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Matija Cvetan

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Articles and resources

Title	Type	Score	Tags	Completed at	Size
Card fees creep onto restaurant tabs \| Payments Dive	Article	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Restaurants, Payments, News	18.12.2025.	L
HelloCSV - A modern, drop in, frontend only, CSV importer workflow.	Github	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	CSV, Tool, FE, UI/UX	18.12.2025.
People are the new oil \| Convergent Thinking	Blog	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	ThoughtPiece	18.12.2025.	M
How Software Is Eating the Car - IEEE Spectrum	Article	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	News, Automotive Engineering	10.12.2025.	L
light-dark() isn't always the same as prefers-color-scheme \| Stefan Judis Web Development	Essay	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	CSS	10.12.2025.	M
Inside Kestrel: The Beating Heart of ASP.NET Core \| Bipin Joshi .NET	Essay	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	.NET/C#, HTTP	10.12.2025.	M
data-peek \| Fast PostgreSQL Client for Developers	Tool	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	DB, SQL, IDE, Open Source	10.12.2025.
Frederik Braun: Why the Sanitizer API is just <code>setHTML()</code>	Essay	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	HTML, Security	10.12.2025.	S
The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers	Article	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Management	10.12.2025.	L
In-Memory OLTP overview and usage scenarios	Resource	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	SQL, DB, SQL Server	07.12.2025.	L

Books

Book title	Category	Relavance	Summary	Learned	Completed
“Designing Data-Intensive Applications”	Software Architecture	60%			TBD
"100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them" by Peter Carter	SQL	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them focuses exclusively on the errors that you might—and p...	// TODO	13.07.2025.
".NET Core Succinctly" by Giancarlo Lelli	.NET	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	".NET Core Succinctly" by Giancarlo Lelli is a concise and practical guide designed to introduce dev...	Quick and straightforward read that provides basic knowledge about the history of .NET and the vario...	02.06.2025.
"HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills" by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Amy Gallo, Amy Jen Su, Richard Boyatzis	Soft Skills, Cross-Cultural Communication, Motivation management	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	If you read nothing else on developing your interpersonal skills, read these 10 articles. We've comb...	This book is an excellent collection of essays grounded in research and real-world surveys, offering...	23.04.2025.
"Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects" by Jacqui Readacaa	Communication skills	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	How to design appropriate diagrams and documentation, and master written, verbal, and nonverbal comm...	Communication Patterns offers a mix of practical advice and common-sense approaches to handling comm...	16.04.2025.
"Software Engineering at Google" By Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright	Software Development	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop p...	Software Engineering at Google is easily one of the top books I’ve read, and I strongly recommend it...	02.04.2025.
"How to Get People to Do Stuff" By Susan M. Weinschenk, PhD, Jo Anna Perrin	Communication skills, Motivation management, Business motivation	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	We all want people to do stuff. Whether you want your customers to buy from you, vendors to give you...	How to Get People to Do Stuff offers valuable insights into human behavior, motivation, and communic...	19.03.2025.
"C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals - Ninth Edition" By Mark J. Price	C#, .NET	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	This Packt bestseller continues to be the definitive guide to modern cross-platform development. The...	Continued exploration of C# and .NET by reading "C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Developmen...	05.03.2025.
"Real-World Web Development with .NET 9" By Mark J. Price	.NET	⭐️⭐️⭐️	Real-World Web Development with .NET 9 equips you to build professional websites and services using ...	Honestly, it’s a good book if you’re just starting with .NET web development, but if you’re looking ...	28.02.2025.
“The Art of Communication” By Judy Apps	Professional Communication, Communication skills	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	This book focuses on developing deeper, more meaningful conversations by engaging both logical (left...	This book isn’t a simple guide on how to act in specific situations—it dives deeper into how our bra...	13.02.2025.