Wojtek Szkutnik

A new version of my WordPress plugin, “Enhanced Emails”, which allows you to send customized and easily themeable HTML e-mails, has just been released.

See WordPess: GSoC 2011 students announced. I will be working on the “enhanced emails” project with Aaron Campbell as a mentor. If you’re interested in the details, read my proposal.

Last year, I have participated in Google Summer of Code working on the “Full Throttle Trac Annihilation” task. Later, I was a short term Google Code-In mentor for WordPress. Summer of 2010 resulted in over 75 core patches and closing even more Trac tickets. However, this year, I would like to tackle another project: the [...]

Back on schedule, things just keep getting better and better. I started being worried by the amount of time, gained thanks to polyphasic sleep.

I had to adapt a loose schedule as I fell ill. I’m still trying to keep up with the schedule, but in a more reasonable way. When I get better in a few days, I will get back to the strict schedule. For now, I allow myself some oversleeping during the day, when I feel [...]

I just stumbled upon an interesting article concerning sleeping habits. It describes many peoples’ experience with polyphasic sleeping, as well as some NASA research in that matter.

Finally, some progress. I think that I’m slowly adjusting to my schedule. Let’s call it day 1 – from now I’ll keep the count.

After lots of efforts, I managed to go through the first 24 hours with correct sleep/wake up times, but I still have some sleep overload.  I will try to force the strict Uberman schedule and see what happens

Not much progress so far. As funny as it may sound, giving up on sleeping isn’t the easiest thing to do. You’ve been doing it almost every night for your whole life, so you get used to it and come to like it. As much as I enjoy my mid-day naps, I failed with the [...]

After reading lots of blog posts, coming from people trying to adapt to polyphasic sleep, I have decided to try it myself. The general idea of polyphasic sleep is to substitute a single 7-8 hour sleep with shorter naps in order to increase awake time. The charts below show the difference between monophasic sleep and [...]