I was fortunate enough to get featured on Hacker News* last Tuesday with my blog post Let me tell you, why the last 20% of work takes the same amount of time as the first 80%. I was on the front page for some hours, on second for quite a […]

You know when developers tell you that they did 80% of the application in x days and that they need the same amount of time for the last 20%? I was trying to find an analogy for »laymen« and I’ve finally figured it out. This is the same as driving […]

I believe that every time we see something that we don’t understand yet, we tend to see it in a more naïve romantic way. Below are two examples how I had to change my mentality about chess and billiards if I wanted to improve my game. Let us first focus […]

I have a webpage about all the LPG stations in Slovenia. You may have heard of her bigger sister myLPG.eu (the site for LPG stations in Europe), but you probably haven’t heard of plinske-crpalke.si. This page has a steady flow of regulars who want to find out about the locations, prices […]

In preschool you are learning the basic things about life. So you start with a big blank plate with nothing on and after a while you get the first few Duplo® bricks, the first basic knowledge. The teachers in grade school define the first broad-ish specter like math, history, geography… […]

tl;dr Check the image below It is way easier to see the whole picture now-a-days than it was a few decades ago. At that time you just heard the success story and maybe how much effort was put into building that business if you were lucky. If you wanted to […]

tl;dr It is your responsibility to find out We all know those help desk horror stories about the computer illiterate clients who don’t know anything what the tech guy is trying to say to them. But there is even a greater problem providers and clients are facing nowadays. The pace […]

tl;dr I made a weekend project, check the traffic density on Slovenia’s highways During the summer vacation period there is usually more traffic on main roads than ordinary. And if you want to travel on these roads, the info about road density on your designated route can be really valuable. […]

tl;dr When you build something for somebody, do you know everything he or she needs? The main difference between building custom solutions for yourself or for clients is that you already know why you need it and usually don’t have a clue why that customer needs it. It is dangerously […]

tl;dr Cheap is not usually healthy Last time I watched a TED video where JP Rangaswami talks about Information is food. “Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. … It’s a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we […]