Human. $Hacker. Artist. Prague.
Today we started officially the campaign for our postcards for pushing back against surveillance. A camera watches. You can watch it back. But two objects staring at each other will not change much. The point of noticing a camera is not to stand beneath it forever, looking suspiciously upwards. The point is to break the ... Read more
Why do people keep waiting for change? A look at how small acts, art, and public interventions can make invisible problems visible again.
Every religion has a messiah. AI has a church, a priesthood, an Inquisition, and billions in donations. The Christ slot is still empty.
Everything started a few months ago when I checked my spam folder and there was a message that said, your talk at FOSSNorth was accepted, please confirm only if you are 100% sure you are coming. What a decision. I am never more than 60% sure in general, because anything can happen. How can I ... Read more
I had a talk where I shared my journey translating Thunderbird into Bulgarian in the last years. I had so many challenges and I overcome some of them. If you are on a similar journey, maybe you'll learn something amazing.
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At the last DevOps meetup in Prague, I stepped on stage with a clear goal: to help others grow, not just technically, but professionally. As I spoke, I walked the audience through why building a personal brand matters in today’s industry, especially as many of us rely on platforms that don’t always align with our ... Read more
I am sharing a story about donating, volunteering, and supporting the things I believe in to show you that there is something you could do with your skills or financial assets to turn the world in a better direction. It’s not a secret that I donate more than $3000 a year for projects that align ... Read more
As a metal-head I always need to browse tons of content to find the next concert I wanna crash. Today I found the best, community driven, wiki-style website for this. There you go. P.S It covers more countries and cities :)
I visit a lot of sources to research my talk entitled “The archetypes of the attackers“. One of those is URLhouse, where you can see some good stats on the malware distribution. Sometimes, we as developers unquestioningly trust everything that comes from the sources we constantly use. GitHub is not an exception. Do I need ... Read more
I have created a small challenge via MapRoulette to fix something that is bothering me: The usage of http only url’s. The effort would give me the chance also to review non-existing urls as well. The OSM database is pretty old and some update with the correct location could be necessary! If you want to ... Read more
I finished with the translation of the Thunderbird mobile into Bulgarian. We are now at 100%. The next steps are to see how it fits into the beta and then do some changes if the strings are too long or don’t make any sense, given the way the translation is done. In the future if ... Read more
The one major item I learned from the acting classes is that you need to immerse yourself in the character – to understand their motivation, feelings, environment, and situation in life. Then, when you do a scripted monologue, you can be this person as much as you can. Here is an example of me doing ... Read more
My premiere is coming soon in Sofia, Bulgaria, and I wanted to introduce it to you. It’s an experimental theater play that focuses on immersive and participatory experiences. The Play We have become creatures who eat, shit, and hate ourselves and others. Hate is the only emotion that boils within us. Our society screams a ... Read more
I gave a few talks about Thunderbird at three conferences in Czechia, Croatia, and Belgium and wanted to share a short resume of what I have learned. FOSDEM FOSDEM is the world’s most significant event for Free and Open Source software. Even though my talk was not directly related to Thunderbird, I still want to ... Read more