Category: Programming
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WordPress Core AI — 7.1 Planning and Beyond
Building on the Abilities API and three read-only core abilities (core/get-site-info, core/get-user-info, core/get-environment-info) shipped in 6.9, WordPress 7.0 brings the server-side WP AI Client. Together these form the baseline: a way to declare what WordPress can do, and a way to connect to providers that reason about it. This post outlines what I’d like to…
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Research: Architecting Tools for AI Agents at Scale
Loading all available tools into an LLM’s context simultaneously is one of the most consequential architectural mistakes teams make when building AI integrations. The solution isn’t bigger context windows, and it’s progressive tool exposure: dynamically presenting only the tools relevant to each interaction. This post surveys the major patterns for doing so, drawn from production servers,…
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Why Did I Become a Developer?
It’s tough to tell when exactly and why I decided to become a developer because it was long ago. I started learning programming in high school at the age of 15. I wrote my first basic program in Turbo Pascal at the computer science class. It took maybe two or three years until I started…
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React Native EU 2017 – my selective recap
I had an opportunity to attended React Native EU 2017 conference last month. This 2 days long event took place in my hometown Wrocław, Poland. It was a very interesting experience for me because I’m a frontend developer. I don’t have any working experience with React Native and the only mobile project I worked on…
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Different types of software testing
Software testing helps protect code from incoming bugs and improves general quality of the functionalities exposed to the users. When you look at it from the developer’s standpoint the first thing that comes to mind is unit testing. However it turns out tests come in many flavors. I have already shared in the recap from Advanced…
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Functional Light JavaScript workshop
Functionite company did an impressive job bringing JavaScript expert Kyle Simpson to their hometown Warsaw, Poland in September last year. He led You Don’t Know JS Workshops, 5 days of JavaScript classes focused on learning new skills and the best practices. I joined on the last day to attend an excellent workshop titled Functional-Light JavaScript. In this post, I wanted to share slides and my…
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A journey to functional JavaScript: Part 1 – fundamentals
JavaScript has a quite fascinating history. Brendan Eich created on his own the first language prototype in just ten days. Its implementation was highly influenced by the concepts of first-class functions from Scheme and prototypes from Self. Initially, it was developed under the name Mocha, but released as LiveScript. The latter name didn’t last long either. Java was so hot back in 1995, that Netscape decided to…
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Exploring functional JavaScript
I started exploring functional programming (FP) concepts over a year ago. I have already shared my initial learning materials in one of the previous posts. It was only the beginning of my journey and today I would like to give you a much more detailed update on that topic. I picked the most interesting resources I discovered in the recent months.…
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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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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…