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Bogomil Shopov. Human. Artist. Hacker. Metalhead.

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2026 7

  1. I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
  2. Paint the Cameras Dead
  3. The world does not change because people wait
  4. The AI church with no Christ
  5. Me at FOSSNorth 2026
  6. FOSDEM: What translating Thunderbird taught me
  7. Me at FOSDEM 26

2025 8

  1. Grow your [engineering] brand while putting privacy first
  2. Why I donate and volunteer, and why you can do it yourself.
  3. Where to find the next metal concert in Prague?
  4. Github is still #1 malware hosting network
  5. Openstreetmap: Let’s fix the urls
  6. Thunderbird Mobile now speaks Bulgarian
  7. Use ChatGPT to conduct a character study on yourself.
  8. SystemErr 2052 – an experimental theater play in Sofia.

2024 10

  1. Three talks about Thunderbird at three FOSS events
  2. Dors/Cluc and DevConf.cz: Two open source events worth visiting
  3. Bulgaria’s three open source events in 2024
  4. Two hacks to bring positive emotions to your teams.
  5. Dear conference organizers – Inject some respect into your process.
  6. Thunderbird Council, FOSDEM, OpenStreetMap, KDE Plasma6.
  7. Use your Thunderbird OpenPGP key to set your Web Key Directory
  8. How does TPM help the product ops?
  9. My Mozilla Sprint #2
  10. My Mozilla Sprint #1

2023 11

  1. Steganography API at your service. (upd)
  2. Come and see me speaking at GeeCon 2023 in Prague.
  3. Our trip to Greenland: Part One – Kangerlussuaq
  4. Halfstack Vienna 2023
  5. Help me build my talk: Where did all the fun go?
  6. 6 new job opportunities for security and privacy enthusiasts in Europe: June-12, 2023
  7. Me, Myself, and DevOpsDays 2023 Prague
  8. DevOpsDays 2023 is coming to Prague again!
  9. Working remotely (Fix it session)
  10. Deliver a product with an impossible timeline: Can seven apple trees grow an apple for one month?
  11. FOSDEM 2023 – hotels, information, and facts

2022 13

  1. My Threat Modeling book is available in 12 networks and supports the Fedora Project.
  2. Make contributing to open source projects easy for your colleagues.
  3. Now you can enrich your Fedora wiki profile with your Fediverse URL.
  4. Get my Threat Modeling e-book for just $3.
  5. Zaz concert , Prague 2022
  6. Sting Concert, Prague 2022
  7. How to estimate items too early to be estimated?
  8. Who’s buying Facebook data? Is it you?
  9. ‘Tis the season for Privacy
  10. A convenient guide to starting you on Threat Modeling – part two
  11. A convenient guide to starting you on Threat Modeling – part one
  12. How to contribute to Open Source privacy projects
  13. Github <> Fediverse (updated)

2021 10

  1. Sharing your birthday online can turn you into a victim of an attack.
  2. Me and the Hacker Noon
  3. Doing Threat Modeling properly will help your teams create more secure products.
  4. 20 years in IT
  5. Spotify knows what you did the last G88gle search session!
  6. The future of passwords is bright
  7. Threat modeling framework under Creative Commons license.
  8. Product Idea: Privacy First in (Food) Delivery
  9. What would you do if you had magic (agile) wand?
  10. Involve your team members when you do your threat modeling.

2020 8

  1. Hiking Near Prague: Třebsín
  2. Inspiration for Scrum Masters and Other Leaders (vol 1)
  3. Happy Baba Marta: Discover Bulgaria and Romania
  4. Building Scrum Master CoP S01E01: Inspiration
  5. Redefining the Scrum of Scrums
  6. Continuous feedback during the SAFe PI Planning
  7. Storytelling in SAFe
  8. My funny out of office auto-responder.

2019 2

  1. HacktoberFest – done; Why care?
  2. The Wind Through the Keyhole and the future of APIs

2016 7

  1. I’ve launched a Mozilla Donation Campaign for #CyberMonday craziness.
  2. How I run Ideation workshop to hear “the voice” of the team.
  3. Solving customer pain point through simple prototyping and using my 20/10 rule
  4. How to engage us, developers to use your API.
  5. How to measure customers’ satisfaction without asking them those boring questions
  6. Voice navigation – bringing your app to the next level?
  7. The saddest job of the IT world is … being a growth hacker

2015 7

  1. Voice-controlled UI plus a TTS engine.
  2. 3 interesting startups from Europe
  3. The Localancers growth story: A great product for freelancers on Product Hunt
  4. A small growth hacking example for JSblocks
  5. Some thoughts about my #GrowthHacking Workshop for @StartupYard
  6. Why is Bulgaria Web Summit 2015 so different from any other event?
  7. Coworking spaces in Brussels for Fosdem

