Hops Driven Development

This is the first post, I write it to break the ice.

I started this space to jot down what I learn while building software: fixes to problems that cost me hours and attempts that went well (or badly). But it is not a purely technical blog, and I will get to that in a minute.

So, Hops Driven Development?

Here we go. Over the years I have tried several development methodologies: TDD, BDD, DDD. Then I noticed something: the good ideas almost never show up in front of the screen. They come later, once the laptop is shut. Sometimes during a padel match, more often over a good IPA, while the problem sits there “fermenting” on its own.

I named it “Hops Driven Development”. Careful: it is not an invitation to write code after a beer (it does not work, trust me). It is just the observation, unscientific and very practical, that stepping away is part of the craft. The most stubborn bug I usually solve far from the keyboard, and I come back to the computer with the fix already in hand.

That is how this blog started: notes taken on the way back from those breaks.

What to expect

Short, no-nonsense posts, in Italian and English. No theory dumps: where it helps you get code, links to the repos and the odd photo. And when something breaks I write about it anyway, because telling a failure often teaches more than a fake success story.

Topics

A bit of everything rattling around my head. Mostly code: side projects and ideas I had been sitting on for years that today, with a hand from AI, are finally within reach. But between one commit and the next there is also the beer I try to brew at home, padel, and whatever else grabs me at the moment.

Enjoy the read. And if you have a good beer within reach, even better.