After switching (think) to Minimal Mistakes I’ve been doing some small improvements to the site’s structure and content. I thought it might be a good idea to summarize them here: I’ve updated t...

redux adjective brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux. A decade ago, I wrote an article titled Why Emacs?. I came across the article a few days ago and I felt that given ...

Let’s talk a bit about .net. No, not Microsoft’s .NET, but the other .net - one of the original top-level internet domains. Given how popular .com has become, I find it really strange that .net fai...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Your name is your brand. This may sound like a cliche, but it’s true. That’s why it’s a very good idea to make sure that when people sear...

From time to time I tend to forget what’s my effective Git configuration, so I have to check it somehow. Most of the time I’d simply do the following:1 $ git config --list user.name=Bozhidar Batso...

It’s been over a decade since I’ve started using Jekyll and I’m still struggling with setting up Atom feeds there. Perhaps this happens mostly, because I rarely do any feed-related changes, so I te...

Yesterday I got yet another completely absurd cold email from an incompetent technical recruiter: I’m looking for a Front-end React (Next.js) developer to join our international team. It’s a Fu...

Here’s one random observation - (almost) nobody comments directly on blog posts these days. It seems that all the conversations happen somewhere else - Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter, Facebook, you na...

I wonder how many people remember the 12-inch MacBook that Apple introduced to much fanfare in 2015. It was supposed to be the future of computing, a super thin and light computer for the modern pe...

Today I’ve switched the blog’s theme from Hydeout to Minimal Mistakes. I did so for several reasons: I didn’t like the color scheme that Hydeout used for syntax highlighting, and I didn’t want ...