bandali's home page
Hello, and welcome to my corner of the internet. I'm amin bandali (Persian: امین بندعلی), a computing scientist, archivist, and activist for user freedom. This is my personal site, where I share about a number of subjects and issues I care about, some of which you might find interesting as well.
If you have any questions or comments or just want to say hi, feel free to email me at bandali@kelar.org, I'd love to hear from you. You can encrypt your message with my GPG key. Please see README.email if you do write to me.
This site is also accessible via Gopher at gopher://kelar.org/1/~bandali.
An rss20.xml feed of my latest works is available.
Technical notes
These are my notes and articles on specific technical subjects.
Thoughts and essays
My takes on various topics, mainly related to computing.
- The People of Emacs (December 2025)
- Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press (May 2025)
- Re: The state of gopher (February 2024)
- Criteria for evaluating mail service providers (July 2023)
- Why I love participating in LibrePlanet (December 2022)
- Usable file names (March 2022)
News and updates
Announcements or updates about recent happenings.
- Free software activities in December 2025
- Free software activities in November 2025
- Free software activities in October 2025
- Free software activities in September 2025
- Free software activities in August 2025
- tmdconv (March 2024)
- Jami migrates to Debian Testing (bookworm) (February 2023)
- My internship with the FSF tech team and beyond (December 2020)
- Internship with the FSF tech team (May 2020)
Talks and chats
My talks and presentations or conversations, with accompanying material.
- Reading and writing emails in GNU Emacs with Gnus (December 2025)
- FSF40 volunteer panel (October 2025)
- Prot Asks me about EmacsConf, Debian, GNU, Internet Archive, and Canada (September 2025)
- Lispy Gopher Climate with screwlisp (August 2025)
- State of the shared GNU infrastructure (September 2023)
- What's new in Jami (March 2023)
- The Net beyond the Web (March 2022)
- Jami and how it empowers users (March 2021)
- A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling Languages (June 2020)
- The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems (June 2017)
- Introducing YULUG (February 2015)
Life and miscellanea
Some stories or anecdotes relating to my life and experiences.
- New Year 2024 (January 2024)
- Second gopherversary (December 2023)
- (On being) mortal (September 2023)
- Re: Christina's five questions for August 2023
- Re: Christina's five questions for July 2023
- Back to work (January 2023)
- Re: Christina's five questions for January 2023
- New Year 2023 (January 2023)
- First gopherversary (December 2022)
- New Year 2022 (January 2022)
- Hello (gopherspace) (December 2021)
فارسی (Persian)
درود! به کلبهٔ حقیر اینترنتی من خوش اومدید. من امین بندعلی یک فعال آزادی کاربر و بایگان هستم.
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افکار و مقالهها
اخبار و اعلانها
- کارآموزیم با تیم فنی بنیاد نرمافزار آزاد و فراتر از آن (آذر ۱۳۹۹)
- کارآموزی با تیم فنی بنیاد نرمافزار آزاد (خرداد ۱۳۹۹)
گفتگوها و ارائهها
زندگی و متفرقه
- سلام (فضای گوفر) (بهمن ۱۴۰۰)