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Sandra de Jong ⁂ @sandradejong.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Onze dertienjarige Jonas en zijn klasgenoot en vogelvriend Maarten organiseren een vogelexcursie in het natuurgebied vlakbij ons huis op zondag 8 november. Misschien woon je in de buurt en heb je zin om je door hen te laten rondleiden, vogels te ontdekken en te […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

Een poster met foto's van een ijsvogel, ransuil, twee jongens die door een telescoop kijken en een smient. Met als tekst "Vogelexcursie Kardinge, met Maarten en Jonas" en de kop "Ontdek de vogels in je buurt - voor jong en oud". 9 november 13:00 - 15:00. Kosten 2,50. Info en aanmelden: vogelsgroningen@protonmail.com

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

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 · 11/10/2026

@hynek Oh, wow, markdown astrology carries a lot of the weight and feels. Well coined!

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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 · 29/09/2026

@joostvanderborg Interesting! This was my system as well until I, indeed, stopped taking photo's with my non-phone camera. I rarely browse through the photos on my phone for that purpose, though, as they are too mixed with othe crap (e.g. screenshots) and are not tagged/labelled/demarcated (by […]

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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

@RonJeffries Another reader reporting! Thank you for sharing your thought process and showing how ideas are formed vs dropping, as you write, a perfect piece of code and claiming brilliance. I shared your blog in arjancodes.com/mastery/‘s community as Arjan’s teachings are […]

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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 · 04/09/2026

@jaredwhite Sounds like the humans in the loop aren’t looping.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Giving Bitwarden a try. Importing my passwords was flawless. Figuring out what an organizations, collections and folders do was more challenging.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@akshatrathi.bsky.social @codinghorror Can’t help noticing that coal’s still rising. I guess it would’ve risen faster without solar, though, so there’s still an improvement.

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@jon @recollect Ooh, these are the exactly the smarts I miss in ClickUp (and any other “everything app” to be honest).

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

@sandradejong Ja, herlijk bandje! Ze komen uit Bulgarije. Wellicht dat je www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbkwCV0-Qk8… ook interessant vindt. Dank voor de knuff, rouw is grotendeels verwerkt maar af en toe steekt het de kop op 🙃

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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

@glyph @mttaggart Damn, gotta get me and my eldest kid off it ASAP.

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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

Conversely, I wish we'd spend as much energy (and money) in advancing humanistic/communal ways of being.

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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 · 17/06/2026

@sue Not it’s not ideal at all… GenAI’s also sucked the air of any organic communal learning that was happening because most folks are chatting with their bot instead of their colleagues, and many of the chats that do happen are about genAI vs. the rest of software engineering. I want to say […]

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Simeon Nedkov @simeon.indiehackers.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

@sue I’ve landed on a mix/strategy where I use genAI at work, handcraft my side project and study the fundamentals* to get better at both. Can’t say yet how it will unfold and what will stick, but it does anchor me and gives me a sense of control. * arjan.codes/mastery

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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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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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