The Uber of Poland
A few years ago I visited a friend in Gdańsk, Poland. As we explored the
city, one thing I noticed was that cabs were relatively expensive and there was
no Uber. Instead, most (young) people used a community-organized service called
Night Riders.
I couldn’t find anything about that service on the we…
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How Does The Unix `history` Command Work?
In which we learn about the intricacies of the Unix `history` command, rewrite it
in Rust and throw it away again in the end as we uncover the truth.
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Spreadsheets Make For Great Business Ideas
One of the best decisions I made in 2020 was to open my calendar to everyone. People book appointments to chat about open-source projects, content creation, and business ideas.
When we discuss business ideas, the conversation often leans towards problems suited for startups, such as using artificial…
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Starting A Print-On-Demand Business As A Software Engineer
One day I had the idea to make a print of my Github timeline.
I liked the thought of bringing something “virtual” into the real world. 😄
So I called up my friend Wolfgang and we built codeprints.
It’s my first “physical” product, so I decided to share my learnings.
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So You Want To Earn Money With Open Source
I earned 0 Euros from maintaining OSS software for years, and I thought that’s
the way things are. I finally looked into ways to monetize my projects last year
and in this talk I want to share what I learned so far. It didn’t make me
rich (yet!), but I built my first sustainable side-project with
an…
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My Blog Just Got Faster: Cloudflare Workers and AVIF Support
Did I mention that this website is fast?
Oh yeah, I did, multiple times.
It's never fast enough, so today I go one step further by adding
support for the new AVIF image format to the blog. The results were suprising.
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Launching a Side Project Backed by Github Sponsors
Yesterday we launched analysis-tools.dev. It's a project about comparing static
analysis tools. What's best about the project is that it's completely
open-source and backed by sponsors. If you like to do the same, keep reading!
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What Happened To Programming In The 2010s?
How has programming changed in the 2010s? You'd roughly need a decade to talk about all of it, but let me pick out some of the highlights.
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Tips for Faster Rust Compile Times
This post has moved to my other blog.
It will be updated there in the future.
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Gravity
Here's a test to check your age: Do you still remember that funny JavaScript gravity effect, which Google used on their homepage ten years ago?
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