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aos

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Medical school graduate turned software engineer

https://blog.aos.sh

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aos··on Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care
I decided a few years back to forego color all-together in my syntax highlighting because it was always more distracting than helpful.

I built this monochrome and low-contrast simple colorscheme for vim and I’ve been using it since. Haven’t missed colors at all.

https://github.com/aos/vim-ascetic

aos··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
IonQ | Senior Research Software Engineer | Boston, MA (ONSITE - Hybrid) | Full-time

We are looking for a Senior Research Software Engineer for our Global R&D team at IonQ. You'd build the software our quantum scientists rely on for lab orchestration, experiment data, and hardware control. If you've written software that talks to real instruments and wrangles real, messy, physical-world data, this might be for you.

Looking for: 5+ years of experience, strong Python skills, ownership of the full software development lifecycle, observability, and CI/CD. Hardware or lab-data experience is the bar.

No physics background is required!

Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ionq/jobs/5998606004

aos··on Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat
I love the recent increase in TUI-based tooling. This looks cool - will check it out!
aos··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
I play OW2 on Linux with Steam + Proton and I was having this issue a while back but somehow fixed it. I think it was by increasing the shader cache size! Happy to find the exact instructions that I did to fix it once I’m back on that PC.
aos··on Ask HN: Homelab projects to learn Linux admin and DevOps to get hired as one?
This is what I used when I first learning: https://serversforhackers.com/

For a really good practical project: build a website, then host it on your mini-PC and find a way to expose it to the internet. This will teach you a lot about DNS, proxying, building websites, managing the server (via some config management or container), monitoring, etc.

aos··on Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
I’ve started to use jj much more often (and actually used this tutorial to get me started!). I do wish its interaction with Nix flakes is less annoying though, but that’s not the fault jj.
aos··on NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
Have you taken a look at https://github.com/nix-community/srvos ? It’s a collection of profiles for servers by the Numtide folks.
aos··on Brutalist buildings should stay, even if people think they're ugly
I'll have to go find it next time I'm in SF then. :-)

> I was shocked when I first encountered it: "What eldritch thing broods in a windowless skyscraper?"

That was my exact reaction!

aos··on Brutalist buildings should stay, even if people think they're ugly
This is my favorite style of architecture. I only really came to appreciate it after seeing 33 Thomas Street in NYC in person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

If you’re ever in NYC, I highly recommend going to check it out.

aos··on Launch HN: Firezone (YC W22) – Zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard
Congrats on the launch! Will definitely have to check it out. I see you’re using Phoenix/Liveview for the control plane. :-) How has that been working for you?
aos··on The most, and least, walkable cities
Counter-point: walking and taking public transit became considerably _more_ interesting for me once I became fully remote. However, I do live in an area with walkable amenities (coffee shops, grocery stores, etc).
aos··on Apple iPod Shuffle USB interface pinout
Was also curious, so I did some digging. This is the inventor’s thoughts on this: https://chaos.social/@jacqueline/111869403759610817
aos··on Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?
When I was going through this, I found it helpful to re-implement stuff in code as I was learning. I compiled resources on it in this repo for my own benefit: https://github.com/aos/computer-networking-study
aos··on Framework Laptop 16
I game on a framework laptop with an eGPU. I have a Razor Core Chroma with a Radeon 2060. There’s plenty of guides out there to get it up and running [^1]. I did try to get it working under Linux but wayland support for Nvidia is still a mess. For now, I’ve been dual-booting Windows to play my games on. It works really well.

1. https://egpu.io/best-external-graphics-card-builds/

aos··on Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior
Mucinex DM has dextromethorphan[0] which can act as a non-selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan see section on dependence and withdrawal