marcgg#blog

Sometimes it's just nice to get an AI to do the dirty work instead of having it take my job.

Here's my current approach to leverage AI to move fast while mitigating the risk of eroding my skills.

Hiring CTOs, VP of Engineering and senior leadership in general is tricky.

Pros and cons of various team structures for startups.

Here's a simple approach to start doing post mortems made for startups and small teams.

I always hear about team members that are supposedly really smart but are bringing negative value to a project.

A first-hand look at the challenges and surprises of updating my iOS apps to iOS 26 and adopting the new Liquid Glass system.

I spent a few weeks creating a new iOS app.

Redesigning my fitness app revealed how one overlooked detail impacted 70% of users.

How do you even get people to follow your lead?

As a manager, it's important to let people make mistakes... but you need to make sure they are not too costly for the person or the organisation.

You are borrowing speed today that you will have to pay back later with interest.

New managers often see making their team happy as their main objective.

Hot take: there are no technical projects and all tasks should be advancing business goals in one way or another.

I wanted to write a small article to share what I've noticed about LLMO and to be able to come back to it in years and see how it evolved.

From Brook's to Wirth's, here is the list of the adages I'm often referencing.

Channels sharing insights, skits, news and more about the tech world.

While staying in your comfort zone can limit your career growth, there are also fast growth opportunities that - while unsustainable - enable the opposite.

Discussing the comfort zone, jobs' skill ceilings and the importance of growth.

Should a new hire struggle for days in silence or ask for help right away?

I'm sharing some scrappy ways to ask for user feedback in my iOS app.

I think that having an idea of scale of defensiveness helps me a lot when coding.

Sometimes you just need to clean up your code because that's the right thing to do.

I'm not a big fan of Scrum, but I really like the idea of having regular short meetings with all team members.

How building a quick side project helped me regain energy and get out of tunnel vision.

Sometimes a feature is not doing its job.

When you are building an app on your own, it's critical to not waste time, listen to user feedback and continuously ship value.

All startups are very different, but many VC backed companies share common traits and fall in the same pits.

As a manager, having 5 minutes available for my direct reports is very important.

I've decided to not leverage generative AI beyond basic proofreading.

Balancing predictability, agility, and innovation is challenging, and many organisations end up with a mix of waterfall and agile methodology, which can be a big missed opportunity for some teams.

Estimating the time a project will take often creates problems.

What I learned from a terrible piece of code written by a student of mine.

My experience leaving a minimum viable feature in production for too long without iterations, and why it was a bad idea for both projects and team dynamics.

To start this new year, I figured it could be fun to look back and share all the different code editor I've used so far professionally, as a student or just for fun.

For the past few years I've taken the habit of sharing short documents to explain my opinions and make discussions move faster.

Here is a very simple script to handle translations that saved me a lot of time when building my iOS app.

To get inspired for my own projects or just to enjoy some entertaining content I fell deep into a game devlog rabbit hole, following people as they build their project.

Here is the way I conduct 1:1 meetings with people in my engineering team.

I've spent the last few months building a boxing app to train at home with SwiftUI.

In a given team we have people bringing clear direct value, and others increasing the global output of the team.

A lot of people tend to mix people working remotely and people working asynchronously.

It's a given that mistakes are bound to happen.

Simple example of how to build an iOS circular clock-like progress bar with a minute/seconds counter using SwiftUI.

I wanted to have nice looking social media link previews for Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook... but I also didn't want to create them manually for each article.

I wrote a document to explain to my team how I operate at work.

Dead simple example of adding a centered text to a jpg image using Ruby, RMagick and ImageMagick.

Ruby on Rails gives you update and update!

How to organise a department meeting for software engineers, including format and content ideas.

List of podcast episodes on science, design, history, culture, entrepreneurship or even management.