Kaloyan K. Tsvetkov 🇧🇬🇪🇺

Stupidity is very expensive and the bill has to be paid eventually

At this point, it is interesting to consider where Linux would be after Linus.

Pouring two Head shots.  One in sorrow.  One in celebration.  For the loss and for the life and career of the great Gene Hackman.  Made a D grade picture with Gene and Dom DeLuise.  We laughed together through the whole fiasco.  Gene told me he only needed four instructions from directors.  Louder. Softer.  Faster.  Slower.

In 1983, singer Barry White urged people to learn how to code. At the time, less than 1% of the population owned a computer.

There have been 1000s of zombies, 100s of Draculas, dozens of Frankenstein's monsters, 10 Jason Vorhees, 9 Michael Myers, 7 Leatherfaces, 2 Freddy Kreugers and one CANDYMAN... Tony Todd (1953-2924) is immortal On your way, brother... Bernard Rose

Mike Flanagan’s DOCTOR SLEEP was released on this day in 2019

The Visitor is not only the best episode of Star Trek DS9 it’s also one of the best episodes of TV ever made. A lot of that is down to Tony Todd’s heartbreaking performance. One of the greats. RIP.

The first role I ever saw Tony Todd in was The Crow. His voice and presence in the film was so good and perfectly complimented the rest of the films villains who were often unhinged and over the top. I'll be watching it again today. Rest in peace to a legend.

100% my experience too. People that get a product for free very often don’t appreciate the value they get.

I’ve never seen any proof that having high WIP and highly parallelised task work has ever resulted in high throughput. People assume it is true because that is why they did it. Everything I’ve seen shows the opposite.

On vacation, but a quick @GregCapullo appreciation post - the guy is the best friend and best partner anyone could ask for in comics. ❤️🤘🏻

"WordPress/.org is not WordPress" is a good reminder that only the code is open source. When you build something online, you should treat all platforms and distribution channels as someone else's sandbox and plan accordingly.

@TedMerz @andrewhorowitz I see some resemblance with @TedMerz - for a moment seeing the photo in the feed I thought it was you =)

View from the Office. Met Michael Ma, Founder and CEO of SixAI, a fintech startup, for coffee at Spill the Beans in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. We each had a cappuccino. SixAI is leveraging large language models to re-imagine the future of financial research and portfolio management. That’s not what Mike said, but it’s how I’ll describe his stealth-mode venture. I’ll write more about it at some point but suffice to say it’s wicked cool. I met Mike in March when he DMd me on LinkedIn. After graduating from Wharton, he started his path at Blackstone, and then became a long/short equities analyst. He founded ResearchRabbit in 2020 and SixAI last year. Usually when I meet people, I’m behind the notebook asking questions. Mike turned the tables, insisting on a photo with both of us and peppering me with questions about the early days of Bloomberg, where I spent three decades as a reporter and product manager. Mike said he finds the stories helpful to understanding the infrastructure of modern fintech. He said it’s more relevant to him than economic history about, for example, the canals or railroads systems. As anyone who has met me knows, I could tell Bloomberg stories all day. I told Mike about the time I hired a reporter named Rick Jarvie who insisted our Buenos Aires office be across the street from the stock exchange. The reason location mattered was because in those days closing prices were printed after the close and physically handed out. Rick would then run back to the office to type them up and publish. It seems so antiquated, of course, but the principle of expediting the delivery of information has been a continuous theme from the days when Reuters used carrier pigeons to the high frequency traders laying cables from New York to Chicago. We talked about storytelling and how important it is to founders, especially those like Mike who are trying to create something new. I suggested that it helps to use examples and anchor around an existing product or service that’s familiar. We talked about how financial research has evolved from the days of Warren Buffett’s focus on 10-Ks and Stan Druckenmiller’s macro bet against the Bank of England to the current quant era of alternative data and factor models. The AI period has yet to be defined, but Mike said it could change the game. He argues new tech should be accompanied by a new approach. Mike can be reached via X or LinkedIn or DM me for a warm intro. @MMikeMMa @SixHQai

Incredible test footage from 1974 of Garrett Brown's industry changing invention, the Steadicam.

The man who made every creator want to write and draw comic books! He looked at my Batman and said "Now that is Batman" I'll be smiling until the day I die. I genuinely can't believe how lucky I am!

If there was ever a perfect film, it's TOOTSIE. A book on the making of TOOTSIE changed my screenwriting forever. Reading Sydney Pollack break the entire story down as, "a man who dresses up as a woman and becomes a better man" was perhaps the key moment that led to more consistency in my work. A light bulb went off. THAT is how you define a story. Two points about the screenplay: 1) It has a fun structure with how the hero gets what he always wanted at the midpoint, only to realize he's trapped by it. Ratatouille does something similar when Remy and Linguini are the toast of Paris, but their success makes everything worse. If I am having trouble with the midpoint, "What if I just give them what they always wanted?" remains a fun possibility for me. 2) There are few actual jokes in Tootsie. It is played less for laughs and more for truth, trusting that playing it as truthfully as possible will be the source of the laughs. This is how someone like Pollack, who Dabney Coleman described as, "Not the funniest guy in the world," made one of the best comedies ever. Needless to say, a lot of help from Murray Schisgal, Larry Gelbert and Elaine May, all brilliant in their own right. The scene here between Dorsey and his agent George still makes me laugh and I must have seen it 100 times. I love this movie. An all-time classic.

The Bible is 100% accurate, especially when thrown at close range.

Today marks 10 years since #TheBookOfLife was released! Such an amazing animated film with a great cast, I loved playing as Skeleton Luis!

In all of the recent events of the #WPDrama it was .org that was the weak link (blocked access, logins, plugin takeovers). It is only logical to seek alternatives. While at it, let's ditch the SVN and adopt Git repos for the plugins =)

Exactly