Don’t Reinvent Date Formats
Microsoft Exchange has a bug that practically stops email. (The public sector is primarily using Exchange, so many of the institutions I’m responsible for as a minister, have their emailContinue reading
I Have Been Appointed As E-Governance Minister of Bulgaria
Last week the Bulgarian National assembly appointed the new government. I am one of the appointed ministers – a minister for electronic governance. The portfolio includes digitizing registers and processesContinue reading
Simple Things That Are Actually Hard: User Authentication
You build a system. User authentication is the component that is always there, regardless of the functionality of the system. And by now it should be simple to implement itContinue reading
Integrity Guarantees of Blockchains In Case of Single Owner Or Colluding Owners
The title may sound as a paper title, rather than a blogpost, because it was originally an idea for such, but I’m unlikely to find the time to put aContinue reading
Hypotheses About What Happened to Facebook
Facebook was down. I’d recommend reading Cloudflare’s summary. Then I recommend reading Facebook’s own account on the incident. But let me expand on that. Facebook published announcements and withdrawals forContinue reading
Digital Transformation and Technological Utopianism
Today I read a very interesting article about the prominence of Bulgarian hackers (in the black-hat sense) and virus authors in the 90s, linking that to the focus on technicalContinue reading
Every Serialization Framework Should Have Its Own Transient Annotation
We’ve all used dozens of serialization frameworks – for JSON, XML, binary, and ORMs (which are effectively serialization frameworks for relational databases). And there’s always the moment when you needContinue reading
A Developer Running For Parliament
That won’t be a typical publication you’d see on a developer’s blog. But yes, I’m running for parliament (in my country, Bulgaria, an EU member). And judging by the currentContinue reading
The Syslog Hell
Syslog. You’ve probably heard about that, especially if you are into monitoring or security. Syslog is perceived to be the common, unified way that systems can send logs to otherContinue reading
Developers Are Obsessed With Their Text Editors
Developers are constantly discussing and even fighting about text editors and IDEs. Which one is better, why is it better, what’s the philosophy behind one or the other, which oneContinue reading