Writing

My first Pykonik meetup in Kraków was full of energy, with talks on threads, local coding agents, music generation, and a string of lightning talks.

Kicking off 2024 meetups in Kraków with talks on building an event analytics pipeline with Kafka, ksqlDB and Druid, plus a deep dive into MirrorMaker 2.0 migrations.

Reading Software Architecture: The Hard Parts made me realize almost every design decision boils down to picking the best compromise, not the perfect answer.

I presented “Memory leaks in long processes” with Łukasz Jaworski at PHPcon Poland 2022 — my first time ever speaking at a conference.

I joined a two-day AWS Step Functions workshop and walked away rethinking how I break applications down into small, orchestrated steps.

I went through the Symfony Fast Track book step by step and picked up a bunch of good practices, from Xdebug tricks to why entities shouldn't be services.

I got my certificate for Data Workshop's 3 day Python challenge, so I revisited the Pandas commands we trained with on a video games dataset.

If you're not careful with image names and tags, you can make a mess of your local Docker storage — here's how I keep mine clean.

I finally started writing tests first, and hit a ServiceNotFoundException in Symfony when a service wasn't used anywhere else in the container.

A simple pattern for building test entities in PHP — moving from bloated builders to a lean static factory, with a Faker-powered variant thrown in.

My honest take on Python Crash Course after months of learning Python — great for beginners, a bit repetitive if you already code for a living.

Notes from Docplanner's Clean Code and Architecture workshop — object calisthenics, ditching the ELSE keyword, and why I'm excited about Action Domain Responder.

2020 was unusual for everyone, so here's what I actually achieved — learning Python and AWS, some DDD, a lot of workshops — and what I'm chasing in 2021.

I dig into shell script security and good practices, review a real script with shellcheck, and flag the mistakes it caught — unquoted variables, a missing -r flag, and more.

I've started training myself in Bash — quick automation scripts are priceless, and shell scripts still run almost everywhere on Linux, even inside Docker images.

Today I joined another WarsawJS workshop, this time on design patterns — a topic I think is worth refreshing every once in a while.

My first post here — after trying blogging before, I'm ditching the long-form approach for something shorter and more frequent, powered by Github, Jekyll and Markdown.