Entrepreneurship, product management, design & software.

  • Updates to the WordPress Unit Testing infrastructure

    If your project has its own testing coverage, you should read about this update to WordPress unit testing infrastructure.

  • Brain-Machine Interfaces: a journey inside our brain

    This post (or I should say book, given its length) is a masterpiece. Read Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future on Wait But Why  

  • Potential roadmap for multisite

    Three plus years later, we’re still finding oddities in old MU code, so it makes sense to bide our time and only undergo renames when they let us shed dead weight. The side effect of keeping the barrier to entry high for multisite is not necessarily a bad one — even three years after merge, […]

  • Free React Course

    High quality online and in person resources for learning the React ecosystem from the creators of React Router. Source: Learn React from the creators of React Router

  • Programming is a creative work

    Programming is a creative work

    The truth is, programming is a creative work. When you look at other creative professions, there are small bursts of creative output that provide the bulk of the total output. The rest of the time is either busy work, clean up, or goofing off.The modern workplace assumes a 40 hour week because “that’s just what […]

  • Empathy in Code Reviews

    Empathy in Code Reviews

    The way you write is everything. Don’t correct people — ask them for clarification. Assume they know something that you don’t. This is a really important thing! Assume that your co-workers are smart and are doing a good job. Written communication can be tricky — it’s missing a lot of the social clues that let people know what you’re […]

  • Rent vs. Buy

    sometimes it’s smarter to rent, and sometimes buying can work in your favor. Rather than giving in to one side or another, it’s more helpful to learn the rules, crunch the numbers, then do what works—and feels right—for you. via Two cents

  • About the last few months

    It was a stressful period, but it was worth it. I’m proud to be part of this Italy’s MotorK, a company that offers digital services to the automotive industry, raises $10M Series A E in italiano: http://www.agi.it/blog-italia/startup/2017/03/23/news/motork_scaleit_the_startup_egomnia_film-1616871/ http://www.lastampa.it/2017/03/23/tecnologia/news/dieci-milioni-di-dollari-a-motork-lazienda-che-fa-scegliere-lauto-nuova-online-y7zFosH5Ej1oCCzzyWHIwJ/pagina.html

  • Amazon Audible

    Amazon Audible is really great. I’ve never liked audiobooks very much, but this service is just great!

  • Black Mirror

    I and Valeria are watching this series (a bit late I know). So far we’ve watched two episodes and we’re talking a lot about it. It was really a surprise.

Got any book recommendations?