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Hi! 👋
My name is Lev. I live in San Francisco and work in the tech industry. I am passionate about building teams and helping people solve complex business problems. I'm currently working at Dagger where I get to work with an amazing team and spend my time helping developers remove toil from CI/CD.
Outside of work I enjoy cooking, eating, chess, reading, writing, music, peloton, traveling, and public transit. I spend a little bit of time every day studying Chinese. I am surrounded by great friends and a wonderful family. I am traveling on a journey through space and time with Aosheng, who is a brilliant designer and my favorite person in the world.
Recent Posts
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20 Years of Ubuntu
20 years ago this month I discovered Ubuntu which led to a life-long love of Linux. My first Linux distro was SUSE 9.0 which I purchased on CD-ROM at Microcenter in 2003. I tinkered with it a bit, but finding the Ubuntu community made a huge difference and made me fall in love.
My love for technology, Linux, and programming grew from the seeds that were planted in the Ubuntu forums in 2004. The first “blog post” on this site is a short collection of some of the posts that I found in the archives.
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Song Of The Day: Talk talk (featuring Troye Sivan) - Charli xcx
This one has been playing on repeat all week. The bouncing bass transitioning to those classic piano house licks just moves me in ways that no other sounds can. Takes me straight back to Apex in Washington DC circa 2007. In between repeat remixes of Beyonce that the DJ was obsessed with, this one would have made the entire club bounce.
Gerald would have loved this one.
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DHH Is Kendrick
For the last few weeks the open source tech world has been observing some drama between the founder of Wordpress and WP Engine. I cant say that I am on the side of a PE firm, but Matt seems to be doing everything he can to turn the community against him.
Recently, DHH stepped into the ring to provide his opinions on the matter and it seems like we have ourselves the equivalent of the Drake v. Kendrick rap beef.
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Walk and Talk
Derek Sivers wrote about this walk and talk that he did for seven days in Thailand over 100km with 8 other people. It sounds amazing, something I’d really like to do some day.
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jwz Discovers Enshittification at Feedly
I loved this post from jwz about Feedly where he beautifully describes the feeling you get when you realize a service that you’re using is being enshittified.
every time I see what their logged-out front page looks like – which is always, since they are pathologically incapable of keeping me logged in – I think, “I’m gonna have to stop using this pretty soon, aren’t I?”