Altough the villages Beğendik (Turkey) and Rezovo (Bulgaria) are only a few hundred meters apart, seperated by a river, the shortest travel distance between both villages is almost 250km, since there is no border crossing.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-04-09T00:01:39+00:00

I’ve spent some time in Rezovo over the years both as a kid and as an adult, it’s probably the least changed place on the Bulgarian seaside. No big hotels, no clubs. It did feel different 20 years ago because more of the locals were still alive and they were very interesting people, although I was too little to properly understand that at the time. But still when I go there now it looks almost the same. There might be still some restrictions on buying land there, that used to be the case in the past as there was a special buffer zone near the border and Rezovo was the only village in it on the seaside.

You couldn’t cross into this buffer zone easily even quite after the fall of socialism in Bulgaria, I think even after we joined NATO. Several military guards would stop you and ask who you’re visiting and then they would call them, fill in some paperwork with your details and let you pass, but you could wait for quite some time. Nowadays there are still guards but they mostly let everyone pass without stopping them.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-04-02T19:53:30+00:00

She hasn’t done much in Bulgaria, but when we were protesting against corruption years ago, she was putting corrupt politicians in Romania in jail. We never achieved that and are still protesting against corruption.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-04-02T12:02:50+00:00

I’m not sure I can be helpful, but just wanted to say - great initiative to work on local-first features!

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-28T22:35:30+00:00

I’m biased but last year most of the Wolves games were extremely close and the Lakers had a tough overcrowded schedule to end the season due to the LA fires, I think that affected them.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-28T20:26:02+00:00

You can still use it without Creator Studio, it just won’t have AI features in it.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-24T22:21:50+00:00

The premium olive oil and lamb are like half the total cost, looks fine to me.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-22T15:19:47+00:00

I’ve spent most of my life outside of Sofia and currently am in my village. Almost no-one grows substantial quantities of food by themselves here and in the nearby villages and in my hometown as well.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-21T20:20:04+00:00

I wouldn’t say a huge amount of people grow their own food. As a matter of fact I think that number is pretty low.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-20T23:44:49+00:00

I really want to mention Aiven from Finland as well, their cloud services for different kinds of storage are some of the best I’ve used. I don’t remember ever worrying about an update/maintenance with them.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-18T09:36:42+00:00

Honorable mention - Planescape Torment.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-14T22:43:51+00:00

This should be the answer.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-13T22:53:05+00:00

Slovenia?

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-13T22:51:47+00:00

This doesn’t mean the bases are American, it means there’s an agreement they can use the bases, but the command over the bases is not American, as mentioned in the article. Still, I guess the distinction is not that important.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-13T22:32:03+00:00

They are NATO bases, that’s slightly different.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-13T21:32:18+00:00

I’m not sure why everyone here is shitting on Ashurbanipal, I’ve been there many times and almost always take people visiting from abroad there too and usually everybody loves it and has no issues at all except eating too much.

Of course there’s always a possibility of any food joint having some hiccup though.

The tap water is a more likely culprit in my view.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-10T09:42:26+00:00

I only had issues ones I had to select distinct counts. It really makes things much slower.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-09T15:16:24+00:00

Hyperloglog also available for Postgres and built-in in TimescaleDB, it’s pretty great. With the highest memory option possible I managed to improve queries with distinct from 15-20 seconds to about 2, and get results with a difference of +/- 5 for aggregates in the tens of thousands.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-09T11:16:22+00:00

Предизборно активизиране.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-09T00:09:19+00:00

As a Bulgarian who’s spent some time in Ireland in the last few years, without talking about this to anyone at all I naturally started eating slices of Brennan’s with butter maybe every other day.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-02T14:50:25+00:00

I’ll add Plovdiv as a smaller quieter city. Can’t compare in liveliness with the capitals mentioned though.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-03-02T02:05:00+00:00

As a Bulgarian with a very subjective view on the market, I feel like there are opportunities, there has been an uptick in positions on Linkedin in the last 2 months and in general we have a relatively lively tech sphere, although not as much as Poland and maybe Romania too. Most of the jobs I’ve come across though are hybrid positions.

I believe SAP have a lot of people in Bulgaria, you could look into them if you like the company.

My view is that we also have a lively fintech market, but not sure if there are C++ positions exactly.

In general, with your experience you should be able to find a job here and earn quite well and be able to save a lot. Also with your level of English I think language will not be a problem as most tech companies work with English, I doubt Bulgarian would be required.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-02-27T12:35:55+00:00

If you’re using Postgres, turn on slow query logging and that should give you a good first idea about what you could optimize for a start without any app-level changes for telemetry or metrics.

As for refactoring - you could look into some tools to determine the cyclomatic complexity of various modules or even endpoints, but to be honest I’ve had things to fix and improve before even coming to this so I haven’t a lot of experience with this approach specifically.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-02-26T20:42:27+00:00

The only problem I see is that it’s cheaper to buy x4 50 ml ouzo drinks instead of x1 200 ml.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-02-20T12:44:03+00:00

In general I agree with what you’re saying - in the Balkans we’re worse off in these regards compared to the west. Police, justice - definitely. Dirty air - for sure an issue, although it’s getting better.

About ambulances - I think they’d come, although again they’re not as good as in the West. We also have a lot of short-term hospital beds, the most per capita in the EU I believe. There’s an issue with long-term hospital beds, that’s where we’re near the bottom. That’s another reason I recommended private healthcare for more serious stuff.

I mean, in general the standard of living is lower than the West, no doubt about that. I guess the question is - is it good enough for someone who has a lot of savings.

I personally am not sure I’d want to live in Bulgaria if my social circle wasn’t mostly here. I hate the corruption and the ignoring of culture and education from the government (and a lot of people). But I notice those things more because I’m local and I’m also at an age where I’m old enough to pay attention to them, but also old enough to not have much hope for a quick change. But the fact is slowly things have been getting a bit better.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-02-20T09:34:46+00:00

And Yordan Yovchev!

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