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 May 16, 2025 15 min read

Building Twice: A clone of Once

When Campfire - the first Once product - came out, a few of us at Ruby Zagreb pitched in to buy a copy. Prometheus had brought fire from Mount Olympus, and we came to see the blaze. We were finally seeing how the people at 37signals - the birthplace of Rails - build Rails apps. And as a bonus, we...
Published on May 06, 2025 12 min read

Adding MCP to a Rails app

Last week we had an AI hackathon at work during which we added an MCP server to our Rails app. This was much easier than I expected, the result was both impressive and scary, and I learned a few things about MCP that I didn't expect.Goal My team wanted to help our support team by automating some...
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...