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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 20/09/2026

Google's Gemini AI escaped the sandbox and hacked three companies. Mass media hysteria 😱 Meanwhile, the actual "hacks." 🤦🤦‍♀️🤦🏼‍♂️ Humans are simultaneously the most intelligent, and the dumbest creatures in the Universe.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 16/09/2026

Five years ago, I wrote a book on using Go for algorithmic generative art to show its versatility beyond servers and CLIs. I’m just as excited to this day. Here is an animated simulation of the Three-Body-Problem. #golang

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 14/09/2026

Negative parallelism ("It's not just that ... it's the other thing") is such a PITA in AI text that I am sick of it. I've set up a series of deterministic linter rules to flag texts with those and more, using a tool called Vale: vale.sh. You don't want to know how much of AI text comes down my feeds

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 11/09/2026

They call programmers these days "the condom between Claude Code and production." But so has been public administration. For decades.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 10/09/2026

The perverse reality of the world we live in. The same person who wouldn't want to pay 400-500 EUR for an iPad Mini would gladly spend 10x the amount on a Duo.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 26/08/2026

I figured, since I effectively play the role of an engineering manager to machines now, I might as well ask them to play Estimation Poker and give me their guesstimates at the start of each task 😁

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 25/08/2026

The @golang.org team is doing what it does best. Giving you enough rope to feel excited about something, but not enough, to hang yourself on it 😅 #golang

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 25/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll. What I woke up to this morning.

Morning in Bansko, Bulgaria: a quiet road with a 50 km/h sign in the foreground, while low clouds drift through the trees and across the foothills beneath the sunlit Pirin Mountains.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 25/08/2026

Watching Mole bring your Mac the disk space it deserves, can be so, so satisfying! You can install Mole from here: github.com/tw93/Mole There is also a great introductory video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdh...

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 23/08/2026

Thanks to the late Hans Rosling, for bringing some sanity to this mad world 🙏 #book #factfulness

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 21/08/2026

Did Claude Code just insert a process panic in a template helper function, or am I dreaming? We are all soo cooked!

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 21/08/2026

AI is the prick that is going to pop the bubble of Workism (a.k.a., BS jobs), we've been living in for more than two decades. What does that leave for us, knowledge workers afterwards? Time to do the things we are really passionate for, or a total loss of faith?

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 20/08/2026

If you are outraged at #Anthropic for exposing your texts as written by AI, how about this: just write them yourselves. Or, what's even better, don't write anything at all. You don't have to feel the pressure to always say something, even when you have nothing to share.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 12/08/2026

It all comes down to good old Pied Piper.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 21/07/2026

I love commits that replace unnecessary 3rd-party dependencies with pure standard-library code: github.com/preslavrache... #programming #golang

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 11/06/2026

Took my daily dose of microplastics. Now, back to work! P.S: some countries will never change. #bulgaria

A traditional Balkan cheese pastry called Banitsa, heavily wrapped in plastic bags.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 26/05/2026

I am a little ashamed to admit that #Windows 11 is surprisingly snappy on this MacBook Pro from 2015 (OK, the 16GB RAM helps quite a bit). It started out as a joke and a way to play old Steam games only available for Windows; looks like it's going to be its primary OS for the time being. #apple

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 25/05/2026

This is seriously the best thing ever! You get a nice coffee, your cup is your dessert, and best of all, there is no waste left. Win-win-win!

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 22/05/2026

Don't ask why. Don't search for any logic. Send the help squad! 🪟 #apple #windows11

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 21/05/2026

One surefire way to reduce doomscrolling - grab your @murmel.social account's RSS feed and display it on a @trmnl.com next to your monitor. A quick glance every now and then is more than enough.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 20/05/2026

Looks like I have the option to give two months of Pocket Casts Plus to someone who loves the app, but still uses the free version. First come, first served. DM me, and I'll share you the pass. / @pocketcasts.com

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 15/05/2026

In case I haven’t mentioned it until now, I spend disproportionate amount of money on single-purpose devices. It’s one of my guilty pleasures. Not all are great, but it’s refreshing to see something on the market that doesn’t intend to suck your attention non-stop.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 13/05/2026

I am going on a diet for about a month. I think it is highly necessary.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 01/05/2026

This week, I finished my Open Social Awards application for @murmel.social. Wish me luck 🤞

