pawelgrzybek.com
pawelgrzybek.com
Paweł Grzybek
I’m a software developer from Poland living in Northampton, UK. I’m a web standards enthusiast, accessibility advocate, and simplicity guardian. The guy behind the Northamptonshire Dev Club meetup. After-hours hip hop head, funky records collector, and photographer.
Latest Posts
What a month! After losing a job at the end of January, I started looking for a new one straight away. Seeking a new job nowadays is very different from how it used to be. Very long, multi-step and mentally draining processes are the new...
If you’ve been building web for a while, you probably remember the mess of six million files in your head element just to have a well-supported favicon. This is all over now, and a handful of files should be more than enough. Alleluia!...
“The Tim Ferriss Show” is one of the most popular podcasts in the world and follows a form of lengthy interviews with top performers from multiple areas, like business, tech, sport and finance. I don’t follow it religiously, but I...
I published my list of defaults last time in 2023, but a few things have changed since then. Inspired by Bud Spencer’s comment, here it is, my list of defaults as of 2026. Not a drastic change, but to make it a little easier to parse, I...
I have been a loyal customer of 1Password since 2013. It has served me well and I never really looked into the alternatives. I didn’t mind occasionally paying for an upgrade to the newer version, or even switching to a subscription model...
After an absolutely devastating January, my February was chilled and productive, and I really hope to keep that trend. Today is the State of the Browsers day, and I’m well pumped to be there with my best friends, surrounded by the best...
How many millions of times have you seen this pattern in Go where a variable is pre-created just to make a pointer to it down the line? There is a high chance your codebase includes a utility to do that. // Something like this a := 123...
The Cloudflare team clearly stated that we should prefer Workers over Pages, and this is the one that’s going to get future improvements and optimisations. Now that Workers supports both serving static assets and server-side rendering,...
A month ago I published “Look Back at 2025” where I mentioned that the past year has been super stable and how grateful I was for it. This state didn’t last much longer. I lost my job, one of my best friends was diagnosed with a cancer...
The rule of least power on the web incentivised using HTML before reaching for CSS, CSS before JavaScript, and bashing it into the JS script as a last resort. Every time the web ships new features that let us shift the implementation...
Howdy folks, can you believe that the year is over? Shocking! I spent December travelling around Sri Lanka with my family, and it was incredible! I published a few pics from our trip. I managed to catch up on a long reading list and, as...
We spent most of the month in Sri Lanka. It is becoming our annual tradition to travel abroad for the Christmas season. What a country, I’m telling you! People in Sri Lanka are incredibly kind. No matter whether they are wealthy or...
Last year we spent the end of December in Portugal, which started a new family tradition of travelling abroad for the Christmas season. We don’t like the cold, Mariah Carey and George Michael songs are not particularly to our taste, and...
What a busy month! Crazy at work, but also a lot of prep went into the last NN1 Dev Club meetup of the year. I’m very proud of how this little meetup idea grew to become a solid community of software engineers from the Northamptonshire...
Your computer runs tons of processes in the background, and pulling a plug out of a socket when it is in the middle of something is not a good idea. Doing that to your running service is also pretty risky, but this is precisely what...