Dominik Wilkowski
dominik-wilkowski.com
Dominik Wilkowski
@dominik-wilkowski.com
CTO The Working Party, Ex Eng lead of Polaris Design System at Shopify.
Tabs indenter, light mode user.
Likes to wear a suit when it’s inappropriate to wear a suit, organizer of Design System Meetup 🇦🇺 Australia, Code Heart Design conf, he/him
I’m writing the pathfinding for my 2D #CLI #rust game and in there you can move multiple blocks so I added a comment:

// there is a chain of blocks (a blockchain) that can be pushed to squish the player

I think I’m pretty funny. But I just asked Claude to review my code and it came up with this.
April 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
In another episode of #engineering thoughts: >>Explicit over implicit<<

It may just safe lives.
February 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Looking into this I'm not sure how to improve this... Short of adding a natural language processor. Any ideas?
January 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Back when I was an IC I wrote this package: github.com/dominikwilko...
Look at the intro in the readme:
I was clearly miffed by some decisions made above me.

Now that I’m a CTO I’m keen to not make those mistakes with my people. Best to listen to them.
December 27, 2024 at 3:04 AM
We should normalize compiler errors on windows when building #CLI apps that need raw mode. Having to use external crates that add a lot of complexity just to deal with both platforms isn’t going to help us make the ecosystem better in the long term.
Luckily there is an alternative for users. #rust
December 24, 2024 at 2:00 AM
As a manger this was a personal win: git-wrapped.com/profiles/Dom...
December 20, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Am I the only one bothered by those awesome office furniture on wheels? Where are they going to roll to? Why are they in a cage? #freeTheFurniture #apple
June 5, 2023 at 6:36 PM
I’m going to start a pet peeve thread here. Using social media as VAAS (venting as a service) thing.

First one: Emails that only consist of images and no text. 🤦‍♂️
May 31, 2023 at 1:19 AM
Do it. I know nothing about this though. Might be a scam. But like … I’m rooting for you!!
May 29, 2023 at 8:01 AM
Found some bluesky on the ground. What happened?
May 15, 2023 at 5:19 AM