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me@ognjen.io LinkedInThere are lots of fully remote jobs, but most require at least some timezone overlap. (202)
Believing the misconception that a customer has decided not to use your product because they're lazy is only hurting you. (245)
Removing the need to know the underlying concepts and making familiarity with the software a desirable skill in itself (579)
My answer to an Ask HN. Yes, particularly for features that are still too complex and for features that deal with money. (136)
My answer to an Ask HN. TL;DR: For money. (66)
TL;DR You aren't, but spam is real, and a good alternative doesn't exist at the moment. (848)
A provider that has no comparable competition is the perfect example of why competition is not only good but necessary. (663)
General issues that have made me, and others like me, host or build my own solutions instead of paying for an existing service. (526)
Cubitts, a glasses retailer, announced that they’re going to be using iPhone’s camera to scan faces to assist in buying glasses. I’m interested of the privacy implications of th... (1709)
Questions answered while iterating the design of a single input field. (1517)
Otherwise it skews your stats. And while you're at it remove `fbclid` from query parameters. (101)
A comparison between Austrian and Bosnian (RS) and Serbian QR code for the vaccination certificate. (2994)
My (possibly naive) take on what I'd do in Steve's shoes (444)
I really like the book The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. It talks about how over time companies move into higher revenue segments, effectively abandoning the lower ... (1269)
A couple of things about what a demo video on the homepage should be like, in my opinion: Reduce pointeless animations A lot of videos go overboard on animations and tra... (140)
(e: 2021-08) I’ve just realized that this is actually “Error’d”.Even the best of us test in prod(30.09.2021) Ipay88(14.09.2021) Google’s CSS breaking because of a long name(10.0... (381)
If you embed posts from social media, please do this. (10)
In the early stages, or for a side project, it’s not worth building an entire system in order to track user feedback. Instead, it can be done quite well by capturing the feedbac... (173)
An article that I was not particularly interested used the phrase “falling off a cliff”. Even though I wasn’t particularly interested in the content, I did open it because I wan... (73)
It's a video, it might take a second to load. (25)
For the sake of being DRY we've made single-page applications and progressive web apps too DRY. In order to offer a better user experience we need to stop considering the client-side and server side store and routes as logically related. (927)
The Tinder interface is great for making a quick judgement for a low impact decision. A while back I built several prototypes that use that interface and realized that it works ... (262)
Update: Feb 2021China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre I wonder who that could b... (674)
As the Corona lockdown measures relaxed Selangor quite quickly introduced Selangkah: a web app that captures users’ details when they visit a store. It was later followed by KLS... (716)
Here are the more technical details of ACO implementation are discussed. The reasoning behind it and the conclusion are in a separate post.ImplementationI started off with an ex... (1795)