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				<p><em>Achernar</em> is a small indie development studio based in the Capital Region of Denmark. &#127465;&#127472;</p>

				<p>We develop open-source software, including video games and more productive software. We work with embedded systems as well as hosted ones.</p>
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				<p class="heading">Vision</p>

				<p>The goal of <em>Achernar</em> is to promote modern and robustly written open-source projects and alike.</p>
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				<p>In other words, our vision is to develop a human and clean industry and community for technology.</p>
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				<p class="heading">Inception</p>

				<p><em>Achernar</em> was founded in the summer of 2024 by I, <em>Gabriel Bjørnager Jensen</em>.</p>
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				<p>Our domain &ndash; <span class="code">achernar.dk</span> &ndash; was already registered in the winter of 2021, at that time being used for hosting on-line source code repositories. This was, however, quickly outsourced to <span class="code"><a href="https://mandelbrot.dk">mandelbrot.dk</a></span> after I had managed to secure that domain.</p>
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				<p><span class="code">achernar.dk</span> was then, in the mean time, used for hosting a few look-up references. This mostly served as my own notes for school &ndash; mainly mathematics, physics, and chemistry &ndash; but quickly grew unorganised and umaintained, although I did have plans to expand the lexicon.</p>
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				<p>The idea of a company had started in the spring of 2020. At that time it would've been named after the binary system <em>Sheliak</em> (Bayer: <span class="code">&beta; Lyr&#230;</span>). But it was this idea that evolved into <em>Achernar</em>.</p>
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				<p class="heading">Credits</p>

				<p>Thanks to the following projects which make our webservice possible:</p>
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						<p><a href="https://www.freebsd.org//"><em>FreeBSD</em></a></p>
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						<p><a href="https://nginx.org/en/"><em>nginx</em></a></p>
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						<p><a href="https://sass-lang.com/"><em>Sass</em></a></p>
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						<p><a href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/"><em>TypeScript</em></a></p>
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				<p>Additionally thanks to the following creators for the fonts which we use on our website:</p>
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						<p>Carrois Apostrophe: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Mono/"><em>Fira Mono</em></a></p>
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						<p>Roman Shamin & the &#8220;people&#8221; at Evil Martians &#128125;: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Martian+Mono/"><em>Martian Mono</em></a></p>
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						<p>Sorkin Type: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Merriweather/"><em>Merriweather</em></a></p>
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						<p>Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, and Jacques Le Bailly: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat/"><em>Montserrat</em></a></p>
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						<p>Jonas Hecksher: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Play/"><em>Play</em></a></p>
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						<p>Claus Eggers S&#248;rensen: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Playfair+Display/"><em>Playfair Display</em></a></p>
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						<p>Matt McInerney, Pablo Impallari, and Rodrigo Fuenzalida: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway/"><em>Raleway</em></a></p>
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