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+# Welcome to dendroalsia.net
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+Hi, I'm Ben! I live in Madison, WI and this is my server. The services it runs are hosted on various subdomains.
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+Here is a [git repo](https://git.dendroalsia.net) of some of my work, mostly data visualization scripts written in R.
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+[dendroalsia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendroalsia) is a genus of moss. According to Robin Wall Kimmerer, its name roughly translates to 'companion of trees'.
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+baseURL = 'https://dendroalsia.net/'
+languageCode = 'en-us'
+title = 'dendroalsia'
+theme = 'ananke'