Tomasz Wierzbicki
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A Database You Can Delete Without Fear
I spent three years at a logistics startup convinced that the “right” way to work was to maintain a pristine, long-lived local database that mirrored…
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Listen First, Decide Later
I’ve sat through enough “radical candor” workshops and HR-approved seminars to know that most corporate advice on how to take feedback you disagree with is…
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Specific, Soon, and About the Work
I spent a good chunk of my career at a logistics startup where we thought “radical transparency” meant shouting critiques during sprint reviews. It was…
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The Bill Grows Faster Than the Users
I remember sitting in a glass-walled conference room at a logistics startup, watching a PM present a color-coded slide deck that claimed our cloud spend…
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A Lying Readme Is Worse Than None
I once spent three hours debugging a service deployment only to realize the “Quick Start” guide in the repository was actually describing a version of…
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The .env File You Committed Last Year
I still remember the cold sweat of a Tuesday morning at the logistics startup, staring at a Slack notification that our production database credentials had…
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Two Locks, Two Threads, No Progress
I remember sitting in a dim apartment in Warsaw, staring at a terminal window that refused to move, while the coffee next to me went…
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If You Must Explain It, Rename It
I was staring at a screen of nested ternary operators at 2:14 AM during a deployment failure at my old logistics firm, and I realized…
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Teach Them to Find It, Not Just Fix It
I spent most of my early career thinking that mentoring meant sitting someone down for a structured lecture on design patterns or reviewing their clean…
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Secrets That Never Reach a Commit
I spent three weeks at a logistics startup trying to convince a team of “security experts” that we didn’t need a multi-layered, enterprise-grade vault just…