Hi! My name is Grzegorz.
I am a designer, web developer, online marketer and usability expert based in San Francisco, CA. I also DJ, produce music and shoot photos on the side.

BAUDL – Pro Debate Tournament…

Saturday, 20 Feb 2010

For all you former debaters out there (if you’re my friend and seeing this website, there’s probably a 20% chance you’re a debater…), the Bay Area Urban Debate League is hosting an open competition, “Pro” debate tournament for ex-debaters, current debaters, government officials, lawyers, whoever, in between CEDA and NDT nationals in Berkeley, CA. The tournament is raising money to support BAUDL programs at inner-city schools in the Bay Area. I volunteered my time to develop and design the site for BAUDL.

An update…

Tuesday, 19 Jan 2010

1. Working on a social game site. Think futures markets on speed! Should be ready to release in the coming weeks. I got to use Yahoo BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) API for search – which is way easier to use than Google’s API – and without many of the content-use restrictions.

Check it out at: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

2. Working on new songs with my friend Jeff. Here’s the only semi-finished one… complete with lasers and vocals (by Jeff!).

What do we call our musical group? No, really… suggest a name – we need one.

3. Starting a new job soon!

Crookers did a song with Soulwax…

Wednesday, 6 Jan 2010

And the results are predictably amazing.

Great Russian music blog

Monday, 28 Dec 2009

Raketa 4000

The song titles / artist names are in English; the rest of it is in Russian (in Cyrllic script). This is actually a useful feature since all I want is the download links and it’s easier to scan for them this way.

This is where I first found out about the Proxy (from Moscow) who produced arguably the best remix of 2009.

80s retro: no longer hip. 90s retro: the new hip nostalgia decade.

Monday, 28 Dec 2009

I love me some Juiceboxxx. These synths lines are like something straight out of an Ace of Base hit.

Silicon Valley is a bubble world: GigaOm on the Google/Yelp deal rumors

Monday, 21 Dec 2009

Exhibit A

I am rather confused by how anyone could rationally think that the reason that Google ought not buy Yelp is because Twitter and FourSquare will replace Yelp.
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Expensify in TechCrunch

Monday, 21 Dec 2009

The new UI I designed for Expensify.com got nice coverage over at TechCrunch.com

There’s nothing like discovering papers you wrote in college…

Monday, 14 Dec 2009

… analyzing Facebook for a Marxist cultural theory graduate seminar. Funny, now that I’ve written Facebook apps… I’m part of the culture industry? Read it »

CSS + Javascript solution to dynamically resize images while maintaining aspect ratio

Saturday, 12 Dec 2009

I couldn’t find a good script for creating thumbnails with CSS + Javascript, so I wrote one. The objective is to:

1. Center the images.
2. Resize the images to a predefined thumbnail width and height.
3. Do this on the fly to avoid server-side rendering of thumbnails.

You can check out a demo of this script live on this site in the photos section. Or live on Fotomoto’s homepage.

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Late Night Eating in San Francisco

Monday, 27 Apr 2009

I found this list in a random Facebook group on SF nightlife… it may have finally solved my problem of not knowing where to eat food and get coffee while doing work in the middle of the night — very few places in San Francisco are open 24/7 (at least compared to NYC). Now if they have wireless internet, I think I’m golden…
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