Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
@marcin.floryan.se
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I'm Marcin, I have lived in a few countries across Europe, now in 🇸🇪🫎Sweden and loving it here.
I'm a 👨🏻💻 software engineer who got curious about 👥people too and became a manager. I've been in leadership positions for the best part of the last two decades, most recently at 🎧🎶📱Spotify.
I'm Marcin, I have lived in a few countries across Europe, now in 🇸🇪🫎Sweden and loving it here.
I'm a 👨🏻💻 software engineer who got curious about 👥people too and became a manager. I've been in leadership positions for the best part of the last two decades, most recently at 🎧🎶📱Spotify.
Bats of Bluesky
July 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Bats of Bluesky
I sure did not expect Gemini to spill the beans in response to my request for a cooking timer. And yet it did. Maybe it thinks I speak JavaScript. The timer sure works.
@kevlin.bsky.social does this quality as one? Software revealing its guts not just in failure? 🤔
@kevlin.bsky.social does this quality as one? Software revealing its guts not just in failure? 🤔
July 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I sure did not expect Gemini to spill the beans in response to my request for a cooking timer. And yet it did. Maybe it thinks I speak JavaScript. The timer sure works.
@kevlin.bsky.social does this quality as one? Software revealing its guts not just in failure? 🤔
@kevlin.bsky.social does this quality as one? Software revealing its guts not just in failure? 🤔
A very thoughtful and informative article on the causes of excessive cost of nuclear energy.
worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ba...
worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ba...
The bad science behind expensive nuclear - Works in Progress Magazine
How 1920s experiments on fruit flies and a secretive weapons testing programme made nuclear energy unaffordable
worksinprogress.co
June 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A very thoughtful and informative article on the causes of excessive cost of nuclear energy.
worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ba...
worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ba...
I'm loving the new e-ink displays that are appearing across Stockholm's SL public transport network. They are sharp, clear, work high contrast and low power consumption.
May 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'm loving the new e-ink displays that are appearing across Stockholm's SL public transport network. They are sharp, clear, work high contrast and low power consumption.
Reposted by Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
I'm running my Keeping It Simple masterclass a few times at conferences over the next few months:
Codecamp, Bucharest, 6-7 May
codecamp.ro/masterclasse...
SDD, London, 12 May
sddconf.com/agenda
GOTO Copenhagen, 30 September
gotocph.com/2025/masterc...
Codecamp, Bucharest, 6-7 May
codecamp.ro/masterclasse...
SDD, London, 12 May
sddconf.com/agenda
GOTO Copenhagen, 30 September
gotocph.com/2025/masterc...
Keeping It Simple – Codecampburger_menu-btnclose icon
Codecamp - Your IT Conference in Romania - Bringing you fantastic insights from the best minds in the IT industry, the people who changed the game in software development
codecamp.ro
April 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I'm running my Keeping It Simple masterclass a few times at conferences over the next few months:
Codecamp, Bucharest, 6-7 May
codecamp.ro/masterclasse...
SDD, London, 12 May
sddconf.com/agenda
GOTO Copenhagen, 30 September
gotocph.com/2025/masterc...
Codecamp, Bucharest, 6-7 May
codecamp.ro/masterclasse...
SDD, London, 12 May
sddconf.com/agenda
GOTO Copenhagen, 30 September
gotocph.com/2025/masterc...
I'm a little confused by this information from Gemini about the lack of end-to-end encryption. I'm pretty sure the only reason to not encrypt is do that Google can see the message...
May 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I'm a little confused by this information from Gemini about the lack of end-to-end encryption. I'm pretty sure the only reason to not encrypt is do that Google can see the message...
Listening to the media commentary on the death of Pope Francis I'm surprised by the liberal vs. conservative narrative. I don't hope for another "liberal" pope but a leader who continues the truly traditional work of the Gospel: serving the poor, seeking justice, and building bridges. #HolySea
April 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Listening to the media commentary on the death of Pope Francis I'm surprised by the liberal vs. conservative narrative. I don't hope for another "liberal" pope but a leader who continues the truly traditional work of the Gospel: serving the poor, seeking justice, and building bridges. #HolySea
I wonder how much longer we'll get to see #KevlinHenny software failures in the wild. I mean the _revealing_ kind. The new failures of the AI kind tend to be more of the opaque #FailWhale "Something Went Wrong" kinds.
