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2026 11

  1. 1password for free range agents
  2. WordPress AI strategy – Artur’s Version
  3. WP Knowledge: Beyond AI
  4. WordPress as Obsidian Sync
  5. Book: Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
  6. Media is new smoking indeed
  7. Bucketlist #80 – Baby Turtles
  8. Jackpoint: control Claude via Matrix DMs
  9. PHP can AI: WordPress.com Agentic Infrastructure
  10. Cool Stuff from 2025
  11. Evernote N8N Node

2025 8

  1. [Deliberate 119] The limiting factor is energy
  2. Book: A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (the only architecture book you need)
  3. Displaying Images from SD Card on m5Stack (esp32 controller)
  4. Computer Use agents in 2025
  5. [Deliberate 118] The post-scarcity world of words
  6. Book: The Age of Wood by Roland Ennos
  7. Live demo of your WP Plugin with GH releases and WP Playground
  8. Cool Stuff from 2024

2024 30

  1. WordPress Data Views: Basic setup
  2. MS Flight simulator on Oculus Quest
  3. [Deliberate 116] – Guilt-free productivity system
  4. [Deliberate 115] – The marketplace of attention is inefficient
  5. [Deliberate 114] – The Almanack of John Carmack
  6. Building sync engines in WordPress
  7. [Deliberate 113] – What should I take for longevity?
  8. [Deliberate 112] Cringe, and the crushing force of Technology
  9. [Deliberate 111] Parenting, Part Deux
  10. Hey Junior!
  11. [Deliberate 110] Keeping promises to yourself
  12. Augmenting WordPress autocompleter quick links with your own post type
  13. Fun ways to exercise
  14. The World runs on invisible labor
  15. Writing serialized Gutenberg blocks in PHP
  16. [Deliberate 108] Avoid negative-sum games
  17. Book: The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
  18. [Deliberate 107] Is air travel really that annoying? My best tips.
  19. Hiking Jiufen to Ruifang via Liulang Road
  20. [Deliberate 106] VR, Revisited
  21. Installing Supernatural VR workout outside the US
  22. Oculus Quest 3 writing retreat
  23. Installing Android Apps on Oculus Quest 3
  24. Setting up Colemak on Oculus Quest 3
  25. [Deliberate 105] Enthusiasm matters
  26. WordPress: Custom Post types and read permission in REST
  27. Playwright: Dealing with polling requests and HAR
  28. [Deliberate] Just do the ting
  29. Optimize for momentum
  30. Cool Stuff from 2023

2023 25

  1. “minimalism” as the abdication of taste
  2. Why Humans Hallucinate too and what it means for AI.
  3. Reasons to Write Online
  4. Make GPT write like you and other overproductive employees
  5. Three-Day Priest and the death spiral of bs
  6. Book: The Coaching Habit
  7. Digital Immortality and the puzzling humanity
  8. Affordable Luxuries
  9. Prompt hacking is Oxygen
  10. Deliberate #95: Summertime Sadness and the fight for immunity
  11. The AIKEA Effect
  12. Why are you doing this?
  13. Preparing for fun
  14. AI Bloggers and Sabbaticals
  15. AI Stages of grief, and a few predictions.
  16. Instantly search your Qnap files and emails via Qsirch API
  17. Is AI better than a washing machine?
  18. Adding ChatGPT to your Slack DIY
  19. Remote Links Roundup
  20. Books: The Happy Sleeper
  21. Attention is all you need. So do Androids meditate?
  22. Certified 100% AI-Free Organic™ content
  23. Managing time as a manager
  24. Personal Logistics
  25. 2022 – A year of coming to terms with mediocrity

