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This blog reflects my personal opinion, experience, experiments and advice on a certain number of topics. It is a way of sharing thoughts and information that others may find useful.

** Who am I?

I am fascinated by technology, many may call me a geek. My background is in research, computational chemistry in particular, and you can get more information about my professional activity on my [[Mb'w][research website]]. This blog is mostly reflecting my experiments as an individual fascinated by all things digital. I live in the terminal, nowadays very much in [[Emacs'w][Emacs]], and most of the time some type of keyboard is close to my fingers. Computer graphics and (scientific) visualization are among my favorite topics, as well as gaming.

** What is the blog about?

There are a gazillion facets of the digital I want to experiment with. I love to optimize my processes, workflows and my digital life in general. I am also fascinated by many recent trends, AI, generative appraches, chatbots, crypto and the blockchain, etc. - you name them! These are the core types of thoughts and findings I would like to share. They typically relate to Emacs, MacOS, [[Guix'w][GUIX Linux]] in particular, but themes may spill over to very diverse areas of application. One of those is retro-gaming based on the batocera platform.

** What is smplinux?

No big story here. Simply, when I was looking for my own domain name, more than 25 years ago, at the beginning of my PhD thesis, I had just discovered the symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) architecture on Linux. I was so blown away by this concept that I thought it would be great to name my web and email domain after it. Hence I have been truthful to this choice - made long ago - and it is now quite logical that my main personal blog also goes to the www.smplinux.de domain.

** Credits

When I put this blog together, I took much inspiration and resources across the internet. Here is a list (I hope not to forget anything too important -- tell me if you notice I used some of your tools or resources and didn't credit you!).

*** Blog writing and generation from org-mode files

I use [[LazyblorgGit'w][lazyblorg]] to make this blog happen. I made slight adaptations, for instance to make use of ~#+LINK tag url..~ definitions to call my url links just by the tag name rather than putting the actual URLs everywhere inside the core of the text.

*** For the style (colors and fonts):

Heavy inspiration from [[Systemcrafter'w][SystemCrafter's website]] and the many resources it provides. I liked the color and font setup so much, I copied it almost literally over to this blog's stylesheets etc.. I hope David Wilson will forgive me the heavy inspiration I took from his style. I also looked at bits from [[Barelybuggy'w][Barely Buggy's blog]] and stylesheet, using dark mode for lazyblorg.
The fonts -as mentioned- are the same as used by David Wilson on SystemCrafters, namely [[JbmonoFont'w][JetBrains Mono]] ([[JbmonoLic'w][SIL OFL-1.1 license]]) and [[IosevkaFont'w][Iosevka Aile]] ([[IosevkaLic'w][SIL OFL-1.1 license]]). The color theme, I believe, is a mix between the dark [[ModusThemes'w][Modus theme]] ~modus-vivendi~ and the ~doom-palenight~ theme from [[DoomThemes'w][Doom themes]].

*** General tools and workflows

The usual way I work requires a large number of tools that I cannot all thank here. Among the essential ones figures [[Emacs'w][GNU Emacs]] and a broad range of packages for it such as [[OrgMode'w][org-mode]].

** Disclaimers

All information on this blog is shared as is, *without any warranties* and only based on my limited experience on my computer and setup. Before applying anything to your specific case and re-using snippets of code, be aware that it is your responsibility to make sure nothing bad may happen (data loss, unintended information sharing, ..).