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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 currently work as a Principal Platform Engineer in Washington State.
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, and run a number of text-focused online services.
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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Not gonna talk on behalf of white folks but brown folks should definitely not be seeing white therapists under any circumstances
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I just upgraded my nixos-wsl-starter to nixos-23.11 🚀
https://github.com/LGUG2Z/nixos-wsl-starter
If this is your first time doing a #NixOS upgrade, the steps are very very simple, but if you would rather a day, you can follow along with a video where I upgrade the nixos-wsl-starter template in real time 🎉
#nixos #wsl #nix #linux #wsl2 #youtube #programming #infrastructure
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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
Software engineers often have a strange attitude, thinking they don't need unions, when pro athletes who make $millions per year all have unions. There's a myth that with unions, everyone will make the same compensation, but that's not even remotely true in pro sports.
The reason to have a union is …
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The AGPL is often misunderstood. Here is my 3 bullet point AGPL:
* Users interacting with a modified AGPL program over a network must be offered the source of the program.
* Unmodified AGPL programs don't have such source providing requirements.
* Otherise GPL rules apply.
Programs that access AGPL …
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Three decades of experience talking here: If you don't see a vendor like Microsoft using a GUI framework for at least 50% of their new applications, then you've made a terrible mistake in adopting it yourself.
Microsoft uses Google's framework for their own applications: Electron.
Yes, you heard me …
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> After a time, habitual or frequent users become desensitized to positive feedback, such as likes and comments, from other users.
I've noticed this personally. In my early social media days circa 2012, going viral with a post of mine evoked genuine gratefulness for the post and appreciation for how …
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I would like to live in a world, with very little tempting foods when i walk around.
I would like to live in a world where me and maybe a person i trust, could together limit of the foods i can buy, and than program that into my credit card.
I would like to live in a world, where instead of …
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I know that this will be an unpopular opinion, though I don't believe it should be, but this is good.
Studies have shown the negative effects of pornography on the brain as well as the societal effects. Porn companies have also become a bastion for human trafficking, child porn, and other illegal …
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I gotta say I don't deeply understand ActivityPub, but one of the first things I thought when trying to grok it was "how does this improve on RSS?". Like another commenter here I think a big part of it is that it's JSON and not XML, but I think another thing people would say is that you aren't …
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"Just stop using YouTube instead of waging an ad blocker blocker war and use other services"
Okay. What services? Peertube? A network with an amount of traffic that is a rounding error compared to YouTube's and has no monetization strategy?
Nebula? The video streaming service that is invite only and …
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Twitter was the first platform to get celebs posting on the daily so they had something new and exciting on their hands.
TikTok then said, what if we turn normal people into celebrities?
TikTok would not exist without Twitter and I think Twitter could not have been TikTok. The two cater to …
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I left my #union job a few weeks ago. More or less good work, just not a good fit for me.
Here's the kicker though: I'll still be insured through them for MONTHS because of money left in my health and wellness account. This is a stark contrast to leaving a job and having to pay huge shakedown prices …
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Software engineers often have a strange attitude, thinking they don't need unions, when pro athletes who make $millions per year all have unions. There's a myth that with unions, everyone will make the same compensation, but that's not even remotely true in pro sports.
The reason to have a union is …
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The AGPL is often misunderstood. Here is my 3 bullet point AGPL:
* Users interacting with a modified AGPL program over a network must be offered the source of the program.
* Unmodified AGPL programs don't have such source providing requirements.
* Otherise GPL rules apply.
Programs that access AGPL …
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The Forks episode of The Bear is one of my favorite stories on giving a shit: a fork polisher at a fancy restaurant learns you don’t work in food service because you love polishing forks. You do it because you want to bring people joy and polishing the forks is one of many steps to that end. You can …
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When my son was younger - maybe 9 or 10 or so, we were on a plane and he was using his phone and I looked over his shoulder and realized he was on the internet... but I hadn't paid for an internet plan. I said, "son, how are you using the internet?" He said, "oh, a kid at school showed me - if you …
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I don't mind if someone believes something is impossible; that's just how some people are.
What I do care about is when they spread these limiting beliefs to others, especially the younger generation. Keep your defeatism and low ambitions to yourself.
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This game gave me the best catharsis at the worst time of my life. My dad died, four weeks later this game came out, my wonderful lap cat died (also of a stroke like my dad) a week into it, I bashed my brains against this game and the final boss.
The joy and exhilaration I felt on completing it is …
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"1 in 5 said they had gotten emotional support from a friend in the past week, compared with 4 in 10 women." -TFA
There was no need to change the demoninator - it was done to confuse people by having them compare 1 vs 4. It's hard to take the rest of the article seriously when they game the numbers …
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Friendly stranger here: you write quite a lot about your media consumption and a bit about your politics, but those are proxies of who you are. Are you shy or outgoing? Are you talkative or not? These traits make you an interesting unique person, so write them down! Best of luck!
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