Over the final weekend of the Polish summer, the Agile Poznań community gathered for its third annual anticonference, and what a gathering it was. I’ve had the privilege of attending every edition, and each one has surprised me in new and positive ways. This event brings together ambitious thinkers, insightful speakers, and engaged listeners. The […]

I think project management can be compared to flying an airplane: there are many external and internal factors, all of them important and constantly changing, and each one must be taken into account. To quickly analyze the situation and make the right decisions, you need good tools and skills. Today, I want to share one such tool for project managers.

It’s not uncommon to hear that programmers are “hard to communicate with,” “introverted,” or even described as “paranoid” or “autistic.” While I haven’t found definitive scientific research on how years of programming affect a person’s psychology and behavior, I guess I know what is going on.

Still running on post-race adrenaline, I wanted to share some impressions from yesterday’s Korba Poznańska marathon, a one-day gravel race covering 180 km around Poznań, mostly off-road and over fairly flat terrain. I have to admit, I’ve always been pretty far from the world of sports, so this has all been a brand-new experience for […]

When I think about this year, not many things come to mind. Besides some trips and definitely more cycling, running, and hiking, the highlight was probably my parents’ visit and spending a few weeks together. That was fun! Nothing has changed about my dreams: peace for Ukraine is all I want for the coming year.

It’s not often that you get to hear what people with such experience and horizons think about the future of both the industry and us as a human community. A recording of the speech appeared somewhere in Internet recently, and for those who are interested here is the full transcription of it. Highly recommend to review. I will just summarise a few main ideas and his vision.

This my photo reflects the feeling of the whole past year well very well. It’s gloomy, it’s cold, and we, as a small group, are trying to stick together.

After a long break, I’m going to try to get back to summarizing what I’ve been learning during the month.

As it turned out, it is quite easy to break Grafana by changing the name of the organization, or by changing the permissions of the admins. In any case, whatever you broke in your Grafana installation, having access to the server it’s running on, you can fix everything. Grafana’s status is stored in sqlite3, so, […]

The software industry is relatively young. Let’s take as a starting point the publication in 1939 of Alan Turing’s On computable numbers, with an application to the entscheidungsproblem, in which he described an imaginary computer turing machine and the program it runs. There were mechanical calculating machines, there was Charles Babbage’s analytical machine, but still, […]