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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 16/08/2026

Daddy, draw an elephant.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 05/08/2026

Personal website maintenance day.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 23/06/2026

A year ago, building a custom tool for one library upgrade would've been a waste of time. With agents, the math flips. Things not worth building before are suddenly worth it: run once, then delete. I walk through one I built for a React Query migration. blog.tomaszgil.me/throwaway-by...

Throwaway by Design: Building a Regression Verifier with Agents

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 30/04/2026

Final post in the Offline Support for Web Apps series. 📴 Image bytes don't belong in your app state. This one is about splitting the data layer — data in one place, image bytes in another — and letting a service worker handle the transport. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/offline-supp...

Offline Support in Web Apps: Serving Images without the Internet

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 01/04/2026

New post in Offline Support for Web Apps series. 📴 Prefetching can make offline UX feel seamless — or completely tank performance. This one breaks down how to do it carefully: when, what, and how much. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/offline-supp...

Offline Support in Web Apps: Data Prefetching Strategies

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 23/03/2026

I’ve stopped writing code by hand. I hesitated to post this because it already feels obsolete — my workflow is evolving as I write this. Still, I break down how I currently work with AI agents end-to-end. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/the-agent-fi...

The Agent-First Workflow: Building Software with AI

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 17/03/2026

New post in the Offline Support for Web Apps series. 📴 This one moves from queue implementation to real application usage — wiring the queue into React, capturing offline mutations, and syncing them safely later. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/offline-supp...

Offline Support in Web Apps: Foreground Queue for Offline Mutations — Part 5

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 04/03/2026

Just finished speaking at meet.js Summit 2026 about Shipping Offline Support on the Web. 🎤 It was my first time presenting at a conference of this scale — and what an experience. Huge thanks to the organizers. Appreciate the engaged audience, sharp questions and conversations afterward. 🙏

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 25/02/2026

Slides ready. Excited for next week. 👀

Title slide for "Shipping Offline Support on the Web" talk

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 23/02/2026

If you haven’t had a chance to grab your ticket for the 15th meet.js Summit yet (psst… I’ll be speaking there 👀), here’s a -10% promo code for you! 🎟️ cart.easy.tools/checkout/bra... See you on March 4th! 🚀

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 16/02/2026

I morged a featue today, no tim wasted.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 16/02/2026

Today, I prepared an animated, interactive visualization with Codex 5.3, for my upcoming talk about offline support on the web. I’ve never written custom canvas/svg animations. Until today. So much fun.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 12/02/2026

New post in the Offline Support for Web Apps series. 📴 This one dives into retry strategies for offline mutations: why a single attempt isn’t enough, how exponential backoff works, and how to keep syncing pauseable and safe. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/offline-supp...

Offline Support in Web Apps: Foreground Queue for Offline Mutations — Part 4

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 03/02/2026

New post in the Offline Support for Web Apps series. 📴 This one moves into the UI layer: exposing queue state, subscribing to updates, and wiring a single long-lived foreground queue into React. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/offline-supp...

Offline Support in Web Apps: Foreground Queue for Offline Mutations — Part 3

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 31/01/2026

Moltbook, reddit-like forum, where agents talk with other agents (mostly using Opus 4.5 with Claude Code via OpenClaw). This is something else. Enter at your own peril. www.moltbook.com/post/34809c7...

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 26/01/2026

New post in Offline Support for Web Apps series. 📴 This one dives into the hard parts of a foreground queue: atomic read–modify–write, enqueue-time deduplication & bounds, and a single-flight sync loop you can safely pause. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/offline-supp...

