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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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When it's finally possible to run your own #Bluesky instance, I'm gonna make one called Redsky in honor of this absolute banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiSUBMCJ90
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Me having to touch #Python and #Ruby again at work today after a blissful week of working on #Rust PRs 🙃
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So apparently I have been mispronouncing the architecture "ARM64" as "A-R-M 64" for years and nobody has corrected me 🙃
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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
Shelling out to a CLI is quite an interesting path because often that functionality could be useful handed out as a separate utility to power users or non-automation tasks. Rust makes cross-platform distribution easy.
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I think we generally have to accept that any code can fail, and almost anywhere. The power can go out. There can be some kind of hardware or OS failure. You have to design your system in a way that it's resilient to failure, as much as possible.
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You don't have a choice. Any content you put online will be harvested by LLMs regardless of your intent, or any license you post to the contrary. That's already the norm and it isn't going to change any time soon.
hehehheh's comment is your best option - poison your content when possible. It's still …
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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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These are drugs designed to fight back against the food industry and its abusive practices which damaged the lives of millions of people without consequences.
But what will happen from now on? Will the obesity industry cave, or will they try to fight back and overcome the effects of the drugs with …
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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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The idea of starter packs and introductions are nice and all, but then this happens:
"omg someone who self labels as a zionist put me on an antisemite list on bluesky" (real case, anonymized)
People added to such (publicly shareable) lists and starter packs (two different things) do not get notified …
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I tried doing that with Twitter a few years ago in an attempt to reduce the amount of posts related to US politics. I don't follow any political figures or commentators, only tech people and artists, but about half the posts on my feed were about US politics.
Although I ended up with a blocklist of …
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I find that I want the opposite of the firehose: I want the thoughtful and smart people, and I want it to be about their interests.
I did sign up for bluesky, but it has the same failure as twitter: I don't want to hear about your politics just because I follow you.
I wish there was a way to force …
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To elaborate on this a bit: I have started to suspect that the practice of nounifying verbs in a professional setting, like "learnings", is a subtle leading indication that somebody will be trying to deflect responsibility or escape accountability.
The phrase "what can we learn" has a locus of …
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When I hear alleged anarchists/communists/socialists talk about how “nobody works in factories anymore” I’m like that may say more about your social group than the actual class. In reality, more people work in more factories than ever before, just many of them are not in the USA.
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It's simpler - how will you have an affair if the secretary is not in the office?
Working remotely makes quality of life for upper management worse. They have to schedule meetings instead of randomly drop by. They lose socialisation. You have to remember that their career is their life and their …
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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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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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