Teodor Zhechev

Decided to just publish as articles, since the elevenlabs text-to-speech wasn't living up to my expectations. All articles can still be found in their original home at zhechev.com Here's the list so far: x.com/tzhechev/statu… x.com/tzhechev/statu… x.com/tzhechev/statu… x.com/tzhechev/statu…

@0xSero Not much of a monster then. Eliciting cooperation is an even better strategy in that case.

@tzhechev Not when you’re hanging by a thread

Game theory is simple, you need a monster in charge to win.

@slimjimmy Is that salt?

nah that's fucking disgustin ngl

@alxfazio That looks super cool.

research doesn't have to be ugly

@_colemurray Everybody's building the same stuff right now it feels like. The best products will rise to the top. My own hobby project is an autonomous feature builder.

if any VC wants to forward $22MM my way, OpenInspect is already cloud-native and in production across many companies 🙃 supports multi-player sessions, multi-surface: slack, web, linear, github integrated AI code-reviewer

@thepanta82 Would you be surprised to know Mercurial also handles renames better?

You will think git is a good solution. Then you will learn about file rename handling and rerere, and you will be enlightened.

@thepanta82 To be fair, what did you expect? 😄

Job ad: We prefer approach X to approach Y in our code Every applicant: I have deep appreciation for approach X and I've always said Y totally sucks balls

Not quite. Increased defence spending for EU countries means buying more US weapons (because of DDD). The US always has and continues to massively benefit from NATO defence spending in ways other NATO members don't. In fact, the US plays games with the buyers, as with recently, basically holding them by the neck. In addition, the US doesn't fund EU defence - the US owns everything it has bought for itself and picks and chooses what to do with it without so much as consulting NATO - the whole "freeriding" claim is the actual opposite of reality. This is if course on top of the massive power projection benefit that only the US really has use for. It's a lot of victim complex nonsense.

Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025. But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it. Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions. Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are. Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale. Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is. Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.” If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about? Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy. Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades. They couldn’t even manage that. So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates. If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.

Huh, xhigh is actually a lot sharper than I expected. Maybe that's what everybody is talking about when they say codex is better.

I thought I wouldn't like it originally, but Zed + Codex is actually quite nice.

@possiblyazure Welcome to graphql.

>200 ok >look inside >"error_code": 1348009

@y_molodtsov @GergelyOrosz I would still rather not have my CEO taking modafinil to work on his personal website then...

@tzhechev @GergelyOrosz He's building this website for himself, not for Y Combinator.

Perhaps controversial: I think it is a net good that CEOs and founders who are engineers at heart are back to coding with AI agents. Lots of dunking happening eg on Garry Tan. He's stepping outside of his comfort zone, building net new things + sharing in public.

@Ekaeoq First time encountering "horological" outside of a fantasy setting 😌

Seriously, fuck Swiss-made watch tools. Fuck Bergeon. Fuck all of them. The Bergeon 6764 “watch stem cutting tool” is literally just a Knipex end cutter with a watchmaker tax slapped on top. Same fucking pliers, 5x the price. They’re selling 20 euro pliers for 100 euros and acting like it’s some sacred horological instrument. This is un-fucking-believable. Seriously, fuck them bro. When I see shit like this, I genuinely start thinking everything I ever bought from them is a fucking scam. Fucking shameless.

@nikcname Eна жена каза да не си чакам пратката 😄

чата на Еконт е "жена" на име Ена

@yacineMTB I am blessed

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@nikcname Хаха, и това е достатъчно за да стане държавният програмист ефективен? И няма да има пак сума ти неразбрали, възражения дето ще ходят до съд и т.н.? Всички такива неща имат висока цена за прилагане и обслужване. С нулев полезен принос към икономиката.

@tzhechev те си имат камерите готови и работещи, някой ще напише няколо заявки да отдели ДВГ колите от електрички/хибриди

@robertgraham They can just convert to upper before hashing for the check though... why would they need the customers to do that?

Um, no, they are still stored as hashes. They were just converting text to upper-case before hashing. There's no reason to believe they stored plain-text passwords. Indeed, this message indicates the opposite: they can't fix the problem because they don't know your plain-text password, so have to force customers to fix it themselves.

@MnogoZle Аз затова спрях да вземам бащинство след първото. 🤷‍♂️

Добре де, каква е великата логика в месеца, в който ти се роди дете да вземеш наполовина по-малка заплата заради болничният по бащинство от НОИ, където ти плащат 10 дни на 90% от МОД, и после ти удържат почти същата сума от 10-те дни, които си работил за фирмата. *сиг е тъп въпрос, но ми е първи болничен за 28г трудов стаж