Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia
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.
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.
The crazy jay that harassed our window last spring is annoying the yard cats. Momma cat came to the rescue a bit later.
He still tries to defeat the window but not as fiercely.
This wild flower can be purchased as a garden plant in Sofia. We found it at around 2000 meters altitude. It’s called something like stone-loving Arabis in Bulgarian. There were lots of rocks around it.
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