Urodził się w 1924 roku. Miał 9 lat gdy Hitler przejmował władzę. Na wojnę poszedł jako szesnastolatek.

When I was single-digit years old, my tiny home town still used landline telephony with manual switchboards. My parents had to raise the receiver, wait for some human operator to pick up, say the number they wanted to call out loud, and wait for the operator to do whatever magic necessary. Not that I cared about things this mundane back then, but I saw this scene so many times it’s engraved in my memory.

So uhm, yeah, I got an iPhone after years of using Android. But I’m not going to nerd about iPhone’s awesomeness nor complain about its lack of flexibility (maybe a little bit?). I want to talk about the most basic personalization feature that makes any new phone feel like it’s my phone: setting custom audio files as tones for calls and text messages.

Apart from software development and photography, the other ‘big thing’ in my life is translating various texts from English to Polish. As a volunteer translator I have contributed dozens of big and small bits to many software and writing projects. It’s a fun and satisfying effort that brings tangible benefits to my fellows while introducing tricky challenges I don’t typically deal with elsewhere.

I often see online platforms come and go. However, last night I realized I don’t remember the last time I witnessed any platform, whether a website or a video game, dying right before my eyes. I’m very much unused to this strange sensation when I read an announcement stating that a place I visit daily will cease to exist after a specific date.

Once in a while, someone tells me my English is better than of many native speakers. That compliment, while flattering, hits a very sensitive string in my soul. It proves that I succeeded at something. But it also reminds me this is much bigger deal than it looks and we need to talk about it.

In 2013 for the first time I went on vacation by the Baltic Sea. It was also the beginnings of my fascination with photography, so a monopod, a DSLR and a bunch of lenses took a lot of my luggage space.

While tinkering with one of my projects I ventured to explore how to make a progressive web app out of an Eleventy site. A few months later, I’m happy to report two things. First, it’s perfectly doable. Second, you probably don’t want to do it. But let’s start from scratch.

Opowiem Ci historyjkę o tosterach. A przy okazji zamierzam opowiedzieć Ci o tym, jak słuchać Twoich ludzi.

Kiedy zaczynałam przygodę z programowaniem w 2001 roku, na porządku dziennym w moich społecznościach było zdecydowane krytykowanie innych języków programowania. Inne języki były do dupy, a ludzie piszący w nich byli przegrywami albo idiotami. Gdyby tylko używali prawdziwego języka, takiego jak nasz, wszystko byłoby po prostu lepsze.