Programming The Danger of "Simplicity" It's good to think about simplicity in terms of the tradeoffs we make when we take a particular decision. Preslav Rachev 5 Apr 2021 • 2 min read
The Recap The Recap #4 A regular recap of my journey through life and towards financial independence. Contains my notes, community feedback, and a few scattered links. Subscribe to get those in your inbox. Preslav Rachev 29 Mar 2021 • 4 min read
The Recap The Recap #3 A regular recap of my journey through life and towards financial independence. Contains my notes, community feedback, and a few scattered links. Subscribe to get those in your inbox. Preslav Rachev 21 Mar 2021 • 5 min read
Cryptocurrency Making Sense of NFTs Beyond All the Hype Here is what I know. Preslav Rachev 15 Mar 2021 • 6 min read
2 Cents The Urgent vs. the Important I have recently bought an e-book by a Gumroad author named Luca Dellana. I have to admit I did it mainly to see how successful authors on Gumroad package their Preslav Rachev 29 Dec 2020 • 1 min read
Personal My 2020 Podcast Mixtape The podcasts that defined my year Preslav Rachev 26 Dec 2020 • 1 min read
Personal Every End Is a New Beginning These past couple of weeks were overly emotional for me. I made a decision I've been thinking about for the better part of the last five years. I decided to Preslav Rachev 15 Dec 2020 • 4 min read
Programming The Myth of Code Coverage One question I often ask potential software engineering candidates is to pinpoint the percentage of code coverage in an ideal project. Interestingly enough, many of them jump to the sky Preslav Rachev 3 Dec 2020 • 3 min read
Personal Farewell, macOS! Last Friday, Apple released Big Sur, the latest version of macOS. While everyone else was busy downloading GBs of data from Apple’s servers, I took a different, less beaten Preslav Rachev 16 Nov 2020 • 4 min read
Elixir Elixir Is Not Ruby. Elixir Is Erlang Try to remember the first time you heard about this fascinating language called Elixir. Chances are, you had by the time been developing software using Ruby. If that's the case, Preslav Rachev 6 Sep 2020 • 2 min read
Dev Culture It's Time to Stop Fantasizing About Being a Software Developer It's a job like any other. Unless you learn to treat it as such, you're up for a big mental surprise. Preslav Rachev 11 Aug 2020 • 3 min read
2 Cents If You Are Still Calling AI Artificial Intelligence, You Are Wrong Preslav Rachev 7 Aug 2020 • 4 min read
Programming My Reply To: The Case Against OOP is Wildly Overstated Preslav Rachev 3 Aug 2020 • 3 min read
Productivity Why Is Roam Research Becoming So Popular? Even if note-taking is not your cup of tea, you have probably heard about Roam Research and wanted to know what the hype is all about. Well, to be frank, that's what I wanted to do as well. Let's figure it out together. Preslav Rachev 1 Jul 2020 • 4 min read
Productivity Getting Your Bear Notes Productivity to the Next Level Using Alfred Combining the superpowers of Bear and Alfred will let your productivity skyrocket. Preslav Rachev 29 Jun 2020 • 3 min read
