amin bandali's home page

Hello, and welcome to my corner of the internet. I'm amin bandali (Persian: امین بندعلی), another human being walking this earth. I love nature and people, and enjoy sharing what I know and learning from other folks.

You can email me at amin@shemshak.org [note] with any questions or comments or just to say hi - I'd love to hear from you.

Projects

• ffs: form feed-separated plain text presentations in Emacs

Publications

2026

• Living healthier
• In which priorities are clarified #roophloch
• Lispy Gopher Climate with screwlisp [video]
• Free software activities in May 2026
• Thinking about life - chat with Protesilaos [video]
• ffs 0.2.2 released
• ffs code review and Emacs extensibility with Protesilaos [video]
• ffs code review with Protesilaos [video]
• Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua [video]
• Devuan Excalibur with full-disk encryption on a BitFolk VPS

2025

• Free software activities in December 2025
• The People of Emacs
• Reading and writing emails in GNU Emacs with Gnus [video]
• Free software activities in November 2025
• Free software activities in October 2025
• FSF40 volunteer panel [video]
• Free software activities in September 2025
• Prot Asks me about EmacsConf, Debian, GNU, Internet Archive, Canada [video]
• Free software activities in August 2025
• Lispy Gopher Climate with screwlisp [video]
• Mirroring Protesilaos' videos to Internet Archive
• Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press #drm

2024

• PulseAudio with changing machine-id
• tmdconv #offlfirsoch
• Re: The state of gopher
• New Year 2024

2023

• Second gopherversary
• (On being) mortal #roophloch
• State of the shared GNU infrastructure
• Re: Christina's five questions for August 2023
• Criteria for evaluating mail service providers
• Re: Christina's five questions for July 2023
• What's new in Jami [video]
• Jami migrates to Debian Testing (bookworm)
• Back to work
• Re: Christina's five questions for January 2023
• New Year 2023

2022

• First gopherversary
• Why I love participating in LibrePlanet
• Usable file names
• The Net beyond the Web [video]
• New Year 2022

2021

• Hello (gopherspace)
• Jami and how it empowers users [video]

2020

• My internship with the FSF tech team and beyond
• A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling Languages
• Internship with the FSF tech team

2019

• Material from SE 212 tutorials

2018

• A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and TLA+

2017

• The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems

2015

• Introducing YULUG