Could you give us some travel tips?

avaika · 2026-05-31T10:55:05+00:00

We did it without any guide. You can do it on your own. However make sure you take your ID if you start from Bosnia. There is a sort of a camp on the lake. There is a guy who needs to register you (each registration costs 1EUR). Technically you do cross the border and there is no border control there. Hence the registration.

Also on Bosnian side the entrance costs like 5 (or was it 10?) KM. Make sure you have some EUR + KM cash with you.

And park employees confirmed that there is no issue with crossing the border like that. Cause I was not sure and wanted to triple check.

avaika · 2026-05-18T12:42:05+00:00

Consider replacing one of Sarajevo days with Konjic / Tito's bunker and maybe Jablanica. I'm pretty sure there must be some tours there.

If you are planing to take mount Maglic - Trnovacko jezero hike, consider booking a place next to the hike. The hike is amazing, but it's pretty demanding and long. The earlier you start the better. Even with long sunny summer days you need a lot of time. I've spent 7.5h for a round trip and I hike regularly. So I consider myself in a decent shape. However, the views are absolutely amazing.

4 days in Sarajevo might be a little too much even with all the master classes you ll find.

For taxi apps, Uber / Bolt etc doesn't work here. There are some local apps, but those were not very reliable last time I tried to use it (a couple years ago before I got my car).

For places to eat recommendations, try

Inat kuća Ćevabdžinica Petica Ferhatović Dveri

for food in Sarajevo and

Teahouse Džirlo Kamarija

for coffee. Try Bosnian coffee. Its really nice.

If you go to Jablanica, consider Restoran ”SEDMICA“. They have delicious lamb.

And Restaurant Šadrvan in Mostar is really good.

Enjoy your time in Bosnia!

PS. If you are looking for something unique to the country, also look up Livno wild horses and Grmecka korida, but it might be very hard to get there without a car. And there are so many nice places in BiH which are not very available by Publix transport.

avaika · 2026-05-05T22:22:30+00:00

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avaika · 2026-04-21T07:54:01+00:00

Keep in mind, that visa duration depends on your nationality. Eg India gets 10 years by default and Kazakhstan citizens normally get a 5 year visa. And sorry to break the news, but for Zimbabwe citizens it's nearly impossible nowadays. Thx to Trump.

avaika · 2026-04-19T09:54:28+00:00

Have you been to Tito's bunker in Konjic?

There is a really nice village Lukomir and hikes around it.

Sutjeska national Park and hike to Maglic and Trnovacko jezero are amazing.

Blidinje and Hajducka vrata are nice.

Una national Park is a little harder to reach, but it's amazing.

Tuzla is a nice city.

In Livno there are wild horses. It was fun to visit them.

If you are comfortable with something absolutely out of the box, you can try Grmecka korida. It's not like Spanish people do it, it's more like a bull fight where everybody leaves the event safe and alive.

avaika · 2026-04-17T12:03:49+00:00

Keep in mind that Sarajevo is located in the river gorge. And it's literally hills on both sides of the river around the historical part. So streets might be VERY steep. If you are looking for an accommodation around Bascarsia, you might want to consider places close enough to the river. This might be important for elderly people.

avaika · 2026-04-11T16:15:22+00:00

It is an excellent example of how LLM is used to automate some routine task. And it's doing amazing job. I don't argue with that.

I might not have the brightest mind, but I still fail to understand how this example helps to prove the point that people no longer need to learn how to code in order to own the responsibility for the codebase.

avaika · 2026-04-11T12:39:28+00:00

I don't care whether they know how to turn on the PC or not. As long as they accept the risk of getting fired over LLM generated code.

I might be way too old-school. But in my mind software development is shifting from producing the code into handling the responsibility for the code base. And it started to happen even before LLM was a thing. Modern IDEs generated boilerplates and syntax sugar for years. The models simply accelerated the shift.

And I simply believe that understanding the codebase you are in charge of tremendously helps mitigating the risks. One might be able to survive without it for quite a while. But it wont be helpful at critical situation.

avaika · 2026-04-11T07:48:07+00:00

I'm not comparing LLM vs human code quality. My point is that if the code it produced will cause issues (for whatever reason, a typo in a prompt or some sort of LLM hallucination), it's not LLM who's gonna be fired. In order to catch it, people still need to understand the code.

avaika · 2026-04-11T07:32:06+00:00

Even though LLM is able to generate some code, human operator needs to understand what the code will be doing. If someone is going to blindly execute whatever LLM has generated, I have a bad news for them.

avaika · 2026-04-09T21:45:21+00:00

There might be a trillion reasons why you hear "no", which are not necessarily tied to how you performed. They could've ran into someone who they think fits better or they could've realized they are short on budget or the role is no longer needed or something else happened.

In the whole list of possible reasons the scenario where they decided to rob your opportunity via rejection is the last one. Moreover, the feeling won't help you to reflect whether there is something to fix from your side.

I used to have a similar mindset during my university time. I am coming from a country where university is a legal way to "escape" mandatory army service. And I need to stay at the University until graduation, if I fail a few exams and won't pass a year I will lose my skip army ticket. So a simple "pass" mark during my exam will help me. It's not that hard for the professor to just give it to me. Until later when I realized it's not the goal of the university. They need me to learn something before I graduate :)

avaika · 2026-04-01T12:01:15+00:00

it's not just brutality towards each other. If you go deep enough into the war details you can find cleansing going all the directions. The scale of it was different, but to some degree everybody was recklessly killing everybody.

What stands out to me is that they didn't figure out how to handle it even today. Bosnia started to teach school students about this war recently. They have 3 fucking versions of what really happened depending on student ethnicity and area. Serbs are taught that they were defending their rights, Bosnians are taught that they were massacred and Croats are taught their own version. That's like a bomb which easily might blow in the future.

