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Yanko Ivanov
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Hello there!

Welcome to my digital garden. My name is Yanko Ivanov, and I'm a CTO from Bulgaria.

Essentially, this is my small corner of the internet. There's a blog, a tweet wall, things I learn, and an assortment of experiments and tools.

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  1. · TIL

    The first webcam watched a coffee pot

    In 1991 researchers at Cambridge pointed a camera at the coffee pot in the Trojan Room so they could check whether there was coffee before walking down the hall. It went online in 1993 and became the first webcam. The whole internet got its start from lazy people and an empty carafe. The web has repaid the debt: HTTP status 418 is "I'm a teapot", from the 1998 April Fools' RFC 2324 (the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol). A teapot asked to brew coffee is supposed to refuse with 418.

  2. · Tweet

    Six weeks in. Sleep is a feature I keep postponing to the next sprint.

  3. · Tweet

    I'm building a pergola next spring, so naturally I spent the week building the calculator. Posts, beams, rafters, a cut list and a 3D model, and not one board cut. https://yankoivanov.com/experiments/pergola-calculator

  4. · TIL

    Agents now have a protocol for talking and one for paying

    A2A is how agents talk to each other. AP2 is how they pay, and it's built on top of A2A. Payment systems assume a human is clicking "buy", so AP2 adds a signed "mandate" that records what the user authorised. https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/ https://ap2-protocol.org/

  5. · Experiments

    Pergola Calculator

    How many posts, beams and rafters a timber pergola needs, in what size, with a cut list, a price and a 3D model you can turn.

  6. · Development

    Alex's Claude has a question for Marco

    Kraken lets every Claude on a team ask the right person, or the right person's Claude, instead of stopping dead and waiting for a Slack reply.

  7. · Experiments

    Improbability Drive

    Generates daisyUI 5 themes with OKLCH maths, checks their contrast live, and lets you wear one across this whole site.

  8. · Development

    List of Golang books

    Some of the best golang books around

Around here

  • Blog

    Writing about code, systems, and building in public.

  • Experiments

    Interactive demos, tools, and playgrounds.

  • Today I learned

    A diary of things I learned today.

  • Tweets

    A diary of random things.

  • Portfolio

    This is what I've done over the years.

  • About

    Strap in for a tale.