Professional articles
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Turtle: the unit testing showcase •
A demo project showcasing test suite organization, arrange/act/assert pattern, how to create and use test doubles, gherkin syntax for unit tests, and more
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Automated testing •
After you follow a few simple rules, automated testing poses no challenges. Here are some principles I follow to make my life easier.
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Advent of code •
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Perfect code •
I learned how to write perfect code, and it’s simple too.
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What do you consider an ideal process to deliver value through software? •
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Remote work is not about the location you’re working from •
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Learning NestJS •
Chapter 4/4: some technical details about how I approached using the NestJS framework
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Switching the tech stack •
Chapter 3/4: I knew that by joining the team I would have to start using new technologies. This part describes my approach to actually selecting the one for my first project.
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Changing teams •
Chapter 2/4: After I left the Phone team it was time to find a new place for me. To my surprise, the process was exceptionally pleasant.
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Leaving phone •
Chapter 1/4: Despite wanting to stay for at least 5 years, I left the company a little earlier. The start of a 4-part story that unfolded in the last 3 months.
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Interdisciplinary teams •
Here’s a crazy thought: why won’t we stop building single discipline teams?
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The path to Docplanner Phone’s frontend app architecture •
This is the description of the journey we took during the last 18 months to arrive at a well thought out, scalable and maintainable application.
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What questions should I ask the candidate for a software engineering role? •
Ones to query the practical knowledge or theoretical background? High level or detailed? Related to your stack or abstract? Struggling to come up with a list? What if I told you I have a solution that you could adapt regardless of the candidate’s skill level, programming language, or used frameworks and libraries?
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How we do Scrum •
Implementing only a part of Scrum is possible, but the result is not Scrum. We were slowly getting there, until we stopped to think about the problems we need to solve.
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Unit tests code style •
How our unit tests for higher-order became more readable and maitnainable.
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Commenting code •
Usually there is always a better way than just leaving a code comment
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PHP •
The role of the PHP language changed over the last two decades, and the job market along with it. What does this mean for products relying on it as a primary backend language?
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A tale about two candidates •
Two recruitment processes that taught me that you shoudln’t always make an offer at all cost, even if the candidate is hitting on all cylinders
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Pacing your teambuilding efforts •
Do you remember the urge to apply all those new and shiny engineering tools to your codebase? What happens if you take a similar aproach to leadership? What leadership lessons can you get from your engineering experience?
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The XY problem •
Focusing to much on the solution might cloud your vision and lead you into a dead end
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The Geniuses and the Butterflies •
I’d like my team to be diverse in many ways, also in the level of knowledge and social skills
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We’re a good team for experienced developers •
There’s something much more valuable to my team that putting in 50+ hours of work every week
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Givers vs Takers •
One bad apple can spoil the bunch. Do you know how to spot it?
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Performance vs trust •
Simon Sinek want’s you to figure out who’s the asshole on your team, an who’s the natural leader
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Building a remote-only team •
We were robbed of an opportunity to build our Docplanner Phone team as we would like it by the forced remote work, but as it turns out, we managed to build a great working culture anyway
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Dlaczego nie używam buzzwordów w ogłoszeniach rekrutacyjnych •
AI-powered FinTech Big Data blockchain expert needed for work in young and dynamic team. Terms may apply.
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Stay focused •
A couple of quick tips to apply for better productivity. Spoiler alert: it’s not about methods, time management and other tools but rather focus and priorities
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Security checklist •
How can you increase the security of your application without expensive tools and with minimal effort
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Coding standard deviations •
„What are those emoji thingies I keep hearing about and how can we use them to make our code more Y2K compliant” — nobody never
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Przestań mówić, posłuchaj i zainspiruj się •
Kilka punktów, które pomogą Ci polepszyć jakość Twoich rozmów i zbudować nić porozumienia ze swoimi rozmówcami.
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It was just called blogging back in my days! •
Some conclusions from a quick survey about developer’s reading habbits.
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The first Docplanner Phone team retrospective •
Our journey to find the right tools to start building our team from the ground up
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Query side effects •
A story about an exception to the rule stating not to set expectations about query-like methods dependencies
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Use calendly •
„— Are you available tomorrow? — Nope, I’m busy all day. Can we try next monday? — Sorry, out of office. Is tuesday good for you?”… What if there was a way to schedule a meeting without this back-and-forth?
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Dług techniczny •
Dług techniczny w bardzo szerokim, biznesowym ujęciu. U mnie w firmie pomógł osobom nietechnicznym inaczej myśleć o refaktoryzacji, testach i ogólnym dbaniu o jakość kodu, ale przede wszystkim o tym jak brak higieny kodu może odbić się na biznesie.
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Podejście „sprzedawaj, a nie kupuj” do ogłoszeń o prace w IT •
Jakiś czas temu pisałem o tym, czego zdecydowaliśmy się nie dodawać do ogłoszeń rekrutacyjnych. Tym razem, dla odmiany, słów kilka na przeciwny temat, czyli jakie elementy muszą się tam znaleźć i dlaczego.
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Don’t send me private messages on Slack •
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Podsumowanie roku pracy w Ars Thanea •
Spojrzenie wstecz na to co udało nam się zrealizować przez rok pracy w Ars Thanea
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Cleaning up docker to reclaim disk space •
Explanation of the docker volumes storage and how to remove unused ones to reclaim disk space
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How to ask your boss to make a decision •
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Sensowne ogłoszenie o pracę dla programistów •
Kilka sugestii w jaki sposób przygotować ogłoszenie o pracy dla programisty, trafić do odpowiednich kandydatów i nie skompromitować się w ich oczach przy okazji
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Why I wanted #nomanagers on my team and failed •
Promoting people to managers not from authority or wisdom but from necessity or politics kills our professional culture.
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Our Software Engineering values •
A set of skills and perks we decided is most valuable in a software engineer
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Git workflow, branch naming and pull requests •
This is the basic workflow for git at Docplanner. It’s loosely based on gitflow, but hasn’t got that much in common.
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Things to watch out for when reviewing code •
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Configuring SVN via SSH using public keys •
The process of configuring SVN over SSH using private/public key pairs is quite complicated, especially on Windows platform — I couldn’t find a robust instruction on the net, so I’m writing my own.
