Personal site · since 2002
Wojciech Polak
Software developer crafting modern web applications by day — and contributing to Free Software by night.
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A few words
Software developer & Free Software contributor.
I am a software developer, working on cutting-edge web applications on a daily basis and sometimes on the Free Software at night. I care about open standards, self-hosted tools, and software that respects the people who use it.
Things I make & share
Free software I build & contribute to
An SMTP message submission daemon. It is an official GNU package.
A suite of utilities for electronic mail. I have worked on various parts.
A general-purpose parser generator. I created the XML Automaton Report, implemented it, and wrote the XSLTs.
A passwordless sign-in for self-hosted apps.
A discreet end-to-end encrypted file handoff with Cloudflare and self-hosted backend support.
A free lifestream platform and social activity reader.
A progressive web app (PWA) designed for efficient time tracking.
A web app (PWA) that highlights events from your past.
A customizable countdown timer web application (PWA).
A photo album organizer.
A personal web-based news aggregator.
A tool which finds the longest streak of consecutive commit dates (Git, Hg, SVN).
A memory testing tool, designed as a wrapper around the standard libc memory allocation routines.
A modular DICT server. Added the Python module, the Dicoweb interface, and mediawiki.py.
Small contributions / bug reports / hints include: GNU Tar, GNU SASL, gettext, GNU Robots, GNU Emacs, Beagle, Texinfo, Mono, Tornado, pyRdfa.
Localized into Polish
I'm a former member of the Translation Project — Team PL. I translated the following programs into Polish:
- bison
- gawk
- jwhois
- parted
- sed
Various notes
Pages I find interesting
- The GNU Project and its philosophy
- Hacker News
- OpenStreetMap
- Home Assistant
- The Jargon File
- music links: P, N, F, L, P, B, M, A