Entrepreneurship, product management, design & software.

  • 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.

  • What happens if you wring a soaking towel in space?

    I love this stuff

  • Off to Naples!

    Today, after dressing up as a pirate, I will be heading to Naples for a few days off. Can’t wait to work on a window by the sea!

  • On interruptions and growth

    On interruptions and growth

    Today was a tough day: one of those days when you’re trying to achieve your todo list items, but it just seems that the world is against you. Then I had an epiphany. As many of you know, I’m a software developer. I always thought that my job was to produce lines of code, to…

  • When I was a child…

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BBK8f0no56V/?taken-by=jubstuff

  • The “Thirty Percent Feedback” tecnique

    Because I once asked Seth for feedback on a product mockup, and he asked if I felt like I was ninety percent done or thirty percent done. If I was ninety percent done, he would try to correct me on every little detail possible because otherwise a typo might make it into production. But if…

  • Have you ever heard of concurrent operations?

    While reading some code in a legacy codebase: this should fetch the last user $user = Userlib::createnew_user('0', $_POST["str_Username"], $_POST["str_Password"], # neverending params list); $user_id = Userlib::list_user(" 1=1 ORDER BY id_user DESC LIMIT 1 "); # OMG

  • More news about Uber harassment investigation

    If you followed the recent Uber story and want to know how they are dealing with that situation, here are some new links: Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee An Open Letter to The Uber Board and Investors Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture  

  • Pixel Caffeine by AdEspresso

    If you are using Facebook Ads, you should definitely check out the Pixel Caffeine plugin, by AdEspresso. It makes ads segmentation a breeze.

  • 5 tips for writing good code

    Code is written for humans, so we need to lessen its cognitive load Read more on Christian M. Mackeprang’s blog.

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