Hello World — Welcome to My Blog

After years of building software for banks, fintech companies, and enterprise clients, I finally sat down and built something for myself — this portfolio and blog.

Why Now?

I've spent the last decade crafting mobile and web applications: iOS banking apps with Swift and SwiftUI, React frontends, NestJS backends, React Native cross-platform apps. I've shipped code used by hundreds of thousands of people across Europe.

But I never had a corner of the internet to call my own. Until now.

What You'll Find Here

This blog will cover the things I care about:

• Mobile development — Swift, SwiftUI, React Native, iOS patterns and pitfalls
• Full-stack architecture — Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, API design
• Engineering career — Team leadership, freelancing, working with enterprise clients
• Side projects — I'm building PartyLink (nightlife discovery platform) and Herzegovina Classifieds — I'll document the journey

The Stack Behind This Site

This portfolio is built with:

• Next.js 16 (App Router) — because it's the best React framework
• Tailwind CSS v4 — utility-first, lightning fast
• Framer Motion — for animations that don't feel like animations
• MDX — blog posts as markdown with React components

Everything is deployed on Vercel and the source is on GitHub.

What's Coming

I have a backlog of topics I've been meaning to write about:

1. How we integrated Apple Pay into a production banking app
2. Building real-time features with Socket.io and NestJS
3. The freelance transition — what changed and what didn't

Stay tuned.

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Slaviša Mirković — Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina