Tomasz Wierzbicki
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Tell Them What to Do, Not What Broke
I once spent three hours on a Tuesday morning debugging a failed payment integration, only to realize the system was throwing a generic “Internal Server…
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Reading What the Database Decided to Do
I don’t care how many certifications you have or which expensive DBA consultant you’ve hired; if you can’t look at a raw query plan and…
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Hooks That Help Instead of Annoy
I spent most of my early career thinking that “best practices” meant buying an expensive enterprise linting suite or forcing everyone through a grueling CI/CD…
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Someone Sent You Code
I remember sitting in a dim office at that logistics startup, staring at a screen while my heart hammered against my ribs, wondering how to…
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One Query Is Eating the Whole Request
I once spent three hours in a dimly lit office at a logistics startup, staring at a dashboard that was bleeding red, convinced that we…
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Three Lines Beat Three Paragraphs
I spent three years at a logistics startup where “status updates” were essentially long-form essays masquerading as progress reports. We had these elaborate templates and…
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A Slow Suite Is a Suite Nobody Runs
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:15 AM, staring at a spinning progress bar in Jenkins while my coffee went cold. I had pushed…
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Something Took Too Long: Find Out What
I remember sitting in a dimly lit home office three years ago, staring at a dashboard where every single latency metric had turned a violent…
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Not Everything Deserves a Test
I remember sitting in a cold server room during a deployment at my old insurance firm, watching a CI pipeline crawl through three thousand green…
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Pick the Licence Before the First Star
I used to think that figuring out how to license a side project was something I could just “figure out later,” right after the code…