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Bozhidar Bozhanov
Personal blog · techblog.bozho.net · on HN as bozhoprogrammingsecurity
Bozhidar Bozhanov writes Bozho's tech blog, a personal blog at techblog.bozho.net about programming and security. Since 2011, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 229 times, most often “GDPR – A Practical Guide for Developers (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Bozho's tech blog, cited mainly for its practical GDPR guide for developers. Readers also link its posts on tracking cookies, blockchain skepticism and Bulgarian e-government.
- Recommended for · 5 comments
- Called the GDPR developer guide pretty good and a good guide for developers; told readers to have a look at it; listed among links found great and bookmarked as
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tips and thoughts on developing software, by Bozhidar Bozhanov
Most-linked posts?
- GDPR – A Practical Guide for Developers (2017)8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-12-04
- Short DNS Record TTL and Centralization Are Serious Risks for the Internet3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-22
- I still prefer Eclipse over IntelliJ IDEA2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-22
- An AWS Elasticsearch Post-Mortem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-13
- Simple Things That Are Hard: User Authentication2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-30
- All That Cloud: Amazon, Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Heroku, Jelastic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-30
- Handling Edge Cases (Yes, Uber)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-26
- One-Time Passwords Do Not Provide Non-Repudiation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-20
- I Have Been Appointed as E-Governance Minister of Bulgaria2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-18
- In Defence of Monoliths2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-23
What Hacker News says?
True, they are not. The opt-out analytics is not allowed and they are sending the data to 3rd party (google) without user consent. I could also argue about some minor things, but allowing google to track users without consent is a major breach (but they can also simply fix it by using for instance piwik). https://techblog.bozho.net/tracking-cookies-gdpr/
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on “StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations”Submitted GDPR – A Practical Guide for Developers (2017) as a story · 379 points
HN discussionCompliance is trivial and involves steps that are already best-practices anyway. You won't need to split any atoms. https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/ The penalty isn't meant to be something you afford. It's a penalty. (It's a feature, not a bug.) I'm having a really hard time not being sarcastic right now but compliance with the law might also end up being an economical option worth looking…
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on “StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations”Submitted I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not declining as a story · 205 points
HN discussion> but I have never seen anybody complain that "I switched to logback and slf4j and my jndi substitutions stopped working." SLF4J was created to replace Apache Commons Logging and Logback was created to replace Log4j 1.x . Both were created Ceki Gülcü, the original author of Log4j 1.x [1]. Logback came out in 2006. The first beta version of Log4j 2.x was only released 6 years later in 2012, and the JNDI lookup featur…
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on “Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place”Submitted The Syslog Hell as a story · 106 points
HN discussionAnd here's my How-To for adding Persona authentication to your site: http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1056
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on “Users don't like social login”Submitted In Defence of Monoliths as a story · 82 points
HN discussionhttp://techblog.bozho.net/why-all-the-fear-in-electronic-vot...
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on “Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source”Submitted Generating Music (with an algorithm) as a story · 71 points
HN discussionI found this guide to be pretty good https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/
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on “How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop”Submitted Ideas Aren't Worthless as a story · 48 points
HN discussionBulgaria's minister of e-governance: https://techblog.bozho.net/i-have-been-appointed-as-e-govern... is a top Stack Overflow contributor: https://stackoverflow.com/users/203907/bozho as well as a moderately active HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bozho
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on “Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)”Submitted Musical Scale Generator as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThe GDPR states you can only offer opt in and NOT opt out. This is not an opt in method, no matter how Facebook spins it. I hope the EU pulls them on this :) Going by http://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/ anyway
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on “Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe”Submitted Do Web 2.0 Companies Really Have The Best Technical Talent? as a story · 33 points
HN discussion> GDPR will very soon start to be used by corrupt politicians and other criminals who want "to be forgotten" for their misdeeds GDPR isn't the right to be forgotten, it's mainly about ownership of customer data, consent & privacy. You can have a look at this developer guide: https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/ for what it means as a developer.
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on “Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States”Submitted Two Years On Stackoverflow as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI always find funny how the IT community in the country decides who to vote for or whether to vote at all. But to address your concerns, although I don't understand how the technicalities around someone's personal blog relate to what kind of a politician they'll be (as opposed to... idk... its 10+ years of content for example): 1. Superhosting is the largest Bulgarian shared hosting provider. Although they indeed of…
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on “Bulgaria's new eGov minister is a software engineer”Submitted Assessment of Doge and Musk's Actions for Government Efficiency as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI wonder what "blockchain" means here. The word is all over https://logsentinel.com/ but it may be just to make "immutable audit trail" more buzzwordy. In 2017 they posted a skeptical https://techblog.bozho.net/blockchain-its-all-greek-to-me/ which in linked to from very recent https://techblog.bozho.net/digital-transformation-and-techno... > Technology alone will not solve anything. And my blockchain skepticism is…
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on “Bulgaria's new eGov minister is a software engineer”Submitted The Low Quality of Scientific Code as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSome thoughts on when it's ok to use JWT https://techblog.bozho.net/using-jwt-sessions/
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on “Ask HN: Cookies vs. JWT vs. OAuth”Submitted I Am Not Allowed to Post My Content on Reddit as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI found F# really good at with this -> "wrap around the idiosyncrasies of the underlying imperative". In the video Paul Phillips elaborates on many subject much better than I could ever do. I also found the .net ecosystem libraries better, even though there are fewer libraries available. Some links that I found great on the subject: https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/4246qc/heres_why_sca... https://techblog.boz…
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on “Scala at scale at Databricks”Submitted Computer Science Concepts That Non-Technical People Should Know as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI was surprised the other day when I was testing the bitcoin integration for a project of mine (here's a how-to: http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1114 ), that the price is so high. I bought my bitcoin a couple of months ago at 10 times lower prices, and it was a pleasant surprise.
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on “Bitcoin rises”Submitted Make Your Email Column Unique as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou can get some motivating stuff done even without changing the field. Specializing in something cool and strange is fine, but as someone mentioned - there will probably be a 95% repetitive task there as well. While staying at your current industry segment, you can still do interesting stuff: I've discussed that here http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1063
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on “Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?”Submitted Why I Like The Verbosity of Java as a story · 6 points
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