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26.03 2026
№ 48

Dark Pattern Design Responsabile Dipendenza Digitale Filosofia

Your kids are not your users

A manifesto for people who build tech and are also parents: on engagement, attention extraction, and a simple rule—build as if your child were the user.

8′ reading time

1.865 words

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25.03 2026
№ 47

AI Act Digital Addiction EU Regulation Humanism

Progress Is Not a Direction: Anatomy of a Dangerous Misconception

When people shout that the state is "holding back progress," are they really talking about progress: or something else entirely?

29′ reading time

6.442 words

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24.03 2026
№ 46

Tech Career Consulting IT Services IT Sourcing

From developer to partner: a career in IT services

Three roles, three lenses on the IT market: corporate, startup, and a client portfolio. A non-linear path that clarifies what really matters in sourcing.

8′ reading time

1.678 words

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23.03 2026
№ 45

IT Advisory IT Services Sourcing Consulting

What an IT Provider Knows That a Sourcing Analyst Doesn't

The structural blind spot of the IT services advisory market—and why closing it is urgent, before sourcing decisions keep going wrong at scale.

5′ reading time

1.140 words

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20.03 2026
№ 44

AI Anthropic Coding Agents Developer Tools

Who Owns the Workbench

OpenAI buys Astral, Anthropic bought Bun. The quiet colonization of the development stack has already begun, and it's not about open source.

8′ reading time

1.684 words

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19.03 2026
№ 43

AI Digital Transformation IT Consulting IT Strategy

AI and IT consulting: goodbye to time & materials

AI is making time & materials unsustainable in IT consulting. What’s left to sell: outcomes, accountability, and trust. Not hours.

24′ reading time

5.334 words

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17.03 2026
№ 42

Compliance EU Regulation AI Act Architecture

EU compliance 2026: it's architecture, not just legal

Over the next 18 months CRA, AI Act, PLD, NIS2 and EAA will reshape European software. Compliance isn’t a checkbox: it’s designed into architecture.

11′ reading time

2.331 words

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16.03 2026
№ 41

Compliance Career Technical Leadership Software Development

Things I've Stopped Doing Over the Last Fifteen Years of Work

Notes on the things it took me at least 15 years to unlearn—habits about code, stacks, business, compliance, hiring, language, and leadership.

9′ reading time

1.897 words

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14.03 2026
№ 40

AI Leadership SME Hiring

Hiring in 2026: you don't need to use AI, you need to govern it

In SMEs, AI isn’t a tech topic. It’s a cross-functional skill: knowing how to govern it, assess its output, and use it to do new things.

10′ reading time

2.198 words

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11.03 2026
№ 39

Compliance Cybersecurity AI SME

The Smallness Paradox: Long Live European Regulation

Between the AI Act, CRA and NIS2, Europe is rewriting the rules: it’s not who runs fastest that wins, but who builds serious, secure, accessible software.

11′ reading time

2.311 words

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