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Luca Rossi ꩜
@lucaronin
💧 Maker of @tolariamd • 📬 Author of refactoring.fm • I write weekly about shipping software with AI to 170K+ engineers.
Rome, Italy
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Apr 22
    Introducing Tolaria! 💧 Today I am releasing a macOS desktop app for managing markdown knowledge bases, and helping both AI and humans operate them. It’s free and open source, and always will be. I have been working on it for three months, and I now use it to run my life and
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Aug 18, 2024
    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-…
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Sep 6, 2024
    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
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Apr 12, 2023
    Some of the best-performing engineering teams DON'T use a Staging environment to test things before release. They just push to production. 1) Why? 2) How do they pull this off? 3) Should you use Staging yourself? I talked with tens of teams and are the lessons I learned 👇
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Nov 4, 2021
    🔥🔥 Announcement! 🔥🔥 Today is a very big day for me and Refactoring, because: – I am leaving my job to work full-time on it 🎉 – I am adding a paid subscription plan 🎉 A small thread about what's coming next and how we got here 👇
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Sep 11, 2023
    Personal update: we did it! 😄💍
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Mar 31, 2022
    Replying to @pmarca
    Whiter than a16z investing team 👀
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Dec 19, 2022
    Replying to @lucaronin
    Here is a great list by @lara_hogan that shows how you can turn "regular", sometimes judgy questions into open, psychologically safe ones 👇
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Jun 28, 2024
    𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸? 🔧 This week discussed this on the podcast with Malte Ubl (@cramforce), CTO at @vercel ! I loved our chat — here is what we talked about: 1) 🏗️ 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹'𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 (00:41)— how the entire org uses Vercel
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    May 25, 2022
    Good dev onboarding in one sentence: make new hires ship production code in a week
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Apr 17, 2023
    Refactoring just got to 1000 paid subscribers! 🥳 I am now officially living off my 1000 true fans! I am extremely grateful and humbed by this! 🙇‍♂️ Thank you all for following this journey!
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Dec 21, 2023
    The year is closing so, as I always do, I am reviewing everything we have done at Refactoring! ✨ It's been an incredible year. We have already celebrated the 60,000 subscribers, so let me spend a few words on the community. This year we went from 200 to 600 community members,
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Apr 5, 2022
    400 paid subscribers! 🤯 5 months since the launch of the paid plan, @refactoringclub has crossed 400 subscribers and $50K ARR! 🎉 Going for 1000 this year! So grateful about this journey, thank you all for your support 🙏
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    Luca Rossi ꩜
    @lucaronin
    Jun 22, 2022
    Top performing teams I have met all keep a high degree of *alignment* and *autonomy*. This is made possible by three core elements: 🎯 Goals — know what you need to achieve 📚 Skills — have the chops to achieve it ⭐ Principles — know how to make decisions