2014 19

  1. FOSDEM 2015 – hotels, information and facts (updated)
  2. Top 3 Useless Applications on Product Hunt – Batch One
  3. Three #Bulgarian tech #startups that are so amazing that you should try them still today
  4. Optimize your GitHub Issues and 4 tricks and facts you should know about GitHub
  5. Capture screenshots and annotate web sites in your Firefox
  6. It’s live: Usersnap’s JavaScript error- and XHR log-recorder.
  7. Why webcompat.com should do better + a proposal
  8. 10 things every startuper must know about e-mail marketing and will not find anywhere else.
  9. How to simplify the WordPress development processes which involve clients
  10. Developers Will Never Need To Leave Vim Again, especially under Fedora
  11. Help a freelance journalist in #Crimea. He needs urgently a laptop.
  12. The SEO Is Not Enough.
  13. Interview with me for StartupYard on GrowthHacking, OpenSource and Politics
  14. Bulgaria Web Summit 2014 with GitHub, ElasticSearch, SmashingMag and more friends
  15. @Geeksphone e-mail campaign is …not for geeks
  16. Mission Possible: Teach your clients to give you a perfect bug reporting, especially for design issues.
  17. Wips My Browser
  18. Growth hacking workshop in Prague, Czech Republic
  19. Warning! A Mozilla scam

2013 16

  1. #Thunderbird and @Trello Integration
  2. Facebook doesn’t like QR codes?
  3. FirefoxOS, Internet of things (#IoT), the future
  4. Build your own UX with #FirefoxOS (slides)
  5. Geekterview with Christina Wodtke from Elegant Hack
  6. Geekterview with Flavius Stef
  7. Geekterview with Tiang Cheng from TranslateKarate.
  8. I can see the pulse of customers real time.
  9. Google Adsense is the best
  10. There is one place to share ideas about the web and its name is @WebExpo – Prague
  11. Some more updates on Bulgarian #mozilla community.
  12. Mix Content and Channels for Lead Generation.
  13. Marketing Kanban Style for Tech Startups
  14. A small research about browsers in Bulgaria – March 2012
  15. How To Throw A Smashing Fedora Release Party
  16. Converting “Free” users to “Paid” users.

2012 57

  1. Fedora 17 on Raspberry Pi: Mission Possible
  2. Disgruntled Bulgarians are organizing themselves on social networks to stage a “Tomato Revolution.”
  3. No, Facebook, I don’t want my 5$ back, but I want something from you.
  4. The Facebook Privacy story in short (video).
  5. Mixed Feelings After My Conversation With Facebook.(updated)
  6. Facebook will call me!
  7. I just bought more than 1 million …Facebook data entries. OMG! /updated/
  8. Getting inspired by Felix Baumgartner to change … education.
  9. Changedu.org is mentioned as “Open Training Tool” from Smashing Magazine
  10. Change the education worldwide by remixing the web
  11. Change the EDUcation with just 1 click. Be famous!
  12. I want to change how the education works, but I need your help.
  13. Who is Utilizing Social Media in the Classroom?
  14. The tools that make me a better marketeer: Geckoboard
  15. Make me run and support your favorite opensource project
  16. Remixing the Web and Creative Learning? My new mission.
  17. Is Mozilla membership forever?
  18. Java Weekly Bytes: New edition is out. News about Java, Scala, Ceylon, Gosu, Grails and Clojure.
  19. 5 days FOSDEM in Prague this October.
  20. Wrong marketing approach from Comodo and ActiveState.
  21. What’s new in the Java and the JVM World last week?
  22. May 4th: the Day against DRM
  23. inbound.org block my account because of my educational campaign.
  24. “Make me run”. A Twitter campaign
  25. Using adf.ly as a lead generation source
  26. I had a great meeting with a very cool Java guy last friday. Learn a lot from @steveonjava
  27. Pentagram – Lions in a Cage
  28. Community Engagement: Add Twitter news at your Facebook profile.
  29. How to disable new ugly Facebok Timeline profile?
  30. Au revoir, Mozilla. Good bye Mozilla!
  31. Events, orgaized by me in the last 8 years.
  32. GeekOut 2012 – Java conference in Estonia, Europe.
  33. New issue is out: Java Weekly Bytes – 13.03
  34. Java Weekly Bytes – New weekly newspaper.
  35. Cool fun videos about … Java
  36. How to upgrade your Facebook page to kick-ass level
  37. LiveRebel 2.0 is here.
  38. Using Glogster for #LiveRebel campaign.
  39. Gent, Brussels and Fosdem 2012
  40. Troll as a marketing asset?
  41. Why the heck we need marketing guys at our perfect IT company?
  42. Community … #fosdem #mozilla
  43. Community session #fosdem and mozilla
  44. #Fosdem 2012 – what’s going on.
  45. Hardrock Cafe Prague on my way to Fosdem
  46. Funding for Startups in February and March
  47. How to control HTML5 slides with your hands via webcam
  48. I am Wikileak’ed
  49. The future of Java – a community perspective
  50. Rust Language – Hello World
  51. Get number of likes of your/any Facebook page via PHP
  52. Mozilla Developer Room schedule at Fosdem
  53. Fosdem protocol for Mozilla Firefox (fosdem:about)
  54. Open Source GeoServer now coding Java at light-speed using JRebel for free.
  55. Bug tracking month for Bulgarian web L18n
  56. Testing Zemanta addon for Firefox, while using it :)
  57. (Mozilla) Communities – Agile approach, tools, patterns and metrics.

