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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Answering a Question from the Imitation Game
I was reading the paper by Alan Turing that introduces the imitation game:
https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf
I came across this question, which I decided to put into all of the current models in DuckDuckGo AI chat to see what happens:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&ia=chat&duckai=1
Q: Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge.
GPT-4o mini
Upon the Firth, where steel and sky embrace, The Fourth Bridge stands, a marvel bold and grand, Its arches rise, a testament to grace, A ribbon forged by human heart and hand.
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RSS Easter Egg
I came across this post today from Kev Quirk on Mastodon about reading old blog posts. It’s something I do regularly because of this nostalgia Dagger module that I wrote a few months ago. I hooked it up to my Novu module, and now I get an email every day letting me know what posts I wrote on this day throughout the years.
That post encouraged me to subscribe to his blog, and it comes with a delightful easter egg when you read it via the feed. I am excited to figure out how he did this. :)
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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.