Tomasz Wierzbicki
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Their First Week Reflects Your Team
I once spent three weeks at a logistics startup trying to explain our deployment pipeline to a senior hire, only to watch him accidentally trigger…
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When the Reviewer Did Not Read the Context
I was staring at a pull request at 11:45 PM, nursing a lukewarm coffee, when I saw it: a comment that had absolutely nothing to…
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Tell People It Is Down Before They Ask
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:14 AM, staring at a Slack notification from a frantic customer support lead while my monitoring dashboard insisted…
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A Pipeline That Runs the Tests and Nothing Else Yet
I once worked at a startup where we spent three weeks trying to configure a “state-of-the-art” enterprise CI suite, only to realize we had built…
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The Report Is Always One Day Wrong
I once spent an entire Saturday afternoon at a logistics startup trying to figure out why our shipment manifests were appearing as if they belonged…
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Ask Everyone the Same Questions
I spent most of my twenties watching senior engineers try to turn technical interviews into some sort of high-stakes psychological experiment involving whiteboard puzzles that…
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Reading a Flame Graph Without Guessing
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve sat through “performance tuning” workshops where some guy in a suit tries to sell you a massive…
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Why Your Total Is Off by a Penny
I remember sitting in a dimly lit office back at the insurance firm, staring at a reconciliation report that simply refused to balance. Every single…
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How to Say No in a Comment Thread
I spent three hours last Tuesday arguing with a senior dev about whether we should use a ternary operator or a full if-else block. We…
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Have an Agenda or Cancel It
I spent three years at a logistics startup where we had “syncs” for every minor architectural shift, and I’m convinced those meetings were actually just…