Ivan Morgillo

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Recruits, your first prize is here... A custom GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition + PC copy of the game. Comment #007FirstLightRTX to win 👇

Lived in Milan. Then Turin. Then France. Years in Berlin. After all that I moved to a 8,000-person town in the Italian northwest countryside. The capital cities sell ambition. The countryside lets you ship it. Bigger ideas live here than they did in Berlin. Choose your noise level.

My mentors didn't come from university. They came from the Sannio Linux User Group in early 2000s southern Italy. Massimiliano Mirra was a few years ahead, already freelancing, already living the life. Twenty years later I write open-source skills for Claude and Codex. The thread is unbroken.

@hszanowski Hahahhah I need the repo to setup this on Linux

IntelliJ IDEA + Stream Deck is already a thing. ...aaand I’m using one key to run the project and open a Swing app. Is there any action you would put on a button first?

A kit available on the internet turns an ordinary paper airplane made from a sheet of A4 paper into a real mini-drone. I can’t help looking at this whimsical little thing and picturing how it could be scaled up and weaponized for use in Ukraine.

@Xabaras_it Thanks 🙏 One lesson at a time 💪

@hamen Congrats! 👏

The lesson I took from shipping 9 apps is that you can radically sharpen your focus and output by forcing yourself to use a dead-simple system like 3 Things - pick the 3 most important tasks, ignore everything else - for 30 days straight.

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Talked to a dev last week who felt burned out shipping features nobody used. Here's what I'd tell my younger self: 1) Ship fewer things. Finish them. 2) One app getting traction beats five apps going nowhere. 3) Use the tools that cut friction - I reach for AI Bedtime Stories at night, Cursor during the day. 4) Build for one real user before you think about scale. 5) Boring consistency compounds. Chasing novelty doesn't. 6) Your code is probably fine. Your prioritization isn't. 7) You already know what to do. Stop waiting for permission. What's the one thing you keep postponing that would actually move the needle?

It's incredible that of all the things in Gemini web chat UI the shittiest is the search!! HOW THE FUCK IS IT POSSIBLE, PEOPLE!!? YOU INVENTED THE WEB SEARCH!!!

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The uncomfortable truth about shipping indie apps? You stop caring about perfection... 👀✨ The roadmap. The metrics. The comparisons. Nothing feels urgent anymore - because it isn't. Once you ship enough, priorities shift. You can't unsee how little most features matter. You can't unfeel how much momentum beats planning. And that's the insight… and the trap. Keep shipping. Stay focused. The backlog only has power if you let it. 💫

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I never stop shipping and I never stop iterating. In fact I permanently update my stack - Cursor, Gift It, Flutter - to fully eliminate any tool that costs more time than it saves.

@GiorgiaMeloni can we have a Giga Roma please?

Forget about the guy. Focus on the tech and the lives it saves FFS!

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Best advice I ever got from a senior dev I deeply respected: "There are two things that kill indie apps before they even launch: 1. Building features users didn't ask for 2. Shipping before you talk to a single real person" What would you add to the list?