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The developer identity crisis
AI anxiety is real, but it's pointing at something bigger: a structural shift in what developers do and what the role becomes.
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Luka Golubovic
Software engineer in Belgrade. I work across backend systems and web delivery, and most of my attention lately goes to application security, not as a separate phase, but as part of how the code gets written.
I spend a lot of time thinking about the distance between software that works and software that's hard to misuse. This site is where I write about that, and where I keep the projects that came out of it.
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Context is king
The highest-leverage thing you can do with AI coding tools isn't writing better prompts. It's giving them better context.
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The reality of working and studying at the same time
It's genuinely hard. You're not alone. And it does end.
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Projects
All projectsAn Angular storefront backed by Hasura GraphQL. Catalog browsing, cart management, checkout: the standard e-commerce flow, but built with a focus on keeping client state and backend truth in sync.
Security focus: Making sure the purchase flow can't drift. Server-side validation on cart and checkout state, auth checks on protected operations, tighter client-server consistency.
AngularHasura GraphQLTailwindCSSPrimeNGTypeScript
Built to figure out what breaks when WebSocket traffic has to live across multiple servers. Go backend, React frontend, Redis pub/sub for cross-instance messaging, a custom load balancer, and the whole thing runs in containers.
Security focus: Trust boundaries between services: which component gets to trust which messages, connections, and identities. WebSocket session constraints, separated responsibilities, container isolation.
ReactGoWebSocketRedis Pub/SubDocker
Project aeon: local-first assistant platform
An assistant platform where your data never leaves your machine. Vector search over local documents, a local LLM runtime through Ollama, and clean boundaries between the API, vector store, and UI.
Security focus: Making the privacy guarantees real instead of aspirational. All data flows stay local by default, service boundaries are enforced, and runtime configuration is locked down.
FastAPIChromaDBVue 3TypeScriptNaive UIOllama