thoughts, stories, ideas.

Ciao! I am Luca,
another fellow <developer />, sleep-deprived enthusiast, passionate about 8-bit nostalgia and occasional Sunday superhero. Trying hard to tansform ideas into interactive experiences, one pixel at a time.

Recent Posts

• The Invariant Pattern - Cleaner TypeScript with Assertion Functions

  Posted on:August 20, 2025

  How the invariant pattern can eliminate endless null checks and make your TypeScript code more readable and type-safe.

• Managing Default Code Editors on macOS

  Posted on:August 13, 2025

  A simple bash script to quickly switch default file associations when jumping between code editors like VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf.

• Bulk Image Conversion to WebP with a Simple Zsh Function

  Posted on:August 8, 2025

  A practical Zsh function to batch convert images to WebP format with ImageMagick.

• Farewell, Twitter

  Posted on:January 21, 2025

  After 15 years, I’ve said goodbye to Twitter — reflections on connections, lessons learned, and the bittersweet freedom of moving on.

• My Default Apps at the End of 2024

  Posted on:December 30, 2024

  List of the apps I use, updated at the end of 2024.

• Efficient API Polling in Redux RTK Query with EtagCacher

  Posted on:March 22, 2024

  How to build a reusable caching utility that optimises API requests through ETag tracking and smart polling strategies.

• Conditionally run GitHub Actions based on PR labels

  Posted on:November 18, 2023

  Enhancing GitHub Actions with conditional job execution, based on PR labels.

• Merging Coverage from Jest and Cypress

  Posted on:September 19, 2023

  How to unify unit and E2E test coverage into a single report. Solving inconsistency issues between SWC (Next.js/Jest) and Babel (Cypress).

• dependencies vs devDependencies

  Posted on:November 7, 2019

  npm or yarn, the dilemma is always the same, is this a dependency or a dev dependency?

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  Posted on:July 5, 2019

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