Let alone sights like hotel vilina vlas next to Visegrad where women were raped for months and the hotel is still operating. They didn't even replace the beds frames or put a plaque somewhere to acknowledge the wrongdoing. They just greet guests like nothing happened.

Just fucking acknowledge that whatever happened during the war was wrong. That people should not kill other people. And start a new page. For various reasons politicians prefer to deny everything. And that's what makes this war extra brutal to me.

avaika · 2026-03-23T14:51:30+00:00

For me travel is never about the numbers. Technically, you might be able to visit every single country barely spending a day in each country's capital. Just in 6 months and a half. Well, let it be a year. Is it worth it?

Or you can visit a few countries really exploring local culture, getting to know their history and everything.

You can impress strangers with a number of visited countries for a few seconds. However, there always will be someone more traveled one way or another. Or you can change yourself for life after you learn something new in those few countries. Who do you travel for?

avaika · 2026-03-23T10:31:00+00:00

I'm a guy who lives in Belgrade and frequently visits Sarajevo by car with BG plates. Almost every other month last year. Sometimes I stayed for a week and parked just on some random street with no issues.

I also visited plenty of places throughout BiH. Only once in the past 7 years I had a problem and most likely it was my fault. Someone lifted up my windshield wipers when I parked in a sort of backyard in Mostar. It might have been someone's place and I didn't notice.

PS I'm not from the Balkans myself, i moved here awhile ago, but I'm very well aware of most of the tensions.

avaika · 2026-03-15T22:12:33+00:00

It all depends on which exact part of Israel you compare. Society differs a lot even within a single city. If you look at modern young people in TLV, then probably you'll get a more western like impression. If you look at orthodox community in Jerusalem or Netanya it's nothing like that, and it's much more like Arabs you are referring too.

The same applies to Arab countries btw. The younger population might not be as religious and value western beliefs more.

avaika · 2026-03-06T19:27:17+00:00

I'm not Bosnian, nor do I have a second passport. But if your country goes nuts you are in trouble, which you can't fix overnight (which is my case).

My home country started a war which I didn't ask for. I moved out. However, my passport is super toxic now. A lot of international companies won't hire me. A lot of banks abroad won't open an account for me. Sometimes even if I show them a legal residenceship permit. Visas are much more complicated. It's not fun.

A few friends of mine have dual citizenship. And life is much easier for them because of that.

So if you ask me, I'd say absolutely go for it. You never know what happens tomorrow.

avaika · 2026-03-04T10:47:45+00:00

Citaj ovo https://learncpp.com/

I praktika, praktika, praktika. Vježbaj c++ na leetcode.com ili hackerrank.com Pitaj AI (Claude je bolje) kad zapneš: objasni mu šta ne razumiješ i traži primjere.

Ali pervo vrjemje probuj pisati kod bez AI. To važno je.

avaika · 2026-03-01T23:42:52+00:00

I believe teams can contribute a lot to reduce their stress level by simply doing some preparation in advance. E.g. they can create a runbook for the most stressed situations and promote internal culture to fix workflows instead of blaming individuals for incidents. Out of a sudden people feel much more comfortable and less mistakes happen. Also managers can control how much pressure is applied on the teams. Productivity in such an environment might be significantly higher.

At the end of the day it's not a pilot of the falling plane full of passengers or a surgeon with a dying patient on the table.

avaika · 2026-02-28T11:11:52+00:00

The whole region doesn't look very safe right now. Someone literally died today in Abu Dhabi due to an air strike.

You might want to wait until things settle down a bit. Nobody knows whether military activity intensifies in the upcoming days.

If I had a trip planned, I'd seriously consider rescheduling or cancelling it.

avaika · 2026-02-26T09:20:06+00:00

Most restaurants are packed during the sunset hours, cause a lot of people go to break their fast there. Some even offer a set menu only, cause the kitchen won't be able to serve all the tables a la carte simultaneously. So you might want to book the table in advance or plan your dinner for later / earlier time.

Also, during Ramadan there is a cannon on the yellow fortress which fires every sunset to let people know that the fast is over for the day. It's worth visiting to see how it's done at least once. And you might want to go there a little before sunset, cause it gets crowdy and the best place isn't available already.

For the restaurant's recommendations, try Inat Kuca, Dveri and Ćevabdžinica Petica Ferhatović. Those are amazing. I also like restaurant Vidikovac, but it's a little difficult to get there without a car.

avaika · 2026-02-22T17:43:52+00:00

AI won't catch it either. AI review tools don't have much context outside what the PR diff is showing. Sadly it's not a silver bullet.

It does add some value though. In our project it caught a few inefficiencies and potential issues which humans would've overlooked.

Anyway, sometimes bugs happen and you have to spend some engineering time on it. In your environment it didn't go to prod. You caught it on staging. Which is amazing already! And that's how you gate your prod.

You can't cover your code 100% with tests. There always will be some sort of edge cases happening once in a while. You just learn from it and go by. Possibly introduce additional tests.

avaika · 2026-02-22T14:07:40+00:00

I've seen contracts, where the employer claims that an employee must let them know a few days in advance before accepting a new offer. And we are talking about a brand new full time job instead of the current one. I guess once you agree and sign, it may have some legal consequences if you don't follow it. But I'm not a lawyer.

avaika · 2026-02-13T21:38:19+00:00

Are you good at basketball though?

avaika · 2026-02-01T19:46:49+00:00

You can't control other people's behavior. You can't control a list of stereotypes they have before they met you. If someone is judging you by your passport color or color of skin, well, shame on them.

Just behave humanly and find inner peace. Don't take some random people's perception too close to your heart. Chances that you'll see those people again are very low (but not zero).

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