Francesco Di Lorenzo

@frankdilo.com

Building ambitious indie products. Co-founder typefully.com

I wonder if AI tools will increase engineering hires instead of reducing them, at least in the short term! The increased leverage AI tools provide to individual contributors is so significant that they are much more valuable. Many companies might accelerate hiring because of this.

In 2025, I want to read more books and scroll less on social media. For this reason, I set up a streak to read at least 20 pages per day and uninstalled social media from my phone. Also experimenting with reparable streaks: if I don't manage to read 20 pages today, I can fix it by reading 40 tmrw.

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Reading "Why Nations Fail," which argues that a nation's prosperity is determined by the quality of its economic and political institutions. I wonder if the same will apply to Mars.

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Notion is so much better than folders in Finder for managing taxes. I don't know why I was doing that to myself before. Also, SOPs for managing not having to relearn terrible government UX each time.

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On the one hand, I do think that social media is very bad for young people's mental health. On the other hand, social media was instrumental in my journey to find out what I wanted to do in life and to team up with like-minded people to do it from a very young age.

Australia’s Social Media Ban for Under 16s to Become Law

Australia’s social media ban for children under the age of 16 will become law after passing the Senate, the upper house of Parliament, even as questions linger over how the new restrictions will be im...

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Cursor indexes large codebases super fast, and it's quite useful when you wonder how an open-source project does something. Just open the project, wait one minute for indexing, and chat with the codebase.

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Typefully now supports Bluesky 🦋 Yes, this post was written and published from Typefully! Yes, we support videos too. Yes, you can do it too! As a matter of fact, with Typefully, you can now master 5 different platforms: X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. Let's go! 🔥

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The best (and worst, for productivity 😂) thing about handheld devices like the Steam Deck is how easy they make it to play a quick game compared to gaming PCs or traditional consoles.

Got myself a SteamDeck OLED yesterday. Haven't had a console in years, so very excited to try many new games. Currently on my list: - Factorio - Hotline Miami What else should I play? Also, should I get a docking station to play on TV?