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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

What on Earth is a Forward Deployed Engineer? I've been in this industry for as long as many of you have been on this planet, but never heard of it.

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Another perfectly functioning MacBook saved from going to the thrash bin. The 5th or 6th one I save. This time, it’s a 2010 15” MBP with 8GB of RAM and almost half a gig of SSD (what a luck). Add Linux Mint on top, and it’s ready to end up with someone in need of a laptop. #apple #linux

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

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

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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=gUdh9oboG7E

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

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

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

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

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

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

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

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

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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.

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

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

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Which side of the social media spectrum are you on?

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

@dnkrupinski Es ist ein Fehler von unserer Seite gewesen. Du hast es irgendwie geschafft, den Terms & Conditions-Check zu überspringen, daher war dein v2.0-Account nicht wirklich vollständig. Den Fehler haben wir mittlerweile behoben - probiere es bitte […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

The Ghost repository is meanwhile ... 500MB? Like, how, why?

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

In completely unrelated news, @murmel_social now supports both #Mastodon AND #Bluesky. But don't tell anybody 🤫 murmel.social

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

I'm wondering what people would say about @murmel_social's new digest preview page: murmel.social/preview We redesigned the Top Stories to look exactly like what a person should expect to receive in their inbox. No more, no less.

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

Yeah, sure, you can use Claude Code to generate Go code for you, but has it ever occurred to you to ask it to generate tailor-made code generators that take your existing code and instantly give it superpowers? Case in point, type-safe URL routing, validation, serialization, sum types etc #golang

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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/preslavrachev/diagg

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

You won’t hear this from a lot of ppl, but I’m so happy for finding a good deal on a Fenix 7 Pro, and moving back to #Garmin. Like, yeah, I love Apple products and think they’re all great, but the #Apple Watch is a toy. Not to mention that I think OLED watch […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Everyone, absolutely everyone: Go has everything we need, don't change the language anymore! The sum types proposal thread: hold my beer! github.com/golang/go/issues/57644 #programming #golang

A diagram showing massive recent activity in a particular GitHub issue that had been left dormant for quite some time.

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

Let's talk photography. Yesterday, I decided to use one of my possibly last days in Munich, to go and experiment with my Wild Pastel LUT. All the photos were directly with the LUT applied. I used the HARD settings, where I would have probably benefited more […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

If I've accidentally invented a way to turn people's Notion exports into beautifully laid out e-books (that also look great in print), would anyone bother to use it? Asking for a friend 👀 --- #notion #ebook #selfpublishing

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

Stop calling it a Rust issue, OK? It's an error caused by human negligence and miscommunication. Like most bugs. End of story. --- #rustlang #programming #cloudflare

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

They are both looking for the same thing: cheap dopamine. #doomscrolling

A black-and-white cartoon shows an older woman playing a slot machine and a tired-looking younger man sitting beside her staring at his smartphone. They sit back-to-back on simple chairs, each absorbed in their device. The caption below reads, “THEY ARE BOTH LOOKING FOR THE SAME THING,” implying both are seeking the same kind of dopamine reward or distraction.

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

It's amazing how such an old and dusty Mac app can be so effective in keeping you away from doomscroll black holes. It does so well, because it blocks them at the system's hosts level. A 10/10 recommendation! selfcontrolapp.com #apple #productivity

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

Finally, someone who’d talk about the (few) beauties of having #ADHD, not just about how freaking tough it is to live with a mind split in a thousand directions.

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025

For times like these, when you'd think the world is going nowhere, I've set up this @feedle #RSS feed search. There is so much going on in health, but we are so deep in 💩reading about politics that we don't even notice it. I am adding more feeds here from other #science disciplines as well.

A screenshot from the popular macOS RSS feed reader NetNewsWire showing an RSS feed of encouraging and positive developments in health science.

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Preslav Rachev @preslavrachev.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

Sometimes, I think it's not worth it to keep writing this draft. I'm just way too harsh to Python, and it probably doesn't deserve it. --- #programming #python

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