Musings on life, technology and everything in between. Personal writing by Łukasz Wójcik
Disclaimer: Niniejszy artykuł porusza kwestie okrucieństwa wobec zwierząt, czystek etnicznych oraz samobójstw. Disclaimer: This is a Polish translation of the following article, written with consent of its original author: .io considered harmful by Cariad Eccleston. Internetowa domena najwyższego poziomu .io finansuje i wspiera wygnanie przez Wielką Brytanię rdzennej ludności archipelagu Czagos z…
Out of a mixture of necessity, curiosity and many other reasons outside my control, I spend a lot of time on Instagram. My experience on this platform is far from particularly pleasant, but sometimes I scroll down further to see what’s hidden deep below the fold. In 9 cases out of 10, it’s cat videos. But in that one odd case, it can be something as unexpected as… feeding monkeys bananas. When you…
When I was *teen years old, I sometimes helped my dad run his household equipment repair shop. Among many things we’ve been doing, once in a while there was a need to purchase replacement parts from a specialized store in the village nearby. So we would commute there by car, and pick up and pack necessary parts, and then wait for the invoice to be prepared and printed. It was 1990s and the store…
Disclaimer: This is an introduction to Meta in Myanmar series by Erin Kissane, translated to Polish with consent of its original author. Oddaję w Państwa ręce serię artykułów autorstwa Erin Kissane na temat niezwykle dramatycznego epizodu działalności firmy Meta – twórcy Facebooka – w Mjanmie, znanej też pod nazwą Birma. Seria składa się z czterech artykułów oraz suplementu i jest podróżą do…
Since the beginning, a huge part of my photography journey is studying other people’s photos. While doing that, I often try to examine what exactly makes me feel the way I feel so that I can notice that feeling while I’m out with my camera. Sometimes I see things and I immediately ‘get’ them even if I’m unable to emulate them myself – certain genres are inherently self-explanatory. However, at…
I’ve been maintaining persistent online identity for more than two decades. The side effect is that if you know where and what to search for, you will come across traces of my online activity going back to early 2000s, including juicy things the 2024 me may not want you to see. A lot of that is possible thanks to Wayback Machine operated by Internet Archive. I love Internet Archive . I deeply…
It is March 2024 and the Eleventy template that powers my blog, Bliss , reached the point it’s not only my most starred project on GitHub, but it also attracts genuine attention of other people. And what’s the highest form of attention people can give to your open source project? Bug reports. And a particularly interesting bug report came in February. Someone reported my template would refuse to…
While photography is merely a hobby of mine, over the years I have established a routine that makes things productive and predictable while not stripping the process of the fun factor. But there are times when I feel lost or overwhelmed for various reasons, but I still want to get something done. Sometimes I want to start after a long break but I don’t know what to do first. Sometimes I get stuck…
I’ve been working on something big that is scheduled to land on my blog soon and I encountered an interesting problem. I wanted to put a piece of HTML code in a selected place alongside the post content, preferably without client-side JavaScript. An hour later I arrived at a solution I deem good enough, but since it’s now living rent-free in my head and I’m a heartless landlord when it comes to my…
Some time ago, during one of agile rituals at work we were asked by our new scrum master to introduce ourselves and share some details about us, as well as our most life-changing moment. My catalog of life-changing experiences is fairly limited (or my memory is slowly failing), but I didn’t want to mention the same mundane things as the rest of my team. Instead, I opted for something enigmatic: I…