about

I'm Jacek Becela. I've been programming for most of my life and spent a large part of it building Trixbrix — a company that manufactures physical products.

I like software, machines, production, old computers, AI, and understanding how things work. This site is where I put the things I make and the things I find out along the way.

Born in 1980. Husband and father of two boys.

open source

Some patches of mine that landed in other people's projects:

• 2008Rails — render shorthands for namespaced controllers, consistent plugin initialization, fixtures from arbitrary paths
• 2010Node.js — fix fs.readFile encoding handling
• 2010formidable — stop the multipart parser at the last boundary
• 2011Backbone.js — guard against a missing model, failing test first
• 2012Sidekiq — keep the scheduler alive through Redis connection errors
• 2025Omarchy — one keybinding for the top bar toggle

The gap in the middle is when the train tracks factory happened.

You can write me at jacek.becela@gmail.com or find my code on GitHub.