Moving home

I will be moving home starting August 13th, 2017. Sklivvz.com will be temporarily hosted on Azure until I get a decent broadband at my destination. There might be disruptions and some other properties like intelligenthack.com will be down for a month or so. They are not that important at all.

Thanks for your patience!


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

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

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

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

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What can Stack Overflow learn from ChatGPT?

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

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Fan mail

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

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Gleanings

How Aristotle Created the Computer
Chris Dixon • Mar 20, 2017

What began, in Boole’s words, with an investigation “concerning the nature and constitution of the human mind,” could result in the creation of new minds—artificial minds—that might someday match or even exceed our own.

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