Sixth Century Agile Manifesto
February 08, 2021Given that I call myself a “lay Benedictine”, and that my Twitter bio states exactly that, there’s been conspicuously little written on…
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Excel Add-ins in React
January 21, 2021In the beginning, programmers invented code. But businesspeople found code too complex, and they wanted something simpler. So programmers…
Axes of Governance
December 16, 2020Imagine the situation — a group of friends, some programmers, perhaps one salesman and one artist, venture together to found a company for a…
A Tale of a Dripping Faucet
November 11, 2020There’s a story quite early on in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance about the Sutherland couple, who represent the ”romantic” and…
Vim's Small Idea
October 26, 2020Six years ago Mike Kozlowski wrote one of my favourite articles on the Internet about Vim and approached the subject from a completely…
Books, debts, and delicatessen
October 18, 2020The trope namer for the “Matthew effect” is a verse from the Bible. It’s been ripped out of context and appropriated by economists, social…
React's imperative handles
October 11, 2020By this point everyone invested in React should be familiar with hooks. Thanks to hooks we don’t really need to use class components anymore…
Romantic programming
August 31, 2020If you’ve ever attended a history class where I’m from you will recognise this familiar diagram. Krzyżanowski sinusoid This is known as the…
On learning (natural) languages
August 12, 2020Languages are a powerful tool. Nowadays you might think that with mastery of English you can conquer the world, but it is not so. There are…
Gumption traps, part 3 - truth and psychomotor traps
July 12, 2020We continue our journey of exploring gumption traps. In part one we talked about setbacks — external traps that cause our gumption, the…
The Tomato Game
June 22, 2020There’s a popular children’s game in Poland known as the tomato game. It’s very simple in its premise. You need two or more people. From…
How to start programming
June 08, 2020Programming has become somewhat of a unicorn lately. It’s an interesting discipline, a very versatile one and, what’s most important to many…
Gumption traps, part 2 - hang-ups and value traps
May 11, 2020Last time we talked about the first type of gumption traps - setbacks. Setbacks are external issues that occur when the relationship between…
The Dunning Kruger Club
April 29, 2020The first rule of the Dunning Kruger club is that you have no idea that you have joined it.
Gumption traps, Part 1 - definition and setbacks
April 04, 2020“Gumption traps” are a term introduced by Robert M. Pirsig in Chapter 26 of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as a detail of his…
Three ways of gaining knowledge
March 14, 2020Today I would like to talk briefly about the three ways that we generally acquire knowledge and arrive at conclusions. The three ways under…
Functional ship of Theseus - from divergence to generalisation to divergence
February 24, 2020The work of a programmer is much like the work of a sculptor. We are placed in front of a computer with a programming language out of which…
Rationalism is the modern flat Earth
February 11, 2020The most accurate critique of rational thinking is not in the Bible. It’s not in the works of Kant or any other empiricist philosopher. It…
The story of react-use-message-bar
January 31, 2020The best open-source libraries and frameworks are those which solve a real world problem. This was indeed the case with . A simple idea from…
Two simple tips to read more books
January 22, 2020Reading is the single most effective way of self-investment there is. Picking the correct books and reading them comprehensively can rapidly…
Proof of concept: user defined themes in web applications
January 12, 2020An look into how we can make web applications more customizable.