Alessandro Diaferia

A GraphQL query can be valid and still answer the wrong question.

Building a chat interface over a GraphQL API with LangGraph, and why the naive version answers confidently with a field you never asked for.

AI code review is increasing pull request throughput, but impacting review depth, ownership and collaboration: my recent reflections on the impact and some answers from a recent CMU paper.

I built an open-source solution to start coding sessions on my VPS, from my phone

With agentic coding disrupting how we build software, many are trying to push the narrative that everyone is turning into engineering managers.

I've been switching between Codex and Claude lately quite a bit for my side project, rippleroom.net, even though for some reason I keep Claude as my go-to for…

A gentle introduction to how your data really flows and where it ends up.

What makes a great software engineer?

Discover how unmanaged product surface growth silently undermines software teams' effectiveness.

I joined Bluesky some time ago.

I've recently had the opportunity to lead on measuring aspects of the developer experience of my engineering organization.

Kanban come metodologia di lavoro nella produzione del software aiuta i team ad essere maggiormente capaci di adattarsi ai cambiamenti

I released Knot, a read later app for iOS.

Presumed technical debt is a form of technical debt that will constrain your thinking and hold you back when designing software.

Efficient communication is critical for high performing organisations but it is still an overlooked soft skill for software engineers.

In un mondo sempre più dominato dallo sviluppo di software, l'inganno dei costi sommersi può risultare letale per i team di sviluppo.

The best teams: autonomy, customer focus & continuous improvement.

Estimating a delivery date is hard.

Genuine deadlines are there to help the organization seize an opportunity.

Can you build high quality software with Agile?

The Main Thread - Issue #2 - Continuous integration, distributed systems, product management, startup

The Main Thread - Issue #2 - Continuous integration, distributed systems, product management, startup

The Main Thread - Issue #2 - Continuous integration, distributed systems, product management, startup

The Main Thread - Issue #1 - Continuous integration, software architecture, burnout, product management, startup

TDD is a strict software methodology that might make you feel as if you're doing things slower than you actually could.

Amazon MQ queues might fill up if you use them in your tests and don't take care of purging them.

The DevOps Engineer is a high demand role with many different meanings depending on the company pursuing it.

In this tutorial we will explore how to enable CORS for your Single Page App to be able to connect to any API without the need for a backend server.

I used GCP Speech-to-Text to produce the transcripts to my Podcast episodes.

Here's how you can use chisel to gather some info about how your Gitlab pipelines are doing.

Let's explore how to build a simple continuous deployment pipeline for free on GitLab with Docker and Heroku.

Kotlin DSL capabilities can be used to create a small DSL that can help us crafting GraphQL queries.

Let's explore how to effectively test your LiveData instances deterministically

Do you use the right language when interacting outside of your technical world?

Email development is often an overlooked practice.

Frequent and unplanned changes are vital in the early stages of a startup.

Writing an autocomplete engine in Go is straightforward.

I don’t actually know why but I was wondering how easy it is to integrate Cocoa with Go.

I'm wrapping up here pieces of information that I used to setup a working native iOS project taking advantage of a library I wrote mainly using Qt.

I'm not an experienced Windows developer.