DevLazar
Sheet 1 of 4 · General arrangement · Niš, Serbia

Software built to survive its own launch.

I'm Lazar. Six years of backend and product engineering for banks, hospitals and insurers, now a one-man shop in Niš that takes a few commissions at a time.

NestJS · Next.js · PostgreSQLLLM integration into existing systemsAWS · Hetzner · TerraformClients abroad · CET
Fig. 1 · A system that survives its launch
Scale 1:1 · ISO 30° · Hover or tap to explode
06 · INFRAAWS OR HETZNER · TERRAFORM · DOCKER05 · DATAPOSTGRESQL · REDIS04 · QUEUEBULLMQ · RETRIES · DEAD LETTERS03 · AILLM GATEWAY · EMBEDDINGS · EVALSADDED TO THE EXISTING SYSTEM · NO REBUILD02 · APINESTJS · AUTH · RATE LIMITS01 · CLIENTNEXT.JS · REACT · TYPESCRIPT6 LAYERS · EACH ONE STANDS ON ITS OWNNOTE 1 · ISOLATED LAYERS · HOLDS UNDER LOAD, RECOVERS ON ITS OWN
Project
lazarstankovic.dev
Drawn by
L. Stanković
Company
DevLazar
Availability
Open
Latest note
SoftBank's ¥1.1 Trillion Quarter: The Write-Off Was Made of Turbines, Not Models
Sheet 2 of 4 · Lab notes

Essays, tutorials, and the weekly Wire.

Note 066
The Wire · Infra · Nov 10 · 7 min
SoftBank's ¥1.1 Trillion Quarter: The Write-Off Was Made of Turbines, Not Models

SoftBank swung to a ¥1.12 trillion loss in its fiscal second quarter. The damage came from US data-center power equipment, financing costs and Intel hedges, while its OpenAI stake stayed marked at $99.6 billion.

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Note 065
The Wire · Tooling · Nov 10 · 6 min
Five objections to gating AI-written code, and how Deslopping answers them

The approve button no longer proves anyone read the diff. I'm building Deslopping to fix that, and these are the five objections I hear most, answered with the screens.

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Note 064
The Wire · AI · Nov 10 · 6 min
Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2: One Model, Two Doors, and a 20% Cheaper Ticket

Anthropic shipped Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 on November 9: one model behind two access tiers, a 20% price cut to $8/$40, and benchmark, security and Fermat claims that are, for now, Anthropic's own.

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Note 063
The Wire · Hardware · Nov 09 · 7 min
Nvidia's Board Opens an Independent Investigation Nine Days Before Earnings

Nvidia's board will investigate reports that Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. It sees no sign secrets were compromised; the stock slipped, and results land November 17.

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Note 062
The Wire · AI · Nov 09 · 7 min
The Frontier Gets Repriced: OpenAI Takes $1.25 Trillion, Anthropic's IPO Buyers Talk Lower

OpenAI closed an $11 billion first slice of its round at $1.25 trillion, below its $1.4 trillion ask, while Anthropic's IPO buyers reportedly talk $1.2 to 1.3 trillion. The sell-off has set the price.

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Sheet 3 of 4 · On the bench

Things I build for myself.

Small products shipped under my own name. Each one is a test rig for the shop and a source of notes.

Mk I · Mobile
Low Bar

A habit tracker that sets the bar low on purpose. Show up, mark the day, keep the streak honest.

Pre-launch
Mk I · Dev tools
Deslopping

Proof that an engineer read the AI-written code before approving the pull request. Comprehension, not vibes.

In progress
Mk I · SaaS
Bookleys

Booking and client memory for service professionals. The calendar that remembers who people are.

Exploring
Sheet 4 of 4 · Work

DevLazar.
One engineer, three stations.

Lazar Stanković PR DevLazar · Clients abroad

The company behind the work. Custom software, MVPs on a deadline, and backend systems that have to hold when the traffic arrives. Everything leaves the shop with drawings.

Station 01
Proof of concept, MVP, product
Built fast with AI to a working POC in days, then the MVP in weeks, then the full product. Each stage scoped to survive the launch.
Station 02
Backend architecture and scale
Pipelines, auth, APIs under high-frequency load. Monthly retainer.
Station 03
Launch Survival Audit
A fixed-price inspection before your system meets its users.
Build logs · SelectedMost of the file is under NDA · Stamped by what can be said
Log 01Sector only
Media and publishing, NDA protected
React CMS features and the Node.js and NestJS APIs behind them, owned from requirements to release.
Log 02Sector only
Logistics and warehouse management, NDA protected
A React admin interface, Next.js pages and NestJS APIs, with hosting and CI/CD set up on Hetzner and GitHub Actions.
Log 03Sector only
EdTech, NDA protected
React applications and NestJS services for multiple users and organizations, including an AI-driven learning content management system.
Detail A · The engineer
Fig. 7Lazar Stanković · Owner / Operator

An engineer who writes things down.

I have built for banks, hospitals, insurers and sensor networks. Most of it I cannot show you. All of it taught me something, and the lessons are not under NDA.

Now
→Shipping custom software with a small crew I trust.
→Reading Seneca on the morning commute.
→Learning Rust, one crate at a time.
General notes
Note 1Perfect systems do not survive contact with reality. Resilient ones do.
Note 2 · Do not scale drawing. Note 3 · All dimensions in weeks unless stated.
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