Tomasz Wierzbicki
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Print Debugging Is Not Beneath You
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve sat through a “senior engineer” seminar where someone spent forty minutes explaining the intricacies of distributed tracing…
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Stop Shopping for Editors and Learn One
I spent three weeks last year trying to “optimize” my development environment because I convinced myself that a specific combination of Neovim plugins would somehow…
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The Moment It Starts Feeling Like Work
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 1:00 AM, staring at a terminal window and realizing that I wasn’t “building a product” anymore—I was just…
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How Much Effort Does a Take Home Deserve
I once spent a weekend building a microservices-based, containerized solution for a simple CRUD task, only to realize during the interview that the lead engineer…
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Extract When You Can Name It
I spent most of my twenties following the “clean code” gurus who insisted that every three lines of logic deserved its own named method. I…
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The Useful Line Is Rarely the Top One
I remember sitting in a dimly lit apartment three years ago, staring at a wall of text that looked more like a digital car crash…
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Automate the Thing You Do Every Six Months
I remember sitting in my home office last Tuesday, staring at a terminal window and realizing I had just spent forty-five minutes manually installing the…
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Telling People Before It Is Ready
I’ve spent enough time in the industry to know that most “advice” on how to ship a side project in public is just a thinly…
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Halve the Search Space, Then Halve It Again
I remember sitting in a dark apartment three years ago, staring at a flickering terminal while a payment gateway slowly bled money because of a…
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Preparing Without Six Months of Puzzles
I spent most of my twenties watching people treat technical interviews like a high-stakes memory game, memorizing hundreds of LeetCode patterns just to pass a…