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

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

Which meta tags are people actually using for SEO on their websites these days? OpenGraph? Twitter cards? Something else?

#seo

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Why I will never write another HTML shortcode for sites like Bluesky, Twitter or Reddit again

https://lgug2z.com/articles/im-done-writing-shortcodes-for-other-websites/

#html #zola #hugo #templating #blog #blogging #ssg #socialmedia

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One of the annoying things about migrating from Hugo to Zola was realizing that shortcodes for so many different commenting websites will always require upkeep

Since I save everything to
https://notado.app anyway, I decided to just create a shortcode for my saved highlights on Notado!

It supports everything that Notado supports - Twitter, YouTube, HackerNews, Lobsters, Reddit etc.

Check it out in this past article which I updated to use the new Notado shortcode!

https://beta.lgug2z.com/articles/best-of-hacker-news-comments/

#hugo #zola #html #blogging #ssg #highlights #referencing

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Building for macOS on GitHub Actions

why build anything? #coding #software #programming #creative

why build anything?

I'd like to say generally, the utility of "language reviews" by anyone who hasn't built and maintained some real artifact in that language is minimal to nothing. The only utility is understanding what people latch onto as first experience takeaways and perhaps addressing those for adoptability …

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I keep being told vibe coding works. I keep being told AI agents work. I keep trying them every few weeks because of this and boy do they just not work. They do things that look like they are working, but that is much different than actually working. Ask it to do a simple task and it fails. Ask it …

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Yeah, I adopted Hugo and now I regret it. Every release seems to break themes, and many theme maintainers give up trying to keep current, so if you use someone else's theme you're running a small intersection of hugo versions and can't rely on packaged releases.

A static site generator that has …

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To sum up, if these neuroplastic changes could speak, desensitisation would be moaning, ‘I can't get no satisfaction’.  At the same time, sensitisation would be poking you in the ribs saying, ‘hey, I’ve got just what you need’, which happens to be the very thing that caused the desensitisation. …

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Cues, such as turning on the computer, seeing a pop-up, or being alone, trigger intense cravings for porn. Are you suddenly much hornier (true libido) when your wife goes shopping? Unlikely. But perhaps you feel as if you are on autopilot, or someone else is controlling your brain. Some describe a …

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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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Mildly reminds me how being online on AIM or ICQ was an actual invitation to chat. I had so many interesting conversations with people I barely knew.

There's no source of that signal that someone is open to chitchat these days, and it's in my opinion kind of killed what was once great about online …

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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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> Many in the FFmpeg community argue, with reason, that it is unreasonable for a trillion-dollar corporation like Google, which heavily relies on FFmpeg in its products, to shift the workload of fixing vulnerabilities to unpaid volunteers.

That's capitalism, they need to quit their whining or move to …

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Updated "greek task list":

orphean task: when you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.

daedalean task: when you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.

medusan task: when your …

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> how few things would have to get flipped on to have roughly the same thing in the united states?

I'd argue it's already been flipped on. Our system just works a little bit differently. Nothing is strictly prohibited via some grand theatrical firewall. Things that are "undesirable" simply meet an …

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I hate ‘self-taught’. You’re not self-taught, you’re community taught. Self-taught is erasing all the work that allowed you to learn from freely available materials and people.

It’s a poor phrase for the idea that you are degreeless. And there’s nothing wrong with skipping formal education.

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It is ironic that people so often “contrast” the rising popularity of the four-day school week with the relatively slow uptake of the four-day work week.

The four-day school week is driven ENTIRELY by teachers wanting shorter weeks. It’s a (arguably short-sighted) labor demand.

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Please don't act surprised that kids are using AI in college. Most are only there to get a degree in the hopes that they won't be forced to work for minimum wage for their entire life. Capitalism has turned higher education into a means to an end.

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This is not talked about nearly enough, there are so many factors for being childless. I think there is a thought that if you “decide” not to have children that there is no grieving involved because of being lucky enough (biologically) to have a choice in the first place.

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Stories of people who find their own pace and direction, of people who believe in others and wait by their side as they go through difficult times, lost in worry. Stories of those who support others, who celebrate small efforts and resolve in a society that puts people – and everything about them – …

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A space we can escape to, a refuge from the intensity of daily life where we can’t even pause to take a breather. A space to shelter us from the harsh criticisms whipping us to do more, to go faster. A space to snuggle comfortably for a day. A day without something siphoning our energy, a day to …

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