Tracking Butterflies
Tiny devices on tiny insects.
Nikola Plejić: blog
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On User Interfaces On the Web & Beyond
Old man yells at modern UIs.
Current Affairs on Ye
Kanye West, politically unacceptable art, and politically unacceptable artists.
Antirez on LLMs
On Salvatore Sanfilippo's "LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024".
2023: A Year In Review
Wrapped up my graduate studies, wrapped up my shoulder recovery, and went for a wonderful trip to Scotland.
Thoughts on Large Language Models
Summarizing a couple of discussions on LLMs at the hacklab.
2022: A Year In Review
It's always better to skip one, rather than two... Decent year, all things considered.
2020: A Year In Review
...wherein I try to make sense of the mess that was 2020. Pandemics, earthquakes, music, books & plans for the future that may not be.
org the ultimate API client
Using emacs & org-mode as an exploratory API client.
Living and Coding In Times of Crises
...wherein I try to convince myself that everything will be alright.
Book Review: “How to Read a Book”
I don't really review the books I read, but I decided to write a short blurb about the oft-recommended “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading” by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren.
2019: A Year In Review
...wherein I write my first yearly review.
Developing Web Services in Rust: my talk at the Zagreb Rust Meetup
Links to slides and code examples from my talk on building web services in Rust.
Shoving Your Application Code Into the Web Server: my talk at WebCamp Zagreb 2018
In 2018, I gave a talk on how to use Lua, nginx, and OpenResty as a full-blown asynchronous programming environment.
Miscellaneous Org Mode Tips & Tricks
Google Calendar export, project management & Gantt charts with Task­Juggler, spacemacs' org-agenda transient state.
We Made a Conference (For Fun and No Profit)
A short write-up on the organizational aspects of the WebCamp Zagreb 2017 conference, where I coordinated the sponsorship aspect of the story.
Music I've Listened To - Week of March 7th
I try to listen to a lot of fresh, interesting music. Here's a choice of 5 records that have especially caught my interest during the last week.
Impressions from WebCamp Ljubljana 2015
Folks from Zagreb go on a field trip & visit WebCamp Ljubljana!
Forcing Korma to use UTF-8 in MySQL connections
Fixing non-ASCII inserts.
EuroClojure 2014: Notes & Impressions
EuroClojure 2014 was a blast!
On Asking the Right Questions in Internet Communities
A rant on asking questions online.
Developing and Deploying ASP.NET MVC Applications On Ubuntu Linux with Mono, nginx and MySQL
A short guide to running Microsoft's web stack on Linux, and connecting it to a MySQL database.
F#: Funkcijsko programiranje za .NET (WebUG, studeni 2010.)
Materijali s predavanja o F#-u.
File upload in Clojure & Compojure
How to handle multipart HTTP POST equests in compojure.
(G)Vim: postavljanje opcija u ovisnosti o direktoriju
Učitavanje vim konfiguracije ovisno o direktoriju.
Zašto Wolfram|Alpha neće ubiti Google i zašto to nije bitno
Od svog predstavljanja, Wolfram|Alpha ne prestaje privlačiti pozornost tehnološki osvještenijeg dijela populacije. Reakcije su mnoge, od izrazito pozitivnih do izrazito negativnih, a mnoge od njih pokazuju određeno nerazumijevanje koncepta same aplikacije.
Creative Commons knjige o informatici i programiranju
Dobre, besplatne, otvorene knjige o IT-ju.
Zašto neki developeri misle da su pametniji od drugih
Relativno sam nedavno na Redditu pronašao interesantan dokument pod nazivom Programmer Competency Matrix. Par dana nakon toga sam se ponovno sjetio dotičnog i, zaboravivši link, krenuo u potragu na Googleu.
Open source softver za matematiku i prirodne znanosti
Budući da je open source softver vrlo raširen u znanosti (zapravo, tamo je sve i počelo), bilo bi neobično da ne postoje besplatne, otvorene alternative koje će biti i više nego dovoljne prosječnom studentu i entuzijastu, a sigurno će zadovoljiti i potrebe nekih od zahtjevnijih korisnika.
Programiranje i informatika – Je li fakultet potreban?
U posljednje vrijeme po raznim forumima relativno često naletim na thread gdje mladi (budući) developeri razmišljaju o odabiru srednje škole ili fakulteta. S obzirom da nerijetko dobivam takva pitanja od svojih poznanika, a u sličnoj situaciji sam nedavno bio i sam, imao sam prilike dugo i intenzivno razmišljati o ovoj temi.