Software Witchcraft

mystical art that makes bugs vanish and conjures new features from thin air

🧙 Hi, I’m Aleksandar — a full-stack developer and community organizer sharing battle-tested lessons from 20+ years of real-world software work. This blog is for developers who want to grow beyond tutorials and build with confidence.

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How To Create Custom Taxonomies and a Dropdown Menu in Hugo with Congo Theme

17 June 2025

Programming Development tips Hugo

Learn how to create custom taxonomies and dropdown menus in Hugo using the Congo theme — with working examples and CSS tweaks.

How I Started My Personal Blog and What I Learned in the First Year

12 June 2025

Writing Lessons Learned

For a year, I wrote a technical blog without any predefined topics—just with the goal of writing, learning, and sharing experiences. In this post, I share the process, technical decisions, and lessons I learned — it might help you start your own.

Setting Up PHPUnit and GitHub Actions for a PHP Project

6 May 2025

Programming Tutorial Testing DevOps PHP PHPUnit GitHub Actions

Learn how to set up a PHP project with Composer, write tests using PHPUnit, and automate testing with GitHub Actions.

The Race That Debugged My Software

17 April 2025

Programming Weba Kayak Race Lessons Learned Testing

Turning a kayak ergometer into a virtual race seemed simple—until real athletes started competing. Unexpected bugs emerged live: sleeping devices, stuck avatars, and a canceled race thanks to one unlucky keypress. Nothing tests software like the real world.

How I Built a Free Static Website for Developers Club Using Next.js and Cloudflare

8 April 2025

Programming DevOps next.js Cloudflare

Learn how I built and deployed a free static website, covering the setup, deployment process, and the tweaks needed to keep the site low-cost and easy to maintain.