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I'm a Ruby software engineer 💎
I believe self-improvement, responsibility, and clean solutions are essential for getting things done, both in software and real life. 🔨

My programming journey started in 2012.. but this page isn't my CV. If you want to know more about my career path, please visit my personal page or LinkedIn profile 🪪

I like writing. 🖋️
It helps me gain a deeper understanding of topics and allows me to share knowledge with others. I usually cover Ruby and Rails-related subjects. Feel free to check out my work on the Visuality blog.
With more then 15 blog posts written, here are some of my favorites:

Hotwire related 🔥

• Showing progress of background jobs with Turbo
• Smooth concurrent updates with Hotwire Stimulus

Ruby and Rails 💎

• Multithreading with Celluloid and Concurrent Ruby
• Using Connection Pool in Ruby
• Intro to pessimistic locking in Rails

Software engineering ⚙️

• Data Quality in Rails apps
• Prototyping

As you can see on the Visuality page, I often document important events such as conferences and company life.

Being part of a community means both receiving and giving. I've had the privilege to give talks at the following events:

• Polish Ruby User Group in Warsaw (PLRUG): July 2022, November 2023, March 2024
• Poznań Ruby User Group (PRUG): October 2022, January 2024
• Ruby User Group Berlin (RUG*B): June 2024

I've had the pleasure of speaking at the following conferences:

• Warsaw Ruby Community Conference, 2024 - Implementing business archetypes in Rails
• Ruby Unconf 2024 in Hamburg - Showing progress of background jobs with Hotwire Turbo

One of my recent achievements was leading a workshop with @piowit titled "Building a Live Kanban Board with Rails and Hotwire". We spent 3 hours teaching and building a live, dynamic, interactive Kanban board using the latest Hotwire Turbo. It was an awesome experience! 🎉

I use GTD to manage my personal and work life from more than 10 years now! Check out the blog series I wrote on the topic:

• My thoughts after using Getting Things Done for 10 years
• GTD Setup I use
• 5 steps to get you started with GTD

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

• Psychology still remains in my deep interest, mostly cognitive psychology and all productivity related staff. 🧠
• Playing board games is one of my favourites activities, ask me if you need recommendations! 🎲
• I enjoy hunting.. Hunting for the perfect photo scene 📸. Check out my photos here
• I'm part of the elite group of people who love to read books 📚
• Long winter evenings = a fireplace + watching snooker 🎱

Oh, and I’m a big Star Wars fan (mostly pre-Disney era movies.. 😢)

Feel free to reach out via my personal website. Or, find me on LinkedIn or X

Thanks for visiting my profile! May the Force be with you. 🌌