Ivan Sagalaev 

@isagalaev
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Programmer, software architect, mentor.

Sammamish, WA

Flag: https://whitebluewhite.info/

Web sitehttps://softwaremaniacs.org/
Photoshttps://www.flickr.com/photos/isagalaev/

Just spent some minutes figuring out and fixing borked mp3 tags in an album I bought off Amazon. Felt like 00s never went away. But really, I'll gladly take having to tweak things manually once in a while over what we have now as state-of-the-art consumerized software.

(eyeD3 worked for me, if you must know.)

Every engineer worthy of the title adopts one unshakeable article of faith: POPULARITY IS NOT A QUALITY METRIC
My Twitter account had 17000 followers. I never joined bluesky. I still have an insta account but it’s mostly in case my crush concludes after all this time that I’m The One (half-joking). My participation here on mastodon is kinda haphazard, not focused, but it’s fun because I can just share what’s interesting to me and people can dig it or not. And it seems like almost everyone is cool and friendly. Lots of creative and smart and funny folks on here with no pressure.

7 years. The most notable change this year is lowering of the right side. And I also went back on the idea of growing another upper level (for now).

#bonsai #darktable

Yay Zohran Mamdani!

#uspol

Helpful counter to toxic masculinity: MASCULINITY - a case for courage
https://nonzerosum.games/masculinity.html
MASCULINITY ~ a case for courage

Exploring masculinity from a non-zero-sum perspective, guided by experts like Richard Reeves, Scott Galloway, and Christine Emba.

Here’s the thing: fuck the ayatollah and his mullahs and fuck Hamas (neither of those bastards would hesitate to put a bullet in the head of an atheist apostate like me) but that doesn’t mean you attack the people of Iran (most of whom oppose the regime) or Palestine (who also suffer under the yoke of Hamas – an organisation that, furthermore, was funded and supported by Netanyahu’s regime to sabotage the peace process).

If you cannot separate authoritarian regimes from the people being oppressed by them, and if you condone the indiscriminate slaughter of the latter, then don’t be surprised when the same rules end up applying to you… given the way things are going in the United States, for example.

We have rules of combat and international law for a reason. It’s not because we’re morally superior; far from it. It’s because we don’t want that same shit done to us. That’s a dangerous thing to forget.

I love our book store!

I like this idea.

#ICE #immigrants

Flickr (which hosts the largest collection of Creative Commons-licensed photos in the world) has just rolled out Creative Commons 4.0 licensing.

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2025/06/18/creative-commons-4-0-has-arrived-on-flickr/

I use and support Flickr heavily.

#Flickr #IsupportFlickr #CC #CreativeCommons #photography #photographs #photos #gallery #digitalphotography #license

Creative Commons 4.0 has arrived on Flickr!

Creative Commons 4.0 has landed on Flickr! It’s one small step for us, but one giant leap for sharing, collaborating, and attribution around the world.

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