2022 36

  1. Work of Art in the age of mechanical reproduction
  2. It is ok to be ordinary
  3. Boring Innovation
  4. Great career advice
  5. Artificial Vanity for the masses
  6. Discussing Elon is tedious now
  7. Minimum Effective Convenience
  8. Transcribing your iOS Voice Memos to Markdown with Whisper
  9. 5 Pieces of advice for my 37th birthday
  10. Book: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
  11. Running Tumblr on WooCommerce
  12. Ups and downs of parenting
  13. What do you wish existed?
  14. Synchronizing WordPress posts with Github README.md
  15. Book: A short history of nearly everything
  16. Principles for reading
  17. Sort by Surprising
  18. RVing, while Working, while Babysitting
  19. RVing around alps
  20. Human Memory and Academic Writing
  21. Source Monitoring Errors
  22. What is Web3?
  23. Bigscreen Codecs for VR cinema
  24. Consensus-Seekers and Problem-Solvers
  25. What is an Algorythm?
  26. Star Alliance Gold za 1/4 mil czyli Aegean Airlines
  27. O co chodzi z tymi statusami w liniach lotniczych?
  28. Fast decision making is the only productivity hack you need
  29. Get ahead by not shooting yourself in the foot
  30. How to set up a Gmail custom domain for free
  31. Why do remote companies do meetups?
  32. Your own Roam Research Quicknote REST API with Firebase
  33. Monotheistic thinking trap
  34. Welcome to 2022 plus the best reads of the year
  35. 2021: A year of rolling with it
  36. How do I get hired for a remote job?

2021 41

  1. Trying out Twitter
  2. Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Supply Chain.
  3. The Triumph Economy and other solutions
  4. Warsaw, Climate Care, and Pierogi
  5. No hacks in getting featured on Hacker News
  6. The Climate Care Industry
  7. Ambient Allure and Spectacular Sights
  8. Crypto is not an alternative to Capitalism
  9. Alexander von Humboldt: the first Solarpunk
  10. Solarpunk Art Contest
  11. Computer Science and Psychology? How does that work?
  12. Registering SIM from Lidl Germany as a foreigner (in 2021)
  13. When are these nomads working? Travel productivity surprise
  14. We need people who know what they are talking about
  15. The interconnected mess of it all
  16. Modne Problemy (Paul Graham)
  17. Forest rebouncing, modern farmers, and LinkedIn psychopaths
  18. Book: The Scientist in The Crib
  19. Book: Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez
  20. Oldschool Internet & The Blockchain
  21. Tales To Inspire Climate Solutions, not Tales To Condemn
  22. Farmers always Worked From Home
  23. Solarpunk is the future I want
  24. Learn to delegate by hiring a Virtual Assistant
  25. Organic Governmental Disruption
  26. What would you do if you had 5 months off?
  27. Three principles of creating an antifragile plan
  28. Travelling Salesman, Youtube Algorithm and Basecamp Drama
  29. How Starcraft can help your career.
  30. Addressing the unaddressed
  31. Competence is fractal. Plus transgenic trees.
  32. History is not that Deliberate
  33. Welcome to the talent wars
  34. Penguins and Effective Advice.
  35. Bitcoin, Tesla, Bears, and Ducks
  36. Composability is the only game in town – Roam, shipping containers, Lego and Twitter.
  37. January 2021: GameStop, Parler, censorship, and crypto.
  38. Technically Correct is Wrong
  39. Most Deliberate reads of 2020. Plus a Baby!
  40. Roomba having trouble docking? Check the IR sensor.
  41. Hello World!

2020 39

  1. A Crow for Christmas
  2. Science publishing holds us back. We need to do better.
  3. Premium Mediocre Hacks
  4. Kupowanie Kampera – poradnik
  5. The roaring twenties and the prohibition are back!
  6. Perverse Incentives, USSR, Deutsche Bank, and Remote Work
  7. Deliberate 32 – The perils of prepping
  8. Deliberate 31 – Infectious diseases and investment basics
  9. Investing Basics
  10. What is going on with all those note-taking apps?
  11. Zoom fatigue, Manatees, and Twitter AI
  12. The concavity of fun and the Buddhas
  13. Compound Interest on your curiosity
  14. On the Origin of Podcasts
  15. Mental atlas and corporate promises
  16. Watch out for assigned identities
  17. How to start your own podcast on WordPress.com
  18. All about the trees on the Internet
  19. The price of free time: programmer’s guide to helping a Non-profit
  20. Education, the Umbrella Academy, and Wealth Creation
  21. [Deliberate Internet] – Comet, overprotecting the digital content, and meritocracy
  22. Overprotecting your creation hurts you the most
  23. GPT-3, Artificial Intelligence, and what are they up to?
  24. How to protect your job from automation
  25. DEVS(show) : The Universe is (not) deterministic. Is it a bootstrapping compiler?
  26. Don’t use your work voice at home
  27. Automatically transcribe your Evernote voice notes
  28. VIPs secret weapon: the Post-It note.
  29. Communication, and other CIA Sabotage tactics
  30. I miss the commute
  31. 402 Payment Required and why micropayments are doomed
  32. A tale of two paywalls
  33. Working from home – a primer to get your team started
  34. Book: On Writing by Stephen King
  35. Book: The End is Always Near by Dan Carlin
  36. Your product is either a commodity or hospitality.
  37. Dear Manager, I am sorry I suck at feedback.
  38. The optimal human performance formula: the basics
  39. The lazy way to being outstanding: go after hard things.

