the user is free to securely
  88. change virtually any aspect about their system."))) )