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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
Recent Posts (Powered by Mastodon)
Lots of people coughing their guts up in the office today
Two more months to go until 5 day RTO is in effect
Our #health is a joke to the people calling the shots
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My tiling window manager #komorebi got a little mention here 🎉
https://linuxblog.io/10-yrs-of-linux-switched-to-windows-what-next/
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Just seeing the new Mastodon browser interface for the first time on Hachyderm, feels like a very nice evolution!
More UI designers should study Mastodon's approach to building and iterating on the web UI
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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
Not to discredit the value of specialization in sub-fields by the way. But I also believe that if you want to go deep on some topic, you also need to have gone wide.
Otherwise the thing you’re specializing in will likely either end up being disconnected from the uses people have in related fields. Or …
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"why does software require maintenance, it's not like it wears down"
Because software is not generally useful for any inherent good; what matters is its relationship with the surrounding context, and that context is in perpetual change.
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This guy is not competent to talk about what he's talking about.
>"JavaScript is, in my opinion, a working-class language. It’s very forgiving of types (this is one reason I’m not a huge TypeScript fan)."
Being "forgiving of types" is not a good thing. There's a reason most "type-less" languages have …
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I've been on tirzepatide (Mounjaro) for 4 months now. I'm down 13% of my body weight. I realized that frequent cannabis consumption interferes with the weight loss, so I've kicked the habit from daily to occasionally on weekends. I've started walking 2-3 miles a day, 2-3 days a week regularly, in …
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I think the big take away from these drugs is that they reveal that obesity isn’t a moral failing, or someone is just lazy or greedy or gluttonous. Rather, obesity is a malfunction in a complex system of hormones and chemical reactions within the body. That is huge! We don’t need to somehow be …
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GLP-1 agonists (Wegovy, Ozempic, semaglutide), help people who have a brain chemistry preventing calorie reduction success naturally (willpower or whatever you want to call it).
The gene therapy trials should be done soon. At that point, the flywheel comes up to speed and starts enabling susceptible …
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Social media used to be about content sharing, but it's clear that it's far more profitable to keep your users on your site at all times and keep the content they create in house rather than linked somewhere else.
HN is probably the last true aggregator site left that I know of.
It's partly why the …
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I've found myself in an argument with some people on Lemmy last week who were genuinely trying to make the case that contributing $1-2 dollars per year should be more than enough to make an open social web sustainable.
It started on a thread asking how much it costs to run an instance per user. …
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Just realised that some accounts I followed on ex-Twitter will never move to Mastodon or Threads or whatever's next because their owners have died. Not sure why I kept following them really but feeling a bit sad.
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Some of you are going to hate me for this, but here's the thing - all those elimination shows like "The Apprentice", "America's Top Model", "Greatest Loser" etc. are toxic, fake, and virulent, and spill over into popular culture, politics, and the economy in corrosive and evil ways.
They encourage …
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I had a very ambivalent reaction to this blog post. Most importantly, I find the author's relationship to reading quite odd. Basically, all he talks about is reading self-help books. Not really any reading for pleasure, nor does he discuss reading to learn about other non-self-help related topics …
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As we approach one year, I hope by now, it is abundantly clear: it is not by appealing to the humanity of people or through submissions to transnational organisations or pointing out the ‘contradictions’ in the international order or begging for mercy that brings about a just world. But only through …
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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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It's funny, I was good at basketball as a kid. I played 'representative' and went to country championships.
Doing that made it clear to you that you might be good in your city but there were still kids who were way, way better than you were likely to be.
In contrast, smart kids often don't hit a …
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In middle school one of my science teachers was really great and thorough, the kind of teacher that you remember the things you learned years later because they made the classes memorable.
We would drop things off the roof of the building and record with slow-mo cameras to calculate the formula for …
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"I keep this blog for me to write, not necessarily for others to read."
This is the key to do anything over a long period of time but certainly applies to blogging. Nothing is better than intrinsic motivation and something you do for yourself. I have a blog that I try to keep up with but fail at it …
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The first line really hits me hard. There’s something so incredibly freeing about being a kid and doing stuff like coding. There’s simply no expectations. Even the smallest project felt like such an achievement. But now I code professionally and I don’t know how to turn off engineering brain. I …
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I got burnt out as a SWE at a startup from stress and health issues. Bought a cafe and turned it into a bookstore cafe. Annual revenue is around 600k. Seller's discretionary earnings is around 220k. In hindsight, I should have done this earlier. Not having to deal with office politics, insane …
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