To recruiters, with <3

Jan 20, 2015 • Marco Cecconi
I have recently improved the canned response I send to recruiter who send me unsolicited untargeted emails (in other words, spam). I use this as a canned response in gmail, and for the worse offenders…
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To recruiters, with <3

LCID reference

Dec 05, 2014 • Marco Cecconi
Since I'm always searching for it and the pages on the web do not contain the complete list, here's a full list of Locales. Code to generate your own version Invariant Language (Invariant Country)In…
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LCID reference

Happy birthday to me!

Jul 01, 2014 • Marco Cecconi
As a quick fun thing to do today, I've created a personalized birthday wish generator using Markov chains. The code is pretty simple and unremarkable, and I've made it available as a gist. Play with …
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Happy birthday to me!

Say "No" to the Open/Closed pattern

Jun 08, 2014 • Marco Cecconi
The open/closed principle is the second of the five SOLID principles. The best place to start to try and understand it is probably Uncle Bob's article on it, but you can also take a look at the Wikipe…
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Say "No" to the Open/Closed pattern

I don't love the single responsibility principle

May 06, 2014 • Marco Cecconi
courtesy of wikipedia Did you ever happen to disagree with a colleague on the single responsibility principle and its application? Let's try to understand why that could be the case. I once worked w…
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I don't love the single responsibility principle

Answer for "Christmas visit nightmare"

Jun 26, 2013 • Marco Cecconi
TL;DR: Not only I did get an answer by an egregious reader (hi Emmet!), but it was a really good one. The way to solve the problem is to use an algorithm known as "earliest deadline first": you sort …
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Answer for "Christmas visit nightmare"

Hacking Challenge: Christmas visits nightmare!

Jun 15, 2013 • Marco Cecconi
I originally wrote this challenge in 2012 to select a few developers for my previous company. They turned it down! I still think it's a nice puzzle. I would like to publish more in the future, let's s…
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Hacking Challenge: Christmas visits nightmare!

How to use Forms-Based Authentication with MVC4

Jun 07, 2013 • Marco Cecconi
I am putting this down just to remind myself in the future, since the documentation I've found on-line is very lacking. To add extra context: you don't need anything else to use forms-based authentica…
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How to use Forms-Based Authentication with MVC4

LX week

May 29, 2013 • Marco Cecconi
I was in Lisbon this week visiting old friends. In exchange for a desk and WI-FI — and potentially some yummy pizza — I have been giving quick talks about the high level architecture of the Stack Exch…
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LX week

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

Introducing Positron Flux

March 31, 2026 by Marco Cecconi

Positron Flux is a new a delivery excellence workbench

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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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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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