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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

During breakfast my 10-year old shared that he’s scared of the future. He worries that “a lot of things will disappear” and that we won’t have jobs because everything will be automated. Great work, us…

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

This week I read 2/3 of The Three-Body Problem triology and my head’s a bit… full 😯🤯

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

genAI’s turning us in Warhammer 40 K’s tech-priests… “No longer the master of its creations, the Cult Mechanicus is enslaved to the past. It maintains the glories of yesteryear with rite, dogma and edict instead of true discernment and comprehension.”

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Aw, crap, Qwant’s added “flash responses” (= AI summaries) as well. Time to look for a new search engine. Again.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

genAI as the “just fork it” of closed source software?

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The biggest part of "writing the code" was/is gaining an understanding of the system you’re building, but more often, extending. Especially when working with mature/“brownfield" (dislike this term a lot) systems. If you say you're not reading the code anymore without telling me how you’re […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Has anyone researched the effect of modern car design on people’s moods/psyche/mindset? The angry/aggressive head light design makes moving through a city feeling like wading through an angry/aggressive crowd that doesn’t want you to be there at all. I can’t be the only one seeing angry faces […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

“It’s my hope that you'll now be able to take the many lessons of a psychologically informed approach to software with you and use psychology to make your next environment a little more human than you found it.” I'm really liking the "a little more human than you found it" bit […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I'm looking for a web/iOS app that helps me keep track of the passage of time and (life) events. Fot instance, when did I meet my friend for the last time? Was it 3 or 4 weeks ago? How long have I been swimming? 3 or 4 years? When did we go to country Y on holiday for the last time? I’ve […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

In the (very) end, the genAI debate might split on do you like to work on software alone, or in a community because hearing “I don’t know, Claude made it” when asking “That’s nice, how did you make it?” tires real quick.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

genAI purports to increase velocity, but it only increases speed.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Is there an RSS reader that allows me to subscribe to any blog I land on by e.g. following a link from a blog post I'm already subscribed to? I sometimes wish following/subscribing to blogs would be as easy as following someone on Mastodon.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

@jon Hi! I’m trying Recollect on an iPhone 15 in Safari. As you can see, the menu isn’t rendering correctly… 😬

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

On the bright side: genAI’s sure making developers and other software folks talk about their 🌈 feelings ☔️ and that is, honestly (100%!), a good thing. It’s OK to feel things. NOT feeling things is what gets us in massive trouble. Again and again. So, please feel, and act accordingly.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I’m in the market for a 1Password replacement. Do you fine folks have suggestions for hosted alternatives? I don’t have the bandwidth to host something myself or do local stuff at the moment.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

The Matrix but instead of harvesting energy corporations harvest thoughts for training the AIs.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Raise your hand if you emigrated at a young age and had to severe most of your emotional ties to your home country to quiet the pain of leaving. Me? I still tear up when listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=3645Er9gJlA…

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Coding one feature a day keeps the brain rot away.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

On some* days I wish genAI would go the Quantified Self way. * most** ** all

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I kept forgetting the locker numbers that I got from my local swimming pool’s system when I went for a swim. To remember them, I taught my mind a trick: link them to a fact from my life. These days the associations appear automatically. I got the number 9 tonight, and my mind flashed 50 at me […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Them: dump a steaming pile of …. on my doorstep Me: Hmm, I’m not too fond of this Them: it’s the future, you don’t want to get left behind, do you? Me: I don’t like it Them: you’re not very constructive, this won’t help Me: I still don’t like it Them: you sound aggressive, why are you so aggressive?

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Cats are cute, but hunt birds. This is a post about genAI.

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HP van Braam @hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

"But humans also make bad PRs" and this is obviously true. But if I spend hours/days helping a human get a PR over the finish line I've taught that person how to do future PRs better. Maybe they never come back, but at a minimum I've taught another human something useful. If I'm talking to an […]

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HP van Braam @hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

"I have a PR here, if you have any suggestions just telnet into my Emacs session to make the changes you want." It's just a lose/lose proposition, there will never be an upside to the project. There's only two possibilities for a substantilly AI generated PR: 1) It is perfect and we merge it […]

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HP van Braam @hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

PRs should be donations of someone's time and expertise. Not someone's donation of tokens bought from Anthropic/Google/OpenAI/whomever. *IF* we wanted to AI generate PRs at all (and we do not) then the useful way would be for someone to give use money to use an AI. What is step 2 after the PR […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Mastodon’s non-algorithmic feed: douze points!

A screenshot of two posts. Top post: “In a world where 16GB of RAM costs more than a used car, what are we to do except find ways to do more with less? Smaller operating systems, leaner applications, reduced reliance on computing.” Bottom post: “The #Laxey Wheel in operation. It's impressive!
#IsleofMan”

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

I bought an expensive software design/engineering course this morning and am penduling since between “which dumbass buys a fundamentals course in the genAI era” and “this is the smartest thing you can do in the genAI era”. Between each swing I remember that I figured that if the bubble burst […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Found my copium for the genAI era: wake up earlier, go for a walk/run and sit down to study software design fundamentals. Currently progressing slowly but surely through arjancodes.com/courses/tsdm which I bought years ago but am only now able to systematically tend do.

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I'm Arjan Egges, a software developer and educator with a passion for building beautiful, efficient, and reliable software.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

The best way to “climb the abstraction level" is to collaborate with a senior developer.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

“Now that I read my comments, I think we should do {brilliant idea}” concluded the senior dev on the medior dev’s merge request. On the second review round they - together - fixed and tidied up a bunch of other minor misdemeanors. The frature was merged, the medior dev was enlightened and […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

I’m apparently so used to cookie banners on the web these days that I realized feedbin.com doesn’t have one only when I landed on a competitor’s site. I’ve therefore created an account and will hopefully migrate from Feedly shortly.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Upgraded to Mona 7 which pulls all replies to posts and the Fediverse suddenly feels a lot more populated.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

"Production code was crap long before genAI arrived. I don't see a problem here.” Sure, it’s just that we're genAIying lots more of it now.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Remembered The Incredible Machine 2 from my childhood, showed it to my son in DOSBOX in the browser, looked up its Wikipedia entry while he was at it, saw that its makers created Contraption Maker in 2014, played the demo, bought the full game and now he’s solving solving wacky machine puzzles […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Reading a lot does not automagically make you a good writer. This is a post about genAI.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

“Thomas reveals the complicated social and political dynamics that surround the design and implementation of new production technology.” A timely read from 1994. I don’t read non-fiction often but am determined to churn through this one from start to end.

Photo of the book What Machines Can’t Do by Robert J. Thomas.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

I don’t get nerdsniped often but @mechasystems’s handheld Linux computer Comet resonates on all frequencies. mecha.so/comet#overview

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Cognitive debt… I won’t be surprised if we end treating AI generated code just like any other generated code e.g. API clients: sparingly, with light suspicion and clearly demarcated in e.g. a folder called “generated”. genAI for development as it’s uses, but is not a panacea (or inevitable) […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

The parallels between writing and software development are striking…! “Part of the problem is that two very different things are collapsing into one. […] Publishing works to schedules, seasons, and marketing cycles. It must. These priorities make sense for distribution and sales. They do not […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

I’m off to my affordable therapy session: #swimming.

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