Category: fun

  • Feeling proud

    Year was ~2007. I had a rare 1-1 with the CEO of the outsourcing company I worked for. The company was based in the USA while engineers were in Serbia. I as a somewhat longer tenured employee was asked to share what I think about the company, the local team, etc.…Me: You know I think…

  • Cool Podcasts in 2022

    Previously (back in 2011), I wrote about some podcasts I enjoyed listening while I was traveling or doing sports. Turns out the list has changed a lot in just 11 years 😮 The current list is: Acquired – behind the scenes of the biggest tech IPOs and acquisitions of all time. AllIn – Industry veterans,…

  • Getting Around in Silicon Valley

    My family and I moved to San Mateo, CA (Mid Peninsula, San Francisco Bay Area) in Oct 2015 and we’re enjoying our stay here. We were lucky to immigrate with a green card we got through Diversity Visa lottery. The move went smoothly since I have been already working for Frame – a Bay Area…

  • Developers from Nis in English

    The actual title of this article about Serbian developers from Nis who blog/tweet/give_lectures in English language should’ve been – Developers from Nis doing stuff in English but the current title is shorter and rhymes better with Nish 🙂 This article is just a start and currently (at the moment of publishing) contains modest amount of…

  • IT Companies in Nis Updates

    I have decided to register updates to IT Companies in my town (Nis, Serbia, Eastern Europe) as separate posts. So here is the first update in that manner: – I have updated the info for StangaOne branch in Nis – I have added the Joomboz company Now, this unofficial list contains 46 potential working places…

  • Practice programming by solving challenges on job sites

    A few months ago, I read a really great article by Jason Rudolph on how to be a better developer http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/ and it left a great impact on me. The impact mostly affected the way I think on how to improve programming skills because I didn’t took much action in relation to what it writes…

  • Podcasts for Developers

    Until I started to travel on a regular basis I haven’t been aware of the value and information that can be found audio podcasts for developers. I thought, “Come on, what can you learn from listening to a radio?”. Nevertheless, since I had to fulfill my time with something other than staring at empty space…

  • My startup ideas list (no it’s not revealed)

    I’ve decided to reveal my startup ideas list size (not the actual content which is in Serbian and would take some time to translate). This is the list I populated in the last 3 years. Whenever I got an idea about something (in 99% it is IT/web/app stuff) that could be interesting to be done…

  • Battle for Brilliant Developers (not Managers)

    Recently, I’ve read about many companies offering rewards for referring great developers to them. Examples are Hubspot offering $10k, SeoMoz oferring $12k, and EnergySavy oferring $10k. It appears that demand for developers exceeds supply so it’s good to be developer these days so I am using this opportunity to remind young computer science graduates that…

  • ‘Awesome’ administrator

    I am not sure if this clip is fake or not but it’s hilarious for sure. This guy is the administrator you don’t want to employ at your company (maybe you can recommend him to your competitors :). Watch it from here: