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.

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. 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.

Recent publications (rss20.xml)

• FFS code review and Emacs extensibility with Protesilaos [video] (May 2026)
• FFS code review with Protesilaos [video] (May 2026)
• Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua [video] (May 2026)
• Farangis Yousefinia (February 2026)
• Devuan Excalibur with full-disk encryption on a BitFolk VPS (February 2026)
• Free software activities in December 2025 (December 2025)
• The People of Emacs (December 2025)
• Reading and writing emails in GNU Emacs with Gnus [video] (December 2025)
• Free software activities in November 2025 (November 2025)
• Free software activities in October 2025 (October 2025)

Main categories

• Emacs: All about GNU Emacs and Emacs Lisp.
• Essays: Takes on various topics, mainly related to computing.
• Tech notes: Notes and articles on specific technical subjects.
• News: Announcements or updates about recent happenings.
• Life: Stories and anecdotes from my personal life and miscellanea.