2019 32

  1. Ramit Sethi – is this guy legit? I took his courses and found these 5 principles.
  2. Bring Your Own Friends – Dealing with loneliness when working from home
  3. “Well, we have to measure something.”, And the perils of metrics.
  4. Why do you have so many bots?
  5. Book: Elon Musk – Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
  6. Book: The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
  7. Busy is a choice
  8. For the love of Kindle – the ultimate nomad library
  9. Book: Brain Rules by John Medina
  10. Matala, Crete
  11. Captivate: the science of succeeding with people by Vanessa Van Edwards
  12. No one really means to be mean
  13. To rest – move
  14. Learning to cook Indian food in Mumbai
  15. You’re not lazy. You may just need accountability.
  16. The opportunity to move for work is a privilege. Remote Work unlocks the potential of those who can’t
  17. Book: Homo Deus – a history of Tomorrow
  18. Book: Whiplash – How to survive our faster future.
  19. Take a walk to get unstuck
  20. Book: Innovators by Walter Isaacson
  21. Book: Loonshots
  22. Book: How to talk to anyone
  23. Is remote work hurting the environment?
  24. The Garden Route – Cape Town Road Trip
  25. Book: Thanks a Thousand
  26. Book: Freakonomics
  27. Swimming with Seals in Cape Town
  28. Book: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  29. Cheap ski weekend in Zurich. How much is it?
  30. Richelieu Rock – Thailand’s scuba paradise
  31. So you want to work at Automattic.
  32. Working from home? I could never!

2018 15

  1. Book: Four Tendencies
  2. Book: Power of full engagement
  3. Book: Hard Thing about Hard Things
  4. Book: Factfulness by Hans Rosling
  5. Book: Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
  6. Book: Essentialism – the disciplined pursuit of less
  7. Book: Skin in the Game
  8. Book: Purple Cow: Transform your business by being remarkable
  9. Book: Remote – Office not required
  10. Book: Born to run
  11. Book: Tribe of Mentors
  12. Book: Life Principles
  13. #171 Ride Royal Enfield in India
  14. Leonardo Da Vinci
  15. Simple Payments for India 🐘

2017 29

  1. Book: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
  2. Book: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  3. #20 Go to Legoland
  4. Book: Rising Strong: by Brené Brown
  5. Book: Fahrenheit 451
  6. Book: Moonshots in Education: Blended Learning in the Classroom by Esther Wojcicki
  7. Book: The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
  8. Book: How Proust Can Change Your Life: by Alain de Botton
  9. Book: Tools of Titans – Wise
  10. Book: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
  11. #185 Go for a rodeo
  12. Book: Tools of Titans – Wealthy
  13. Book: Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
  14. React Native Isomorphic app in a weekend
  15. Book: Obstacle is the way by Ryan Holiday
  16. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  17. Book: Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
  18. Book: The Charisma Myth
  19. Book: How to Win Friends and Influence People
  20. Book: Tools of Titans – Healthy
  21. Book: First 20 hours… How to learn anything… fast.
  22. Book: Creativity Inc.
  23. Book: Benjamin Franklin, An American Life
  24. Book: An Astronauts guide to live on earth
  25. React Native CodePush
  26. React Native: Rename my app
  27. React Native: Vector Icons – FontAwesome and others
  28. React Native Web & Isomorphic magic
  29. React Native: Oauth

