Happy 22nd, WordPress!

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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.

Spring Book Fair, Sofia

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Today was my first visit to the spring fair. The weather was cold and rainy, most tents were semi-closed or not open at all. I walked by a small fraction of the fair, visited two of the four publishers I wanted to find.

I plan to come back around the end of the week, when I have more time, and hopefully the books aren’t wet. There’s also a book signing with Julie Kagawa scheduled at the Pro Book tent on Saturday and Sunday. I hope to have a chance to meet her.

And my first round of harvest

Silo part 2 – Shift, Murderbot 4, and the latest translated book by Harlan Coben – Think Twice. I like his naming convention. Books are named like blog posts.

Happy Bulgarian Alphabet Day!

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24th of May is the day in which we celebrate the creation of the Bulgarian script, known outside of Bulgaria as the Cyrillic alphabet.

The Byzantine scholars St. Cyril and Methodius craeted the Glagolitic alphabet around 862-863 so they can spread Christianity. According to our schools, it wasn’t too convenient to use. Their students, based in the Preslav Literary School, did multiple simplifications and created the new script based on the Greek letters with some Glagolitic. The result stuck and spread around the globe.

24th of May is an official holiday in Bulgaria. The video above shows the students and teachers from a local school entering the center of Blagoevgrad with their marching band to be later greeted by the president.