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title: About me
url: about/index.html
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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.
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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.
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## 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).
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## 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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