April 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I wonder how much longer we'll get to see #KevlinHenny software failures in the wild. I mean the _revealing_ kind. The new failures of the AI kind tend to be more of the opaque #FailWhale "Something Went Wrong" kinds.
A smear of butter, a glimpse into chaos. Nature’s fractals show up where we least expect them — even on a knife blade.
#Fractal #ChaosTheory #NaturalBeauty
#Fractal #ChaosTheory #NaturalBeauty
April 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
A smear of butter, a glimpse into chaos. Nature’s fractals show up where we least expect them — even on a knife blade.
#Fractal #ChaosTheory #NaturalBeauty
#Fractal #ChaosTheory #NaturalBeauty
It's kind of cute when speakers at technology conferences create analogies to domains they have no idea about 🤭
I'm sure these analogies work for the majority of participants but feel funny when you know how things actually work in that domain.
I'm sure these analogies work for the majority of participants but feel funny when you know how things actually work in that domain.
March 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's kind of cute when speakers at technology conferences create analogies to domains they have no idea about 🤭
I'm sure these analogies work for the majority of participants but feel funny when you know how things actually work in that domain.
I'm sure these analogies work for the majority of participants but feel funny when you know how things actually work in that domain.
C'mon MacOS, keep up with the times.
Your Activity Monitor is still only showing the CPU chart, what about the GPU?
Your Activity Monitor is still only showing the CPU chart, what about the GPU?
March 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
C'mon MacOS, keep up with the times.
Your Activity Monitor is still only showing the CPU chart, what about the GPU?
Your Activity Monitor is still only showing the CPU chart, what about the GPU?
My friend @hejelin.bsky.social together with @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com are sending out a survey as part of the "Pragmatic Engineer" newsletter.
If you are working as an engineer or a manager in technology please take 5-15 minutes and share your perspective.
📋 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you are working as an engineer or a manager in technology please take 5-15 minutes and share your perspective.
📋 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
What is in your tech stack?
Hi 👋 this is Gergely and Elin at The Pragmatic Engineer (https://pragmaticengineer.com).
We want to know what tools, languages, frameworks and platforms you're using today! We want to get a realisti...
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March 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My friend @hejelin.bsky.social together with @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com are sending out a survey as part of the "Pragmatic Engineer" newsletter.
If you are working as an engineer or a manager in technology please take 5-15 minutes and share your perspective.
📋 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you are working as an engineer or a manager in technology please take 5-15 minutes and share your perspective.
📋 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
Congratulations to the Gimp team🥳
And if you want a vector image editor, an Adobe Illustrator alternative, that is free and open source check out Inkscape at inkscape.org/release/inks...
And if you want a vector image editor, an Adobe Illustrator alternative, that is free and open source check out Inkscape at inkscape.org/release/inks...
March 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Congratulations to the Gimp team🥳
And if you want a vector image editor, an Adobe Illustrator alternative, that is free and open source check out Inkscape at inkscape.org/release/inks...
And if you want a vector image editor, an Adobe Illustrator alternative, that is free and open source check out Inkscape at inkscape.org/release/inks...
”The single most effective habit is the willingness to change your own mind“
March 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
”The single most effective habit is the willingness to change your own mind“
Where is generative AI when one needs it... For example to generate the ALT text for photos.
It works remarkably well. I want it right in my workflow seamlessly integrated.
It works remarkably well. I want it right in my workflow seamlessly integrated.
February 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Where is generative AI when one needs it... For example to generate the ALT text for photos.
It works remarkably well. I want it right in my workflow seamlessly integrated.
It works remarkably well. I want it right in my workflow seamlessly integrated.
