Vlado Vince

Bittersweet news comes to us this weekend from the Zagreb – Split line, with the last run of the ICN (InterCity Nagibni) service after more than two decades.

For the past year I’ve been based out of Zagreb, living in my hometown for the first time in over 15 years.

I’ve been writing a lot about railroads in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) lately.

Of the many train types I’ve travelled on over the years, one of my favorites is the Ganz-MÁVAG 411/6111 series EMU, the Yugoslav Railways (JŽ) train built in Hungary in the late 1970s and the early 1980s.

Dejan Ristanović passed away in Belgrade on November 10th 2025.

Note: this is the fourth and final article about my recent train journey through Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Note: this is the third article about my recent train journey through Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Note: this is the second article about my recent train journey through Bosnia and Herzegovina.

I spent most of this summer based in Zagreb, taking trains and riding bikes.

Earlier this year, I wrote about a rare occurrence at Dobova, a border station between Slovenia and Croatia: a few HŽPP local trains crossed over from Croatia into Slovenia to pick up passengers going to Zagreb holiday markets.

Note: this trip was inspired by Jon Worth’s Cross Border Rail project.

Photography is arguably my oldest hobby.

A childhood friend of mine got an iPod in 2004.

The October Archive.org attack shook me in a bad way.

I’ve been wanting to see the SS United States, which has been docked in Philadelphia since 1996, for many years.

Earlier this year I had lots of fun participating in GlobalTalk, a fun collaborative experiment where a bunch of folks interconnected their home AppleTalk networks into one global network that allowed their classic Macs and other devices to communicate ac…

The organization I work for thankfully wasn’t affected by the CrowdStrike incident, but I ended up assisting a subcontractor who works at our site since their IT team was of course swamped all day with calls.

In the 2020s we’re celebrating many anniversaries related to the early days of home computing: 2022 marked the 40th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64, and the recent celebration of the 40 years of the Apple Macintosh made a big splash in…

It’s the middle of MARCHintosh!

It’s MARCHintosh!

In early September I published a post on Mastodon, with what was meant to be a humorous comment.

Note: this post is based on a Mastodon thread.

Note: this article was originally written for the Club de Aventuras AD magazine.

In early June I went to the VCF Swap Meet in Wall, NJ and picked up a supposedly functional TRS-80 Model I.

A few months ago I got a Compaq iPaq H3650, the same model that I had almost twenty years ago.

Galaksija computer stores its characters in a separate 2716 Character generator ROM.

Back in 2020 I built my first Galaksija computer, using the original single board design.

Last edited: 27 May 2024.

It’s MARCHintosh!

A few weeks ago I got a Compaq iPaq Pocket PC, model 3650.

Edited May 16 2023 Orao was a Yugoslav 8-bit computer developed by Miroslav Kocijan for PEL Varaždin in 1984.

This is a translation of the article I wrote for Kulturpunkt.hr about the demise of Twitter, my personal history and feelings about what’s going on after Elon’s takeover, and my hopes for building better online communities in a post-Twitter world.

Following Elon Musk’s takover of Twitter, I decided to finally leave that platform.

This is a recording of the talk I gave at A New HOPE conference on 7/24/2022 in NYC.

Note: this is the English translation of the obituary I wrote for my grandfather in Croatian in October 2021.

Note: this is the third and final part of three articles about my experience building a 1980s Yugoslav 8-bit computer called the Galaksija.

Note: this post was originally published as a Twitter thread.

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Note: this is Part II of three articles about my experience building a 1980s Yugoslav 8-bit computer called Galaksija.

Note: this is the first part of three articles about my experience building a 1980s Yugoslav 8-bit computer called the Galaksija.

Note: FreeNAS recently rebranded as TrueNAS.

Note: This was originally published as a Twitter thread.

In late July we traveled from NYC to Croatia to see my family.

My IBM Model M keyboard came with an integrated PC speaker, but it wasn’t obvious what it’s meant to be used for.

At my day job our team manages a lot of laptops, some of which are Macbooks.

A few weeks ago I posted about going back to repairing old electronics as a means of distraction and coping during quarantine.

This is a pretty all over the place post about the quarantine in NYC, budget cuts and E-Waste recycling, old Macbooks, RSS feeds and the history of podcasting.

On May 1st, I biked to Manhattan and left Brooklyn for the first time in 50 days.

Note: This article was written before the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge… Source