Tomasz Wierzbicki
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Every Dependency Is Code You Did Not Review
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:14 AM, staring at a terminal window while my coffee went cold, trying to figure out why a…
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Working Offline From Somebody Else Api
I was sitting in my kitchen at 3:15 AM, staring at a terminal window that refused to cooperate, wondering why I had ever thought hitting…
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Someone Found a Hole: Respond Well
I once spent three hours in a meeting with a security consultant who insisted we needed a specialized, enterprise-grade ticketing workflow just to manage a…
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Something Killed Your Process and Said Nothing
I remember sitting in a dark apartment three years ago, staring at a blinking cursor while my service silently vanished for the fifth time that…
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Bring the Record, Not Your Memory
I once spent an entire weekend polishing a slide deck for a performance review, convinced that if I just quantified my “impact” with enough colorful…
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A Changelog for Humans, Not Commits
I once spent a full Tuesday afternoon at a logistics startup trying to figure out why our shipping service was intermittently dropping payloads, only to…
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Test Data That Looks Like Real Data
I once spent an entire Saturday afternoon at a defunct logistics startup trying to figure out why our integration tests were intermittently failing, only to…
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Security on a Project With No Security Budget
I’ve lost count of how many “security checklists” I’ve seen online that suggest you need a dedicated SOC2 auditor and a multi-layered enterprise firewall just…
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Write Down Why, Not Just What
I once spent three days rebuilding a distributed locking mechanism from scratch, only to realize halfway through that I had already solved it perfectly for…
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Memory Doubled in Ten Seconds
I don’t care how many expensive observability platforms your company just signed a contract for; no dashboard is going to magically tell you how to…