Claudio Lassala's Blog
The Quiet Cost of Maintenance Work
Code Reviews Weren’t Meant to Be About Formatting
Beyond the Aquarium: Finding Yourself by Leaving Home
The Talk Delivered: When Preparation Meets Reality
Beyond the Tools: What Are We Actually Building?
Look for the Complete Story and Find Consistency Over Intensity
Tests Aren’t for Computers. They’re for People.
Working Offline: A Developer’s Past, Present, and Future
Pace Yourself
Productivity by Design, Not by Default
Preparing a Talk by Thinking Out Loud
Beyond Front-End and Back-End: What Developers Really Need Now
Stop Explaining and Start Showing
2025: Annual Review
The “Do It” Task: Your Scrum Board’s Silent Killer
The Bottleneck Isn’t Code — It’s Translation
Good Enough Answers First
CQRS and Human Intent
Reflection Over Resolutions
Why Code Quality Still Matters (Even When AI Writes It)
Tools Aren’t the Bottleneck
Voice Journaling Workflow – Now using AirDrop and a FolderAction
A Method for AI‑Assisted Pull Request Reviews: Aligning Code with Business Value
Favorite Books I’ve Read in 2025
My Favorite Quotes in 2025
Journaling Is the Smallest Habit That Keeps Paying Me Back
Rethinking My Annual Review: Leveraging a New Thought Partner
Rethinking Productivity: From Writing Code Faster to Solving Better Problems
Staying Oriented When Everything Speeds Up
Keeping track of what to journal
My first Alfred workflow
When Pace Becomes Maintenance
From Spoken Thoughts to Connected Notes: My Voice Journaling Workflow
Changing Our Position, Not Slowing the World Down
Sleep, Time, and AI: Rethinking How We Work
Need, Problem, Solution — Thinking Through the Spiral
The Drift of Memory, the Speed of Tools, and the Value of Story
AI Moved Fast This Year. Here’s How I Stayed Grounded.
Looking Ahead While Moving Faster: Lessons from AI, Mentoring, and Motorcycles
A Busy Summer in 2007: Conferences, Code, and Curiosity
Back to the Spiral #006 — Showing, Not Just Talking
Impact Technology: Rethinking Information and Wisdom
Revisiting 2007: Four Screens, FoxPro Farewells, and Lessons on Focus
The Timeless Habits of Effective Remote Teams
AI in the Trenches: Reflections on Real-World Software Practice
Looking Back: My First Year of Blogging (2005–2006)
20 Years of Blogging, One AI-Powered Cleanup
Balancing Input and Output
Capturing the Human Side of Software with AI Tools
BDD, but Not the Way You Heard It Before
Building Genius Mode: Behind the Scenes of Our AI Summer Camp Finale
Why We Never Face a Blank Page Again
From User Stories to Code: Pairing with AI
From Conversation to Clickable: Using AI for Task‑Based UI
The Business Case for Testing
Ship Faster, Learn Sooner: A Playbook for AI-Powered Sprints
From Typewriters to AI: Embracing (or Resisting) New Tools
We Test, Therefore We Smile!
Testing in Agile: From Afterthought to an Integral Part
Improving Development with Context-Based Testing
Refactoring Test Code: Beyond Red, Green, and Refactor
Anticipate, Compensate, Communicate: A Developer’s UX Mindset
Beyond Slides and Syntax: Public Speaking, Coaching, and AI
Context Beats “Vibe Coding”