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🇭🇷 Programiranje u rulji (mob programming) je kao programiranje u paru ali još zabavnije! Ovaj puta nećemo o dosadnim temama poput toga zašto je jeftinije od običnog programiranja, nego ćemo se zabaviti na RADIONICI na kojoj ćemo programirati U RULJI. Rulja će se sastojati od 4-5 osoba. Po pravilima, jedna osoba će tipkati, a ostale će joj govoriti što da radi. Često ćemo se rotirati, zamjenjujući osobu koja tipka. Ako bude bilo više polaznika, preporučamo osobama u rulji da se ustanu i vrate u publiku kada im dosadi, kad se umore ili kada misle da su dovoljno iskusili, kako bi ih netko iz publike mogao zamijeniti. Potruditi ćemo se da je tehnika lagana za koristiti (izbor Mac i Windows tipkovnice, npr.) ali u rulji je i to puno lakše! 🇬🇧 Mob programming is like pair programming — but even more fun! This time we won’t talk about boring topics like why it’s cheaper than traditional programming. Instead, we’ll have fun at a WORKSHOP where we’ll actually practice MOB PROGRAMMING. The mob will consist of 4–5 people. According to the rules, one person will be typing while the others tell them what to do. We will often rotate, switching the typist. If there are more participants, we encourage people in the mob to step out and return to the audience when they get bored, tired, or feel they’ve had enough experience, so that someone from the audience can take their place. We’ll make sure the setup is easy to use (choice of Mac & Windows keyboard, for example), but in a mob even that becomes much easier! ⏰ Schedule: \- Introduction \- Short description of workshop organisation \- Mob programming \(including Q&A with audience\) Image source: https://www.ria.ie/blog/table-turning-a-victorian-fad/

Meetup **#1** for **Vibe Coders Croatia** — a community for **builders who ship**. No gatekeeping, no corporate stiffness. Hosted at Reactor Studio with two talks: **Ivan Horvat** on the agentic multi-repo workflow behind a real mobile app — specs, Figma via MCP, cross-repo issue dispatch, daily status sync. **Ivan Klarić** on The Solow Paradox of AI in Software Development — twenty years of building software and the teams that ship it (Google Search, Superbet, Cognism), freshly turned consultant, with a framework for measuring AI's real impact beyond raw velocity. Food, drinks, and the hallway conversations where the next side project starts. 📣 **From Specs to Production: An Agentic Multi-Repo Workflow** A look at how we use AI coding agents as team members across the entire product lifecycle — from writing product specs and designing in Figma via MCP, to automated cross-repo issue dispatch and daily status sync. One docs repo owns the "what and why," one app repo owns the "how," and agents bridge the gap — keeping two repos, multiple tools, and a GitHub Project board in sync without manual handoffs. This talk will walk through the real workflow behind a mobile app built in Reactor Studio, showing how AI agents brainstorm features, generate structured specs, dispatch issues across repos via GitHub Actions, and keep everything tracked automatically. Whether you're a PM, designer, or developer — you'll see how agentic workflows can remove the glue work between your tools and repos. **Ivan Horvat** is a full-stack software engineer with experience delivering product-focused web applications across frontend and backend. With a strong focus on building high-quality, user-centered solutions, he works closely with design and product teams to bridge the gap between idea and implementation. When he's not shipping features, he's exploring how AI coding agents can take over the boring parts of the development lifecycle. * [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-horvat-24a4b417b/) 📣 **The Solow Paradox of AI in Software Development** Development velocity is the main metric used to evaluate AI's impact on engineering. After surveying freelancers, agencies, and large product organizations, we found that velocity is only part of the story — and for some teams, not even the most important part. This talk introduces a three-part framework for understanding AI impact across different types of orgs: velocity, completeness, and confidence. After summarizing and explaining these effects, we'll correlate them to existing research, turn them into actionable advice for engineers and their managers, and close with some speculation on where engineering teams — and software development as a discipline — are headed, based on the shifts we've already seen over the last year. **Ivan Klarić** is a software consultant whose career quickly evolved from building software to building the teams that build it. He's worked across startups, scale-ups, big tech, product, and agency environments — co-founding a software agency with a few friends in 2007, spending five years at Google getting Search engineers to care about cross-cutting concerns like annotation quality and freshness, joining Happening/Superbet in 2019 for another five years building a sports engineering team that scaled Superbet from Romania-only to 5+ countries and millions of users, and a short stint at Cognism on a next-generation B2B sales intelligence platform. In early 2026, he joined the dark side and became an independent software consultant. * [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iklaric/) \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 🍕 Food and drinks provided. 📹 Not recorded or streamed this time — you have to be in the room. 🗓️ RSVP is mandatory due to limited seating. 📍**Location**: **Zadarska ulica 80, 6th floor — Reactor Studio.** Use the main entrance on the right side of the building. If you're driving, the Lidl parking lot nearby is your best bet, or grab any free spot around the buildings.

The "AI hype" is everywhere, but the challenge is moving from a prompt in a browser to a deployed, functional product. Join GDG Zagreb for a hands-on technical workshop in Google’s #BuildWithAI series. We are moving past basic chat interfaces to build a real-world application layer around Gemini. We’ll start by building a YouTube Summarizer as our reference architecture, then dive into the codebase to refactor and adapt it for your own custom content-processing tools. 🏗️ Technical Roadmap This isn't just a tutorial; it’s a build session. We will focus on the end-to-end lifecycle of an AI microservice: The Model Layer: Authenticating and interfacing with the Gemini API using the Google Gen AI SDK or REST endpoints. The Application Layer: Implementing the logic to handle media inputs, transcripts, and structured prompting. We'll use Python (Flask) for backend and a little bit of HTML for basic frontend. The Deployment Layer: We’ll cover Dockerizing your application and pushing it to Google Cloud Run for a live, scalable, and serverless URL. 🔄 From Reference to Reality Once we have the baseline YouTube Summarizer live, the workshop shifts to a "spinoff" phase. You’ll have the autonomy to refactor the logic to create a specialized tool of your choice, for example: Audio Intelligence: Processing MP3s/Podcasts into structured show notes. Document Synthesis: Building a "TL;DR" engine for long-form research or PDFs. Meeting Insights: Turning raw transcripts into actionable tasks. 💻 Who Should Attend? This workshop is designed for developers and tech professionals who: Have a basic understanding of full-stack development. Want to understand the practical integration of LLMs into production-ready web services. 🎒 Requirements A Google Cloud account (we'll provide credits and instructions on how to activate them). A working computer with wifi A curious mind. ⏱️ The Schedule 18:00: Intro to #BuildWithAI. 18:15: Workshop: Building the Summarizer. (optional) Customization: Refactoring for your own use case. 20:00: Deployment to Cloud Run & (optional) Submission for prizes. 20:30: Networking, Pizza, and Refreshments. 21:00: Closing ceremony & Announcing prize winners. Build it. Ship it. Own it. Space is limited to ensure quality mentoring for all participants. #GDGZagreb #BuildWithAI #GoogleCloud #GeminiAPI #Docker #CloudRun #ZagrebTech Agenda --- Hosted By Mario Vegh, Organizer Petra Brčić, Data Scientist An experienced applied mathematician who has transitioned into IT, still thinking about PhD. Worked as a data scientist in big corp, applying strong mathematical background to extract valuable insights from complex datasets, enabling informed decision-making. Now living freely, leading a startup and building an AI product to improve the lives of 1 in 10 women worldwide, hopefully more. Antonio Hadrović, Organizer Front-end, Figma and Future Ivan Štajcer, Flutter developer Sandro Lovnički, Flutterer Flutterer at SciPly | Organizer at GDG Zagreb and Flutter Croatia | Creator of Beamer package | Co-host of Flutter dArtists | Consultant, speaker and open source contributor Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-zagreb-presents-build-and-deploy-your-own-ai-powered-product/.

Join us for an evening of practical AI talks, real‑world case studies, and relaxed networking at Njuškalo. The meetup features three short talks (up to 30 min + Q&A) from real-world developers (Njuškalo, Smartis, and Infobip), sharing how AI is applied in real products and teams. The agenda is designed to be human‑friendly, with breaks, food, and time to connect. Location: Njuškalo Doors open: 16:30 **1\. 17:00 – 17:40 \|** **From Theory to Practice – Njuškalo’s Personal Agentic System in Action** (Talk + Q&A) 👤 Nemanja Malesija **2\. 17:50 – 18:30 \|** **AI in Practice: How Smartis Enhances Productivity and Quality Across Development** (Talk + Q&A) 👤 Gašper Božić **3\. 19:00 – 19:40 \|** **What Happens When Infobip Goes All‑in on AI** (Talk + Q&A) 👤 Dominik Seljan 👤 Lovro Kordiš

