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Sal, Cape Verde
Cape Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. Sal is home to some of the best beaches in Cape Verde, and Santa Maria is where you’ll find clean white sands stretching off to the horizon in either direction. The island is…
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Automattic Grand Meetup 2016
Automattic gets the whole company together once a year for seven days so that employees can meet in person, work on projects, take classes and hang out together. It’s extremely important because we all work from home on a daily basis and see each other mostly online. Last year I had a lot of fun at the Grand…
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Calypso data kung fu – WordPress.com use case
This post is going to be used as a presentation during my upcoming talk at ReactJS Wrocław meetup. The event is planned for Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 19.00. You can find more details here. Calypso Calypso is the codename for a WordPress.com admin interface. This is what I wrote about it in one of my previous posts: This is a universal (aka isomorphic)…
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London, United Kingdom
They say all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Therefore, I also found some time to do some sightseeing while attending the Advanced TDD workshop. London is the capital city of England with the population over 8 million and it’s one of the leading tourist destinations in the world. It has so many attractions that I…
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Recap: Advanced TDD workshop with Uncle Bob
Earlier this week I attended a three day Advanced TDD workshop delivered by Uncle Bob Martin. The course explained the principles and practices of Test-driven development as described in his book, Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices. It was an amazing experience, packed with great knowledge, so I couldn’t resist sharing my notes. Uncle…
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Lisbon, Portugal
Travelling is a one of the greatest benefits of working for a distributed company. It has been only 10 months since I joined Automattic, but I already have been on a business travel in four different locations. First I was attending WordCamp Polska conference in Kraków. Then I had company meetup in Park City, Utah. Soon after I had my team’s get together in Amsterdam,…
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Random nutrition facts
This is more of a note to self than a blog post. It contains random facts about healthy eating habits. Easily digestible diet More of: cooked meat roasted meat stewed fruits graham bread
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Calypso – new WordPress.com
I’ve been working at Automattic only for 8 months now, but I must admit that so far this is the most exciting period of my 10 years long professional career. I’m lucky to work with amazing people on new WordPress.com admin interface called Calypso. This is an universal (aka isomorphic) JavaScript single page app written in ES6…
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Eurotrip Italy – France – Germany
Ned Stark would say “Winter is Coming”. This is no better time than now to go back to warm summer memories. This August we were on a road trip together with my wife and our friends. Our trip in a nutshell: 5 countries visited (including Vatican and Monaco) 7 places we stayed in 14 days of travel…
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Learning functional programming
Lately I wanted to explore more in-depth functional programming concepts. When I was looking for resources I found an interesting bundle (with 60% discount) from O’Reilly: Functional Thinking – book by Neal Ford Functional Thinking – video by Neal Ford It turned out they are really nice because they present code examples from the different programming languages like: Java, Scala or Closure. That…