Stanko

A year ago I had my first day at 37signals (the people behind Basecamp, HEY and Fizzy). This was a dream come true for me. I wanted to work there ever since I read Rework over a decade ago. The books, podcasts and talks that followed showed me that we als

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 tre

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

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 Ra

Last week we had an AI hackathon at work during which we added an MCP server to our Rails app. This was much easier than I expected, the result was both impressive and scary, and I learned a few things about MCP that I didn't expect.Goal My team wanted to

This week I went for a coffee with a friend. As we talked the topic of hobbies came up. I mentioned that I was having a lot of fun working on a toy project over the past week, and then I showed it to him. Him: So you are dabbling in React? Me: No, this is

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 manag

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