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-<p><marginnote name="baby-gentoo"><img style="width: 50%" src="/img/baby-gentoo.png" /></marginnote></p>
+Generally a private person so this section is sparse on personal
+details. Thomas is a detail-oriented person, the kind who enjoys
+caring for the small details, like ensuring that proper quotation marks
+(“”) are used instead of the inferior ones (`""`). He possesses a
+strange gift of spotting typos in texts before anything else,
+especially without deriving any meaning from the words. As evidence to
+this character, he has [proved](/kernelnewbies-oftc.txt) an ability to
+hand-edit raw diffs which requires some care in handling whitespace,
+context lines, and hunk headers. Aside from the technical minutiae,
+Thomas lives [100% plantbased](/plantbased.html) (for 10+ years).
 
- * extremely detail-oriented, the kind of person who will go to the
-trouble of ensuring that quotation marks (“”) are used instead of the
-inferior ones (`""`)
- * 10+ years of living [100% plantbased](/plantbased.html)
- * can hand-edit raw diffs ([proof](/kernelnewbies-oftc.txt))
+I am a long-time Gentoo Linux user<sidenote
+name="gentoo"><https://gentoo.org>,
+<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Laumann></sidenote> and, since July
+2026, a developer.<sidenote
+name="laumann-announce"><https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/41e47edb-3234-4609-8682-827f78ffff90@gentoo.org></sidenote>
+Aside from being a great OS, the community is great and the philosophy
+and values align with my own.
 
-You can reach out in different ways: via email (`t` @ this domain). On
-IRC I'm `laumann` on [libera.chat](https://web.libera.chat/gamja/) and
-[oftc](https://www.oftc.net/). I have never been on the major social
-networks, but I am on [mastodon](https://mastodon.xyz/@laumann).
+I am the co-author of the _Session Types for Rust_ paper and
+library.<sidenote
+name="session-types">See [Session Types for Rust](/sessiontypes.html)</sidenote> I reimplemented
+the excellent Redshift<sidenote
+name="redshift"><http://jonls.dk/redshift/></sidenote> in Rust as an
+exercise.<marginnote name="wlsunset">
+I have since moved to
+[wlsunset](https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/wlsunset/) for Sway.
+</marginnote>
+In the time I worked most with Rust, I even made a couple of contributions to the Rust
+compiler.<sidenote
+name="rustc-contrib"><https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits?author=laumann.thomas@gmail.com></sidenote>
+In other domains, I have contributed a few patches to Hare,<marginnote
+name="hare"><https://harelang.org/></marginnote> most
+notably (in my humble opinion) the curve25519 crypto
+module.<marginnote name="curve25519">[crypto::curve25519](https://docs.harelang.org/crypto/curve25519/)</marginnote>
 
-## Code
+<!-- I am the co-author of the <a href="sessiontypes.html">Session Types -->
+<!-- for Rust</a> library and paper -->
+<!--  * Contributed a few patches to [Hare](https://harelang.org/) - most -->
+<!-- notably (in my humble opinion) the -->
+<!-- [curve25519](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare/tree/master/item/crypto/curve25519/curve25519.ha) -->
+<!-- implementation -->
+<!--  * Reimplemented the _excellent_ [Redshift]() -->
+<!-- in Rust as an exercise. Code is -->
+<!-- [here](https://git.sr.ht/~laumann/redshift-rs), but I abandoned it for -->
+<!-- the OG experience and later moved to wlsunset<sidenote -->
+<!-- name="wlsunset"><https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/wlsunset/></sidenote> -->
+<!-- for Sway. -->
+<!--  * Made a couple of [contributions to the Rust -->
+<!-- compiler](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits?author=laumann.thomas@gmail.com). -->
+<!--  * Started the [Eudyptula Challenge](http://eudyptula-challenge.org/) in 2014 -->
+<!--  and have yet to finish the final task 20 (resubmitted it on Jan 20, 2022) -->
 
 I keep code in various places: [git.laumann.xyz](http://git.laumann.xyz),
 [git.sr.ht/~laumann](https://git.sr.ht/~laumann),
 [nest.pijul.com](https://nest.pijul.com/laumann),
 and [github](https://github.com/laumann).
 
- * Co-author of the <a href="sessiontypes.html">Session Types for
-   Rust</a> library and paper
- * Contributed a few patches to [Hare](https://harelang.org/) - most
-notably (in my humble opinion) the
-[curve25519](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare/tree/master/item/crypto/curve25519/curve25519.ha)
-implementation
- * Reimplemented the _excellent_ [Redshift](http://jonls.dk/redshift/)
-in Rust as an exercise. Code is
-[here](https://git.sr.ht/~laumann/redshift-rs), but I abandoned it for
-the OG experience and later moved to wlsunset<sidenote
-name="wlsunset"><https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/wlsunset/></sidenote>
-for Sway.
- * Made a couple of [contributions to the Rust
-compiler](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits?author=laumann.thomas@gmail.com).
- * Started the [Eudyptula Challenge](http://eudyptula-challenge.org/) in 2014
- and have yet to finish the final task 20 (resubmitted it on Jan 20, 2022)
-
-## Gentoo
-
-I'm a long-time Gentoo Linux user<sidenote
-name="gentoo"><https://gentoo.org>, <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Laumann></sidenote> and now [proxied
-maintainer](https://packages.gentoo.org/maintainer/t@laumann.xyz). I
-run the run the [overlay QA checks](https://bugs.gentoo.org/552950)
-and maintain some overlays.<sidenote
-name="overlay">[laumann](https://git.sr.ht/~laumann/portage), [soupault](https://git.sr.ht/~laumann/soupault-portage)</sidenote>
+There are different ways to reach me: by email, I am "t"
+at this domain, my Gentoo mail is my handle at gentoo.org. On IRC I go
+by "laumann"<marginnote
+name="irc">[libera.chat](https://web.libera.chat/gamja/),
+[oftc](https://www.oftc.net/)</marginnote>. I have never been on any
+major social networks, but you can find me on mastodon.
+<marginnote name="masto"><https://mastodon.xyz/@laumann>, <https://social.data.coop/@laumann></marginnote>
+
+<!-- You can reach out in different ways: via email (`t` @ this domain). On -->
+<!-- IRC I'm `laumann` on [libera.chat](https://web.libera.chat/gamja/) and -->
+<!-- [oftc](https://www.oftc.net/). I have never been on the major social -->
+<!-- networks, but I am on [mastodon](https://mastodon.xyz/@laumann). -->
+
 
 </section>