Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia
I had the opportunity to get a signed copy of Julie Kagawa’s The Immortal Rules. It’s very rare to see a popular writer here in Sofia and I’m thankful for the opportunity to see her for a few moments in person.
She’ll also be giving autographs tomorrow afternoon at the Pro Book booth. It is the first tent looking from the pylons of the National Palace of Culture.
Even the best thriller authors have bad days. There must’ve been a day when Harlan Coben decided to use the trope of the incredibly smart serial killer who chases our main protagonist by doing weird circles. This choice wasn’t great.
The killer manages to be very successful with a variety of strangers and then turns silly in the presence of Myron Bolitar. Meanwhile our superheroes talk and talk. And talk.
Think Twice was a miss for me. It’s readable but I had a very good idea what will happen and it mostly happened. I hope the next book is better. Harlan Coben doesn’t have many bad books, he’s usually consistently good.
2*/5
Photo taken from a safe distance.
The weather was much nicer today, although I somehow messed up the photos and they all look like there was a fog. I visited most of the tents I couldn’t last time. There’s room for one final visit, hopefully for Julie Kagawa’s book signing during the weekend.
Got myself a fourth book. I showed much restraint, I was close to impulse buying books I didn’t plan to read.
We had a small birthday party, organized by DevriX and celebrated 22 years of WordPress with cupcakes, snacks, and beer.
I remember the days of building custom CMSs from scratch for every project. Each one came with the same recurring challenges: handling forms, fighting spam, scaling images, building a page editor, and so on. WordPress—and a few of its competitors—helped democratize this process. It made web publishing and commerce accessible to everyone and created fertile ground for the open web to thrive.
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