Michał M. Sapka
Michał M. Sapka
Greetings, wanderer! You've reached my personal homepage. Let me introduce myself: I'm Michał, a middle-aged nerd from southern Poland who can't grow a beard to save his life. Beardlessness is a problem amongst older nerd crowds, so instead I have an old school, static website. The maximize the street cred, this site is fully self-hosted and self-built In fact, you are talking directly to my home server located in the living room. The HTML you are processing is generated by my custom Python SSR and is written in Vim.
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TitleDisillusionment CreatorThomas Mann Year1896 Kindshort story Read2026-10-09 FormatHardback (Wydawnictwo Czytelnik, 1956) SourceLittle Library LanguagePolish NoteTranslation by Leopold Staff VerdictA brief, depressing dialogue, and a pleasant one at this length. Any longer, and it would become dull.
What could have been a fun five-hour-long focused exploration of an interesting mechanic is a fifty-hour love letter from Kojima, to Kojima. That verdict took a handsome few hours in post-apocalyptic America this year. What I uncovered is an incongruous collage of an action game, a modernized QWOP, and exceedingly...
As a young boy I would lie in bed and simply stare at the ceiling. My focus would shift from one pattern to another, but my mind would wander. There was nothing I needed to do, so this was my exact (yet never defined) goal: nothing. I found that state again. I am writing a draft of this text sitting in the beautiful...
There is a certain type of anime which I despise. I've just learned it has a name - battle of wits. The constant monologues, the constant plots, the genius characters. How will A outwit B? Let's see how it happens and then spend 10 minutes explaining. But what?! B knew it all along, and created a cross-trap. Orb,...
We often credit Facebook and Twitter for all the harms of the world, but the more I think about it, the less I agree. Those were not the culprit, they only took full advantage of societal changes. The IRC and bulletin board days were just as consuming. But the per-minute billing was saving us. Today, broadband is...
Anyone is capable of creating pictures more aesthetically pleasing than any renaissance artist. Cameras made sure of that. This led to the many attempts to redefine what art is, as it could no longer be defined as just a "pretty picture". In 1961, Piero Manzoni takes a dump in a can and calls it art. Merda d’artista...
I'd open my RSS reader after a few days away and find a hundred unread posts. I'd mark them all as read. That was my reading habit. After reading Jon's post about saying goodbye to RSS, it stayed with me. Someone's writings had become noise I treated no better than a teenager scrolling past a picture on Facebook...
I don't subscribe to any streaming service partially because I don't want to get hooked to any TV series. I've heard great things about the Apple TV offering, so I recently watched two series: Pluribus and Murderbot. Out of nowhere, Apple became the new HBO, where the good stuff is. Those two series have very little...
I had a simple plan: lay back and read Proust. Just like most plans, this one went out the window before it started. The push of Dune is just too strong to hold. Chronicles of Dune is 6 books, but it's also often separated into two trilogies. The first three books tell a story, and the rest go their own (crazy) way....
I wanted to put my regained attention span to a test: can I, once again, watch complex films? All three Godfather films, played night after night looked like the perfect choice. Those are the most famous films of all time, often called crowning achievement of the form. Long (between 3 and 3,5 hours long each), slow,...
The story of Lord of the Flies is known to almost anyone, present company excluded. I may have seen the movie decades ago, but the memory was hazy. There were some kids, some island, and something bad happens. I was half-right. Lord of the Flies can be read through a few different lenses. On the surface it's, what...
Hello and welcome to the new iteration of this site. Let's kick things off with two SciFi books I've read recently. Dangerous Planet I came to this collection with zero expectations. Heh, Soviet short stories? What will they do? Sell communism?! Some stories here are better than others. The best of them is, without...
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