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

Team EMEA

Oct 27, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
Last month I described how Intelligent Hack grew from a personal project to a real company when we hired our first two "valued associates" Oded and Mariusz. A few weeks ago I introduced you to our fir…
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Team EMEA

Guest Blog: Technology and Storytelling by Orf Quarenghi

Oct 23, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
Preface from Sklivvz: I've known Orf for many years and, he is one of the most creative and innovative developers that I know. He mixes video game-style coding and hardware building to create unique i…
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Guest Blog: Technology and Storytelling by Orf Quarenghi

Consider using simple models, instead

Oct 14, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
I want to share with you the pattern which I use very often to build classes in my web applications. It is different and relatively more straightforward in comparison to most enterprise patterns. I do…
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Consider using simple models, instead

Team America

Oct 08, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
Last month I described how Intelligent Hack grew from a personal project to a real company when we hired our first two "valued associates" Oded and Mariusz. That happened in January, but of course, we…
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Team America

Guest Blog: Web Designers & Coding by Jin Yang

Sep 30, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
Preface from Sklivvz: I've known Jin for almost ten years and I've always admired him for being very effective in bridging the gap between pure design and practical implementations. He gets it. As a c…
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Guest Blog: Web Designers & Coding by Jin Yang

Company-wide Retrospectives

Sep 23, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
Good Agile teams routinely run retrospectives to identify problems and improve their process and team outcomes. It might have been an innovative idea 15 years ago. Nowadays, it is an everyday practice…
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Company-wide Retrospectives

Welcome valued associates Oded and Mariusz!

Sep 16, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
In December, I shut down my previous startup Badgie because, in large part, my consultancy business was booming. I had no time to dedicate to a product, and it made no sense to continue, so I pulled t…
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Welcome valued associates Oded and Mariusz!

The Italian COVID app is a terrible idea

Apr 25, 2020 • Marco Cecconi
The "immuni" app (or is it a bracelet?), and other apps like it being proposed in Italy right now, are a terrible idea. The basic sell is that they act as a "proximity alert," so you can practice soci…
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The Italian COVID app is a terrible idea

Shutting down Badgie, 2019 recap and 2020 plans

Dec 25, 2019 • Marco Cecconi
Sometimes life has its way, and you need to follow along. In March, I parted ways with Toptal and decided to take a little time off employment to try to build a startup. In the meanwhile, my idea was …
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Shutting down Badgie, 2019 recap and 2020 plans

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

Introducing Positron Flux

March 31, 2026 by Marco Cecconi

Positron Flux is a new a delivery excellence workbench

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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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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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