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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 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
Projects
komorebi - Tiling window manager for Windows
wpm - Process manager for Windows inspired by systemd
Notado - Content-first bookmarking service
Kullish - Bring-your-own-links comment aggregator
Blucerne - Advanced search filters for Bluesky
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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This insightful comment puts together many of the pieces that others have been sort of fumbling around. Ironic that it’s currently at the very bottom of the tree of 49 comments.
It’s just another enshittification story, isn’t it? StackExchange.com was a product in search of a business model, driven …
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Everyone is blaming AI, and it's undoubtedly a factor.
But also, the culture of Stack Overflow has changed significantly over the years. It used to be a place where anyone could ask a question and get help with a problem ... and it was amazing.
Today, you're far more likely to have your question …
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Effective error messages are one of my platonic ideals about how documentation is supposed to work. The docs shouldn't be shoved off to the side. They should appear just-in-time, when you need them. If you can fix the error within the product (e.g. when Rust tells you exactly how to fix the typo), …
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On the "Threads" app I got very similar experience, a lot of breastfeeding erotica and other weird adult content that made me feel I'm doing something illegal.
Also, their algorithm must be assessing human features too because at some point Instagram started showing me women with ever largest …
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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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Everyone is blaming AI, and it's undoubtedly a factor.
But also, the culture of Stack Overflow has changed significantly over the years. It used to be a place where anyone could ask a question and get help with a problem ... and it was amazing.
Today, you're far more likely to have your question …
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Effective error messages are one of my platonic ideals about how documentation is supposed to work. The docs shouldn't be shoved off to the side. They should appear just-in-time, when you need them. If you can fix the error within the product (e.g. when Rust tells you exactly how to fix the typo), …
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On the "Threads" app I got very similar experience, a lot of breastfeeding erotica and other weird adult content that made me feel I'm doing something illegal.
Also, their algorithm must be assessing human features too because at some point Instagram started showing me women with ever largest …
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This insightful comment puts together many of the pieces that others have been sort of fumbling around. Ironic that it’s currently at the very bottom of the tree of 49 comments.
It’s just another enshittification story, isn’t it? StackExchange.com was a product in search of a business model, driven …
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Everyone is blaming AI, and it's undoubtedly a factor.
But also, the culture of Stack Overflow has changed significantly over the years. It used to be a place where anyone could ask a question and get help with a problem ... and it was amazing.
Today, you're far more likely to have your question …
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Ahead of the inevitable Luddite comments. Here’s your daily reminder that the Luddites were not just technophobes, but were in fact artisans who were concerned about the leverage technology was providing capital to suppress worker rights while eroding the quality of the products. This tension should …
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The main issue I see is that papers are actually becoming so focussed on form that they are now unreadable. People prefer reading my blog for my papers than reading the papers themselves. In fact I hear people telling me they understood the blog _better_. The whole academic writing shtick has become …
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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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I struggle to relate to this. I have aphantasia, which means I can’t see anything in my mind’s eye.
This is most painful when I try to “imagine” my wife’s face, my family, friends, favorite parts of nature, etc, but am left with nothing.
For me, this means that I struggle to remember things from my …
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Most relationships do not survive being ripped away from the spatial and temporal context in which they were cultivated. How many of your middle school, high school and even college buddies do you still have a relationship with?
I think there's some stigma with confronting the fact that relationships …
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July 5th through September in Seattle are a dream; incredibly long days, dry but not too hot. The sun never sets. I've been a lot of places on the planet and PNW summers are uniquely great.
However, during the winter it's dreary, it's dark by noon, and every year around October the raven comes …
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