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lgug2z
Personal blog · lgug2z.com/articles · on HN as bsnnkvprogrammingsystems
lgug2z is a personal blog at lgug2z.com about programming and systems. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
- I Want a Cross-Platform Tiling Window Manager3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-20
- Using Rust, Chrome and NixOS to Take Headless Screenshots for Social Sharing2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-11-08
- Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-29
What Hacker News says?
I feel for this person. I stopped using open source licenses a while ago, and I've recently started writing about how I've ended up where I am. One of my pieces got shared here last month and predictably didn't land with the readership. Nevertheless, I'm going to keep writing (latest piece [1]) about my post-open source journey in the hopes of clicking with a handful of people in the next generation. [1]: https://lg…
Comment linking /articles/on-evils-in-software-licensing/
on “Getting forked by Microsoft”Submitted Cloudflare R2-Backed Nix Binary Cache on Fly.io as a story · 86 points
HN discussionNot consistently, but there have been a few months this year where I have hit $500 selling individual commercial use licenses for my tiling window manager[1] https://lgug2z.com/software/komorebi
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on “Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell”Submitted Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software as a story · 72 points
HN discussionLooking at the responses here, I'm glad I just chose to paywall to protect against LLM training data collection crawling abuse.[1] [1]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/in-the-age-of-ai-crawlers-i-have...
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on “Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig”Submitted Building and Privately Caching x86 and Aarch64 NixOS Systems with GitHub Actions as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI was laid off just before Thanksgiving 2023[1] from a Principal Engineer role on a Platform Engineering team. I was employed there since 2018. I was very lucky to get referrals from a few folks that I social dance with in Seattle after that layoff, and I ended up with a job offer in a product area I knew very little about (networking, routing, programmable packet processing middleware with eBPF etc.) Despite my lac…
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on “Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ”Submitted Open Source Mythology as a story · 28 points
HN discussion> Same concept Unfortunately it looks like Wallabag has the same fundamental issue of treating links as primary entities and scraped content as additional metadata that I described in the first article linked in the parent comment. Especially when it comes to long form articles which cover multiple topics or are by their nature inter-disciplinary, it is essential for highlights or slices of content to exist independ…
Comment linking /articles/notado-07-2023-update/
on “The best browser bookmarking system is files”Submitted My First Month Selling Commercial Use Software Licenses as a story · 15 points
HN discussionMy monthly opportunity to put out the idea that bookmarks should be centered around content and not metadata (links). I've written a lot about this, and I got so annoyed with bookmarking and highlighting services getting it so frustratingly wrong[1] that I wrote my own solution from the ground up in 2020[2], and I have never looked back to browser bookmarks or services like Pinboard, Instapaper, Readwise etc. which…
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on “The best browser bookmarking system is files”Submitted Exposing Git Information in Rust Binaries Built with Nix as a story · 14 points
HN discussionYour initial want is pretty close to I ended up creating for myself for all things text-based with https://notado.app . I ended up ditching my old stuff in Instapaper, Readwise and Pinboard back in 2020ish because it didn't really fit the data model[1] (content-first rather than link-first) and since then I'm very happy with how everything is archived[2], organized and shareable[3] in Notado. I still think it's poss…
Comment linking /articles/using-rust-chrome-and-nixos-to-take-headless-screenshots-for-social-sharing/
on “Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking”Submitted I Want a Cross-Platform Tiling Window Manager as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI have personally opted out of the arms race for at least one service that I operate.[1] If AI agents figure out how to buy a subscription and transfer money from their operators to me, they are more than welcome to scrape away. [1]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/in-the-age-of-ai-crawlers-i-have...
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on “Detecting AI agent use and abuse”Submitted Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou're nearly there my friend: bookmarks should be centered around content and not around links.[1] I've written a lot about this, and I got so annoyed with bookmarking and highlighting services getting it so frustratingly wrong[2] that I wrote my own solution from the ground up in 2020[3], and I have never looked back to Pinboard, Instapaper or Readwise. It's honestly not that hard once you get the mental model and…
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on “Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web”Submitted I want a cross-platform tiling window manager as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've been selling licenses[1] for less than 5 months, which is how long it took me to get to 50 active licenses I've had GitHub sponsors enabled for about 2-3 years now I think, and I currently have 40 recurring sponsors I've been making YouTube videos for about the same time and it took just over a year to get my channel monetized (1k subscribers + watch hours) [1]: https://lgug2z.com/software/komorebi - there is a…
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on “Ask HN: How do you promote your personal projects with a limited budget?”Submitted I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is also my favorite way of setting up MacBooks. I love being able to set up all my Linux, macOS and Windows[1] machines from a single flake. [1]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/managing-dotfiles-on-windows-11-...
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on “My MacBook Setup (the 2024 version)”Submitted Is This a CoreGraphics Framework Bug in macOS Tahoe? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI run a service[1] that was getting hit pretty hard by these crawlers. Ultimately instead of going down this path, I decided to just start charging for access to the service (it was long overdue)[2]. Users who are logged out can still see old cached content (which is a single DB read op), but to aggregate new content requires an account. I feel like this is a good (enough) middleground solution for now. [1]: https:/…
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on “AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt”Submitted Version Control External Content Referenced in Your Blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> If you don't want to give your software away for free, don't give your software away for free. I don't, and I spend a lot of my time and efforts encouraging others not to, and doing the work to prove out alternative models :) https://lgug2z.com/articles/normalize-identifying-corporate-... https://lgug2z.com/articles/komorebi-financial-breakdown-for...
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on “GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month”Submitted Using Homebrew to Distribute Early Access Binaries from Private GitHub Reposito as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRelevant articles are here - https://lgug2z.com/articles/normalize-identifying-corporate-... - https://lgug2z.com/articles/i-started-identifying-corporate-... The post-open source space is indeed a very exciting space in 2026
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on “Todd C. Miller – sudo Maintainer for over 30 years”Submitted I Want a Cross-Platform Tiling Window Manager as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://notado.app has had support for Tweets and multiple other types of UGC (like comments! from everywhere!) for a long time now. I am the main developer and you can look at my comment history here for more details on the philosophy behind the project. You can also check out some of my feeds of saved content[1] to get an idea of the breadth of support for UGC. There are some articles available too if you don't mi…
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on “Ask HN: What hair on fire problem are you willing to pay for right now?”Submitted Rethinking Plex Hosting After the Hetzner Ban as a story · 3 points
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