The tremendous power of economic factors

Jun 06, 2019 • Marco Cecconi
Why is it so hard to determine and change a company's development culture? The answer lies in how customs come to be and how we are biased not to see the economic factors shaping them. When we look a…
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The tremendous power of economic factors

There is no toxic negativity

May 20, 2019 • Marco Cecconi
There’s an excellent Medium post by Way Spurr-Chen that has been making the rounds on Twitter and LinkedIn titled “Rage Against the Codebase: Programmers and Negativity.” I think the article makes ma…
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There is no toxic negativity

How Badgie plans to support Open Source

May 13, 2019 • Marco Cecconi
Badgie is an unconventional service because it is fundamentally a game, but for software development professionals. Being a game and appealing to a professional environment at the same time is a delic…
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How Badgie plans to support Open Source

Notifications that maximize happiness, not engagement

May 06, 2019 • Marco Cecconi
At Badgie we strongly believe in positive messaging and in making people happy. It stands to reason that we also look at the things that make us unhappy and try to change them to something positive. A…
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Notifications that maximize happiness, not engagement

Supporting different developer "personalities" in Badgie

Apr 26, 2019 • Marco Cecconi
Not all developers are equal. People differ in many ways: gender, skin color, to name the most obvious, but also merely in personality traits. Some people are more competitive, and a challenge motivat…
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Supporting different developer "personalities" in Badgie

Introducing Badgie

Apr 11, 2019 • Marco Cecconi
As I left Toptal, I got two weeks of paid leave and decided to use them to try and build a small web venture that had the potential to be cool. As I explained this to a few friends, I realized the ide…
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Introducing Badgie

Sustainable Feedback

Mar 31, 2019 • Marco Cecconi
We are not giving developers "sustainable feedback." One of the essential concepts in Agile Development the idea of sustainable pace. At the time Agile was first proposed, this was an indispensable a…
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Sustainable Feedback

Team leadership for high-performance teams

Sep 20, 2018 • Marco Cecconi
I've been working in developer leadership roles for the past 15 years. Over this time I've been noticing that, when some magic conditions happened, a few of the teams I was leading became amazing plac…
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Team leadership for high-performance teams

Thoughts about performance

Aug 08, 2018 • Marco Cecconi
I didn't post much in the past year due to moving, starting a new job and having a ton of life issues to deal with. I'm now in my first proper holiday since and I'm happy to post a little bit more. I…
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Thoughts about performance

Moving home

Aug 12, 2017 • Marco Cecconi
I will be moving home starting August 13th, 2017. Sklivvz.com will be temporarily hosted on Azure until I get a decent broadband at my destination. There might be disruptions and some other properties…
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Moving home

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

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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Fan mail

October 15, 2021 by Marco Cecconi

Multiple people with my name use my email address and I can read their email, chaos ensues!

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Gleanings

How Aristotle Created the Computer
Chris Dixon • Mar 20, 2017

What began, in Boole’s words, with an investigation “concerning the nature and constitution of the human mind,” could result in the creation of new minds—artificial minds—that might someday match or even exceed our own.

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