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Nick Guerrera

@nguerrera.dev
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Independent Software Engineer. Ex-Microsoft. technogenic.net

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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 29/09/2026
You keep using that word "config", but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Screenshot from qdirstat showing ~/.config taking 19.8 GB, 13.8 GB for Claude, 2.6 GB for Code, 1.4 GB for microsoft-edge, 1.3 GB for Sidra, 713.2 MB for discord, and 145.7 MB for Codex.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 14/09/2026
This is the opportunity we always wanted to do things right! Don't squander it.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 14/09/2026
In my personal projects, my new productivity is mostly consumed by fixing genuine bugs the AI finds that I never would have until much later. I wish we would spend more time talking about making things *better* than making more things or making things faster.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/09/2026
In 2027, mysterious hacks attributed to open source weights and definitely not connected to the companies that accidentally hacked a bunch of companies in 2026, which was okay
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 11/09/2026
I will not do 2020 all over again. The internet never learns. Enjoy debating about how likely it is that the world is going to end, I will not be participating. Bye.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 11/09/2026
I guess I have to try niri (inspired by paperwm) now
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 11/09/2026
I've resisted tiling window managers after many attempts over 25 years. I have now discovered paperwm and it is just brilliant. One of the best demonstrations I've ever seen of thinking about an old problem in a novel way.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 08/09/2026
It's more interesting to me that in 2026, there are people who still use (Free|Net|Open)BSD than 2026 being yet another possible Year of Linux on the Desktop. I'm happy because if we ever need to hide from Skynet, I think BSD is what we'll run.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 08/09/2026
I'm actively removing proprietary software where possible. A zero proprietary software standard is still out of reach for me, but also closer to my reach than ever.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 08/09/2026
I've never been a FOSS purist, but being able to see all the code that runs on my machine has never been more practical. 1. Agents can diagnose everything that goes wrong by reading code. 2. I can look into what an agent might do if I'm worried about giving it access to something.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 08/09/2026
Social media is a training environment for natural intelligence that rewards extremism.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 08/09/2026
I’m a naturalized American citizen born in Canada and happily living in Minnesota. If we don’t win big in November, I think it will be time to seriously discuss leaving the US and joining Canada. Our people are so compatible and we’ll never lose again in international hockey.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
(I figured out how to hack around it, it's beside the point, honoring system theme should not require hacking, it should be the default, and failing that, a trivially discovered option.)
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
Every day I tell myself to stop getting angry about tech on the internet and every day I fail. LOL.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
Today's culprit is GNOME Boxes. You have GNOME in your name, respect my GNOME settings, or at least give me a discoverable option to do so!
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
I have this weird preference, where terminal/emacs is fine with my one custom dark theme while I want every other app looking light as always. Something about traditional GUI and dark mode gives me a headache after reading for even a few minutes.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
Right, I always have but recently I'm seeing an uptick in "pitch black is fine for everyone". Never cared if I could change it, but I rage when I can't.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
And if they still blind you, I support your choice, just don't impose it on everyone.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
Also, "light themes blind me" -> try with the brightness at a normal setting instead of sell-monitor-in-retail-store mode.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
For the love of God, stop assuming everyone wants dark themes. Some of us have trouble reading dark themes. It's accessibility and inclusion fail to make things dark-only.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
Also let me just vent while I’m unemployed and have both of you here. There are people mid to high up who interpret what you write differently than I think you mean. And their default assumption when people of less status try to merely agree with you while adding nuance is that they “don’t get it”.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
I agree it’s easier and cheaper by hand sometimes and I don’t bother only because my brain has a new preferred flow.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
I think I can do better than ever like this but everyone is obsessed with cheaper than ever instead.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
Things that used to happen in my head now spill out of my head through my fingers.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
I agree too. I don't literally type any *code* at all. I also think there's more missing in the convo than approval/review process. Getting the machine to do well has me typing MORE than ever, just in prose not code. My hands are very sore from all this not coding by hand!
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 07/09/2026
This too shall pass.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 06/09/2026
Omg, they ported Visual Studio to Bourne shell? devenv.sh 😉
devenv.sh
Your whole development environment, declared.
Define packages, languages, services, tasks, secrets, and tooling once. Give every developer—and CI—the same fast, reproducible environment.
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Krzysztof Cieslak @kcieslak.io · 06/09/2026
Computer use is architecturally terrifying and is disgusting way of using agents. But it just shows how bad were foundations we've been building software on for all those years - lack of compossibility, programmable APIs and walled gardens just came back to hunt us.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 06/09/2026
Seems I forgot I hate it online.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 06/09/2026
I looked quickly and it seems most if not all of what I use is GPL, and newer things are source-available only. But who am I kidding, I really don’t want to maintain or host this.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 06/09/2026
I didn't know about windows! That makes a *lot* fewer people for whom that isn't an option and I can at least start pointing family and friends there instead.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 06/09/2026
Or maybe we should ping these fine folks: finance.yahoo.com/news/ryan-re...
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 06/09/2026
:( It's OSS? Or not everything we use? Can we fork?
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 06/09/2026
I need x-plat. Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 06/09/2026
Bitwarden appears to have everything I want. Please tell me their security is good and they don't give money to the scum of the earth.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 06/09/2026
It fills me with anxiety to have to swap this particular piece of software, but well, shit. What's the best alternative to 1Password?
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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 02/10/2025
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
jakelazaroff.com
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 04/09/2026
Now I’m 99% sure on this.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 04/09/2026
This! A thousand times, this!
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 04/09/2026
Kindly overwrite as many lines as you can 🤣
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 04/09/2026
This scares me.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 04/09/2026
And you can use an agent to turn vague into solid.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 02/09/2026
I’m relieved that this got a lot of positive engagement and minimal trolling from haters. For a second there I thought I’d have to leave this place and I like this place so that would have been sad.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 02/09/2026
Successfully avoid being made a manager for 23 years, retire and..
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 02/09/2026
The easiest way to kill your AI productivity is to let one agent nerd snipe another with adversarial review.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 02/09/2026
Bliss would be a time machine that takes me to 2006 and I bring codex with me and don’t tell a soul about it, just use it to prevent all the dumbest software decisions of the last 20 years.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 02/09/2026
Fine, rewrite it in rust but I discovered this because --group-directories-first was silently broken. I don’t know man, a regression in, checks notes, ls?!?
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 02/09/2026
So I just discovered that Ubuntu 26.04 ships with `ls` version 0.8.0 rewritten in rust. My new distro will be called GETOFFMYLAWN/Linux Started working on new AGENTS.md for it: “You are old, you are tired…”
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 02/09/2026
But yeah I would have seen this one just from who I follow. I regret mixing algorithm into my point, it isn’t actually relevant.
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Nick Guerrera @nguerrera.dev · 02/09/2026
Bluesky does have an algorithm. Comes baked with Discover.
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