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Hi, I'm LGUG2Z. (spoken aloud as "Jeezy" - the last two alphabetic characters [G, Z])

During my career I have worked across Central Asia and the Middle East in the humanitarian sector, and across Europe and North America as a software engineer.

I own, develop and operate notado.app, kullish, blucerne and xeetshot.

I maintain a number of popular educational source software projects and Discord communities, and I post software development content on YouTube

Projects

komorebi - Tiling window manager for Windows

Notado - Content-first bookmarking service

Kullish - Bring-your-own-links comment aggregator

Blucerne - Advanced search filters for Bluesky

whkd - Simple hotkey daemon for Windows

wtm - Windows Process Manager inspired by systemd

xeetshot - Longer xeets without Twitter Premium or threads

helix-vim - Batteries-included Vim-like configuration for Helix with a funny README

komokana - Automatic application-aware QMK-style keyboard layer switching for Windows

بیت‌یاب - Couplet-finder for classical Dari / Farsi / Tojiki Poetry

The World of Terra Ignota - Highlights from Ada Palmer’s novels describing the histories of the post-national “Hive” and “Bash” organisational structures

elasdx - Kubernetes-friendly ElasticSearch index template update, reindex and cleanup tool

unsubscan - Find unsubscribe links in your inbox

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Kullish was made for days like today

All the comments from multiple completely different corners of the internet on a big piece of news aggregated in one place

kulli.sh/search?q=https://www.

Powered by of course 🦀

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Made a nice little fix to get Chinese, Japanese and Korean text rendering properly on komorebi-bar this evening!

Font handling with egui is pretty tricky because you need to set up the fallback fonts yourself

github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/com

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Recent Videos




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My highlights also include opinions and views that I disagree with; they should not be read as endorsements, or considered indicative of my own personal beliefs

Software (RSS)

I'm proud of a lot of the devtools work our teams did at Facebook/Meta, but I struggle everyday with the fact that ultimately it accelerated the development of tools which enabled at least one genocide. The latest update to Meta's content policy gives me even more things to struggle everyday with 🙃

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Enshittification is more than just a slow degradation of product offerings. It's an entire cultural shift, brought on by the unavoidable and insatiable demands for limitless growth. With the seemingly endless investor optimism of the ZIRP era gone, the pressure moves elsewhere - onto workers, onto …

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What's funny is that in Linus' mind "saving Linux desktop" meant that Valve would release statically linked binaries of games for Linux and distro maintainers would have no choice but to support those binaries, thus ending fragmentation in the ecosystem. Steam was trying exactly that when Linus made …

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Addiction (RSS)

This feels representative of our times: Using chatbots to power a gig economy of para-social relationships for lonely people short on real in-person interactions.

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The experience of passive consumption (cable TV, tiktok, etc, pointed out in another comment here) is essentially the experience of psychological obliteration.

When you get sucked into reels, you go from "here" to "there," and in the process, while you are "there," your entire whole self is …

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I intentionally made the Nous girl non-sexual, because this rotten internet is already brimming with pornographic content. But inevitably, some porn-brained retard will ruin it. I encourage him to blow his head off with a breaching shotgun

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Social Media (RSS)

Whether Red Note becomes the next thing after TikTok or not, there is something special brewing in the midst of so many folks from the US talking directly to people in China in such significant numbers.

We’re probably going to see a wild uptick of anti-Chinese propaganda in the US, but it didn’t …

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Not sure about ads, but things are definitely getting worse in terms of health first at FB and now at Instagram. It seems like sex workers (onlyfans models) seemed to have realized the way to skirt the FB community guidelines. There’s no straight porn, but when cooking videos and reels about cute …

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I wish people would post more links to interesting things

I feel like Twitter and LinkedIn and Instagram and TikTok have pushed a lot of people out of the habit of doing that, by penalizing shared links in the various "algorithms"

Bluesky doesn't have that misfeature, thankfully!

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Capitalism (RSS)

Enshittification is more than just a slow degradation of product offerings. It's an entire cultural shift, brought on by the unavoidable and insatiable demands for limitless growth. With the seemingly endless investor optimism of the ZIRP era gone, the pressure moves elsewhere - onto workers, onto …

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ideology is always stronger than technology. you can always recreate technology but you cannot recreate a community. this is why technical monopoly via APIs that don't interop is so profitable, because it lets you subvert an entire community to your ideology

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second of all this really reinforces to me the idea that value generation in capitalism has nothing to do with one what creates or provides or labors but it has to do with what power you have to deny things to people

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Education (RSS)

OK I guess I’m going to go against the deluge of comments here; And give an appreciable reason instead of denigrating those who might choose this.

The context, though, I am British. I grew up in Britain. I went to British school.

I can’t speak universally about my experience, (even within all of …

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Four thoughts:

1. I've developed a analog->digital path for my kids. Before they can get a music player, they get a CD player. Before they get video games, they get board games. And then, for video games, before they get Super Mario Odyssey they get the original Super Mario Bros. Each of these "first …

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I've gotten into the habit of actually reading the manuals for my synths and DAW after realizing I was missing out on lots of little quality of life things. I've used enough synths--and not just subtractive!--that I can usually pick a new one up in seconds, but the people who made it and the people …

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Mental Health (RSS)

Pair programming is draining for most introverts, and there are a lot of introvert programmers.

I love coding, but I'd rather work a McDonalds fryolator than pair for more than an hour at a time. Short bursts--fine. Mentorship--fine. That's not a joke or derision--I'm serious. The fryolater would be …

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Work isn't hard when you've got the capacity and capability to do what is needed, and you're in a good mood. Work is fulfilling when it is purposeful and not frustrating.

The conditions under which many of us were taught to work were not ideal, and only prepared us to tolerate without complaint the …

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Ngl there isn’t a single leftist strategy that will be successful unless we address our extreme individualism. Fascism feeds on loneliness and isolation, it will continue to have power unless we radically change the structural and social barriers keeping us apart.

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