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As for this project of losing weight by writing about it on the blog, you’ll understand that, hell, I’ve failed spectacularly . Despite Manuel’s friendly prodding , I gave up a good while ago. Coming back from Brussels, along with good beer and good chocolate, I’ll also be bringing home a generous package of good intentions as a souvenir. I’m trying to reorganize my healthy life, and I’ve already…
It means knowing every time we leave that the passport we’re holding is a political object that represents rights and privileges together, that a return ticket isn’t just a piece of our logistical organization, but – as we were saying before – what’s missing for migrant people in how they manage their idea of time, that is, the promise that a decision we’re making is…
At the beginning of July, my daughter tripped while playing basketball. It seemed like a simple sprain, but it turned out to be a hairline fracture of the fifth metatarsal. Brace and rest. Two weeks later, we were supposed to leave for the seaside. I don’t particularly like the beach, but my partner does, so I was going to work remotely for about ten days and then take a week off myself, just to…
I’m writing much less because I’m thinking, much less. I’m thinking much less about what I watch, what I read, what I use or what I eat, what I do and who I am. It’s a period, it must be summer, it’s a period in which I watch, read, use, eat, do and am, and that’s it. Nothing more. There’s no lightheartedness, only commitments and unexpected events, with…
We repainted the entire house. All of it. I spent two months boxing up books, paintings, toys, digital devices, more books, and candles and mugs and pen holders and desk photographs and dozens of miscellaneous knick-knacks, and glasses and goblets and bottles of wine and liquor, and documents, various speakers and lamps, only to spend two weeks with the house in disarray and me working in the dust…
For almost six years on my desk, in addition to the monitors and the current Mac, a mechanical keyboard IQUNIX F96 Coral Sea – now out of production, this one – has stood stable and proud. It’s become an indispensable tool for me, even though I occasionally find myself typing on decent Macs (not all the ones I’ve used, unfortunately). Using a mechanical keyboard with silent, soft-touch…
A dear friend of mine is no longer working. She was laid off last May 2025 and hasn’t been able to find a new job for a year. A whole year without work. She was a copywriter. Today, her job is done by an LLM. Bad, but sufficient for the vast majority of clients of mediocre communications agencies in Italy. The market has changed. AI will eliminate many jobs. I wasn’t entirely…
This is an archived version of my Now page . I haven’t updated this page in quite a while. A lot has changed since then, like the company I worked for , or the fact that I attempted a public challenge but without success . I finally recreated some dotfiles for macOS and started to have some doubts about using the new AI-based translators: do they translate exactly what I write, or do they…
I read Kevin Wammer’s latest post with interest: he switched to Android a few months ago with a Pixel 10 and talks about all the apps he’s installed – replacing some he used on iOS – and how he’s using them in his new ecosystem. I envy him a little. I love being immersed in the simplicity of iOS and enjoying the aesthetics of certain apps, but I won’t deny that I wouldn’t mind having the freedom…
I haven’t lost any weight—I’ll say that right off the bat. Or rather, I’ve lost just under 1 kg (~2.20 lbs). This public commitment I made to myself didn’t go as I’d hoped. I kept up with my swimming sessions, the occasional brisk walk through the traffic of the Neapolitan suburbs, and some home strength training, but nothing that actually helped me lose weight. I think I need to consult a…
I left the company where I had been working for the past (almost) year. There are various reasons for this, but they all boil down to two main issues. The first is related to my previous experience . Since I am still involved with my former company, I am working – together with the chairman of the board of directors, who is just as committed as I am –to get a portion of the business back on its…
I’m back to traveling for work. My old project and my new job will require me to travel more often, much like I did in recent years, when four out of every 14 days I spent 800 km away from home . Over the past few weeks, I’ve taken trains and planes several times. I’ve set foot in Italian train stations and airports again, with goals to achieve and no museums to visit. I like trains and planes,…
I need to replace my work Mac within a few weeks. 1 My work laptop is synced with my personal one for everything that involves iCloud. I have pretty much the same apps, and I use Homebrew for everything I can. So, with the switch coming up, I’ve been thinking about rebuilding my dotfiles for macOS. The idea is to clone all the main configuration files (git, neovim, claude, micro, binary scripts,…
AI has recently been used on this blog just to improve the graphic design: I’ve asked for help on several occasions to fine-tune aesthetic details that would otherwise have taken me forever. But never when it comes to the content. And that will never happen because, since this is a personal blog, writing using soggy stuff generated by an unconsciously system would be really stupid. But my English…
I had a PDF in English, so I asked Claude Code to translate the text into Italian and convert it to EPUB. Done – it works and reads well. It took me less than 5 minutes. Things that, I don’t know, might not even have occurred to me to do before. ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your comments by emailing me .
I won’t go into the reasons why you should use a password manager. I’m assuming that if you’re reading this blog, you’re nerdy enough to already have one. Right? Anyway, I’ve used plenty of password managers over the years. I’ve used Enpass, LastPass, Apple Password, Bitwarden, 1Password, and Dashlane, and there are many others I’ve at least tried out to see how they worked. Switching from one…
If you have a blog and you’re not making any money off it, for crying out loud, just put your full post in the RSS feed – let us read it without having to use some gizmo tool to view it in its entirety. We’ll check out your website anyway, we probably already know it, but – for heaven’s sake! – forget about the stats and just let us read your content. If we read, it’s because we like what…
It’s impressive how writing a blog and feeling responsible for your readers – no matter how little you know them – can make our brains stick to promises we’d normally break without a second thought. Kev Quirk wrote about this recently, discussing his weight and his desire to lose weight . I found last time that writing about it really helped to motivate me, not to mention hold me to account.…
Maybe, for the first time in my life, after trying dozens of them and reselling them or sending them back because they hurt or bothered me behind the ears due to the temples of my glasses, maybe I’ve found the over-ear headphones that, in addition to having an exceptional sound for my expectations, don’t hurt behind the ears: the Major IV by Marshall . What a treat. And what a hell of…
Even the most foolish entrepreneur today thinks he can replace consultants, technicians, lawyers, and accountants with a credit card and a subscription costing just twenty dollars a month. I wrote a few lines on my Italian blog about why corporate digital bricolage needs to be governed. Otherwise, that idiot will only become even more of a fool. The problem isn’t technology, but a lack of…