2011 79

  1. FOSDEM 2012 – hotels and useful info.
  2. How the Suits should assign tasks to Geeks
  3. JRebel and OSGi: Use the right tool for the right job
  4. Nobody puts a pirate in the corner
  5. Is Google Chrome next IE
  6. Put some Agile into your community
  7. Dear #Mozilla, please create a lightweight version of @Firefox
  8. Where do the (java) developers come from?
  9. Velocity Conference @Berlin.
  10. What tools you’re using while building a community? #Mozcamp
  11. Twitter and Facebook contacts on my Thunderbird
  12. Installing #JRebel on #Fedora and #Eclipse Helios
  13. Always look on the bright side of life
  14. How to remix the web or how Forbes writes about me.
  15. Mozilla Community Theme for WordPress under GPL
  16. … and thanks for the Firefox 6, but, please make this happen. (Addons)
  17. Face Recognition with Node.js
  18. Microsoft is urging people to download Firefox?
  19. MongoDB, Node.js and admin auth
  20. Full HTTPS REST server in Node.js
  21. /away for a while
  22. I love Bitcoins (it’s all about freedom)
  23. Mozilla, Softpedia and addons
  24. Capture API
  25. Offline AddonSDK (#jetpack) activities
  26. Subscribe to my RSS and win a free postcard (via snailmail)
  27. Mozilla #JetPack: Create a simple debugger
  28. Mozilla Jetpack talk at #OpenCamp
  29. Create a class-based library in #JetPack (addon SDK)
  30. Get current active theme in #JetPack
  31. Yet another benchmark test.
  32. #Javascript survey results and #jetpack
  33. 1 year from first Mozilla Balkans meetup
  34. Are you from Australia? Love Mozilla? Join Us!
  35. JetPack: How to add a button to a webpage + events
  36. Is it (Mozilla) Jetpack still confusing?
  37. My developer’s survey (preliminary results)
  38. Are you interested in learning something new and cool?
  39. Jetpack.ruble 0.2
  40. What is #OpenData
  41. Communication breakdown (AddOn)
  42. Are you hacking in JavaScript/HTML/CSS?
  43. JetPack Linux .patch
  44. Converting your IDE into a powerful JetPack machine
  45. JetPack offline and a JetHack idea.
  46. 10 reasons to fell in love with Mozilla JetPack
  47. Announcing the Kolab Server 2.3.0
  48. #mozpub in Ruse, Bulgaria
  49. OKFN community and me.
  50. Invitation to help us test Kontact on Windows
  51. Openweb
  52. Beer at park
  53. First posterous post
  54. Bulgarian Mozilla Community Rocks.
  55. Who creates the Bulgarian web?
  56. OpenCamp Sofia 2011
  57. Using spreadfirefox model as a base for “Join Mozilla” program
  58. Webm and public services
  59. OpenSite initiative is live
  60. About:volunteers talk @Fosdem
  61. Bonsoir Mozilla
  62. food and beer at fosdem bar 2
  63. fosdem is about to begin
  64. mozilla at fosdem
  65. fosdem 2011 photo
  66. fosdem before 0800
  67. on my way to FOSDEM
  68. Fosdem 2011 – my talk
  69. Mozilla.bg – latest page into Mozilla’s ecosystem
  70. Mozilla @ Fosdem 2011 and you
  71. Mozilla in Africa
  72. Firefox 4 beta team and FOSDEM
  73. Mozilla membership program – existing communities vs. new global one.
  74. Mozilla membership program – (part 2)
  75. A good news from … Google
  76. Pirate Party member Azyz Ammami beaten in detainment
  77. I am going to FOSDEM. What about you?
  78. Diaspora* privacy is a myth?
  79. “I am a Mozillian” costs 5$. Awesome!

