Preslav Rachev
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Preslav Rachev
@preslav.me
I believe in building software that fosters discourse on the open web:

- https://murmel.social
- https://feedle.world

Also an avid writer and hobby photographer.
My posts are in English, Bulgarian, and German.

Find me online on https://preslav.me.
Някой в Пловдив да бета-тестне едно сайтче? ailyakbus.preslav.me

#пловдив #plovdiv
Кога идва автобус?
ailyakbus.preslav.me
December 31, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Само на мен ли ми прави впечатление, че казусът тук не са играещите в казина, а това че стотици болници точат Касата, пишейки пациенти по пътеки с хоспитализиране? btvnovinite.bg/bulgaria/izm...
Измама с парите на Здравната каса: Случаите на пациенти, залагали в казина, засяга 90% от лечебните заведения
По неофициална информация 290 са болниците в страната с установени разминавания, научи bTV от свои източници. Най-сериозни били случаите с пациенти, които по документи се водят настанени в интензивнит...
btvnovinite.bg
December 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Както и предполагах, снежната Коледа се оказа мечта за едни, и предизвикателство без ток за други.

Моето лично предизвикателство бе да гарантирам, че сайтът nyamamtok.org ще работи през цялото време, и ще позволи на хората да споделят места в страната, останали без електричество.
December 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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📎 it looks like you're challenging the status quo. have you considered that this will make the status quo very sad? look it's crying now
December 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Днешният ми лаф:

При липсата на мозък, и липсата е мозък.
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Доказателство, че на човек не му трябва много, за да е щастлив.
Прекрасна Коледна нощ.
Чета "Хари Потър", имам си любим човек до мен, спомням си за прекрасния ден (защото прекарах в добра компания, не се срещнах с никого, който да ме натоварва), очаквам утрешните гости (добри приятели), грея се на печката... Щастлив съм.
December 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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For a neural network, a grayscale image on a 50-by-50 grid of pixels is akin to a single point in 2,500-dimensional space. Given enough data points, the neural network may be trained to identify a specific type of image. www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-ai-i...
December 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Свободата е като хляба.
Всеки ден се замесва,
изпича,
изяжда.

Свободата трябва
всеки ден да е прясна,
топла,
сладка,
достатъчна, за да я споделиш с други.

Не яжте огризки,
не яжте вчерашен хляб,
не яжте подарен хляб.
Сами си замесвайте
и изпичайте
хляба,
за да го имате,
за да не го просите.
...
December 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
За 2026 си пожелавам да спрем да гоним сенки. Всяка епоха си има своите хартиени пантери - истории, които виждаме навсякъде, докато истината изчезва някъде встрани, в тишината между редовете. Шумът е оръжие. Разсейването е стратегия."

preslav.me/bg/2025/06/2...
Пантерата
Хартиени пантери ловуват хартиени сенки.
preslav.me
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Preslav Rachev
This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
If you want some perspective on software, it took #PostgreSQL 30 years to become an “overnight success.”
December 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Sad but true.

Traditions became performances, not bonds. Most Western European “festive traditions” are now calendar events, not lived social obligations. You show up, consume, leave. Little follow-up, little continuity

#photography #iphone #munich #germany
December 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Been doing that with @feedle.world for over three years now!
my 2026 resolution is to spend more time personally lobbying the proprietors of websites that I like to create rss feeds
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Well I think I'm sold on using templui.io and pro.templui.io for web apps I build with Go and templ.

#GoLang #templ #templui #TailwindCSS #WebDev
December 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is my current backyard. Show me yours 📸

#iphone #photography #bulgaria
December 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I could extend this to “copying a Go struct should generally be taken with a grain salt,” but I need to be ready to take a lot of flak.

#programming #golang
An interesting article about "Why Copying Go Lock Is a Bad Idea"
#golang

ivan-pidikseev.dev/posts/why-c...
December 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Най-прелестната нова българска музика, която съм чувал от много време, с разлика.
MONA - Сила (Official Video)
YouTube video by MONA
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Does anyone know how to turn off the terminal completions that VS Code began providing as of a few versions ago? I use fzf on my terminal, and this just messes up with it.

#programming #vscode
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Preslav Rachev
Watch software developers. I mean *really* watch them.

When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it.

Wanna boost your dev productivity?

* Write code that's easier to understand
* Get better at understanding code
December 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM