Jakub Jankiewicz Blog

I'm Jakub Jankiewicz. I'm from Poland and I work as Front-End developer. Welcome to my personal blog where I share information about different topics. I decided to create this blog mostly to grow my personal brand and to improve SEO of my content for my name. In Polish Google it's occupied mostly by actor with same name.

List of Articles

• [2025-03-23]: How to build zig book as PDF on Fedora?

• [2025-03-11]: How to Help Charities and Your Ego

• [2025-03-05]: Documentaries for Programmers

• [2024-12-07]: Handling auto-indentation in Node.js REPL

• [2024-12-04]: Batman website inspired terminal quiz app

• [2024-11-26]: How to Implement a Simple Markdown Parser

• [2024-10-03]: How to Learn Design as a Web Developer

• [2023-08-23]: Hack for Syntax Highlighting of Source Code

• [2023-07-09]: Welcome to my blog

Bloglets

This is a list of short form content, including TIL and Linklog. You can also subscribe to it via RSS feed.

• [2025-05-22]: API design is UI design

  Talk by Lea Verou from dotJS conference from 2024 about principles of good API design.

• [2025-05-04]: Indirect Cyclic Conditions: Prototyping Parametrized CSS Mixins

  Interesting CSS technique by Roman Komarov, about using CSS Custom Properties to toggle a bunch of CSS rules at once. The technique does not use style container queries that doesn't work in Firefox.

• [2025-04-30]: How To Learn Anything So Fast It Feels Illegal

  A little clickbaity video about best learning techniques. It reminds me of a book: "Włam się do mózgu" (ang. Hack Your Brain) by Radek Kotarski. The video includes a lot of techniques described in the book (available only in Polish).

• [2025-04-18]: Taking Notes Effectively - which words should you write down?

  A lecture by Jeffrey Kaplan about note-taking during lectures.

• [2025-04-16]: censorzilla

  Old blog post by Jamie Zawinski about code comments that were removed from Mozilla source code before making public.

• [2025-04-15]: Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era

  Interview with CEO of Netlify Mathias Biilmann about the past and the future of Open Web.

• [2025-04-14]: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning

  Talk by Derek Muller from Veritasium YouTube channel, that is a great insight about learning and teaching.

• [2025-03-17]: Learnable Programming

  Longer essay by Bret Victor about computer systems designed for learning programming. And why Khan Academy live coding is not one of those systems. It has a lot of examples how such system should look like, it even shows how you could improve P5.js live coding based system to make it easier to learn programming. It's also worth reading if you teach programming.

• [2025-03-15]: Understanding the trade-offs of using Tailwind CSS

  Article by Scott Boyle about Tailwind. It provides an objective look at Tailwind CSS, highlighting its strengths and limitations, without overly praising or criticizing the tool.