
Hi, I'm Stanko
I am a Web developer making products with Ruby on Rails, Hotwire and Tailwind. Welcome to my neck of the woods. This is where I share my thoughts and projects.
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Hold your own Poison Ivy
After two years, this week I finally caved and changed my current employment title on LinkedIn from Software Engineer to Software Architect.
This isn’t a position where I'm am supposed to do much programming - the thing I love most, and the thing I'm good at - but rather make high-level technical...
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Rent in Zagreb is hell
Last month my landlord called me and told me that I had to move out because he was going to sell the apartment I live in.
In a way, this came as a blessing. I wanted to move out of that place by the end of the year either way. But at the time I had no clue what hellscape finding an apartment in Z...
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Corporate newspeak
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought
- George Orwell”
One thing that annoyed me anywhere I worked was that people limit themselves to a narrow subset of English. A subset that's full of buzzwords and phrases that sound impressive but lack meaning. It's a subset design...
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