Tomasz Wierzbicki
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Stop Rebuilding What Did Not Change
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve sat through “best practices” seminars where some consultant explains how to implement a complex, distributed caching layer…
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Explain the Risk in Money and Time
I once spent three weeks building a slide deck filled with complex architectural diagrams and latency percentiles, thinking I was being thorough. I walked into…
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The Empty Catch Block Is a Time Bomb
I still remember the feeling of my stomach dropping at 2:14 AM during my time at that logistics startup. I was staring at a dashboard…
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Tests Running While You Type
I remember sitting in a dark apartment at 2:15 AM, staring at a terminal window while a deployment script slowly choked on a regression I…
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Negotiating Scope Instead of Time
I remember sitting in a dimly lit office at a logistics startup back in 2016, staring at a Jira ticket that was mathematically impossible to…
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The Connection Dies After Sixty Seconds
I once spent an entire weekend at a logistics startup trying to implement a high-end observability suite to solve a flickering socket connection, convinced that…
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Twenty Open Issues and One Maintainer
I once spent an entire weekend at a logistics startup trying to implement a “sophisticated” Jira-based workflow with custom priority matrices and automated escalation rules,…
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No, and Here Is Why
I once spent a whole weekend building a complex filtering system for a logistics startup, only to watch it crash the entire staging environment because…
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Say It Early, Say It Once, Say What Changes
I remember sitting in a glass-walled conference room at my old insurance firm, staring at a spreadsheet that was a complete work of fiction. My…
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Catch It Before It Leaves Your Machine
I remember sitting in a dim home office three years ago, staring at a Slack notification from an on-call engineer while my coffee went cold.…