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 26/04/2026

Колко от вас помнят сайта The Million Dollar Homepage? През лятото на 2005-а, Alex Tew, тогава още студент, решава да създаде сайт с много проста концепция — купуваш си място на сайта, като цената е един долар на пиксел, а пикселите са точно 1 милион. 1/3

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 25/04/2026

As part of reducing my social media consumption even further, I am thinking of going from a once-a-day, to a once-a-week model. My new favorite thing is opening up @murmel.social's multi-column view, and adjusting it to 7 days, to have an immediate grasp of what has happened during the week.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 25/04/2026

Those who claim that the reMarkable Paper Pro Move is a terrible device, have obviously never held one in their hands. It’s a great ebook reader, on top of an already fantastic note-taking tablet. Read my lips: if you are planning to get the SuperNote instead, you should reconsider.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 15/04/2026

When people ask me about why I’m so chill about current world affairs, politics, AI, etc., I like to use a chart like this one. Yes, things may seem bad now, but they’ve been way worse before. They’ve been better too, but so will they be again, given enough time. Nothing is permanent.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 07/04/2026

Which side of the social media spectrum are you on?

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 02/04/2026

The @ghost.org repository is meanwhile ... 500MB? Like, how, why?

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 17/02/2026

Have you ever asked yourselves, how ChatGPT can be syntactically perfect and the same time intellectually mid? It's a statistical problem, really. --- #chatgpt

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 13/02/2026

My problem with Claude Code limits these days aren't the 5-work blocks, but reaching my weekly limit way too soon. And, while I haven't found and easy way to fetch my current weekly limit programmatically, I quickly coded an xbar script that would show me the % elapsed till reset, and I'd compare.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 11/02/2026

In retrospect, I don’t know why I didn’t do this much earlier. Getting to the bottom of this rotten and perverted story won’t make me particularly happier, so I’m out of this. #epstein

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 11/02/2026

It's Go 1.26 release day! It brings a ton of performance and quality-of-life improvements, but I am so far the happiest about the improved `go fix` command. Just ran it on a couple of projects, and it found some good code candidates to be modernized. go.dev/blog/go1.26 --- #golang #programming

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 10/02/2026

In a strange chain of events, I may become more well-known for my in-camera photography tools than for my other software. All in all, I am happy that I made someone's day, because they certainly made mine with this review! p5v.gumroad.com/l/canon-cine... --- #photography #canon #cameras

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 08/02/2026

Phone booth, in the middle of nowhere. #bulgaria #photography

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 03/02/2026

Here is your Claude Code pro tip for today. When in doubt, ask it to offer you options to choose from. This works great, because CC won't dive straight into implementing something you may not want. #claudecode #llm

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 27/01/2026

I liked it. Especially, the so-called "intents" approach. I have used a variation of it, where the struct embeds the interface and implements it. In the implementation, it checks if someone has provided a different implementation and delegates to it, otherwise, follows with a default.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 26/01/2026

One of my recent collaborations with Claude Code - a tool that will inspect any #golang project, and produce a meaningful graph of the relationships between its packages and types. It can output a PlantUML diagram, or an interactive D3 graph. github.com/preslavrache...

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 26/01/2026

А Бовино какъв е, мислиш? Явно е някакъв комплекс.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 26/01/2026

Баш! Гоуем си, Пейо!

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 25/01/2026

The other day, I passed by this place for what seems would be the last time in a long while. As we move away from Germany, I don’t know when I’ll see Munich again. So, I used the moment to catch a glimpse of a train in the last moment. #photography #shotoniphone

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 25/01/2026

За майтапа, взех че питах Gemini какво мисли по темата "Симеон." Припомних си някои работи. Каквото и да кажем, финалът е в десетката: това което Симеон не успя да "оправи" е бита на хората които си мислеха, че идва някякъв спасител.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 24/01/2026

Всичко е в т.нар. markup - при тези явно е около 13-14%, което си е направо кражба. По едно време на Терминал 2 забелязах банкомати с markup от около 5-6% при теглене на Евро, след 1-ви вече се надявам да понямалеят подобни схеми. Според законовите рамки, ако е обявен предварително, не е нелегален.

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 20/01/2026

Скивай, какво става тук 👀 preslav.me/posts-bg/

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