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 I am a materials scientist and software developer proficient in Rust, Fortran, C++, Java, and Python. I have extensive experience with Unix operating systems on both high performance computing resources and on my personal computer (check out [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org)). I currently work at [UKG](https://www.ukg.com) as a Java Backend Engineer.
 
-This website is a place for me to post about a range of topics from professional news, to tech tutorials, to recipes I enjoy very much. Checkout some of my recent posts below or find them all organized by tags [here](/posts).
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-I also designed and manage a few websites for family members, so check them out:
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-[alexanderselimov.com](https://alexanderselimov.com)
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-[iberoamericanliterarysociety.com](https://iberoamericanliterarysociety.com)
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 **Checkout some posts below and thanks for stopping by!**

content/cv.md

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-**aselimov3@gatech.edu · [https://alexselimov.com](https://alexselimov.com)**
+**alex@alexselimov.com · [https://alexselimov.com](https://alexselimov.com)**
 
-[{{< fontawesome  class="fa-solid fa-download" >}}PDF version](/AlexSelimovCV.pdf)
 ## Education
 
 - **Georgia Institute of Technology** (North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30332)\

content/posts/debian_upgrade.md

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 title: "The folly of Debian major version upgrades"
-date: 2025-07-13T20:35:50-05:00
- topics: ['git', 'matrix', 'self-host'] 
+date: 2025-07-13T08:35:50-05:00
+topics: ["git", "matrix", "self-host"]
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 I recently realized that my web server was still on Debian Buster, **2 whole major versions behind** the latest Debian version. Normally this kind of thing wouldn't matter to me except that my matrix-synapse server was unable to federate with matrix synapse servers running newer versions. I normally run rolling release distributions on my local machines (I use Void btw) and it had been a long time since I tried this kind of upgrade. I went in hopeful that it would be straightforward. 
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 So far, I have positive opinions of all of my changes and highly recommend dendrite and forgejo.
 
- **Note to self: Never consider it upgrading Debian version. Always structure it as a migration to newer Debian version to avoid downtime**
+ **Note to self: Never consider it upgrading Debian version. Always structure it as a migration to newer Debian version to avoid downtime**