Tomasz Wierzbicki
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Six Hundred Lines and No Tests
I remember sitting in a dimly lit office at that logistics startup—the one that eventually vanished—staring at a single, 1,200-line method that seemed to be…
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Say What It Does in the First Line
I spent three weeks building a side project last year, only to realize I had no idea how to actually tell people it existed. I…
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Clever Code Is a Debt With Interest
I remember sitting in a dim office at a logistics startup around 3:00 AM, staring at a single line of nested ternary operators that someone…
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One Test in Fifty Runs Fails
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen some “expert” suggest buying a more expensive CI/CD suite or implementing a complex observability layer just…
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Leave So They Would Have You Back
I once worked at a startup that folded so spectacularly that three of us spent our final week frantically trying to figure out how to…
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Let Git Find the Commit That Broke It
It was 3:14 AM, the kind of hour where the blue light of your monitor starts to feel like a physical weight on your eyes,…
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Someone Paid: Now You Have Obligations
I remember sitting in a dimly lit apartment in 2014, staring at a Stripe dashboard that had finally ticked over from zero to one. I…
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The Answers That Should Worry You
I spent three years at a startup where the “culture” was essentially just a collection of expensive beanbags and a Slack channel that never stopped…
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Write for the Person Who Edits It Angry
I once spent three days trying to untangle a “clever” abstraction in a logistics codebase, only to realize the guy who wrote it had moved…
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The Bug That Hides When You Look
I remember sitting in a darkened home office three years ago, the only light coming from a monitor showing a dashboard of failing health checks.…