My Writings on Preslav Rachev

The latest blog posts on Feedle discussing retro games.

What if perseverance isn’t all there is?

Kids of tomorrow will need coaches and mentors instead.

Change the narrative

And that’s fine.

Let’s put an end to the age-old database debate, shall we?

Choosing consistency over performance.

Rethink the way the Java community sees the framework.

Addressing some of people’s most common questions to us.

A haiku

Don’t let it become a clickbait machine 🙏

Don’t use the pen tool!

Our desire for optimization and productivity drives us to abdicate effort and skill in exchange for rapidity

I am not writing with an audience in mind, but for myself .

But it totally could, if one manages to put these few points together.

Looking forward to a new and exciting year on the Fediverse.

It’s time to ask ourselves how much abstraction in our Go code really makes sense.

Python and Go have distinct qualities that can complement each other.

A few notes on reviving my book’s draft.

My definition of what makes a senior developer has changed a few times over the years

While I use Obsidian for all my notes and thoughts, it is not where these notes and ideas start out.

Acknowledge that you don’t have all the answers.

A requirement is only as strong as the scrutiny it can withstand.

Escape the maze of nested code.

Beyond accolades and titles, our true worth shines in the lives we touch.

What to do when your Mac won’t sync important files to iCloud.

I am slowing down involvement with my business for some time.

A selection of my favorite podcasts from around the Go community.

In the vast theater of the Cosmos, one voyager dances with the infinite unknown.

A simple pattern that will help you reduce error handling, while keeping your Go code simple and idiomatic.

I am trying to make sense of what I can do better next time.

Let me read it and share my honest review with the readers of this blog.

My struggle to choose the right type semantic and keep code consistent at the same time.

Murmel is seeking a new home on the Fediverse.

Machine learning rocks, but it’s far from intelligence.

It’s not the performance, and neither is it the complexity.

Did Google reinvent both EJBs and Spring in Go?

Good error messages add up and tell a story

Results from my Mastodon poll and my personal 2 cents.

Who is going to build it?

While Go doesn’t have proper enums, you can create a more robust enum-like construct using interfaces and structs.

sqlc is a fantastic time and boilerplate saver, but is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

Our side project Feedle has just hit its first major milestone.

When you just want to implement one or two methods … but be careful.

A bit of up-front thinking can help make our Go code cleaner and more performant.

Remind yourself of current and future events with ease.

Think of it as a percussion instrument, not (only) as a low-pitched guitar.

there is a fundamental parity mismatch between SQL and imperative code.

It is essential to understand the motivation behind why a company is posting a job offer before taking it on.

The big thing in Unix was the realization that instead of building large monolithic systems, one could build smaller programs which could communicate with each other.