2016 11

  1. #164 Swim in a Cenote, Mexico
  2. I wanna be a programmer! A journey.
  3. Secret patterns of flavour
  4. #182 Cycle the Loire Valley
  5. My Japan top 5
  6. Alfred Evernote Snippets
  7. #181 Giants causeway
  8. So you want to work at Automattic?
  9. #180 See a space launch
  10. #142 Swim with Manatees
  11. #61 & 141 Air Boat, Alligators, Everglades

2015 5

  1. LearnMinder – Teaching kids how to code
  2. Accelerated Mobile Pages
  3. Lego Ribba Frame
  4. $4 SmartHome
  5. Reactive Compass – React plugin for keyboard-based navigation

2014 2

  1. Evernote: Using Online Notes for Performing Qualitative Research
  2. Hosting Samsung Smart TV Hackaton

2013 4

  1. Swimr
  2. Evernote for Travel
  3. 4 hour body: PAGG w Polsce
  4. Walidacja numeru Pesel w JavaScript

2012 4

  1. Preikestolen and Kjeragbolten on the cheap
  2. Rozrusznik nie działa
  3. Synchronizacja haseł FileZilli poprzez Dropbox
  4. Wtyczka Prolink.pl do WordPress’a

2011 5

  1. Jestem sławny!
  2. Darmowe ubezpieczenie zdrowotne z uczelni
  3. Kariera Sprawności – Poster
  4. Wymiana Silnika Focus 1.8 Tddi
  5. Rootowanie HTC Desire

2010 17

  1. Pierogi z Grzybami
  2. Steampunk Display
  3. Programowanie współbieżne
  4. Posłuszeństwo jest wynagradzane
  5. DupliKiler
  6. Cięgna skrzyni biegów
  7. Odpowietrzanie układu chłodzenia
  8. Steampunk Keyboard
  9. Wymiana Rozrządu Focus 1.8 tddi
  10. Systemy Rozproszone Zad 2
  11. Gra Rycerze
  12. Autohotkey w służbie nauki
  13. Interferencja Emocjonalna
  14. Program do aukcji
  15. Ford Focus. Poradnik użytkownika.
  16. Strategia antywypaleniowa
  17. Czy można robić poważne badania przez internet?

2009 10

  1. Neuroplastyczność układu nerwowego
  2. Lab Wpółbieżny i obiektowy zadanie 2
  3. Lab HTML i JAVA, zadanie 4
  4. Struktury Danych
  5. Lab HTML i JAVA zadanie 3
  6. Lab obiektowy i współbieżny zadanie 1
  7. Lab HTMLa i Javy, zadanie 2
  8. Poster
  9. Lab HTMLa i Javy, zadanie 1
  10. Eksperyment!

2008 25

  1. Laboratorium C++
  2. Mała baza danych
  3. Lab obiektowy Zad 3
  4. Programowanie obiektowe zadanie 2
  5. Laboratorium programowania zad 18
  6. Laboratorium programowania zad 17
  7. Laboratorium programowania zad 16
  8. Laboratorium Funkcyjnego zadanie
  9. Laboratorium programowania zad 15
  10. Laboratorium programowania zad 14
  11. Laboratorium programowania zad 13
  12. Laboratorium programowania zad 12
  13. Laboratorium programowania zad 11
  14. Programowanie obiektowe zad 1
  15. Laboratorium programowania zad 10
  16. Systemy Rozproszone Zad 1
  17. Laboratorium programowania zad 9
  18. Laboratorium programowania zad 8
  19. Laboratorium programowania zad 7
  20. Laboratorium programowania zad 6
  21. Laboratorium programowania zad 5
  22. Laboratorium programowania zad 4
  23. Laboratorium programowania zad 3
  24. Laboratorium programowania zad 2
  25. Lab Pascal zadanie 1

2007 4

  1. Wymiana Filtrów
  2. Sieci komputerowe zadanie
  3. Wymiana Drzwi
  4. Archiwizowanie rozmów telefonicznych