My TL;DR of database choices in 2024 - Pick Sqlite iff you don’t need the db to be accessed over network - Pick Postgres otherwise - Never pick NoSQL (and I did my PhD on NoSQL) Also shout out to this awesome article for more depth 👇 mccue.dev/pages/8-16-24-…

Your manager probably feels more productive than you 👀 In a wide survey that we ran a few months ago, we asked engineers and managers how they would rate their 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 from 1 to 10, vs that of their team. An interesting result, which probably

75/25 in this poll vs 50/50 at national level just shows how politically charged Elon’s content has become, and so his audience. I am sad for this state of things, disregarding of any political belief

Did you know that web scraping is having a resurgence, largely thanks to AI? 🤖 I worked for 8 years as CTO of a travel startup, and we used web scraping extensively. Scraping has a shady reputation and is often misunderstood, so this week I wrote a free article to demystify it

Code reviews are not about catching bugs — they are about much more. They are your main feedback loop on how your team writes code. Still, many teams are caught in extremes where code reviews (or lack thereof) become detrimental to their team: 🚫 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗢-𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪

Do you read countless management advice (including from myself 😬) but find little to be applicable to your team? It might be because of your team’s *stage*. 🌱 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 The Tuckman's model describes four maturity stages

About two months ago I published an article about 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 📚 and it’s become one of my most popular pieces ever! So this week I tried to do something I have never done before: 𝗜 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼! 📹 The video goes over my whole

One of the strongest trends in tech over the last few years has been 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 🎨 These are engineers who 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, from analysis to post-launch iteration, bridging the gap between PMs and traditional devs.

Here is my full chat with David Heinemeier Hansson (@DHH), creator of Rails, CTO of Basecamp, NYT bestseller author, and professional racing driver 🏎️ We discussed David's opinions on the current state of software, including excessive complexity, the role of AI, and the future

One of them might or might not be Refactoring 👀

Regulation gets a bad rep these days, mostly well deserved, but I want to bring a bit more nuance to this, because many people don't realize that what feels just like annoyances (e.g. can't click on maps) actually saves businesses. I have been a founder in the travel space for

I really enjoyed this chat and I think it has the benefit of me stewing on topics like “founder mode” for a couple weeks before the conversation so I hope you enjoy it as well!

Last week I qualified for the Italian sim racing GT4 championship, in the GT4 category! 🏎️ I am incredibly excited about it. I started sim racing just a couple of years ago and I am loving it more and more. In Italy, this is also an incredibly serious space. To compete in

I would love an X mobile app that just shows my following feed in chronological order, and auto-archives / hides messages I have already seen 🤔 The idea is to scroll X with an “inbox zero” mindset. I only follow a few hundred people so it feels doable: I can read most of what