Hrvoje Šimić

Merry Christmas

25 Dec, 2025

1password browser extension sucks

23 Dec, 2025 til

Discovering Neovim undofiles

22 Dec, 2025 til neovim

I've just deleted five of my ideas

3 Aug, 2025

Second goodbye to LinkedIn

21 Jul, 2025

Shaving that yak

15 Jul, 2025

The prison of context

10 Jan, 2025

On evil being that which is positive

8 Jan, 2025

Schopenhauer, Emerson, and prompting yourself

7 Jan, 2025

Thoughts on coffee making

26 Dec, 2024

Into hibernation

25 Dec, 2024

Choose a note-taking app that best fosters self-dialogue

27 Sep, 2024

I regret not journaling sooner

24 Sep, 2024

Writing deadlines

23 Sep, 2024

Tired of social media

22 Sep, 2024

Resurfacing notes in Roam

12 Jan, 2022 til roam

That which is familiar, becomes invisible

16 Nov, 2021

Good habits affect us, but we forget

6 Aug, 2021

Reflections on three months of note rafting

10 May, 2021

Putting the ego on the line

2 May, 2021

Reproducing a bug in the lowest test level possible

25 Apr, 2021 til development

Thoughts on debugging

18 Apr, 2021 dev

Writing before programming

11 Apr, 2021

Morning Pages are the wastewater

4 Apr, 2021

Thoughts on social media

28 Mar, 2021

The story of a ringing bell

21 Mar, 2021

Silencing others to hear yourself

14 Mar, 2021

Books for depth, articles for breadth

7 Mar, 2021

Use Zettelkasten to write articles

28 Feb, 2021 knowledge management

Stop thinking what others would like to read

21 Feb, 2021

Meetings vs documents

14 Feb, 2021

Dealing with bureaucracy

7 Feb, 2021

Stopping Spring from using 100% CPU

30 Jan, 2021 til rails

Running parallel Rails tests on Github Actions

22 Jan, 2021 til rails

Reading and conversation

17 Jan, 2021

Build aspirins for friends

10 Jan, 2021

Writing a lot is not enough

3 Jan, 2021

Mind the transaction

26 Dec, 2020 til rails

Why you should keep a learning journal

20 Dec, 2020

My experience with switching apps for personal knowledge management

13 Dec, 2020

Book review: The Inner Citadel

6 Dec, 2020 book reviews

Keeping a folder of snippets

29 Nov, 2020 til development

Duplicating a tab in Chrome with a shortcut

29 Nov, 2020 til chrome

When magic works against you

22 Nov, 2020 dev ruby rails

Bear keyboard tricks you might not know

14 Nov, 2020 til bear

Book review: The Rational Optimist

8 Nov, 2020 book reviews

The importance of detachment

1 Nov, 2020

Opening lines from the log file with Vim

25 Oct, 2020 til vim

The overreaction paradox

18 Oct, 2020

Write for yourself

11 Oct, 2020

Beware of programming puzzles

4 Oct, 2020

Knowing the port one is sailing to

27 Sep, 2020

Writing Bear templates with Automator and Ruby

20 Sep, 2020 til bear

Writing-guided reading

13 Sep, 2020

Why I've decided to switch to Hey

3 Sep, 2020

The law of ever-increasing entropy

30 Aug, 2020

Word rafting

23 Aug, 2020

Book review: Homo Deus

16 Aug, 2020 book reviews

Book review: How to take smart notes

1 Aug, 2020 book reviews

Writing regularly

26 Jul, 2020

Lessons from my third failed startup

19 Jul, 2020

On the shoulders of giants

12 Jul, 2020

The beauty of journaling

2 Jul, 2020

Sorting git branches by the last commit date

12 Jun, 2020 til git

Summoning the editor from the console

8 Jun, 2020 til development

Writing custom Vim template

8 May, 2020 til vim

Writing custom Vim snippets

8 May, 2020 til vim

Using Git pre-push hook for linting

7 May, 2020 til git

Opening the last migration

7 May, 2020 til unix

Updating indirect dependencies with Yarn

22 Apr, 2020 til javascript

Why I love Jekyll and Github Pages

22 Apr, 2020 dev jekyll

Testing migrations from sandboxed Rails console

21 Apr, 2020 til rails

Encrypting and decrypting a folder

21 Apr, 2020 til unix

Comparing branches on Github

21 Apr, 2020 til github

Listing categories of Jekyll collection

20 Apr, 2020 til jekyll

The power of writing

3 Apr, 2020

★ Do whatever you can't stop thinking about

6 Mar, 2020

How I apply Zettelkasten to Roam

2 Mar, 2020 knowledge management

Compiling latest Ruby from scratch with chruby

1 Mar, 2020 til ruby

Deep dive: Rackup

25 Feb, 2020 deep dive ruby

