I stare down until the code confesses. Read more

In the previous post I pretended to be a teacher to learn about communication. Now let’s go on with this strange but interesting experience. Read more

Explaining things is all about abstraction, and so is programming. So, why do so many developers (myself included) struggle to communicate with non-tech people? I tried to answer this question by walking in a teacher’s shoes for a day. Read more

About a year ago I decided to leave the company I’ve worked for the past seven years to become a freelancer. It wasn’t an easy decision at all because I was very fond of the company and colleagues, but I felt that my place was no longer there. One year later I can’t be happier with this choice. Read more

Four years ago, during my PHP period, I released my first open source project: Fast titles. It was a small tool for importing Final Cut subtitles via xml. In fact (sounds strange) the most famous video editing platform in the world doesn’t have a system to import massively subtitles, you have to insert them one by one, one per clip. A big waste of time. Read more

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Read more