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Arek Panek

@arekpanek.com.bsky.social

Traveler, Senior Engineer @Buffer

121 Followers  |  45 Following  |  34 Posts  |  Joined: 15.05.2024  |  2.3221

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Most people fly these airlines without pre-paid seats and the airline always assigns normal seats first, then front seats, and extra legroom seats are assigned as the last ones. If you check-in late, it's almost given that you'll end up with extra legroom seat!
PS: Please don't use it against me 😜

25.07.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The secret is to buy flights without seats assigned, and wait till the very last moment for your check-in (usually check-in closes 2 hours before the flight, but be sure to check it!).

25.07.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let me share my most precious travel hack for European cheap airlines like Ryanair or Wizzair. As a tall person (1.94m/6'4'') I always crave extra legroom seats, and I get them on most of my flights, for free.
#travel #travelhacks

25.07.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I love inbox 0, but I also love my newsletters, which I don't always have the time to read right when I receive them. What's your way to keep them somewhere afloat and not forget about reading them, while still clearing out your email inbox?
#productivity

07.07.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our actions and how we explain them matter a lot, especially when you're in a position to lead by example.
How do you approach flexibility in your workplace?

30.06.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One of the most important aspects of a workplace for me is flexibility - I travel a lot, sometimes have to run some errands during the day, and sometimes I just feel the urge to resolve some challenging problem during the weekend.
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30.06.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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One of the most important aspects of a workplace for me is flexibility - I travel a lot, sometimes have to run some errands during the day, and sometimes I just feel the urge to resolve some challenging problem during the weekend. 1/3
#remote #work #remotework

30.06.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

TS devs, what's your preferred way to work around the lack of async constructors in classes?
#typescript #javascript #coding

24.06.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I want something that just works and doesn't require me to customize a lot of stuff. Can be self-hosted, and I can also pay for it - I just want to own the data, have my domain, and be able to gather emails from readers. Does it mean Ghost?

23.06.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bloggers, what's your CMS of choice nowadays? I was running self-hosted WordPress for many years now, but I'm a bit tired of managing the server and customizing everything - not that I can't, I just don't have time for it.
#software #blog #ghost #wordpress

23.06.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

mikesanroman.bsky.social shared this article with us on Slack and one quote really hit me: <<β€œI’m sipping rocket fuel right now,” a friend tells me. β€œThe folks on my team who aren’t embracing AI? It’s like they’re standing still.” >> - perfectly summarizes my feelings towards AI skepticism

20.06.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was reluctant to use AI in the past, but if you incorporate it into your engineering workflows, magic starts happening. AI creates a new baseline for engineering productivity.

19.06.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've recently started testing Cursor with its agent mode (late, but I'm too used to JetBrains) and the effect on my productivity is through the roof. Mythical 10x engineer can be 50x engineer if using it wisely and having context on codebase and business decisions, with good code review of AI code

19.06.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm pretty good at resolving bugs, and doing that fast - attached is the graph of issues resolved for our engineering team, the spike in mid-March is me, and that last, much bigger spike on the right is also me. I surprised even myself. The secret?
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19.06.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @parklore.com! I'm sorry about your experience with this. I just pushed a fix for this one, so it shouldn't be a problem anymore. Sorry about the time it took.

12.06.2025 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We reached an incredible milestone together during our recent retreat and had the chance to celebrate in person. 🀩

02.05.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Thanks @why.bsky.team! I'll look into it to see if we're able to somehow use a different pool of IPs, not sure yet how easy it'd be with our infra.

30.12.2024 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's on the post/record creation endpoint - using agent.post()
A lot of them (though not all) have got either image or link embeds, so for those it could be uploadBlob.

30.12.2024 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It looks like genuine growth for us with our Bluesky offering with lots of users signing up recently, which is great! But the rate limits are hurting us a bit especially at popular times (e.g. 2pm UTC when a lot of users want to schedule their posts)

30.12.2024 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @bsky.app @samuel.bsky.team! Is there any way to apply for an increased rate limits on bsky.social? @buffer.com is hitting RateLimitExceeded sometimes and we get complaints from customers. I've checked it to make sure Buffer users are not spamming, and confirmed we should be ok on this front.

30.12.2024 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad to hear it worked!

19.12.2024 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It shouldn't be different because PDS resolving happens on our backend layer, but the difference is that now when you type your custom handle & app password when creating a channel - it should successfully connect it. If you'd hit any issues let me know and I'll jump in to see what's up there :)

19.12.2024 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @zakwinnick.com! It should work now so feel free to give it a try and let me know if you hit any issues! :)

18.12.2024 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey! I'm sorry for a late reply, I was away on holiday. We're testing support for custom PDS right now and plan for general availability in the new year. I've added your account to beta program so you can test it yourself. Let me know if you hit any issues! :)
cc @marochko.bsky.social @joel.is

18.12.2024 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluesky video scheduling is here! πŸŽ‰

➑️ Schedule videos up to 60 seconds long
➑️ Up to 50mb in size
➑️ mp4 and mov file types
➑️ Cross-post to all your favorite platforms

Bonus: you can now schedule GIFs too!

02.12.2024 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 6

Does it also happen on your other Bluesky account? I'm asking because it did work for me with the same file, and I'm wondering if disconnect+reconnect would help here? In the meantime, I'll dig further!

28.11.2024 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks @hilarybaumann.com! While I don't know the root cause yet, I see that the video was successfully uploaded. But somehow when creating the post, Bluesky cannot find that upload by referencing its ID. I'm wondering if there's anything specific to your testing account that makes it fail πŸ€”

28.11.2024 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @hilarybaumann.com! Would you be up for trying once again and sending me a screenshot of what happens there? I'll debug a bit and see what I can do!

27.11.2024 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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27.11.2024 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OAuth won't change things that much to help with custom servers, but we're not far from supporting them anyway! When we initially implemented Bluesky integration at Buffer, custom PDS were not supported yet. We're prepared to support that change with relatively low effort, though! :)

22.11.2024 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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