About pages are a strange thing to write. You end up describing yourself like a stranger, and I am suspicious of that.
So, plainly. I am Boris. I have been writing software for a bit over fourteen years. The work pays the rent and feeds the dogs and gives me a problem to chew on most mornings — which, honestly, is more than most jobs do. These days I am the backend half of a small product team, somewhere between Laravel, Docker, and Kubernetes, mostly worried about queues that should drain faster than they fill and indexes that grow faster than I would like.
Before software I studied mathematics at university. I never quite stopped. Mathematics is the place I go when the world gets too loud. Number theory especially — there is something honest about a prime number that I do not find in many other places. A lot of what I write here starts from that direction. A small mathematical itch. A half-understood medical paper. A French sentence I had to read four times. Then I pull on it and see what else is attached.
The blog is where the pulling happens. None of it is expert work. I read medicine I have no business reading. I read Bulgarian and French novels and pretend I am keeping up. I am learning German slowly, mostly because the grammar amuses me. I write C++ by hand sometimes. Not for work — just because the discipline is its own thing. The essays come out of all that — quiet attempts to write down what I noticed before I forget it.
I live in Sofia. Two rescued strays — Кожухка and Еклер — make sure I do not take myself too seriously. They have failed before. They keep trying.
That is most of it. There is a small freelance shingle I keep up under the name Percepticus, for work that arrives by word of mouth. Otherwise the essays are here, and I am content to be quiet about the rest.
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