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

Notado - Content-first bookmarking service

Kullish - Bring-your-own-links comment aggregator

Blucerne - Advanced search filters for Bluesky

whkd - Simple hotkey daemon for Windows

wpm - 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

Anyone who was worked at any of these companies knows that these workloads run on #Linux

Open source licenses and their "corporations are people too!" dogmatism are key engines of genocide in the 21st century

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9

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Support sustainable software by facilitating the transfer of money from corporations to developers 🫡

... because corporations will never fund software projects unless a license requires them to pay for any kind of commercial use

#software #development #licensing

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Hi friends, this is your semi-regular reminder to have your employer either purchase (or reimburse you for!) a commercial use license if you are using komorebi at work 🫡

For a piece of software which is used for almost every interaction with your computer for your day job, a cost of <$0.50 per working day is:

1) very reasonable!
2) what will ultimate help make komorebi a sustainable project which everyone can continue to benefit from for many many years to come

https://lgug2z.com/software/komorebi/

#software #windows #rust

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rice 👏 review 👏 episode 2 - I rate your desktops, any operating system, any window manager

Rice Rice Baby Episode 1 - I rate your Windows, Linux and macOS desktop customizations

whkd v0.2.6 overview - you can finally use the windows / super key as a modifier

“User” centric design would argue that the happy path is one that allows the user to achieve their intended goals under normal circumstances. Unfortunately this view is heavily disincentivised, due to the ruthless logic of extractavism. Increasingly instead the happy path is determined to be the …

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The thing that makes Linux kernel development so unpleasant is that so many developers/maintainers are focused on arguing their opinion/position rather than trying to understand the problem and work collaboratively towards a solution.

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> Yes, you guessed it, let's go with Electron and CoffeeScript.

> The main tech stack is still CoffeeScript, but we changed the UI framework from React to Riot.js.

> I've installed Babel, Mocha, ESLint, and added libraries via npm.

> I've rewritten my entire code base from CoffeeScript to ES6.

> The …

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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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Brilliant move.

The transition of the major social networks over the last 10-15 years -- from being a space for friends to interact to being a space to consume content produced by "unconnected" entities like influencers -- has created a huge opening for someone to claim the friends and family …

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Meta has basically copied TikTok as an 1:1 app at least twice, the most recent being Lasso. The problem most of these many companies trying to emulate TikTok’s success is that the UI/UX and content delivery aren’t the secret sauce. It’s a near bulletproof algorithm that needs comparatively little …

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Yeah, game dev here.. The amount of articles on the front page here that are like "10 things every programmer should know" and then are hyper focused on only web dev specific things is cringe.

Thats just HN though, a subset of redditors who are gonna "change the world" and also become a billionaire …

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Based on the encyclopedic knowledge LLMs have of written works I assume all parties did the same. But I think there is a broader point to make here. Youtube was initially a ghost town (it started as a dating site) and it only got traction once people started uploading copyrighted TV shows to it. …

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Meta has basically copied TikTok as an 1:1 app at least twice, the most recent being Lasso. The problem most of these many companies trying to emulate TikTok’s success is that the UI/UX and content delivery aren’t the secret sauce. It’s a near bulletproof algorithm that needs comparatively little …

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> **So was this a violation of the chip ban?**
>
> Nope. H100s were prohibited by the chip ban, but not H800s. Everyone assumed that training leading edge models required more interchip memory bandwidth, but that is exactly what DeepSeek optimized both their model structure and infrastructure around. …

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> Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.

It's striking to imagine a fully functional fusion reactor that could benefit humanity, yet its creator now focuses on fintech payment systems. This highlights the importance of a strong middle class, which seems to be …

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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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This article doesn't mention it, but being laid off will change you at a psychological level. It can be a deeply traumatic event.

I was laid off over 5 years ago, and, as these things usually go, it was a complete shock to me. The company had been acquired, and my services were no longer needed. It …

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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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