Hello kind stranger

My name is Jan Taras. I am a Software Engineer based in Warsaw, Poland. I currently work at Tjekvik. I have previously worked at Sage and Zendesk. My primary stack is Ruby on Rails, but I do dabble in Javascript, Python and Go from time to time.

The theme of this website is space. The term has many conotations. It represents the unknown, the possibility the vastness. Though without a form in itself it is the origin of all things. Space allows us to recognize what the objects in the universe are and how they relate to each other. Space is the fabric upon which the cosmos paints its meaning.

This little chunk of space I have made just for you. So that you may see who I am and how I relate to your heart and labour. I wish you all the best on your journey kind stranger,

Safe travels πŸš€

Open Source Portfolio

I publish Open Source projects. Some of my projects are listed below:

Hiq

Haiku poetry generator for Ruby

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Atypical

Simple JS text animation library

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Langle

Wordle inspired language guessing game

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Sql Reporter

A tool for generating reports on reduction of SQL performance in Rails app. It works alongside sql_tracker for diagnosing the queries generared by the Rails app

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Wordify

An Excel add-in for parsing numbers into human readable words in more than 6 languages. It is based on humango - a Go library facilitating the same functionality of which I am the author.

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Wordbag

A simple tool for creating and editing sets of decks for Anki spaced repetition systems.

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Timeline

Blog

From time to time I feel a need to write a blog post.

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Will a machine replace you

On probability of AI replacing programmers

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Software Engineer's Library Part 0

Series introduction

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Ordo ab Haiku

Machine Generated Poetry

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Software Engineer's Library Part 1

Mythical Man Month

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To Be Or Not To Be in Ruby

A brief article about presence and absence in Ruby

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Optparse - CLI done properly

CLI Parsing in Ruby

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Hello I Love You

On the floating moments associated with LinkedIn recruitment

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SEL 3 Lean Startup

The book that made me a little bit less of a couch potato

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Go Fibonacci Go

Analysing the Fibonacci solutions in Go

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Software Engineer's Library Part 1.5

Reading amusement

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Contact

Should you wish to contact me on any matter feel free to send me an email to:

jan.taras29@gmail.com