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Is this even a tiny bit like the window manager on Arch/Omarchy?

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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

I realize that this may cause a few people to write back with snarky comments or unfollow me, but those are my 2 cents. Stop talking about why your platform is better (because, if the others exist, it seeming isn’t), and tell me what you did today to actually move the needle.

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… and to go on with your day, trying to make the world a little bit better in your own way. Say what you want about bad actors, but they know how to align on something and get it done, bad as it is. Meanwhile, all the seemingly well-meaning folks I know won’t commit on anything.

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I get it, you want to say you’re different, but it has been almost five years now, and you keep talking about the same things over and over again. Running in your own echo chamber is not how you win the battle against “evil.” The solution is to embrace that it’s there …

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 15/09/2026

The sad reality of Bluesky and Mastodon is that the folks I follow, don’t stop talking about Bluesky and Mastodon, and rambling about how bad X/Threads are. I spent a week around X and Threads, and the chatter there seems to be about anything else but the respective platform.

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Just the other day day, I told someone that “we’re now at Java 25,” and that lmost people are “stuck between 8 and 11.” Turns out, I was wrong about one of those statements (but the other is still very true)😅 mail.openjdk.org/archives/lis...

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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

Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 13/09/2026

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Preslav Rachev @preslav.me · 13/09/2026

Arjan's take is so much on point here. As a programming tool, AI is much better than I have ever been (even after 20+ years). But software engineering is much more about chiseling things away than dumping massive amounts of code in a PR: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAsv...

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Back to the Fundamentals

🧱 Build software that lasts. Join the Software Design Mastery program → https://arjan.codes/mastery. In this video, I wanted to share a more personal update about what's happening behind the scenes…

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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 · 28/08/2026

PSA: If you use Al Dente to curb battery charging above 80%, and plan to upgrade to macOS 27 Beta, keep in mind that Al Dente currently does not work with it. It won't crash, but still, it will let the battery go up to 100% Clicking on manual discharge works, though. www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/...

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https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/1u0wlgf/macos_27_db_1_al_dente_no_longer_limits_charge/

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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

I could probably reuse the same code, and just switch the graphics library primitives ;)

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

Jokes aside, this may have some interesting positive side effects, such as, learning from guesses were completely wild, and extracting improvement insights into the context memory.

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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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patak @patak.cat · 25/08/2026

nitter.net is down. xcancel.com may go soon, too. all the respect to the folks at nitter for their services so far, but to be honest, X completely locking itself out of the web is probably a net positive for us all in the long term

Cease and desist
On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.

nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specifics for now.

Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.

— zedeus, 25 August 2026

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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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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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I thought, this can only happen on the Balkans 😬

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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...

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

Using Claude Code is not an excuse for not understanding the requirements.

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

elynxabeth holmes ⎔ @freyja-lynx.dev · 23/08/2026

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heartwarming: sqlite is probably good enough for you

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 22/08/2026

You don’t win an argument about definitions. You agree on definitions so that you can even have an argument

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 22/08/2026

Every object oriented language introduction starts with showing the clean hierarchy of dog and cat inheriting from animal, while every real codebase is like

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Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 21/08/2026

"If I'm not having fun or not interested, I can't learn." - @cassiecodes.bsky.social

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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!