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.

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

Is it just me or is the #GitHub "Traffic Insights" page basically useless?

This tells me nothing about WHERE people are clicking links to the repo from

What are the searches? Which Reddit threads? Which YouTube videos???

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If you have ever wondered how to make a Vec of structs that implement a common trait in #Rust - today's video is for you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNZw0qUf_PE

#programming #coding #youtube

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Oh my, is that a #catppuccin #theme for the #komorebi status bar? 👀

https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/commit/9f78739c3fb392f8854de4fcc4ac02e6d9e05a40

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Widget layouts with a Vec of Structs that implement a Trait | komorebi status bar in Rust | Part 9

How to dynamically load custom fonts with egui | komorebi status bar in Rust | Part 8

Adding battery and network widgets (now with ASMR?) | komorebi status bar in Rust with egui | Part 7

I've spent 20+ years decrying the usage of the "software development as construction" metaphor. The "software development is more like gardening" I think is very apt for long running codebases at least

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I've been working now around 8 years with cloud stuff. Not a lot of years compared with many of you here, but still enough to feel confident about my dislikes being more than just ignorance or inexperience.

I really wish AWS conceded the IaC war and stopped putting resources into Cloudformation. I …

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This is such a weird response. Do you collectively interview for other jobs? No. Would you tell any other union this? No. Collectively bargain for your current job and raise the standards for everyone now and in the future. I don't know why tech is so hyper-individualist.

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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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I've found myself in an argument with some people on Lemmy last week who were genuinely trying to make the case that contributing $1-2 dollars per year should be more than enough to make an open social web sustainable.

It started on a thread asking how much it costs to run an instance per user. …

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Just realised that some accounts I followed on ex-Twitter will never move to Mastodon or Threads or whatever's next because their owners have died. Not sure why I kept following them really but feeling a bit sad.

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On of the things I miss as much as arena shooters was touched on very briefly in this video. The simple phrase "join a server". Joining a server meant you got to know people, because we'd join the same few servers every day. From that, forums and communities grew and friendships were made. Some of …

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This is such a weird response. Do you collectively interview for other jobs? No. Would you tell any other union this? No. Collectively bargain for your current job and raise the standards for everyone now and in the future. I don't know why tech is so hyper-individualist.

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Invasion is called “humanitarian intervention” while the resulting arrival of refugees is called an “invasion.” Words have no meaning under US imperialism, colonialism and global white supremacy, stretched to uselessness by bad-faith sophistry and left to rot, spent and bleeding.

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Being decent at cooking is fun because it’s not hard to do better than most restaurants when cooking at home.

Restaurants run a business. That means in an effort to stay affordable they tend to minimize cost to maximize profit. Which often translates to substituting in faster methods and lower-cost …

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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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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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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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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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