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## About [%blogname] ##

Dystopian poop and echoes of the past from a burnt out old hacker.
Periodically razed to the ground, as a treat. No lessons learned.

... Or, as regular paranoid lunatics on the interwebs like to say:
_This site is 100% static content._

Almost the same thing, really... here's a quick summary of me:

  1. 80 columns, hard tabs at 8
  2. The circle of fifths
  3. Lefty Loosey
  4. Dialectical Materialism
  5. Cake

... and I've been tremendously lacking in the cake department.

If you feel the need to comment about something here in public, there
are a lot of [ways](https://hachyderm.io/@haqistan) you [can do](https://twitter.com/haqistan) that
[elsewhere](https://haqistan.bsky.app). I'd rather not violate your privacy in
some mindless quest for engagement. Also, I don't really want a
database of what Internet people think of me, its like I'm
maintaining everyone else's burn book on me for free, and
it's mostly bots anyway so that's... weird. I definitely don't want to
give anything to Sillicon Valley Mercs.

If you want to comment to me about something directly see the
[Contact](#contactinformation) section, below.

### A Bit of Perl, a Little Make, the Pipeline Whirrs, and Then There's Cake ###

This site is fueled by
[MultiMarkdown](https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/). The final
MultiMarkdown files are generated by a Perl script named
[flog.pl](flog.pl); the process is driven by [a BSD Makefile](Makefile).
The posts and pages are written in MultiMarkdown and the Perl script
analyzes and modifies them slightly on their way into the final
directory structure for the blog.

MultiMarkdown's metadata facilities deal with anything *blogient*:
dates, titles, etc. The Perl script sorts out the
[archives](/archives/), [tags](/archives/tags/), word counts, etc. It
also allows me to keep unlimited levels of drafts around, to bash away
on when I can't do anything else. The [flog POD](flog.html) has more
information for the morbidly curious.

### Contact Information

Zoom-enabled if need be, please ask via one of the following methods
if you are interested.

**IRC**
:  attiloid on [libre.chat](https://libre.chat)

**Twitter**
:  [@haqistan](https://twitter.com/haqistan) _maybe not for very much longer_

**BlueSky**
:  [@haqistan.bsky.app](https://haqistan.bsky.app)

**Mastodon**
:  [@haqistan@hachyderm.io](https://hachyderm.io/@haqistan)

**Email**
:   *attila* -at- *haqistan.net* _email always works_

**Signal**, _other platforms_
:   upon request

*Updated on 2024-01-08*


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