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Preslav Rachev
Personal blog · preslav.mewritingprogrammingdesign
Preslav Rachev's personal blog at preslav.me covers writing, programming and design. Since 2015, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 100 times, most often “Thank You for Unsubscribing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-19, and you can follow it by feed.
For multi-disciplinary creatives who code, photograph, write, and build. Tools, insights, and products for people who don't fit in one box.
Most-linked posts?
- Thank You for Unsubscribing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-26
- Golang Interfaces Are Not Meant for That3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-15
- Go's Error Handling Is a Form of Storytelling3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-14
- Between Go and Elixir2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-23
- No One Needs Teachers Anymore (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-08
- The problem with Go’s default HTTP handlers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-09
- Create Robust “Enums” in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-22
- Data Science on Your iPad2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-12
- Generative Art in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-11
- Epic Rap Battles of Programming: Java vs. Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-21
What Hacker News says?
Hello everyone, co-creator of Feedle here. Thank you so much for letting the world know about our tiny side project! While I tred answering some of people's pressing questions on this thread, I think they deserved a more thorough explanation, so I wrote a blog post instead: https://preslav.me/2024/03/25/feedle-on-the-hacker-news-fron... Beweare, it's a bit lengthy, but hopefully, it would address some of your concer…
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on “Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts”Submitted Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby as a story · 414 points
HN discussionSubscribe for the first issue, or check out previous ones one my site: https://preslav.me/tag/this-week-in-elixir-and-erlang/
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on “My bi-weekly newsletter on all things Elixir and Erlang”Submitted The problem with Go’s default HTTP handlers as a story · 192 points
HN discussionI think the recent popularity of Obsidian, Roam and Logseq has something to do with it. People enjoy the power wikilinks have and love sharing their knowledge graphs[0]. [0] https://preslav.me/2022/09/01/logseq-come-for-the-graph-stay...
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on “Keep Stuff Linkable”Submitted The Myth of Code Coverage as a story · 87 points
HN discussionMy best takeaway from this post: > The friction of building personal apps has always been so high that as users we accepted the ads, the trackers, the dark patterns, and the constant upsells. > The friction is just not there anymore. You can build a personal app that has the exact subset of features you want, that is clean, fast, and respects your privacy, in a matter of hours. https://preslav.me/2026/04/03/the-fric…
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on “It's getting hard to justify app stores”Submitted Farewell, macOS as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI think this post sums it up pretty well: https://preslav.me/2026/03/25/murmel-competition-identity-tr...
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on “Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines”Submitted Elixir Community Voices: Lars Wikman as a story · 25 points
HN discussionNice! Can I shamelessly add my own blog ( https://preslav.me ) into the mix?
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on “What Goodreads is for books and ProductHunt for products, Blogmark is for blogs”Submitted Why should I use Go over Rust, Java, or Python? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionRegarding the “iota dance,” I wrote my 2 cents on what could be a slightly more robust approach a couple of days ago: https://preslav.me/2023/03/17/create-robust-enums-in-golang/ P.S generic type sets make it even better. I’ll write an update to my post these days.
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on “The Simplicity of Single-File Golang Deployments”Submitted My Journey with Elixir and Flow-Based Programming as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIn preparation for my upcoming book: https://preslav.me/generative-art-in-golang/ I have built this simple proof-of concept. The idea was to grab one of my sketch generators and export it to WASM, for use inside a Web browser. Does it work? Kind of. Is it practical? Not really sure. While it does work, there are a few challenges that make it a second-tier solution, in my view. I’ll discuss all those in my book.
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on “Show HN: Generate Art with Go and WebAssembly”Submitted Between Go and Elixir as a story · 8 points
HN discussionShameless plug: https://preslav.me
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on “Ask HN: Websites with well-done dark mode”Submitted The Myth of Code Coverage as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elixir Tip: Case vs. With as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use the Git History to Identify Pain Points in Any Project as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted No One Needs Teachers Anymore (2024) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted No One Needs Teachers Anymore as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don't Own Your Content on the Internet. You Never Have as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Believe in Machine Learning. I Don’t Believe in AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Book on Teaching Elixir to Pythonistas? Will It Fly? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hitting the Brakes on Claude Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Made Peace with Go's Date Formatting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Apply Unsupported Simulations on Older Fujifilm Cameras as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted (+1) Things Evernote Got Right as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Double-Click to Edit: Rethinking Note Interactions in Obsidian as a story · 3 points
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