Solving a common (apparently) statistical problem I was walking from a pub with my team and had a heated debate about many different things, during which one guy asked a question, which apparently is a common statistical problem: “There are 50 doors, and behind only one is a treasure. You can choose any door; I will…

Software engineers write a lot of code, but you will quickly learn it is often poor quality if you know how to recognise it. There are different reasons for that. …

Software engineering teams can be complicated, and finding a solid approach to structure them for success is not easy. Probably, because there is no single way of doing it. My experience taught me that whilst there is no one-fix-all solution, some approaches have more pros and a higher success rate…

“Today, I escaped my anxiety, or rather, I discarded it, for it is within me.” — Marcus Aurelius Worrying and overthinking help to deal with anxiety. Our minds want to prepare for every possible scenario and help us to build an action plan if and when things go wrong. …

Introduction I was lucky to build a few very successful design systems from scratch for different companies. Fortunately, I also had a chance to see and experience a few which were a total waste of time, an absolute disaster in planning, execution and most importantly — implementation. …

“Human brains works like self-steering torpedo going towards the goal (target is known). If it gets off course, negative feedback will be provided and it will correct itself. If it over-correct, negative feedback will be received and mistake corrected.” — Maxwell Maltz, Psychocybernetics Give feedback as soon as you can…

The healthy approach — A little bit of story how did we got here. We’ve all been there at some point in time. App versions are simplified to just whole numbers and increment with every release… or not. The randomness and lack of rules didn’t help when working in a larger organisation and where multiple teams may get involved in a single codebase…

We don’t often think about how our jobs (software engineering, I mean) are full of discrimination. We don’t see it because it’s a part of being a software engineer, and we sit too deep in it. Sounds sad, but that’s the truth on every level and in absolutely every (no…

A bit of history… Back in 2016, we introduced a new frontend architecture and had to move towards a better, more organised, and more robust branching strategy (honestly, before that, it was just wild west, and we usually just pushed stuff to master release them). Our starting point wasn’t Git Flow or other commonly…