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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 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, and xeetshot.
I am available to hire for consulting in the areas of DevOps and Platform Infrastructure, Microservice-to-Monolith Migrations, Cloud Migrations and Declouding. Please direct inquiries to jeezy chez lgug2z point com.
I maintain a number of popular open source software projects and Discord communities.
I post software development (mainly Rust 🦀) and video game content on YouTube, and language learning content on TikTok.
Projects
komorebi - Tiling window manager for Windows
Notado - Content-first bookmarking service
Kullish - Bring-your-own-links comment aggregator
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
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I already can't live without wpm
I love this simple, ergonomic, unix-y way of getting feedback on why background processes have failed!
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Why should systemd and shepherd get to have all the fun?
wpm now has restart strategies!
🚀 Always: Restart on any exit code
☠️ OnFailure: Restart on failure exit codes
✋ Never: Restart... never 😁
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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
i like antirez’s take on licensing here. reminder that the OSI was started by libertarians, and has always held business interests first & software freedom second.
the OSI definition of open source is basically “as long as companies can sell your software labor for free & not contribute back in any …
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heads up to anyone for who this is relevant: server sent events are very cool and simple but because they are just long-lived http requests they are subject to the 6-connection-per-host that most browsers impose. this choice has been borderline disastrous for a project i am working on now and would …
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thinking a lot about computer science education & how the younger generations are robbed from the bottom-up mechanical sympathy that comes from actually understanding the machines
C looks horrible if you come to it from python, but it's amazing if you come to it from assembly
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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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> Ah yup. Mass moderation, aka silencing dissenting voices.
Bluesky moderation is primarily based around labeling and blocklists; that is, people _choosing_ to either be warned of content, or simply not see it. For instance, I use a moderation service which places a label on any posts from users …
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Bluesky is a great proof of concept of what could happen in social media if the community was given decent tools to curate their experience as opposed to being an ad delivery system.
It won’t last, but it gives people a taste of what is possible beyond the interests of capitalism.
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You just have to ride the wave with social media sites. Same as dating apps. Use them before they rot.
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Eagerly awaiting the news that no one will be liable for someone's wrongful incarceration based on LLM hallucination.
The business model for LLMs will be that no one is liable. They were for a while, like when the airline chatbot quoted a lowball fare and was forced to accept it. But that will be …
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The monetization of social and parasocial relationships (from advertising in social media to the industry around influencers and celebrities of all types) might be one of the cruelest things in modern capitalism.
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The only ones who don't want us to "normalize" violence against rich people who kill poor people are rich people who kill poor people.
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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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Real talk. The disdain engineers have toward the "soft sciences"[sociology, psychology] enables them to manipulated into building systems which reproduce and reinforce social structures and social relations in ways that they would otherwise object to.
To the degree that we've collectively built a …
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I wrote my own dynamic keyboard layout to optimize typing speed while procrastinating on my dissertation.
15 years later I'm still using it. My dissertation not so much.
Procrastination is (sometimes) awesome.
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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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Under $100:
- A dumbphone. Even if I’m not using it anymore, it has shown me what life I could be living without distractions. My anxiety and stress levels went down from about the second day using it, I became much more aware of my emotional state and the environment around me, it was a noticeable …
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