“People fantasize that strong-man rule will be simple and stable, but for everyone except the strong man it is exhausting and destructive.” ~T. Snyder
January 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“People fantasize that strong-man rule will be simple and stable, but for everyone except the strong man it is exhausting and destructive.” ~T. Snyder
Starting the new year with a new 📺 terminal emulator on Mac. I used iTerm for a long time and completely by chance bumped into 👻 ghostty.org. It's written in zig by Mitchell Hashimoto, has just been released and I'm ❤️ loving it. It's fast, os-native and feature-rich with sane defaults.
Ghostty
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
ghostty.org
January 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Starting the new year with a new 📺 terminal emulator on Mac. I used iTerm for a long time and completely by chance bumped into 👻 ghostty.org. It's written in zig by Mitchell Hashimoto, has just been released and I'm ❤️ loving it. It's fast, os-native and feature-rich with sane defaults.
I just completed ⭐️ all 25 days of 🎄 Advent of Code 2024!
This is my annual opportunity to practice blurry-eye coding and have fun solving puzzles. Thank you for putting together all the fun challenges @was.tl
#AdventOfCode adventofcode.com
This is my annual opportunity to practice blurry-eye coding and have fun solving puzzles. Thank you for putting together all the fun challenges @was.tl
#AdventOfCode adventofcode.com
Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 25, 2024 at 5:22 AM
I just completed ⭐️ all 25 days of 🎄 Advent of Code 2024!
This is my annual opportunity to practice blurry-eye coding and have fun solving puzzles. Thank you for putting together all the fun challenges @was.tl
#AdventOfCode adventofcode.com
This is my annual opportunity to practice blurry-eye coding and have fun solving puzzles. Thank you for putting together all the fun challenges @was.tl
#AdventOfCode adventofcode.com
For the past three months I have tried to take a peek at the future of AI-fuelled software development.
The result? A mix of powerful insights, frustrating hiccups, and plenty of learning opportunities.
marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12...
The result? A mix of powerful insights, frustrating hiccups, and plenty of learning opportunities.
marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12...
Experience in LLM-assisted software development
Marcin Floryan: Working with psychological safety, technology and complexity to understand and influence systems of work. http://pronoun.is/he; agile descaler @Spotify
marcin.floryan.se
December 20, 2024 at 11:29 AM
For the past three months I have tried to take a peek at the future of AI-fuelled software development.
The result? A mix of powerful insights, frustrating hiccups, and plenty of learning opportunities.
marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12...
The result? A mix of powerful insights, frustrating hiccups, and plenty of learning opportunities.
marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12...
Humans are full of emotions that can have a very high generative energy. It's such a shame when organisations limit the spectrum of emotions that are engaged to a single one: fear.
December 8, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Humans are full of emotions that can have a very high generative energy. It's such a shame when organisations limit the spectrum of emotions that are engaged to a single one: fear.
One company seems to integrate their IT systems with the help of carrier pigeons.
hat else could explain this?!
hat else could explain this?!
December 5, 2024 at 3:54 PM
One company seems to integrate their IT systems with the help of carrier pigeons.
hat else could explain this?!
hat else could explain this?!
We are bombarded with information. Most social platforms keep us in neat and distinct bubbles. Confirmation bias is rampant.
Remaining curious and critical is a key skill.
Here is a small personal story of confronting one of my own views.
marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12...
#blog #informationBias
Remaining curious and critical is a key skill.
Here is a small personal story of confronting one of my own views.
marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12...
#blog #informationBias
Do you trust your sources?
I don’t eat meat 🥩. To be precise, I mostly don’t eat meat. I explicitly and deliberately choose to not eat meat because I believe that reducing the amount of meat, mostly beef, we consume, has a posi...
marcin.floryan.se
December 5, 2024 at 3:26 PM
We are bombarded with information. Most social platforms keep us in neat and distinct bubbles. Confirmation bias is rampant.
Remaining curious and critical is a key skill.
Here is a small personal story of confronting one of my own views.
marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12...
#blog #informationBias
Remaining curious and critical is a key skill.
Here is a small personal story of confronting one of my own views.
marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12...
#blog #informationBias