Wiktoria Dalach

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Queer Swan Lake

Queer Swan Lake

I don't know about you but mentally, I'm ready for June, biking around the city and sitting at the Templehofer Feld until late. Mercilessly, the wall calendar tells a different, probably more accurate story, in which the feeling of sunshine on one's skin appears

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I uninstalled Instagram, here's what happened next

Cybersecurity on a train

Cybersecurity on a train

After 20 hours on various trains last week, I need to tell you what you might be doing wrong during a business trip. I traveled by train from Berlin to Munich, then from Munich to Zürich, and finally from Zürich back to Berlin via Frankfurt. These are popular connections between

Return to Seoul poster photo

Return to Seoul

What does it mean to be from a place? What does it mean to belong? What does constitute a family? Do blood ties always come first? Are adoptive parents to be abandoned? Does a biological father have any right to expect anything from his daughter? Was the email address mistyped

One Question Will Change Your Approach to Security Forever

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One Question Will Change Your Approach to Security Forever

Security is important and yet product people (managers, designers) see it solely as an engineering problem whereas engineers striving for an MVP often put security features on a shelf labelled “Nice to Have”. The shelf is hardly ever looked at and grows dustier and dustier over months and years. This

Hire Robots | Application Security Tips

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Hire Robots | Application Security Tips

Life of a software engineer can be challenging. You need to research and find the right solutions. The code you write must be readable, maintainable, and if possible reusable. You need to remember about performance and accessibility. That’s a lot. And then and the end it would be perfect

Sanitise and Validate the Input | Application Security Tips

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Sanitise and Validate the Input | Application Security Tips

Sometimes I think that web development is at its core a communication management. Users send some data in our direction and we respond accordingly. We show, edit, save, delete and if we don’t understand we return an error code. Every field that you add to your website, every new

two piles of books on the desk. On the left poetry books, on the right "Eloquent Ruby"

Learn to Code: read poetry

Yesterday was the anniversary of Wisława Szymborska’s death. She was one of the most acclaimed Polish poets. In 1997, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was a HUGE deal. I remember I was 8 years old, and newspapers were proud of her. I was astonished! At

A collage with Wislawa Szymborska

Nothing Twice by Wisława Szymborska

On this day, 11 years ago, a Polish poet, Wisława Szymborska, died. In her poetry, sorrow meets humor, death holds love's hand, and cats are present. To celebrate her and share her work, I recorded one of her most popular poem Nothing Twice. Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska0:

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Top 10 episodes of Unblocking Us with Brené Brown

Brené Brown has published the last episodes of her podcast Unblocking Us with Brené Brown. Sad news because it is my favourite podcast. I value openness and honesty of conversations she had with her guests. I wrote down a list of episodes that in one way or another touched me

Learn to code: The Unexpected Friend

Learn to code: The Unexpected Friend

Talking to a computer. That's what programming is. We write lines of code, we run it and a machine does what we want. Learning how to code is a step many people take to transform their careers. I've watched women during workshops (WebMuses and RailsGirls). The

How I got a job I was underqualified for

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How I got a job I was underqualified for

It was one of the coolest tech startups in Kraków. I was a fresh junior software developer and people would often share their expertise not only on programming but also on product and design development at tech events. I dreamed of working there yet didn’t think I was experienced

Tenderness of a stone | Donatello at Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Tenderness of a stone | Donatello at Gemäldegalerie Berlin

This one stopped me. They way they look at each other and share a moment. A mother and her child. The affection of marble from the 15. century yet so contemporary. How astonished must have been visitors of Palazzo Pazzi della Congiura in Florence. Did they cry in Italian the

The missing scene in The Matrix

The missing scene in The Matrix

It was the summer of 2000 when my parents decided to change all the windows and paint all the rooms in our house. I was 11, my brother 17 and we both helped as much as we could. We spent a few weeks covering white walls with exciting colours -

The 13-month Year

The 13-month Year

A 12-month year is not flexible enough and simply too stressful, so I've given this concept up and created a 13-month year. My personal problem with time Before I explain how a 13-month year looks like let me preface with a bold but true statement: I don'