Antonio Martinović blog

It’s not often that I come across a book that answers such a number of questions in a way that truly resonates with me as with this book.

Software engineering interviews are like putting together IKEA furniture, a little bit of it is fun and interesting, but it gets dull quickly if you have to put together an entire office worth, and there are always a few extra bits at the end that you are…

Few times already I’ve had discussions with people about video games and what kind of benefits can we derive from them outside of just fun and relaxation.

At a point in my past I’ve found myself working in a somewhat successful startup, it seemed successful because we were hiring more and more engineers and the scope of work and number of teams kept steadily increasing.

If you are in the top end of seniority in your team or company, either in technical or domain areas, chances are you will quickly understand the issue or a new feature your team is presented with and you’ll also have a decent clue on how to approach it th…

Few weeks ago I had an idea for an app, so naturally I started searching for a similar one on Google and I didn’t find anything, I even spoke with some of my friends about it and they didn’t mention anything that they were aware of anything similar, so I…

I quite liked to book, it has a lot of interesting facts that I didn’t know about, but it also had a lot of facts I already did know about especially computing related.

The third week picked up the pace a bit, the challenge was balancing it with other things in my life, as I’ve recently also picked up running.

The second week started of slow with some very small commits, it was about fixing up the Zitadel demo I started, which, to be honest, was only broken because I didn’t read the documentation properly.

The problem Ever since my role changed from a software engineer to a engineering manager, I’ve been coding far less, my contributions were mostly in the form of code reviews and the occasional bug fix, and this has fueled a feeling of longing to actually…

The biggest challenge with new leaders is letting go If you are in the top end of seniority in your team or company, either in technical or domain aspects, chances are you will quickly understand the issue or a new feature your team is presented with and…

I’ve always found the job description of a staff engineer to be a particularly compelling one, it requires a lot of technical, product and organisational knowledge, but it also needs a set of hard and soft skills to actually utilise this knowledge, without

There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers Above is something I always repeat when someone starts a question with “This is probably a dumb question, but…”.

5 years ago when I finished university I was learning something new every day, I was a software engineer and there was, what seemed to be an ocean of new shiny technology I wanted to learn about, things that make the application run faster, or UI look nic…

Improvement day(s) is an event in which each team member is given a chance to use the day(s) in whichever way they want, well as long as it’s something productive, where are not here for improving Tekken or Rocket League skills on the PlayStation.

I think that we all want to be good people who try to be nice and help others even though the today’s world makes it seem like this is not the case.

This is going to be a short one I’m only writing this one because I could not Google exactly what I needed as easily as I expected, so hopefully it might help someone.

History tables hold the past state of an entity by saving all the values of the original entity along with a date and time range field that specify when these values were valid, I will refer to this field as “validity”.

Git is an incredibly useful tool for a programmer, you use it to version the work you do and distribute it easily on other computers.

KDE Connect useful commands So I’ve been using KDE Connect Android application for a while now due to its great integration KDE Plasma desktop.

We developers love to solve problems, it is probably the largest source of dopamine we can get at work so we seek it like an addict.

Well, hello there Welcome to my blog, this is going to be a place for me to share what and how I use in my work and at home.