bojidar-bg.dev — Blog

Week notes, week 1339 / 2026-09-20 I really need to get into habit of writing weeknotes on Saturday night or Sunday... it's already Thursday Saturday (It's almost time to write my next week's notes, what am I doing aaaaa) , and I've nearly forgotten what I

Week notes, week 1338 / 2026-09-13 The main highlight of this week was being back home with family.

Week 1337 / 2026-09-06 - notes Woohoo, week 1337!

Week notes, week 1336 This week, I was at Container Days Hamburg!

My summer vacation Having seen many times the classic school writing prompt of "write about something that happened on your summer vacation" used as a way to welcome students back to writing class at the start of the school year, I of course cannot avoid…

Graph of y = (x + 1) / x, as rendered by KmPlot Inf% When I type the first few words of any article, something incredible happens.

Single-stepping "continuations" I love continuations.

Hullo, new Everyday Carry My everyday carry knolled out on a sheet: wallet, lip balm, umbrella (remember the umbrella!)

A note on note-taking Taking notes is fun!

Programming agents in Rust Author's note: the title and first few paragraphs are complete clickbait.

Webcomics I love I made a classic blunder with my previous article: I did not read the final draft before publishing.

How I was cured of my Garfield attachment In which the author reminisces on the past.

Time flies They say time flies when you are having fun.

Place memories Memories are odd little critters.

Jigsaw puzzle maths If I were to ask you to imagine a jigsaw puzzle, you will probably think of something like this, at least as far as puzzle shapes are concerned: A pieces of a puzzle of mixed shapes with no edge pieces.

Welcome to the fun section!

A shoestring-budget lentils recipe The dried carrots and onions, mixed (This article dedicated to the naysayers claiming I can't write under a thousand words.)

Emojis I use — and where I found them Emojis are fantastically vague.

Tea with a metro card That's me!

I'm starting a new job!

Implementing Wordle in LibreOffice with JavaScript macros It is the Month of LibreOffice—time to be awesome with LibreOffice, whether that's spreading the word, supporting others, translating, documenting, bugfixing, or coding new features!

Learning to trust with Hanabi What does it mean to "trust" someone?

Ideas page I have a large stash of random bookmarks and notes tagged "Ideas" that I've been meaning to get around to.

This article utilizes a slide-based presentation best viewed in a browser with CSS.

Sorting the RSS and Atom feeds I follow YouTube's recommendations distract me.

Sweet and simple CI/CD with bare git repositories Implementing continuous deployment is often a massive undertaking, requiring developers to write a hard-to-debug YAML files full of security traps, courtesy of GitHub Actions and complex Kubernetes cluster…

What's up with all the cool Australian websites?

Leaving Spotify to start a personal music library When I started my Spotify journey, my goal was been to get closer to friends through music.

Contacting the small web through email: A semi-formal experiment "Exploring the small web" has been one of my most successful articles to date.

To Thornfield Hall - a review of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre Recently (over the course of last month), I've been on a Jane Eyre craze.

Joining forces on Xee, the Rust XPath/XSLT library Recently, an article has been making the rounds on social media around me (So..

BugsDoneQuick: Days 3-4 recap: Let there be light The improvised "lightbox" I used for streaming July 6th through 13th was a busy week for me.

Chasing shiny things Sometimes, I find myself in a peculiar mood: I wake up, hyped that I'm getting something awesome done today.

You can now browse my site by tags!

"BugsDone": Days 1-2 Ice cream I got myself after the long PeerTube day July 6th through 13th was an incredibly busy week for me.

Rest It's finally the 14th of July (*15th by the time I finished drafting this).

BugsDoneQuick practice report Over the past two weeks, I've been steadily gearing up for the BugsDoneQuick stream I'm planning to run between July 6 and 13.

Blindtyping Editing while writing is an counterproductive habit people get into, where instead of cranking out a draft, they keep looking back at the words they've just written and try to make them just a bit better.

Abstract photograph of a yellowed book surrounded by a few paper streamers in front of an open window On being human When I started making this website over an year ago, I decided I wanted to have a short tagline that expresses who I am and who I want to…

Setting up stream Last week, I was rather busy setting up my stream setup for BugsDoneQuick, the livestreamed event I'm organizing for July 6-13, where I will be fixing FOSS issues in projects I don't know, as fast as I can, in front of an audience.

Now page Inspired by Bryan Braum's /now page, my site now also features a "now page", which you can find in the sidebar!

Announcing: BugsDoneQuick, July 6-13 Hello, world!

The market for LLM-written articles is rapidly shrinking There have been a lot of anti-LLM and pro-LLM arguments posted all across the net.

Pipelines, GUIs, clipboards, and CLIs Usually, when you work on a computer, you use a variety of applications, each specific to part of the task.

Exploring the small webs with Marginalia, powRSS, and more Small blogs, personal experiments, throwbacks to a less computerized past... and more define the small web scene, where various independent websites exist in defiance to the huge platforms that in…

Good, sharp tools (programming toolbox — part 2) Recently, I got myself safety razor.

Reading times estimates in Pandoc Lua Recently, Abinav posted an article on how to estimate reading time in Pandoc-based blogs, titled "Reading Time Estimates for Pandoc Based Blog Generators".

Mowing the grass This week, beside my usual activities, I was busy with two quite disparate, yet in a sense similar tasks: I mowed the tall grass that had grown around grandma's house, and I updated a Gentoo server someone had left forgotten since 2017.

On having a programming toolbox — part 1 When I was younger, I used to scoff at the idea of having a programming toolbox.

Website refresh - now with lots more Lua!