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

komorebi - Tiling window manager for Windows

wpm - Process manager for Windows inspired by systemd

Notado - Content-first bookmarking service

Kullish - Bring-your-own-links comment aggregator

Blucerne - Advanced search filters for Bluesky

whkd - Simple hotkey daemon for Windows

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

Gotta say, it never gets old seeing people be delighted by software I wrote 🪄

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GitHub and Homebrew both make it way harder than it needs to be to distribute releases from private repositories

God forbid a developer try to sustain themselves financially

I figured it out (with examples!) so you don't have to

https://lgug2z.com/articles/using-homebrew-to-distribute-early-access-binaries-from-private-github-repositories/

#github #homebrew #macos #sponsorship

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Finally! Hopefully I don't have to touch Ruby or Homebrew again for a while

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Building for macOS on GitHub Actions

why build anything? #coding #software #programming #creative

why build anything?

At first, he was thrilled that he got to spend all his time doing something he enjoyed. He didn’t even complain when he had to work late. But in his third year at the company, the exhaustion seeped in. The fact that he enjoyed his work – and was good at it – became shackles. The work wasn’t …

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I hate ‘self-taught’. You’re not self-taught, you’re community taught. Self-taught is erasing all the work that allowed you to learn from freely available materials and people.

It’s a poor phrase for the idea that you are degreeless. And there’s nothing wrong with skipping formal education.

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Until ~2015, GitHub Pages hosted over 2 million websites on 2 servers with a multi-million-line nginx.conf, edited and reloaded per deploy. This worked incredibly well, with github.io ranking as the 140th most visited domain on the web at the time.

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To sum up, if these neuroplastic changes could speak, desensitisation would be moaning, ‘I can't get no satisfaction’.  At the same time, sensitisation would be poking you in the ribs saying, ‘hey, I’ve got just what you need’, which happens to be the very thing that caused the desensitisation. …

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Cues, such as turning on the computer, seeing a pop-up, or being alone, trigger intense cravings for porn. Are you suddenly much hornier (true libido) when your wife goes shopping? Unlikely. But perhaps you feel as if you are on autopilot, or someone else is controlling your brain. Some describe a …

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On the "Threads" app I got very similar experience, a lot of breastfeeding erotica and other weird adult content that made me feel I'm doing something illegal.

Also, their algorithm must be assessing human features too because at some point Instagram started showing me women with ever largest …

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Mildly reminds me how being online on AIM or ICQ was an actual invitation to chat. I had so many interesting conversations with people I barely knew.

There's no source of that signal that someone is open to chitchat these days, and it's in my opinion kind of killed what was once great about online …

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Everyone is blaming AI, and it's undoubtedly a factor.

But also, the culture of Stack Overflow has changed significantly over the years. It used to be a place where anyone could ask a question and get help with a problem ... and it was amazing.

Today, you're far more likely to have your question …

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Effective error messages are one of my platonic ideals about how documentation is supposed to work. The docs shouldn't be shoved off to the side. They should appear just-in-time, when you need them. If you can fix the error within the product (e.g. when Rust tells you exactly how to fix the typo), …

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I was someone who through my 20s wasn't even sure if I wanted kids. Work was my passion and I enjoyed it deeply. I filled up two passports. I did well financially. And yet, it's incomparable to the joy and purpose having children has given me. Like, not even close. Its crazy.

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@gwynnion Capitalism is in collapse because it consistently rewards the dumbest and least competent.

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Standing in front of the bestseller section in major bookshops felt like looking at the state of the publishing industry – highly skewed towards a few titles. Whose fault was it? Nobody’s. It was simply a reflection of a society which doesn’t read.

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I hate ‘self-taught’. You’re not self-taught, you’re community taught. Self-taught is erasing all the work that allowed you to learn from freely available materials and people.

It’s a poor phrase for the idea that you are degreeless. And there’s nothing wrong with skipping formal education.

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It is ironic that people so often “contrast” the rising popularity of the four-day school week with the relatively slow uptake of the four-day work week.

The four-day school week is driven ENTIRELY by teachers wanting shorter weeks. It’s a (arguably short-sighted) labor demand.

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Please don't act surprised that kids are using AI in college. Most are only there to get a degree in the hopes that they won't be forced to work for minimum wage for their entire life. Capitalism has turned higher education into a means to an end.

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Stories of people who find their own pace and direction, of people who believe in others and wait by their side as they go through difficult times, lost in worry. Stories of those who support others, who celebrate small efforts and resolve in a society that puts people – and everything about them – …

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A space we can escape to, a refuge from the intensity of daily life where we can’t even pause to take a breather. A space to shelter us from the harsh criticisms whipping us to do more, to go faster. A space to snuggle comfortably for a day. A day without something siphoning our energy, a day to …

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I had thought of work as stairs. Stairs to climb to reach the top. Now, I see work as food. Food that you need every day. Food that makes a difference to my body, my heart, my mental health, and my soul. There is food you just shove down your throat, and food that you eat with care and sincerity. I …

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