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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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Somehow over the last week "America First" has become the dominant slogan of campaigners from both major political parties in the #usa
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Gig Car is shutting down in #Seattle 😞
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/another-one-bites-the-dust-gig-car-share-shutting-down-in-seattle/
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All #KamalaHarris needs to do is say the sentence "I condemn the genocide of the Palestinians in #Gaza" to gain the votes of the vast majority of undecided left-leaning voters who oppose the genocide being bankrolled by the current Biden/Harris administration
If liberals can't "push her left" enough to say one sentence in a moment when they hold all of the leverage, how are they going to "push her left" once she is in office and doesn't need their votes anymore?
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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
As someone who develops email templates, you will never understand my pain. Figma creates a complete fantasy world for designers who do not understand that a pixel and color perfect design is going to be smashed to bits by the client.
Also, I feel the rise of React is partially to blame. CSS …
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I feel seen!
I'm one of these codey designers. The madness that exists in modern design teams (I used to manage a team of 50!) is insane. There's a lot of time spent on "design systems" in Figma. Very generally Figma is not the website, and the effeciency additions of building tools there is a lost …
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Throwaway account...
CrowdStrike in this context is a NT kernel loadable module (a .sys file) which does syscall level interception and logs then to a separate process on the machine. It can also STOP syscalls from working if they are trying to connect out to other nodes and accessing files they …
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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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There is also a nexus with the reward system of the brain in general, and semaglutide definitely seems to have effects similar to ADHD medication in these respects. It also seems to help alcoholism for the same reasons - it helps reduce the underlying dysregulation in the reward system that keeps …
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One thing a coworker said once that I think about a lot: ever read an article about a subject that you know a bit about, and invariably you come to the conclusion that the writer doesn't really have a good grasp on what they're talking about. Now think about all the articles you read about subjects …
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Ordering replies in chronological order is not a good general solution, it amplifies reply-guys, and doesn't give good context for the reader.
Ideally, it should be configurable for each user, but here is a general idea, order of replies:
1. Replies from people I follow2. Replies from people who …
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The point is pure psychology: The internet and other advanced "communication" technologies has caused a loneliness in people due to the lack of genuine human interaction, which is partly due to its inherent nature and partly due to the intense commodification of everything on it from large …
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This is actually a very significant difference between India and China.
Never would a Chinese billionaire dare have such an ostentatious wedding, because they understand how indecent it'd be and how badly it'd be perceived by pretty much everyone. And never would a senior party leader - let alone Xi …
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These cybersecurity companies stifle a lot of the competition and tend to rely on fear campaigns (and user knowledge gaps) to maintain that dominance. Because of that market position, their lack of QA testing becomes more damaging whenever something goes wrong.
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I've interviewed countless companies that have tried to make clothes in the US. The story is always the same: the customer base for this is the high-fashion customer who doesn't doesn't care where something is made. But the people who talk about the importance of US manufacturing jobs will nickel …
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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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You had the middle school science teacher I wish I had but never did. This was one reason I decided to send my kid to private school. When choosing schools my wife had a bunch of criteria but the only thing I really cared about was interviewing the middle school science teacher and we picked one …
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I’ve slept better as I age because there isn’t a government enforced mandate to force me to wake me up early in the morning and go into a room with my same age peers. Not being in poverty helps as well.
I found children were set up to fail so spectacularly when it comes to sleep that I wonder why it …
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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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I don't have an inner monologue as I find it explained in many of these articles, in the sense that I don't notice myself addressing myself with it. I would rather say I have a constant _dialogue_ with what I would describe as projections of people I know. I guess I must have developed that as a …
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the issue with a majority of San Francisco's culture of authentic relating, circling, cuddle parties, "deep convo" events, is that it’s intimacy without relationship. Closeness without friendship.
In other words, porn. It may feel good when you’re doing it, but empty afterwards.
Friendship is …
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