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+# Bauke 🦖 XYZ
+
+> **Bauke's website.**
+
+## Development
+
+Requires working installations of [Rust and Cargo](https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started), [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org) and [pnpm](https://pnpm.io).
+
+* Install the dependencies with `pnpm install`.
+* Build the website with `cargo run`.
+* Deploy to Netlify with `pnpm deploy`.
+* Test the code with `pnpm test`.
+
+## License
+
+Distributed under the [AGPL-3.0-or-later](https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-or-later.html) license, see [LICENSE](https://git.bauke.xyz/Bauke/bauke-xyz/src/branch/main/LICENSE) for more information.