Sometimes I go for a surf with my head full of thoughts. I think about the stuff at work, I try to solve some coding puzzles, I try to figure out why my wife cannot understand my point of view, or I bring day-to-day anxiety to the water. Long story…

I would call myself a self-taught surfer. I’ve been learning how to ride the waves for a long time now, with a few professional lessons at the beginning. Unfortunately, because I was going through it without detailed guidance, I ran into some traps on the way and developed some habits…

Years ago, while I was at the University, I never thought about leaving my home country. I didn't speak any foreign language well enough to communicate without issues, and I wasn't interested in travelling just for the sake of doing it. I stayed happily in the bubble of my close…

They say that once you understand the Monads, first, you lose the ability to explain it, and second, you write a blog post about it. …

Finally, we are heading back to Australia. With all my family, we are excited to be back in Down-Under and get back our lives. I can’t wait to hit the water in the early morning, my wife misses her friends, and my daughter is about to be back at childcare…

I finally had a chance to dive into the deepest pool in Europe. At DeepSpot near Warsaw, you can dive up to 45m, which is way beyond my current freediving capabilities. So I signed up for a level 2 course, which allows me to go as deep as 30m. The…

I started my functional programming journey a while ago. For a couple of years, I’ve had quite a few aha moments discovering new concepts that drastically changed my way of thinking and looking at the code. First, I saw the power of immutability and how important state management is. Of…

When I was a kid, everything seemed far away. In my head, Europe looked like an endless place that was pretty much my whole world. Poland, the country where I’m from, marked the boundaries of my cognition and crossing it even for a second felt like an adventure. America was…

I’ve been writing a post regularly for a while. Every second Sunday, no matter what was happening, I found some time to sit, reflect and write something that was in my head. I always believed it is a great way to keep in touch with a written form of expression…