I live with a disability that makes commuting unreliable. Public transport is fine on most days and a non-starter on others — and you don’t get to choose which kind of day you’re going to have until you wake up. Remote work absorbs that uncertainty; office work doesn’t. I’ve shown up to a queue full of fires for over a decade. The trick was just being able to show up from where I was.

Off the clock, I’m a polymath in the worst possible sense of the word — meaning my interests don’t fit on a business card. The current rotation:

• TTRPG and worldbuilding. Mostly as a player. I’m partial to urban fantasy and near-future cyberpunk, and I’ve spent more time building settings I’ll probably never run than I’d like to admit.
• Writing. Short fiction, mostly. Slow burn rather than NaNoWriMo energy.
• Linux + homelab tinkering. Three machines, too many Docker containers, a Pi-hole that judges me, and the kind of weekend afternoons that begin with “let me just check one thing” and end six hours later.
• Programming as a hobbyist. Python and JavaScript primarily. Learn-by-doing rookie, not a professional dev — though the lines blur in interesting ways.

I work comfortably in English and Polish; this site is bilingual because both languages are home, even if my long-form English is sometimes sharper than my long-form Polish.