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👋 Hey there! I’m Ilija.

My goal in life is to fuel my curiosity and always keep on learning. I’m a software engineer, writer, polyglot, DIYer, traveller, and podcasts connoisseur.

📝 I publish essays on my blog, and share my ideas on Twitter.

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✉️ I write my own newsletter. It is a short but sweet read, and a community of +1000 other subscribers. I share essays, notes, videos, and all my learnings on the journey of excelling as a software engineer.

So far, my best writing is:

How to Make the Step up From Intermediate to Senior Engineer
Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices
Understanding bytes in Go by building a TCP protocol
Make resilient Go net/http servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation
Conditional HTTP GET: The fastest requests need no response body

🙏 Thanks for stopping by! If you’d like to learn even more about me, get in touch if you have questions, want to collaborate, or just have a chat.