Some plant time lapse

Some time lapse photography.

January 7, 2018 · (updated March 18, 2023) · 1 min · 4 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Spoke too soon

Darn, I was riding for at least one to two days thinking, why am I riding much slower? Last night I finally noticed that wow my rear wheel is really wobbly and rubbing up against the breaks quite a bit lately. This morning I finally started setting up to true the wheel. I marked the spoke which looked like adjusting it would have the highest impact. And wow I didnt notice it completely sheared off....

December 1, 2017 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 1 min · 114 words · Michal Piekarczyk

cardboard chair

One time, when at Katapult, we moved to a new office, but we were moving from a wework and so we didn’t have any chairs, so I joined to help buy new chairs from Staples. We rolled a hand cart full of boxed up chairs down the a bike lane, to the office and we assembled all the new chairs. But then I remember we had tons of cardboard from all the boxes, so I ended up stashing a bunch of cardboard for myself, and bolted together a cardboard chair....

October 26, 2014 · (updated July 27, 2025) · 1 min · 130 words · Michal Piekarczyk

petrol car queue question

okay Question There is a queue of N cars waiting at the filling station. 3 fuel dispensers, x, y, z. When a car arrives at front of the queue, driver can choose to go to any dispenser not occupied. If all unoccupied dispensers have less than required by the driver he has to wait. if more than one dispenser has the required liter, the driver chooses the one labeled with the smallest letter....

September 30, 1970 · (updated September 30, 2023) · 3 min · 475 words · Michal Piekarczyk

First i needed to get ruby from homebrew Using gem install bundler jekyll didn’t work for me because I was getting a permission error, ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0 directory. I did brew install ruby and brew install rbenv ruby-build Also saw this message (venv3) $ brew install ruby ==> Installing dependencies for ruby: libyaml, openssl@1.1 and readline ==> Installing ruby dependency: libyaml ==> Downloading https://homebrew....

(updated February 26, 2023) · 8 min · 1598 words · michal