Welcome to Tooploox blog

This weekend I had a chance to give a talk at ACM Celebration of Women in Technology event in Wroclaw. This made me think. How long do we still need to celebrate women in technology? When will it finally become a norm to see a woman developer...

When you become a programmer, you hear a lot that you need to deliver good-quality code. The code should be readable and easy to understand for other developers. It should also be maintainable. Oh, and you should write unit tests. But have you ever...

Introduction Lately, I’ve been working on inspecting a problem of popularity prediction of videos promoted on Facebook. Popularity was defined/determined here as a number of views compared to number of all other views of videos from a given time frame....

Everyone knows that video content rules Social Media. Instagram, Twitter, Messenger… all platforms adopted this at some point.  For the past couple of years, we can observe how Facebook algorithm favors videos. Video content sells. Therefore, companies...

Hello, I am a…new Tooplooxer Have you ever started a new job and felt completely lost on the first day? Were you able to hit the ground running, or did it take you a long time to adapt to your new working environment, workflow processes, and unspoken...

What happens in Vegas.. ’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Then I get a text from Pawel, one of Tooploox’s founders that said: Do you want to come to CES 2018 with me? As you...

Or how a little programming vhallenge went sideways This year, I and several other folks at Tooploox decided to participate in Advent of Code. It’s a month-long challenge in December, in which each day you get a new exercise to solve. To keep things...

And are reality-tested by Tooploo January is always a good moment to reflect on the past year, reminiscing about both the accomplishments and mishaps. It’s also an appropriate time to plan things for the upcoming year. Many of the New Year’s resolutions...

Personally, I am not the greatest fan of new year’s resolutions. Nonetheless, every moment is good to validate your goals and adjust the strategy of achieving them. But why do I even mention some goals and strategy instead of throwing multiple languages,...

The challenge Company-wide improvement is challenging in an organization with a flat structure that empowers its employees to take responsibility for changing reality around them. This was something that I have noticed immediately when coming to Tooploox...