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I vibe-coded budgeting & expense tracking app today
Hello, world.Meet Budgette, a minimalistic budgeting and cost tracking app. How does it work? It’s super simple: Categories and budgets are set up each month (you can copy from the previous month). Now, I’m off to add my expenses to Budgette, and if the app seems like something you could use – check it out…
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Navigating time and tasks (Planning with flexibility)
Over the years, I tried different ways of organizing my time and tasks, such as Personal Kanban, ‘personal Scrum’, GTD / Getting Things Done, PARA method, Theme/Epic/Story pattern from product management, and many tools, such as Trello, Asana, Todoist, Miro, ‘note-making’ apps (Apple Notes, Roam Research and Obsidian) and Google Calendar with reclaim.ai. If I…
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New Year – New Me, aka Looking for job!🎅
My interim contract is ending soon, so I’m looking for new opportunities! Update (15.03.2026.): I got a job! But the journey was tricky. Read more about looking for a job in product in 2026 – a no BS overview here. 👷 My experience over the last 5 years:– 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐌 (API; Intellectual Property), – 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝…
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Your 12 Favorite Problems
Richard Feynman was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and a unique, multifaceted individual (drummer, raconteur, teacher, and scientist). He had a framework called 12 Problems, which has become the heart of the work of many note-takers, digital gardeners (people taking (some) notes publicly to learn in…
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How I started working with random strangers
In the moments when you lack focus or motivation, or when you procrastinate, maybe just the right thing to help is a change of the workspace – with virtual coworking. Last week, I stumbled upon the website Focusmate*. It’s a community of people trying to boost their productivity through an interesting activity – virtual coworking…
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Full Stack Product Developer
I recently took the stage at Data Science Conference Europe to discuss a massive shift occurring in our industry: the evolution of the Product Manager into what I call a Full-Stack Product Developer. In this post, I’m recapping that talk briefly, and sharing the slides. Traditional PM Role and Changes in Expectations We are moving…
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Pagey (ex-Štivoje) Update
It’s been a two-week ‘sprint’, so I thought I would share a quick update. If you don’t know what/who Štivoje is, check out my previous blog post about him here. Basically, I built a personal book recommender (Štivoje) to get good book suggestions every week or so, based on my ‘taste profile’ built on ca.…
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trackwell – Minimalist Time Tracker & Task Planner
I couldn’t find a tracker that works perfectly for me, and everything on the market seems to be missing that ‘something’… With Lovable, in 2-3 hours, I got myself a full-functioning time tracker that follows my ‘methodology’ (area->project->task), and is super minimalistic. Then I worked gradually over a few days on additional features and logic,…
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Štivoje: My Personal Book Recommender 🤖
“Found some stories you might want to dig into! 🐛” – Every Saturday morning, I get an email like this. It’s from Štivoje, my personal book recommender, powered by machine learning. I fed Štivoje with 334 books I liked, so that he suggests 5 new books for me, out of 52.5k titles. The project took…
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Toupées and Airplanes
What would the two have in common? Well, both are examples of interesting phenomena called selection bias, or less science-y: both trick our brains. I’ve never seen a good toupée. They all look fake… You’ll hear people comment how they’ve never seen a good toupée and how they always notice them as they look fake.…