I’m Michał Łęcicki (aka Maikhel), ruby software engineer from Visuality 👋
I believe self-improvement, responsibility and clean solutions are necessary to get things done: both in software development and real life.

Feel free to check some of my posts below. There are also some photos and more information about me.

How to receive emails with a Rails app in 2021

Some time ago, we needed to implement a full email inbox feature in the Ruby on Rails application. It was supposed to have all the basic functionalities that regular email inboxes have: send and receive messages, collect them in threads, have a contact book, etc. While email sending is a relatively frequent feature among Rails applications (there are tons of different solutions around the web), receiving messages is not so popular. So, let’s take a look at possible ways of building an email receiver mechanism with Rails.

Posted on 26 February 2021

Three strategies that work in board games and in real life

When playing board games, I always try to improve my performance and find some clever way to beat my opponents. I love analysing, discussing and recalling past games to find the most useful strategy and see things that are not seen by other players. This allowed me to form a few simple rules that increase chances of victory — not only in board games but also in real-life activities.

Posted on 31 December 2019

Let's prototype

Uncertainty is an inseparable part of creating any software. At the beginning of the project you never have a full knowledge about future requirements and features. Developers don’t know the whole specification, project manager doesn’t know all clients’s expectations and usually clients are not aware about all features their product should have. When the amount of unspecified requirements is significant, choosing to create a prototype could be really beneficial.

Posted on 04 July 2019