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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 had such a nice dream last night where I found a little kitten on my walk and spent weeks nursing it back to health
I love cats 🐈
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Rashida Tlaib won in Michigan with 69% of the vote
Missouri voted to increase the minimum wage with 57% of the vote
Even in states that went to Trump, people voted overwhelmingly for leftist candidates and policies when presented with the options
Unfortunately the Harris campaign only served to more the Overton window further to the right and embolden even more people to vote for Trump by normalizing his policies
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This election result was so painfully predictable
Non-transactional, international solidarity has always been, will always be the answer to fascism
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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'm doing something new (for me) with Ghostty: the issue tracker is only for actionable tasks. Features in the issue tracker are accepted and well-scoped. Bugs are reproducible. PRs must have an associated issue (no drive-by PRs). The issue tracker is not used for discussion.
The one main benefit of …
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.
— John Gall
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The reality is that even though the entities we create are sticking around forever, the information contained within them ages badly.
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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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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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Stop thinking of Twitter, TikTok, IG, (et al) as social media sites.
They are **Content Refineries.**
Like processed food manufacturers they take user content & extract the most addicting/engaging content. Brains eat it up but in an unhealthy “devour the whole bag of chips” way.
They make …
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Good Twitter was only Good Twitter because state actors and the oligarch class didn't know what it was yet. We won't re-create Good Twitter on BlueSky or under any other centrally-controlled regime, because it's a recognizable and understood system; the dilution-and-mitigation tooling is already …
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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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One of the main reasons I do what I do is because I envision a world where our communities are so well organized and connected that it doesn’t matter what politicians do because we have us.
I’ve worked under this premise for years and it has led me to a purpose that has sustained me through all of …
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What strikes me about Ghost's story is that if they hadn't failed to get in to YC[0], they probably would have failed for real, because eventually the VCs would have come calling and they're obviously not a unicorn.
Instead, they have a successful organization providing a livelihood for almost 50 …
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Good Twitter was only Good Twitter because state actors and the oligarch class didn't know what it was yet. We won't re-create Good Twitter on BlueSky or under any other centrally-controlled regime, because it's a recognizable and understood system; the dilution-and-mitigation tooling is already …
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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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