Running parallel Rails tests on Heroku CI

24 Feb, 2020 til rails

Why I love Roam

20 Feb, 2020 knowledge management

Book review: The courage to be disliked

14 Feb, 2020 book reviews

Building emphasized code blocks in Jekyll

10 Jan, 2020 til jekyll

Fighting content overload

5 Jan, 2020 reading

Deep dive: Did You Mean

28 Dec, 2019 deep dive ruby

Book review: How to fail at almost everything and still win big

23 Dec, 2019 book reviews

Building pagination from scratch

27 Nov, 2019 til rails

Stopping the fans with a script

19 Nov, 2019 til unix

Using git stash to test the bug fix

19 Jul, 2019 til git

Deep dive: Minitest

23 Jun, 2019 deep dive ruby

Commenting your own pull requests when requesting a review

3 May, 2019 til development

Filtering records with endless ranges

11 Apr, 2019 til rails

Replacing Google Fonts with system fonts

8 Apr, 2019 dev jekyll

Shorten Github link from the command line

12 Mar, 2019 til github

From class components to function components with hooks

19 Feb, 2019 til react

Refactoring a large case statement

3 Feb, 2019 til ruby

Git diff algorithm options

3 Feb, 2019 til git

Resizing panes in tmux with a shortcut

2 Feb, 2019 til tmux

Refactoring with simple polymorphism

2 Feb, 2019 til ruby

Pretty formatting JSON in Vim

26 Jan, 2019 til vim

Making HTTP requests from Vim

26 Jan, 2019 til vim

Pretty formatting JSON

21 Jan, 2019 til unix

Testing Stimulus

19 Jan, 2019 til stimulus

Mocking class methods using Minitest

21 Dec, 2018 til ruby

Enforcing strong parameters

19 Dec, 2018 til javascript

Faster database resets

18 Dec, 2018 til rails

Adding a hidden collection in Jekyll

18 Dec, 2018 til jekyll

Taking time off from network tools

17 Jul, 2018

A short guide for wasting hundreds of hours on your idea

14 Jul, 2018 side projects

Quality vs popularity

21 Mar, 2018

Git commit message syntax highlighting in Vim

20 Mar, 2018 dev vim git

Loving Vim

19 Mar, 2018 dev vim

Freedom

6 Mar, 2018 freelancing

Building a crude Node.js from scratch

10 Oct, 2017 dev javascript

Enabling HSTORE column in Postgres on Travis

2 Oct, 2017 til development

Programming for $ until I'm too old to

24 Sep, 2017 freelancing

Money and time

20 Sep, 2017 freelancing

Landing that remote job

15 Jul, 2017 freelancing

Thanks via email

2 Jul, 2017

4 tips from 6 years of remote freelancing

24 Jun, 2017 freelancing

The 8-week writing challenge

19 Jun, 2017 writing

Landing pages for hackers

12 Jun, 2017

Resetting scroll in Ember

11 Mar, 2017 til ember

Fixing 'ld: warning: directory not found for option'

27 Jan, 2017 til ruby

Using Ember's element ID helper

8 Dec, 2016 til ember

Git diff tips and tricks

8 Oct, 2016 til git

Introducing ephemeral P2P screenshot sharing

25 Apr, 2016 dev p2p

On criticism

21 Apr, 2016

Just ship it

15 Apr, 2016

Sleep is for the weak

26 Sep, 2015

Debugging Ember

29 Aug, 2015 til ember

OSX adventures

1 Apr, 2015 dev

Complexity prettified

9 Jan, 2015

People are priceless

4 Jan, 2015

Headless testing of Ember apps with Gulp and Jasmine

28 Aug, 2014 dev javascript

Rubyist's view on Node JS

15 Aug, 2014 dev ruby nodejs

MicroMachineJS - a minimal state machine for JavaScript

6 Jan, 2014 dev javascript

5 reasons for adding a post-installation message to your gem

30 Nov, 2013 dev ruby

Be the change you want to see

13 Oct, 2013

Stop clearing screen when suspending from Vim

10 Sep, 2013 til vim

Guard down, Vim and Tmux are here!

11 Aug, 2013 dev tmux ruby vim

Long time no see

17 Jun, 2013

Overriding instance method with a module

6 Aug, 2012 dev ruby

Forwardable explained

12 May, 2012 til ruby

Uninitialized class variable @@current_spec in Minitest

30 Apr, 2012 til ruby

Using edge Rails locally

3 Apr, 2012 til rails

Insane can't find executable Rails for Rails error

17 Feb, 2012 til rails

Autotest and RSpec problems

29 Jan, 2012 til ruby

Hello world in Sinatra

26 Jan, 2012 til ruby

Debugging ActiveRecord queries in a Rails console

19 Jan, 2012 til rails

Git stash is awesome

16 Jan, 2012 til git

Ruby! Y U SO BEAUTIFUL?

20 Nov, 2011 til ruby