I finally emulated my childhood

Feb 20, 2026 • Marco Cecconi
Last night I decided to dedicate some time to my old z80 emulator. I've squashed a few bugs and ported it to .NET 10. Then I added a ULA emulator. The ULA is a custom chip on a ZX Spectrum that handl…
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I finally emulated my childhood

MoonBuggy: zero-allocation i18n for .NET

Feb 08, 2026 • Marco Cecconi
I’ve shipped a lot of software where internationalization starts as “we’ll add it later” and ends as “why is this hot path allocating and formatting strings on every request?” This time I wanted to do…
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MoonBuggy: zero-allocation i18n for .NET

TDD and the Zero-Defects Myth

Dec 27, 2024 • Marco Cecconi
If you’ve ever heard someone claim that Test-Driven Development leads to zero-defects code, congratulations, you’ve encountered one of software development’s most enduring myths. It’s an alluring i…
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TDD and the Zero-Defects Myth

What can Stack Overflow learn from ChatGPT?

Mar 12, 2023 • Marco Cecconi
Stack Overflow is the go-to resource for developers worldwide seeking solutions to their programming problems. Its impressive database of millions of questions and answers has been curated and built o…
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What can Stack Overflow learn from ChatGPT?

Fan mail

Oct 15, 2021 • Marco Cecconi
Multiple people with my name (homonyms) are convinced their email address is like mine without the dot, e.g., marcocecconi@ instead of marco.cecconi@. For the Gmail mail servers, these two are alias…
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Fan mail

Intelligent Trip

Sep 29, 2021 • Marco Cecconi
After years of building Intelligent Hack, our top-notch consultancy to help start-ups and scale-ups create great, scalable products, I think it is high time I added an update to how it is going and wh…
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Intelligent Trip

Guest blog: Building, in partnership with communities by Shog9

Feb 03, 2021 • Marco Cecconi
Preface from Sklivvz: Stack Overflow was created with a strong idea person, Jeff Atwood a.k.a. Coding Horror, counterbalanced by a strong community builder, Josh Heyer a.k.a. Shog9. Where Jeff provide…
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Guest blog: Building, in partnership with communities by Shog9

Can you migrate a company from on-premise to remote-only?

Dec 02, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
As I prepare for my talk at Digital Warriors 2020, entitled "from office to remote in 48h", I want to share some thoughts about the process of moving a company from office to remote-first and then to …
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Can you migrate a company from on-premise to remote-only?

Announcing Intelligent Cache, our caching library

Nov 25, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
It is with great pleasure that we are announcing today our newest open source project intelligent cache. We are very enthusiastic about this project because we think we constructed a very usable inter…
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Announcing Intelligent Cache, our caching library

Guest Blog: The mythical 10x programmer by Antirez

Nov 19, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
Preface from Sklivvz: I met Salvatore (Antirez) when I was working at Stack Overflow and he was the maintainer of Redis, one of the major parts of our infrastructure. Besides our common Italian herita…
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Guest Blog: The mythical 10x programmer by Antirez

Hi, I'm Marco Cecconi. I am the founder of Positron Lans, developer, hacker, blogger, conference lecturer. Bio: ex Stack Overflow core team, ex Toptal, ex BaxEnergy.

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Newest Posts

I finally emulated my childhood

February 20, 2026 by Marco Cecconi

Last night I decided to dedicate some time to my old [z80 emulator](https://sklivvz.com/posts/z80). I've squashed a few bugs and ported it to .NET 10. Then I added a ULA emulator.

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MoonBuggy: zero-allocation i18n for .NET

February 08, 2026 by Marco Cecconi

Compile-time translations via source generators, ICU MessageFormat + CLDR plurals, PO file workflows, no per-request allocations.

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TDD and the Zero-Defects Myth

December 27, 2024 by Marco Cecconi

TDD can’t guarantee zero-defects. Let us debunk this software development myth.

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What can Stack Overflow learn from ChatGPT?

March 12, 2023 by Marco Cecconi

Stack Overflow could benefit from adopting a using conversational AI to provide specific answers

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Fan mail

October 15, 2021 by Marco Cecconi

Multiple people with my name use my email address and I can read their email, chaos ensues!

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Gleanings

No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter
The Bureau of Programming • Feb 25, 2017

No, I don’t want to subscribe to your newsletter. No, I don’t want to complete a short survey. And no, I don’t want to become a member.

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