2010 66

  1. How to install Kolab Server on Fedora 14
  2. Kolab server 2.3 alpha is available
  3. Proud to be part of army of awesome
  4. Electronic Frontier Bulgaria and Human of the Year Award 2010
  5. Sync to replace delicious?
  6. Censorship of Wikileaks mirror by Pirate party of Serbia hosted on mochahost.com (as private rented server)
  7. Community Management Course and a CC Manual.
  8. Running TOR as a relay on Fedora 14
  9. A Diaspora* experiment
  10. Make my birthday open wish comes true.
  11. Bulgarian l10n Mozmill tests #mozbalkans10
  12. Wikileaks and Pirates
  13. OpenData Hack Day #odhd
  14. KOLABoration in action
  15. IS INTERNET BECOMING THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION?
  16. Wordcamp Romania 2010
  17. A (open source) dream comes true
  18. Talks in Romania and Bulgaria (feat. Chuck Norris)
  19. Balkan’s community meeting is tomorrow
  20. Bulgarian Mozilla Community’s TV
  21. Thunderbird replaces Evolution
  22. Bulgaria Web Summit 2011
  23. Pissed off
  24. PopCorn.js and me
  25. HTML5 ane CSS3 for presentation slides
  26. How to Run Doctrine ORM with CodeIgniter
  27. Our new community website is ready
  28. Quick short URL PHP function
  29. Posting to Facebook fan page wall as an admin using Facebook API
  30. vTiger SOAP bridge from WordPress and Imap server
  31. Sending SMS messages via Twilio Rest API
  32. Word Cloud during the keynotes (#moz10)
  33. Hup Holaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand HUP !
  34. CaCert assurance party @ MozSummit 2010
  35. WRT: How to post to your WordPress using Ajax (+code)
  36. Many browsers on Fedora (Safari and IE)
  37. Expanding my network
  38. XAuth – Mozilla webappstore.sqlite
  39. XAuth basics and an example.
  40. Firefox 4 Business Conference
  41. What really happens when you delete your Facebook account?
  42. Drumbeat Berlin – 8 May 2010, Betahaus
  43. Yes! I am looking for a job !
  44. Drumbeat event in Bulgaria
  45. What is your Internet looks like?
  46. P2P Conference 2010
  47. Pirates, me and Mozilla
  48. Pirate Party Enters Bulgaria Political Scene
  49. Behold! The Drumbeat event in Bulgaria.
  50. Mozilla Drumbeat project – Privacy Fox
  51. Firefox – 45%, IE – 43 % In Bulgaria
  52. Increasing the OpenID security through the mobile telephone SIM card as a combination of elliptic curves and Diffe-Hellman algorithms
  53. Bulgarian support
  54. SUMO: make people grow through the community.
  55. This month in Pictures
  56. More ideas about the SUMO website: The Entry point
  57. If I were a SUMO Community Manager …
  58. Some notes about Mozilla Drumbeat in Europe
  59. Are you from Europe? Why don’t you become a Drum-beater?
  60. Fosdem 2010 – OpenWeb and Communities
  61. Why Mozilla sucks – part 2
  62. Bulgaria is not Big Brother, 2010 is not 1984
  63. FOSDEM 2010 – some ideas and links
  64. WordPress Mozilla community website template.
  65. I just send my application to Mozilla
  66. The me:// protocol and Firefox

2009 17

  1. Why Mozilla sucks? Fosdem 2010
  2. Birthday, my Birthday.
  3. Open Web and Bulgarian web awards winning ceremony
  4. Celebrating 5 years of Firefox in Bulgaria
  5. Fosdem 2010: Fighting with the beast
  6. My Mozilla talk at Veliko Tarnovo University (in Bulgarian)
  7. I have been nominated for “Human of the year” award. Waw!
  8. Firefox 5th birthday logo proposal
  9. Add your own Firefox’s 5th birthday place/venue here
  10. Little Firefox Adventures: Happy Birthday
  11. University of Veliko Tarnovo just announce my Mozilla speech.
  12. Microsoft’s ballot screen
  13. Some Thoughts on Firefox’s Fifth Birthday
  14. A Mozilla Camp 2009 story
  15. Mozilla Firefox Catches up with Internet Explorer in Bulgaria
  16. Why I’m in love with my Ubiquity: Translate command
  17. A browser overview from Bulgaria