Tomasz Wierzbicki

  • A Good Name Removes a Comment

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    A Good Name Removes a Comment

    I once spent a rainy Tuesday morning at a logistics startup staring at a block of code that looked like someone had smashed a keyboard.…

  • What Fits in Two Days

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    What Fits in Two Days

    I’ve seen enough “productivity gurus” on YouTube to know they’re selling you a lie. They talk about building a “Minimum Viable Product” as if it’s…

  • Nobody Reviews a Two Thousand Line Diff

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    Nobody Reviews a Two Thousand Line Diff

    I remember sitting in my home office at 2:14 AM, staring at a diff that spanned four thousand lines of code. I had spent the…

  • Talking About Code Under Nda

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    Talking About Code Under Nda

    I was sitting in a dimly lit home office three years ago, staring at a blank Google Doc and feeling a strange sense of fraudulence.…

  • Dotfiles in Git, Not in Your Head

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    Dotfiles in Git, Not in Your Head

    I spent three days last year trying to replicate my local development environment on a new MacBook, only to realize my “system” was actually just…

  • Write It Down Before You Start Guessing

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    Write It Down Before You Start Guessing

    I once spent an entire weekend trying to reconstruct a race condition in a legacy payments service, only to realize I had forgotten the one…

  • Set Up the Laptop in One Command

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    Set Up the Laptop in One Command

    I spent three days once trying to follow a “perfect” DevOps tutorial for a new laptop, only to end up with a broken PATH variable…

  • You Cannot Fix What You Cannot Reproduce

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    You Cannot Fix What You Cannot Reproduce

    I remember sitting in a dark apartment three years ago, staring at a flickering terminal while a logistics system I helped build slowly choked on…

  • Write the Commit Message for the Person Bisecting

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    Write the Commit Message for the Person Bisecting

    I remember sitting in a cold server room back in my logistics startup days, staring at a diff that made absolutely zero sense. The code…

  • Your Cv Gets Forty Seconds

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    Your Cv Gets Forty Seconds

    I spent three hours last night looking at a “senior” engineer’s CV that was essentially just a grocery list of every JavaScript framework released since…