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In-reply-to » An important question came up in our call: How's your nick pronounced, @movq? I reckon it is a reference on assembler (I'm not proficient in it), so I'd say "move q", could be totally wrong though.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org There – kind of – is a story.

I sometimes write x86_64 assembler just for fun. It’s rare, but it happens. In 2019, I had quite a bit of wrist issues, so I couldn’t type a lot. I still went to work, so, well, I still had to type a couple of hours every day (which is a lot, if you think about it).

During that time, I had a little pet project where I wrote a simple grep in asm:

https://uninformativ.de/git/grep.asm

Skim through the code and you’ll already see a ton of movq instructions. It’s a very basic and common instruction.

The punchline is: I wasn’t really able to finish this project (due to those wrist issues), but I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally wanted to. So I put the keyboard on the floor and wrote like 50% of that code using my feet. Yes, you read that correctly. 🥴 Yes, I am crazy. And this somehow got stuck in my head. movq movq movq movq movq movqmovqmoqvmom … I was quite literally dancing it. 🥴 💃 When I got fed up with my previous nick name, I searched for a new one for quite a while, but couldn’t find anything good. So I just chose movq, because it was floating around in my head anyway (and I already had the domain). 🤷

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