Hi, I'm Stanko

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...

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...

“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...