Bozhidar Batsov

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good.

Recent Posts

2023: The Year in Review

5 minute read

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Søren Kierkegaard

A Bad Year for Blogging

1 minute read

Last year (2022) I celebrated a rather unexpected all time blogging record. As it often happens in such cases, however, there was a massive drop in my bloggi...

Fastmail: Year Two

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Here’s a small follow-up to my usage of Fastmail that started in 2021. In a nutshell - little has changed since my previous update. Fastmail is still my favo...

Learning OCaml: Quoted String Literals

3 minute read

While learning OCaml I’ve noticed one curious feature - it has two types of string literals. The first type are the common and quite familiar “double-quoted ...