## Contact

Online handle
  defanor
Homepage
  https://thunix.net/~defanor/
  gopher://thunix.net/1/~defanor/
  https://steady.mooo.com/~defanor/
Email
  defanor@thunix.net
  defanor@uberspace.net
  defanor@disroot.org
XMPP
  defanor@uberspace.net
  defanor@jabber.fr
IRC
  defanor@Libera.Chat
  defanor@tilde.chat
  defanor@oftc.net
  defanor@newnet.net
Mastodon
  @defanor@hachyderm.io
Other online accounts
  defanor@Wikipedia
  defanor@GitHub
  defanor@Codeberg
  defanor@tildegit
  defanor@Hacker News
OpenPGP key
  83CA 0A53 1343 ABF6 A393 393A DC40 5357 1CDC 9133 (also available via keys.openpgp.org)

I use the screen name for hobby-related activities, and attempt to keep them separate from more mundane ones. Unsure how to pronounce it; I made it up aiming its use as an unique login (though collisions still happen).

I try to avoid centralised and commercial services, but using the likes of GitHub for collaboration with those who do not, as well as for repository mirroring.

As of 2024, some of the contact channels may be quite unreliable due to the ongoing government-imposed censorship (including blocking of communication channels, and of protocols and services used to circumvent the blocking) and sanctions (complicating money transfers, payments for hosting and related services outside), so I use multiple backup ones.

## Current projects

At the time of this section's last update (summer 2024), my most maintained hobby project is rexmpp, an XMPP library. Though I am spending more time playing Discworld MUD, studying physics, doomscrolling the news too much (but attempting to replace that with history studies).

## Planned projects

There are quite a few things I would like to play with, but postponing or switching to others too often. Those include robotics, mapping with OpenStreetMap and developing software for it, game development (including that with Blender and Godot), toy programming languages, maybe some crafts that would make use of physics studies.

## This website

The website is best viewed in web browsers with configuration that does not rely on custom styling of websites. There is an atom feed of notes. The authoring tools are available from the homepage repository. The website archive is available as well, though it is not updated on every minor website update.

Unless stated otherwise, the content on this website is licensed under the Creative Commonts Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

## Interests

The topics I am interested in are reflected in the notes and projects, so this whole website is about those. But here is a summary, mostly for FOAF.

Nowadays I am doing functional programming in Haskell (and occasionally total functional programming with formal verification, in Idris), C programming, using Emacs on GNU/Linux. Sometimes working on FLOSS, and interested in computer programming and computing in general, which includes HCI, Semantic Web, computer networks, and other topics. Perhaps it can be summarised as an interest in reliably working and usable software, and advancement towards a techno-utopia.

I am also interested in some of the most common, non-computing subjects: cats, rock music (symphonic metal, alternative rock, industrial rock), music in general (occasionally trying to play piano, to compose music), books, movies, games (Discworld MUD in particular), food/cooking, exercising, crafts, etc. As well as in some of the topics that are related to computing – such as digital art, perhaps electronics (and physics in general) and mathematics. All the fun things I don't have enough time and energy to spend on. If I had enough time for those and even more on top, I'd probably spend it on RPGs (D&D, White Wolf ones, etc) and trains/railroads.

## Social graph

Maybe I will link others' FOAF profiles from this document someday.