Miha Jakovac

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.NET & DevOps Engineer | Cloud Specialist | Team Enabler

My name is Miha and I've been tinkering with computers for some time now. I remember getting Pentium 100 in the late '90s and that's how it all started.

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A funny perspective on software development

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ โ€œ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ดโ€ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ง๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ. ๐˜๐˜ง ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ณ, ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถโ€™๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ. ๐Ÿ”” ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ!

8.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ˆ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐š ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ.

Including documentation fixes.

๐˜‹๐˜” ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.

9.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ˆ ๐”๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐“๐š๐  ๐Ÿ๐จr ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฌ.

Reproducibility? Whatโ€™s that?

๐˜‹๐˜” ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜น๐˜ฆ๐˜ด.

10.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ˆ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐š โ€œ๐“๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒโ€ s๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ.

Itโ€™s now critical infrastructure.

๐˜”๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜น๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต.

11.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ˆ ๐’๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐…๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐–๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐…๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐…๐ฅ๐š๐ ๐ฌ.

Then spent hours rolling it back.

๐˜—๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ-๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ-๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ.

12.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐€๐ˆ e๐ง๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ h๐š๐ n๐จ r๐š๐ญ๐ž l๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ.

It was fine until someone sent 10,000 requests in an hour.

๐˜‹๐˜” ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ˆ๐˜—๐˜ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ.

13.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ง๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ.

It was โ€œself-explanatory.โ€ Until I came back six months later.

๐˜‹๐˜” ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜›๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฅ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด.

14.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ I used AI to generate API documentation.

It hallucinated entire APIs we donโ€™t have.

Ping me if your docs are living in fantasy land.

15.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐๐š๐œ๐ค๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐œ๐ค๐ฌ.

I diligently backed up my databaseโ€ฆ only to discover corrupted files during a restore. Now, I verify backups periodically to ensure theyโ€™re actually usable.

Backup verification overlooked? Letโ€™s make checks part of the plan - DM me!

16.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ I overengineered a service for 3 users.

Microservices, Kubernetesโ€ฆ all for my catโ€™s blog.

Message me if youโ€™ve built skyscrapers for birdhouses.

17.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ My container had 5GB of unused dependencies.

Ran fineโ€ฆ eventually.

Message me if your images need a diet plan.

18.8.2025

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ I accidentally mixed staging and prod databases.

Test data in prod. Prod data in staging. Chaos everywhere.

DM me if your environments have a messy relationship.

19.8.2025

๐Œ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐ฆ.

The cost went to the moon.

๐˜‹๐˜” ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ด.

20.8.2025

๐ˆ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ-๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.

Browsers hated it. Customers called it a scam.

๐˜—๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค.

21.8.2025

๐Œ๐ฒ ๐†๐ข๐ญ ๐…๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐š ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ข.

We had develop, dev-develop, release-hotfix, and hotfix-release branches.

Merging felt like solving a Rubikโ€™s Cube while blindfolded.

These days? Fewer branches, more sanity.

๐˜”๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฎ.

22.8.2025

๐ˆ ๐›๐š๐ค๐ž๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐š ๐ƒ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ž.

And pushed it to a public registry. Twice.

At least the hacker was polite enough not to use themโ€ฆ I think.

๐˜—๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถโ€™๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ โ€œ๐˜š๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ตโ€ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด.

25.8.2025

๐ˆ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐š ๐ฆ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž.

Even the logging. Even the email template renderer.

Deployment was a nightmare, but hey โ€” I was โ€œcloud-native.โ€

๐˜—๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜บ ๐˜ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ.

26.8.2025

๐ˆ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Œ๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐†๐ข๐ญ.

Cloned the repo and wondered why it took an hour.

Turns out: donโ€™t version control video tutorials.

๐˜”๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ.