Sylwia Laskowska

Software dev • 10+ yrs of code & caffeine ☕ • Sci-fi fan • Bug whisperer 🐞

Gdansk, Poland Joined on Sep 28, 2025 https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylwia-laskowska-5a8467131/

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Chrome's experimental protocol for AI agents

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Jun 3

Is This How We'll Build Websites Soon? (webMCP Live Demo 🚀)

#javascript #react #mcp #ai

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Practical WebGPU and WebAssembly performance

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Apr 16

Most Apps Are Slower Than They Need to Be — Here’s Why (Live Demo🛸)

#javascript #react #webassembly #webgpu

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Native voice input and idle task APIs

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Apr 2

9 Things You’re Overengineering (The Browser Already Solved Them)

#webdev #javascript #css #browser

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Jan 21

Why WebGPU Feels Like the Future of the Web (Live Demo 🚀)

#javascript #webgpu #webdev #react

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Dec 9 '25

Will WebAssembly Kill JavaScript? Let’s Find Out (+ Live Demo) 🚀

#webdev #rust #javascript #programming

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AI as a tool rather than an authority

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Jun 10

The Code Works. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

#discuss #ai #webdev

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Senior roles and legacy code migration

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May 27

How Are Developers Actually Using AI At Work?

#discuss #ai

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The 'I'll figure it out' developer mindset

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May 21

Every Developer Is Lying About Something — And AI Won’t Fix It

#discuss #productivity

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Real-world cases and energy-saving impacts

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May 14

4 Tiny Mistakes That Secretly Destroy App Performance

#javascript #angular #react #frontend

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A CSS veteran’s take on speed vs purity

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May 4

I Love Tailwind. Sorry Not Sorry

#discuss #css #tailwindcss #frontend

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Senior developer views on task overhead

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Apr 30

Is Software Development Just a Side Quest? A Jira Story

#discuss #productivity

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AI favoring stabilization over innovation

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Apr 22

If AI Existed in 2011, Would We Still Have the Modern Web?

#discuss #ai #webdev #programming

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Relatable developer tropes and coding mishaps

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Apr 9

You’re a Real Software Developer Only If…

#jokes #devlive

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The irony of ignoring our own advice

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Mar 26

How I Almost Burned Out Doing Everything “Right”

#discuss #career #productivity #mentalhealth

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WeCoded 2026: Echoes of Experience 💜

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Mar 18

The Email That Nearly Stopped Me From Becoming a Developer

#devchallenge #wecoded #dei #career

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Mar 12

Why Are We Still Doing GPU Work in JavaScript? (Live WebGPU Benchmark & Demo🚀)

#webdev #javascript #typescript #webgpu

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Mar 5

The Real Skill in Programming Is Debugging. Everything Else Is Copy-Paste

#discuss #webdev #programming

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Feb 25

16 Modern JavaScript Features That Might Blow Your Mind

#javascript #frontend #node

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Feb 18

If You See These Red Flags in an IT Interview — Run (Real Stories)

#discuss #webdev

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Feb 10

How Seriously Should We Take State of JS and Other Developer Surveys?

#javascript #node #frontend #webdev

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Feb 4

Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems

#webdev #frontend #javascript

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Jan 29

Is Learning CSS a Waste of Time in 2026?

#css #webdev #frontend #a11y

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Jan 25

Why NaN !== NaN Makes Perfect Sense (I Promise)

#javascript #node #frontend

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Jan 13

Your GitHub Contribution Graph Means Absolutely Nothing - And Here’s Why

#discuss #github #programming

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Jan 8

When React Starts Acting Like jQuery (and You Can Totally Tell 😅)

#react #webdev #javascript #beginners

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Jan 4

Yes, true + true === 2. And No, JavaScript Isn’t Broken

#javascript #node #webdev #beginners

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Dec 30 '25

“Why Do You Code?” - A Surprisingly Hard Question

#discuss #programming

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Dec 22 '25

7 Lies Developers Keep Telling Themselves (And Somehow Still Believe)

#jokes #discuss

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Dec 17 '25

❄️A Five-Minute UI Feature That Became an XSS Time Bomb

#webdev #javascript #security #frontend

4 min read

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Dec 1 '25

Nobody Writes Clean Code. We All Just Pretend

#discuss #webdev #programming #productivity

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Nov 27 '25

I Put an LLM in My Browser and Now It Writes My Commit Messages. The Results Were… Unexpected😭✨

#llm #ai #react #javascript

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Nov 23 '25

If You Think YOUR Commit Messages Are Bad, Just Wait…

#jokes #funny #git

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Nov 20 '25

5 Myths About Legacy Code You Should Stop Believing

#discuss #webdev #programming #development

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Nov 13 '25

The Biggest Lie in Tech? ‘We Don’t Have Time to Refactor’

#discuss #webdev #javascript #programming

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Nov 7 '25

The Real Reason Developers Hate Meetings (It’s Not Time) 🧠💥

#discuss #productivity #webdev #performance

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Nov 5 '25

jQuery Will Outlive Half of Today’s JavaScript Frameworks - Here's Why

#discuss #webdev #javascript #programming

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Nov 3 '25

Beginner’s Guide #6: 🌀 The Event Loop Explained in 3 Minutes (You’ll Never Forget It)

#javascript #beginners #programming #webdev

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Oct 31 '25

🎃 10 Scary Lines of Code I Wish I Never Wrote 💀

#webdev #programming #javascript #learning

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Oct 30 '25

Auth Explained (Part 2): How your browser ‘remembers’ you? PKCE + refresh cookies explained like you're five

#webdev #programming #frontend #javascript

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Oct 27 '25

🔥 10 Mistakes Senior Developers Still Make (Are You Making Them Too?)

#career #leadership #productivity #programming

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Oct 24 '25

Beginner’s Guide #5: Mutable vs Immutable in JS — The Silent Bug Factory Nobody Warns You About 😳

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Oct 22 '25

Auth Explained (Part 1): ID vs Access vs Refresh tokens — 🤔what they ACTUALLY do (and why localStorage is a trap)

#javascript #programming #webdev #frontend

3 min read

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Oct 18 '25

Signs you’ve been coding for too long (and maybe need a nap 😅)

#programming #webdev #productivity #coding

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Oct 16 '25

Beginner’s Guide #4: How to Copy an Object in JS - Explained Like You’re Five 👶

#javascript #programming #beginners #webdev

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Oct 15 '25

🧠 AI Buzzword Survival Guide — How to Sound Like an Expert (Even If You’re Just Curious)

#ai #productivity #beginners #programming

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Oct 11 '25

🧭Beginner’s (and Not-So-Beginner’s) Guide #3 — const vs let (and a bit about var): What Developers Keep Getting Wrong

#javascript #webdev #beginners #programming

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Oct 8 '25

I Used to Leave 50 Comments in Every Code Review. Here’s Why I Stopped

#programming #leadership #codereview #productivity

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Oct 6 '25

Beginner’s Guide #2: When to Use forEach, map, for...of, and entries() — Explained Like You’re Five

#javascript #beginners #webdev #programming

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Oct 2 '25

Beginner’s Guide #1: if (data) vs if (!!data) in JavaScript 🤔

#javascript #beginners #programming #webdev

2 min read

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Sep 30 '25

Business value > Shiny tech

#webdev #refactoring #productivity #beginners

2 min read

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