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 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...
Published on June 03, 2024 2 min read

Software is made by people

The recent Hotwire pop-up drama has shown me that some have forgotten that software is made by people - people with different backgrounds, different values, different skills, and different flaws. The diversity in opinions and aproaches is what makes modern day software development great. That’s...