Hi, I'm Stanko Krtalić Rusendić

I am a Web developer from Zagreb making products with Ruby on Rails, Hotwired and Tailwind.

Latest Articles

Published on April 24, 2025 16 min read

Building Simpl息

This week I went for a coffee with a friend. As we talked the topic of hobbies came up. I mentioned that I was having a lot of fun working on a toy project over the past week, and then I showed it to him. Him: So you are dabbling in React? Me: No, this is just Rails. Him: Which libraries did you...
Published on March 03, 2025 12 min read

Adversarial Web Services

My first job was at a digital agency. In addition to app development we also hosted the apps that we'd develop for our clients. This allowed us to avoid fiddly managed hosts, and since we ran everything on a beefy bare-metal server we didn't have to manage dozens of machines at different...
Published on January 27, 2025 19 min read

Monitoring ActionCable

A few weeks ago I was woken up with the following message "Hey, devices are randomly disconnecting from WebSockets can you come online and help?". Usually, when a widespread problem like this occurs out of the blue, my first goal is to make the app mostly operational again and my second goal is...