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Drew DeVault
Hello! I’m a software engineer and I write here about free and open source software, politics, ethics, and philosophy. I’m the founder & maintainer of several open source projects, notably SourceHut , the Hare programming language , and Vim Classic , and I started but no longer work on several more that you might have…
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