Tomek Wałkuski

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Custom Ghost theme

Tomek Wałkuski, 25 June 2018

Few days ago I have migrated my homepage and blog from Medium to Ghost(Pro). The problem with open source software is that it is easy to tweak and play with. I was not happy with the default theme Casper, so I have decided to create a new one!

Simple blockchain in Ada

Tomek Wałkuski, 20 June 2018

Everyone talks about blockchain these days. So let's learn by doing and try to implement the simple blockchain from scratch. And let's do this in Ada!

The programming language I want (part 2)

Tomek Wałkuski, 20 June 2018

Many of the readers suggested I should take a closer look at three languages that weren’t initially mentioned: Kotlin, Swift, and OCaml.

The programming language I want (part 1)

Tomek Wałkuski, 19 June 2018

I’ve played with the number of programming languages. Thanks to this I was able to compile the list of features that impressed me the most.

Unit testing ActionCable channels with RSpec

Tomek Wałkuski, 18 June 2018

Rails 5.1 doesn’t have official support for testing ActionCable channels yet. Here is the minimal example how to unit test a single channel action.

Is Ada a failed language?

Tomek Wałkuski, 15 June 2018

Ada was advertised as a general-purpose programming language, yet, with a strict, readable syntax, a rich feature set, and a first-class support for concurrency it failed to find its niche. I could find many reasons why it happened.