Pozdrav Gopheri Novi meetup ! Teme druženja su: * **dot-http:** A CLI tool for executing .http files *Zlatko Bratković* * **PDF documents with Go (revisited)** *Branko Zečević* Lokacija: Sportska Dvorana Martinovka dvorana M-Lab1 https://maps.app.goo.gl/fNnp9YWzCkK6nXeYA \- kod FER\-a \- okupljanje pred ulazom dvorane Martinovka Kao i uvijek, pozivamo vas da nam se javite s temom za predavanje. Dobrodošle su i teme za manje iskusne. Također vas pozivamo da nam se pridružite na Gophers slack kanalu: #croatia https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/ Hello Gophers, New meetup! Talks: * **dot-http:** A CLI tool for executing .http files *Zlatko Bratković* * **PDF documents with Go (revisited)** *Branko Zečević* Location: Sportska Dvorana Martinovka hall M-Lab1 https://maps.app.goo.gl/fNnp9YWzCkK6nXeYA \- near FER

**Let’s Talk Data is back - *and this time, we’re hosting you at our Valcon Office in Zagreb.*** We’re kicking off our second meetup, bringing the data community together for an evening focused on what actually works in real-world delivery. 📊 📅 **Date:** Wednesday, 29 April 2026 🕠 **Time:** 17:30 – 20:30 📍 **Location:**[ Valcon Zagreb Office, Heinzelova 70](https://maps.app.goo.gl/8Bmjwa2SzTVPJ7n8A) Join us for an evening of learning, networking, and **honest conversations** about what actually works when **building real-world data pipelines**. **Agenda:** * 17:30 – 18:00 → Arrival, registration & networking * **18:00 – 19:30** → Welcome words, introductions & talks (CRO language) * 19:30 – 20:30 → Networking & informal hangout **Speakers:** * **[Petra Martinjak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-martinjak/)** (in collaboration with **[Marko Horvatinec](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marko-horvatinec-55b583105/)**) Data & Analytics Specialists, Prinicipals, at Valcon **Talk: dbt in Production - What We Built, What We Learned, What AI Brings Next** * **[Matija Draženović](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matija-drazenovic-6bb46910b/)**, Prinicpal Data Engineeer at Valcon **Talk: Databricks at Scale with Terraform Modules** Whether you're part of the data community, working with data, or just curious about how things look in real delivery today, you’re more than welcome. **Follow us and drop by, let’s keep building this data community together.**

**IvaDev Shorts #4** 🚀 IvaDev Shorts is BACK! Thrilled to announce we're continuing this incredible series that has been an absolute game-changer for our community. The concept? Every attendee gets the chance to share something they've seen, learned, built — or even broken 💥 Here's what makes it special: ✅ Max 15-minute slots (no minimum!) ✅ Low-pressure, high-energy format ✅ Way less formal than your typical meetup Whether it's a side project demo, a hot take on a new tool, or a spectacular failure story — we want to hear it. Same venue. Same vibes. Let's go.

Dear all, we’re back with the PyData meetups, focused as always on sharing best practice, methodologies, analysis, machine learning systems, .., with the open-source projects of the [NumFOCUS](https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects) program — but not only! We’ll meet **#InPresence on Thursday, April 30 at 7:00 PM**. We’ll be hosted by [Anda Venice Hostel](https://www.andavenice.com/) in the Medusa Room and, for those who cannot join us, it will also be on YouTube in **#streaming**. 👥 We’ll have two interesting sessions in English 🇬🇧: 🗣 [Tomas Scagliarini](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomscag/) studies the **#analysis** of Earth’s tipping elements that is crucial for understanding the **#stability** of the **#ClimateSystem**. He will discuss how the interdependencies among tipping elements evolve over time under different anthropogenic forcing. 🗣 [Babatunde Monye](https://www.linkedin.com/in/babatundemonye/) will present a **#MultiTimeframe** algorithmic trading **#signal** system built on probabilistic confidence **#model**, combining momentum, adaptive smoothing, and convergence & divergence indicators to generate structured buy/sell signals across multiple asset pairs. And afterwards\, for those who want\, we’ll stay there for \( 🍸 \| 🍺 \) & \( 🍕 \| 🍔 \) and **#networking** until late ‼️ 📽 And if you’d like to share ideas, projects, topics, or propose yourself as the next speaker, here’s the usual [Google form](https://forms.gle/rVMWxFnodHaNb9ab9) or [Sessionize](https://sessionize.com/pydata-venice-2025-12-18) !

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