Articles • Hrvoje Šimić

In the previous article, I’ve claimed that the biggest danger of Roam is not being systematic with your note taking, which can lead to having notes that are not valuable.

Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.

The abundance of books is a distraction.

Redesigning this website was a fun little project I did over the past weekend.

I’ve been away from all websites I spend the most of my time for 3 months.

I’ve killed two products I’ve spent a considerable amount of time building.

When validating library quality, we like to take a look at some metrics like the time of the last commit or the number of stars as if those relate to quality.

Although you could use git commit -m for writing a git commit message, it’s much better to use a proper editor for that, especially if you’re writing a multiline commit message.

This post is inspired by Falling in love with Vim again by @michaelsoolee.

I’m a freelancer and I love what I do.

Node is powered by the JavaScript engine used in Google Chrome, called V8[1].

The question I get from time to time is this one: Do you really want to work like this when you’re forty or fifty?

It’s absolutely maddening to see so many people work a job they don’t want to work, so that they can pay for stuff they don’t really need.

TL;DR: The bigest problem is standing out.

I’m a programmer, so in my daily work I depend on the work of others.

I’ve been freelancing remotely for the past six years.

I’m starting a new habit.

This post is going to be about NGINX wizardry.

TL;DR A couple of months ago we released Seedshot, a tool for peer to peer screenshot sharing.

The best way to complain is to make things.

Just ship it should not be related to the software industry only, because it can be used in so much real life situations.

In today’s era of 24/7 business, sleep is becoming more and more underrated, and yet — no one is questioning the benefits healthy sleep gives us.

I’ve borrowed a MacBook Air for a week and decided to share my thoughts as I look back.

Ruby community is influenced with Rails opinions of conveniences and conventions.

Neurotic Time-Wasting often takes the form of reading articles from news sites such as Hacker News, attending meetups, and futzing with A/B tests that don’t ask important questions, and don’t collect sufficient data.

TL;DR: use Karma as a test runner for your JS apps.

I’ve been a Ruby developer for some time, but I’m recently getting pulled into the vortex of streams and modules called Node.js.

I’ve published a simple JavaScript library the other day.

Wondering whether you should add a post-installation message to your gem?

World wide web is such a great medium.

Do you practice Test Driven Development?

It’s been a while.

This is the problem I come across every now and then, so I think a little write up explaining what’s happening could help me understand it better.