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 June 12, 2025 10 min read

Clean air & AI

One of my favorite activities is hiking. I'm fortunate to live close to a mountain where I can go for a hike any time I want - often early in the morning, before work.I love the trek over hills and valleys, through forests and streams, the creaking of trees in the wind, the rustling of leaves,...
Published on May 24, 2025 7 min read

My last PHP app: How I Fell for Ruby

Last week I found a backup of the very last PHP app I ever wrote. The backup was from 2009, but the app itself was written in 2007 - 18 years ago! Back then I was in my late teens and the world was (or at least felt) completely different. Out of nostalgia, I spent some time exploring the source...
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...