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• 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

• Hello Badoo

  I've joined the company as Mobile Web Developer.

  January 25, 2016