Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
~ Terry Pratchett
This weekend I had opportunity to attend to legendary FOSDEM 2025 conference. Pure fun experience - could met lot of technology freaks, get inspired by some talks and all of that enjoying nice Belgium beer 🍺
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
TL;DR Assertiveness is much more than saying no. Once I grasped this concept and began honing my assertiveness skills my life became… well… brighter.
“It’s Saturday, beautiful weather outside so… let’s code something fun” (loosely translated)
~ Krzysztof Kudryński
“It’s a model pulled out of an ass”
~ Jakub Nabrdalik
Today, I had the pleasure of attending Confitura 2023, and I want to share some insights from the discussions I participated in there.
Disrupting the Banking Industry The keynote speaker, Paul Clark, CIO of Chase Bank, engaged us in a discussion on how technology disrupts different industries.
TL;DR In this post I share some insights of what is my current understanding of Test Driven Development. Additionally, I review some materials I recently encountered on this matter.
Context Test Driven Development and Pair Programming were practices that always attracted me. They seem to be pretty neglected in our industry (at least in places I had opportunity to work so far) but I see a lot of benefits coming from them.
TL;DR Interview is a great tool for companies and people looking for a job. It works not only as a form of exam, but it can deliver data to both sides if they will make a good deal or not. And even if they don’t make a deal - they can benefit a lot from gaining new perspectives and there is nothing they can loose - apart from time.
Context When I was looking for the first intern/job as a Software Engineer I remember that I was really stressed out by this.
TL;DR Today I learned how to map http request to sealed class in Kotlin and decided to share that with you.
Context Sometimes it can happen that our REST API consumes jsons that have conditional fields. Let’s say we have a following endpoint in our application:
POST /bet-offers It is used for adding a new bet offer to our application which offers betting on different sport events. There are different types of bet offers:
