Pietro Rea

2026

After 8 years of Gatsby.js, I built my own static site generator ‣ March 31, 2026
2025 in review ‣ January 01, 2026

2025

Traveling from NOVA to NYC pt. 2 ‣ December 28, 2025
Peru impressions ‣ April 25, 2025

2024

Happy Thanksgiving! ‣ November 29, 2024
Take those Let’s Encrypt “Expiry Bot” notifications seriously ‣ April 25, 2024
The build/operate trade-off in engineering cultures ‣ January 19, 2024
LLM explorations #1: Running LLaMA 2 locally using llama.cpp ‣ January 14, 2024
2023 in review ‣ January 07, 2024

2023

Books I read in 2023 ‣ December 30, 2023
Milhouse icon deprecated ‣ December 28, 2023
My Apple Watch life ‣ December 04, 2023
The SSO tax ‣ September 09, 2023
Traveling from NOVA to NYC ‣ September 06, 2023
Regus Coworking ‣ August 25, 2023
Will SwiftData fix Core Data’s marketing problem? ‣ July 21, 2023
Notes on “The Manager’s Path” by Camille Fournier ‣ May 19, 2023
Open source your old projects ‣ April 22, 2023
GitHub Copilot for Business ‣ March 18, 2023
New writing setup: Gatsby.js and WordPress as a headless CMS ‣ February 16, 2023
Meadow raises a $3.5M seed round ‣ February 03, 2023
4 years of blogging on Gatsby.js, a retro ‣ January 07, 2023

2022

Taking notes with BBEdit 14, Working Copy and a self-hosted git repo ‣ September 08, 2022
Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration ‣ January 28, 2022

2021

Filtering emails by the List-Unsubscribe header in Fastmail ‣ October 22, 2021
Announcing “iOS App Distribution & Best Practices”, First Edition ‣ April 21, 2021
No more magic ‣ April 04, 2021

2020

Debugging how you think about code signing ‣ December 13, 2020
Core Data by Tutorials 8th Edition ‣ November 24, 2020
Coming Soon: “iOS App Distribution & Best Practices” Book ‣ August 18, 2020
Deleting Derived Data with Automator ‣ July 31, 2020
Saying Goodbye to Upside ‣ July 12, 2020
VS Code Insiders & Settings Sync ‣ March 30, 2020
Try out NetNewsWire 5 ‣ March 24, 2020

2018

My favorite bug of 2018 ‣ December 10, 2018
New Blogging Platform: Gatsby.js ‣ May 31, 2018

2017

99 [r]eddits v2.8.3 is now available ‣ November 28, 2017
Radar: UIToolBar pinned to bottom of the safe area broken on iPhone X ‣ November 18, 2017
Core Data by Tutorials (Fourth Edition) Now Available ‣ October 12, 2017

2016

“No Man Is an Island” or “Building Complex Systems at Sweetpea” ‣ August 19, 2016
Starting a New Journey ‣ July 25, 2016

2015

Tools of the Trade for iOS Development ‣ November 08, 2015

2014

Core Data by Tutorials updated for Xcode 6.1 ‣ October 31, 2014
Core Data by Tutorials Now Available ‣ October 16, 2014
WWDC 2014: A Strategy of Great Work ‣ July 25, 2014

Pietro Rea
Written by Pietro Rea, a software engineer, engineering manager and author from the DC area.