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Recently I was part of a panel for the Design NoSite, a three-day virtual event by the Design Org in HashiCorp. The session was about career growth, and I was asked to share my experience as an Individual Contributor (IC) Engineer. So I started to jot down some ideas in a Google Doc, when a stream of consciousness started, and my self-reflection, not sure why, took the shape of a self-interview. Anyway, this below is a mix-up of what came out of this exercise, and the actual questions/answers from the panel. It’s not exhaustive by any means, but it’s a spontaneous thing, and as such I thought maybe it was worth sharing, in case it can be of any help to someone else.
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Goodbye Badoo/Bumble
After 5+ years I am leaving (with good memories).
August 13, 2021 -
Status Quo
June 17, 2021 -
My take on writing (good) comments
July 29, 2020 -
Design Tokens beyond colors, typography, and spacing.
January 16, 2020 -
Memo: “Refactoring — Not on the backlog!”
An amazing article about how to approach refactoring in a codebase
November 21, 2019 -
Measuring the Impact of a Design System
January 29, 2019 -
New Year‘s (non) Resolution for 2019
Just a list of simple things that I want to do this year
January 9, 2019 -
Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script — Part #2
Second part: the build script and the generation of the assets.
December 6, 2018 -
Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script — Part #1
First part: from the idea to the assets Sketch files.
December 5, 2018 -
How to manage your Design Tokens with Style Dictionary
September 17, 2018 -
Keep it simple, stupid!
How one line of CSS code saved me hours of React development
April 6, 2018 -
Technical debt in a quip
March 21, 2018 -
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
A quote from “There's a Hole in My Sidewalk” by Portia Nelson
March 8, 2018 -
From zero to Cosmos — Part #3
Third part: where I show where we are today, and where we think we will be in the future
February 22, 2018 -
From zero to Cosmos — Part #2
Second part: here come the dragons, and where the “grand plan” takes place
February 14, 2018 -
From zero to Cosmos — Part #1
First part: where everything started, and where I reaped the fruits of my labour
February 5, 2018 -
Missed opportunities
A non zero-sum game
January 30, 2018 -
New Year’s Resolution for 2018
Smile. Be optimistic. Be bold.
January 3, 2018 -
Chemistry over Culture
An interesting discussion about the meaning of these two words, and possible implications in their use.
December 2, 2017 -
Let There Be Peace on CSS
A talk on a war that is dividing the CSS community, made in the name of the “separation of concerns”, and a peace that is starting to see the light, thanks to bright minds and passionate developers
October 1, 2017 -
Systemantics
A review of a book that has a lot to say about systems: how they works, how they fail, but most of all how we should build them
June 11, 2017 -
The first rule to reduce technical debt
An extended version, beyond the limit of 140 characters, of an interesting discussion
March 10, 2017 -
Big Data, Intelligenza Artificiale, Conoscenza.
Alcune riflessioni sul tema big-data e giornalismo
February 9, 2017 -
Classes (and IDs) aren’t owned by CSS
January 21, 2017 -
New Year’s Resolution for 2017
Being rich with all I have gained on the way
January 3, 2017 -
Our recruiting process is flawed
My experiences being interviewed for a job. And someone else's views on the recruiting process.
November 6, 2016 -
Style Guides, Pattern Libraries, Design Systems and other amenities.
November 4, 2016 -
I like it blue
Two hundreds years have passed, but still technical choices are discussed on the tip of personal taste
October 3, 2016 -
“More than”
An inspiring evening about interactions, humans, agents, instability and hacks.
September 29, 2016 -
Algorithms, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and us Designers
A transcript of the Interaction Design London meetup
June 30, 2016 -
Brexit, things are easy
June 24, 2016 -
To BEM or not to BEM
A series of interviews on BEM methodology
May 12, 2016 -
The impact of code in society
Writeup of a special event in London
April 26, 2016 -
Industry Conf 2016
An unexpected conference in Newcastle
April 21, 2016 -
Diversity in Tech, we are getting there
Some good news from a very personal point of observation
March 2, 2016