Once upon a time (not so recent ago, up to a year) my friend who used to work at FedEx briefed me upon the scandalous situation on the VAT databases access layers. Presumedly, the entire market is owned by an Austrian operator, who (at the time of his master’s thesis) thought it appropriate to query… Continue reading The time two guys hacked HMRC
El Quattro: a medical leave in Poland
In Poland to receive a ZUS ZLA certificate (A state-run certificate that you’re sick and unable to work) you have to have a doctor visit. Hopefully in the care world of teleinformatics I have mine just at arm-lengths. He submitted me the L4 (el-quattro, the earlier name for ZUS ZLA) and drugs for my rehabilitation.… Continue reading El Quattro: a medical leave in Poland
Docker + AWS + Windows
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How I cheated the Python interpreter
During my first hours of reckoning working on chad I came down with a problem. Since we try to exploit the model of monorepo we’ve decided that we’ll have our frontend served by the backend. It is generally a very bad idea and an anti-pattern, but since we’ll be building the backend and frontend from… Continue reading How I cheated the Python interpreter
Yes, we can document smarter
During my long IT voyages, a realization struck me. It struck me just as I determined that the text in front of me is a part of a manual. This was the text I was meant to send to our latest frontend person. A realization that I could save big time if I just compose… Continue reading Yes, we can document smarter
What’s it like to be an expert witness in Poland
By first hand account, of Piotr Maślanka I’ve been twice to the Circuit Court of Rzeszów. One time was me trying to actually apply for being an expert witness, where the Miss Secretary dutifully stomped each of my xerox (university diploma, special courses certificates) with a big-ass [TRUE TO THE ORIGINAL] stamp. The second was… Continue reading What’s it like to be an expert witness in Poland
The Past
or what I dug up from old zip and rars Context Today I found on the disk a zip archive with the Past. Having a manner that I have, namely after a period of my life is over sending everything to a zip archive, to be dug up later. I’ve dug up a series of… Continue reading The Past
Geneza podatku w życiu człowieka – rys historyczny
Poniżej zamieściłem referat przygotowany na jakiś konkurs organizowany przez Podkarpacką Izbę Obrachunkową w Rzeszowie. Rok 2011, technikum, czwarta klasa. Ponoć zdobyło tam jakieś wyróżnienie, ale więcej nie pamiętam. Geneza podatku w życiu człowieka – rys historyczny Pierwszy znany system podatkowy pojawił się w Egipcie między XXX i XXVIII wiekiem p.n.e.., w pierwszej dynastii Starego Królestwa.… Continue reading Geneza podatku w życiu człowieka – rys historyczny
“Podróż”
Niniejsze opowiadanie, które napisałem jeszcze będąc w technikum, zajęło pierwsze miejsce w rzeszowskim konkursie literackim organizowanym przez Osiedlowy Dom Kultury “Karton” na Baranówce w kategorii science-fiction, rok 2011 albo 2010, już nie pamiętam. Mój osobisty, autorski ojciec dysponował kopią w postaci wydruku, którym następnie został nakarmiony program OCR. Chwilka kontekstu historycznego – wtedy na polskim… Continue reading “Podróż”
React: switching from class-based components to functional
Following is a guide written originally by Bartek Maziarka for our internal needs at SMOK (which was tutoring our interns and the CTO). It has been only translated by me. Permission was obtained to publish it. You will need basic knowledge of React and JavaScript in order to proceed. Functional components Up until not very… Continue reading React: switching from class-based components to functional