bandali's home page
Hello, and welcome to my corner of the internet. I'm amin bandali (Persian: امین بندعلی), a user freedom activist among other things.
Feel free to email me at bandali@kelar.org [?] with any questions or comments or just to say hi, I'd love to hear from you.
Technical notes
These are my notes and articles on specific technical subjects.
- Devuan Excalibur with full-disk encryption on a BitFolk VPS (February 2026)
- Mirroring Protesilaos' videos to Internet Archive (July 2025)
- PulseAudio with changing machine-id (May 2024)
- A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling Languages (June 2020)
- A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and TLA+ (August 2018)
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 (December 2025)
- Free software activities in November 2025 (November 2025)
- Free software activities in October 2025 (October 2025)
- Free software activities in September 2025 (September 2025)
- Free software activities in August 2025 (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 (August 2023)
- Re: Christina's five questions for July 2023 (July 2023)
- Back to work (January 2023)
- Re: Christina's five questions for January 2023 (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 هستم.
برای تماس با من میتونید به نشانی bandali@kelar.org [؟] رایانامه ارسال کنید.
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)