Offline Support in Web Apps: Foreground Queue for Offline Mutations — Part 2

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 23/01/2026

“This is a small codebase, there can’t be much dead code”… Added knip.dev. Deleted ~800 lines immediately. Yeah. Absolute no-brainer. Incredible value. 👏 @webpro.nl

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 16/01/2026

em dash is my second most frequently used emoji, I’ll be forever suspected to be a robot.

raycast emoji panel, em dash in the second place in frequently used section

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 09/01/2026

Late Christmas present: my copy of Scaling Fast by @swizec.com just got delivered. 📦

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 31/12/2025

Plans for the new year's eve? Watching ducks with my daughter. 🎊

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 27/12/2025

GitHub Wrapped 2025 🎉

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 15/11/2025

@brittanyellich.com thanks a lot for the mention, I really appreciate it! And wow, I think I'll need to write something soon. 👀

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 01/09/2025

💡 TIL: Zustand has an in-built middleware to persist the store (by default in local storage). See me remove all useLocalStorage hooks tomorrow. 👀

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 19/07/2025

Today, added to Munch: ✅ Added @motion.dev to the stack ✅ Implemented animated list item for meals list Live version: munch-for-kids.netlify.app

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 14/07/2025

Today, I've joined OpenSpace as a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to build a platform with a complete visual record of construction projects, powered by AI. Excited about what's ahead! 🎉

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 03/07/2025

Today, added to Munch: ✅ Add meal to favorites. ✅ Search only for favorite meals. ✅ Full search params support. ✅ New dashboard card with favorite meals. Live version: munch-for-kids.netlify.app

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 02/07/2025

Today, added to Munch: ✅ Sort controls for the meals page. ✅ Sort keys: name, updated at, created at. ✅ Type-safe URL support for sort parameters. Live version: munch-for-kids.netlify.app

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 01/07/2025

Today, added to Munch: ✅ Preserving session messages in local storage. ✅ Restoring last session when user enters chat. ✅ Associating meals created from chat with messages. ✅ Clearing session. Live version: munch-for-kids.netlify.app

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 01/07/2025

I've been building a simple app helping parents organize meal recipes for kids (also a sandbox to try out a few technologies). Meal Management 🍽️ Categorization 🏷️ Random Meal Selection 🎲 Search & Filter 🔍 Recent Meals ⏰ AI-Powered Chat Interface 💬 Live version: munch-for-kids.netlify.app

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 23/06/2025

Recently, I have found the first case where AI wasn't good enough to give me any working code — a custom random card drawing animation. I've tried multiple prompts in Cursor and then in Claude, which tend to be good with UI, but none of them really gave me the result I was looking for.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 21/06/2025

New page just landed! 👀 tomaszgil.me/uses/

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 15/06/2025

Great! You've got lots going on there. 🤯 Congrats on not rewriting your website — I failed on this one this year. blog.tomaszgil.me/rebuilding-m...

My old website was made in 2019 and hasn't been updated much since, except for career updates. I'm actually proud of that—I don't want to be someone who rebuilds their personal site every year.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 12/06/2025

My blog has officially crossed 30k total views! 🎉 blog.tomaszgil.me

Blog analytics with over 30k all-time views

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 11/06/2025

About to hit a big milestone on my blog. 👀

Analytics of blog showing 29,999 all-time views

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 30/05/2025

I did. You're welcome.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 28/05/2025

Recently I've used some kinky stuff. react.dev/reference/re...

React's `useImperativeHandle` hook documentation reference

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 27/05/2025

@jzhao.xyz digital garden offers another great example of a theme switcher—a pure CSS implementation that mimics sunlight streaming through a window, which looks absolutely great.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 27/05/2025

@alistairshepherd.uk website has one of the most creative theme switchers I've ever seen. Combined with a fantastic hero illustration that moves as you scroll, it looks truly impressive.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 27/05/2025

Max's site combines ultimate simplicity—the homepage serves as the entire portfolio—with interactive design, featuring neat extras like a time clock.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 27/05/2025

@ped.ro site is simple, personal, and focused on storytelling. I really like how the story is divided on the homepage and the overall layout of the site's content.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 27/05/2025

Mark's site focuses on simplicity and balance, with a well-organized content structure. Most of this is achieved through typography. I really like the combination of sans-serif and serif fonts.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 27/05/2025

Go and see it for yourself. 👇 tomaszgil.me

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 25/04/2025

Finished cooking. Updated site it out. 👀 tomaszgil.me

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 30/03/2025

I've got a similar screen bar! I know that backlights are also really important for reducing eye strain. Besides looking cool of course. 😎

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 19/03/2025

Some time ago I wrote a series of blog posts *about a book* "Software Engineering at Google" - now AI thinks I *worked there*.

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