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title: About me
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I'm a programming, free software and GNU/Linux enthusiast. I'm also a
programmer profesionally, so that works out well.

I was born in The Netherlands, live in Belgium and work for a dutch
company. I have been using GNU/Linux since 2008, having settled on
[Archlinux](https://www.archlinux.org) after trying
[Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com/), [Fedora](https://getfedora.org/) and
[Zenwalk](http://zenwalk.org/). I have been using
[GNU Emacs](https://gnu.org/software/emacs/) since not long after
switching over to GNU/Linux.

## Profiles

I'm often trying out new wbesites and services on the internet.
Especially if they have something to do with code. Here are some of
them:

- I put most of my projects' code on
  [github](https://github.com/ryuslash).

- I'm also occasionally active on
  [gitorious](https://gitorious.org/~ryuslash).

- A few of my occasional contributions are tracked on
  [Open Hub](https://www.openhub.net/accounts/ryuslash).

## Interests

Next to pure coding there are some other things that I find
interesting, mostly also relating to coding or otherwise computers.

- I am currently reading
  [Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition](http://www.nostarch.com/assembly2.htm),
  [The Web Application Hacker's Handbook](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781118026472.do)
  and
  [The Ruby on Rails Tutorial (for Rails 3.2)](http://rails-3-2.railstutorial.org/).
  Other books I have read include:
  [The C Programming Language](http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/),
  [On Lisp](http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html),
  [Practical Common Lisp](http://gigamonkeys.com/book/),
  [Pro Git](http://git-scm.com/book),
  [Seven Languages in Seven Weeks](http://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks),
  [Land of Lisp](http://landoflisp.com/),
  [Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon](https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp),
  [Dive into HTML5](http://diveintohtml5.info/),
  [Head First C](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920015482.do),
  [Head First Design Patterns](http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfdp/),
  [Autotools](http://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm),
  [Professional WordPress Plugin Development](http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-WordPress-Plugin-Development.productCd-0470916222.html),
  [Lisp for the Web](https://leanpub.com/lispweb).

- I use the
  [Fantasque Sans Mono](http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono)
  font (previously Cosmic Sans Neue Mono) for my terminal emulator and
  text editor and I use
  [News Cycle](http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/news-cycle) for all
  the non-code text on this website. Other fonts I've used or tried
  include:
  [DejaVu Sans Mono](http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page),
  [Envy Code R](http://damieng.com/blog/tag/envy-code-r),
  [Liberation Mono](https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/),
  [Source Code Pro](http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecodepro.adobe/),
  [PT Mono](http://fonts.ru/public/).

- I use the [Awesome](http://awesome.naquadah.org/) window manager.
  Some others I have used or tried include:
  [dwm](http://dwm.suckless.org/),
  [Notion](http://notion.sourceforge.net/),
  [Guile-WM](http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-wm.html),
  [Stumpwm](http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/),
  [herbstluftwm](http://herbstluftwm.org/).

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