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SUGGESTED READS FOR AUGUST 16, 2026

Unpolished human websites Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards The worship of billionaires has become our shittiest religion Does working remotely make us feel worse? [Lavorare da remoto ci fa stare peggio?] – this article is in Italian, please use your preferred translator to read The Habsburg Effect and AI: When Machines Cannibalize Themselves…

Andalusia & Seville 2026 – part 2: COSTA DE LA LUZ

This is an edited version of the guidelines my wife created for our 2026 vacations in Andalusia and Seville I told you in a previous post. The plan covers an 8 days trip, arriving in early afternoon in the Seville airport and going back home from the same airport in the second part of the [ ]

Andalusia & Seville 2026

Once a year, given the chance, my family uses to do a summer trip away from home. This year we decided to move to Spain, visiting another piece of the Country. Having been in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia (many times) the initial idea was to go Bilbao and norther area of Spain, moving from city [ ]

Printers: the IT’s nightmare

I ve been in IT circa for twenty-seven years and one of the most frustrating issue a users (or a sysadmin) can have is to deal with some (rubbish) printer hardware or software. It goes from a simple black and white HP printer connected via USB cable to a Windows laptop to the big network Xerox [ ]

SUGGESTED READS FOR JULY 26, 2026

How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should Publishing personal content online while hiding yourself is a flawed but rational response to a broken internet Perché non ti va più di lavorare {Here s Why You Don t Feel Like Working Anymore} – this article is in Italian, please use your preferred translator to read AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Saying Thank…

the author’s eternal dilemma

The thing about having more than one on-line spaces to express oneself, sometimes, is that comes a moment where you start writing something on a space, and then develops and expands in something you may should have published on another one. For example this website started as a way to ‘promote’ myself hence the [ ]

a huge american pickup truck for your mind

LLMs have taken Steve Jobs a computer is a bicycle for the mind and replaced it with driving a huge american pickup truck to the corner store that s a five-minute walk away. James Coglan

The Tōkyōiter

The Tōkyōiter discovered while wandering over the web, this website is “A faux magazine collection celebrating Tokyo illustration’. This is the kind of poject I simply LOVE, dedicated and fully focused to a single idea … executed in the best way possible. The Tokyoiter is made by illustration and drawing freaks who are willing [ ]

SUGGESTED READS FOR JULY 14, 2026

24 HRS IN PHOTOS by Kessel Kramer Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows Personal Encyclopedias — this has blown up my mind, really. When Marketing meets HR

Time Is Precious

via @lewishowes on Instagram

escaping from real life

“Reading is boring; talking is awkward; moving is tiring; leaving the house is daunting. Thinking is hard. Interacting with strangers is scary. Risking an unexpected reaction from someone isn’t worth it. Speaking at all — overrated. These are all frictions that we can now eliminate, easily, and we do.” Kathryn Jezer-Morton

the Helium browser

A week ago, circa, surfing around the (social) web I ve encountered this Helium browser, an open source fork of Ungoogled Chromium with three main addictional features. One is the integration of the uBlock Origin functionality, the second is the extended support of the MV2 extensions [more info here] for as long as it will technically [ ]

three stages of life

Found this image on Instagram, it describes exactly how I feel at 51.

SUGGESTED READS FOR MAY 24, 2026

GREJSIMOJS: il design svedese che ha smesso di fare l adulto – [GREJSIMOJS: Swedish design that stopped acting like an adult], please use a translation service to read Come bloccare l’uso dei nostri dati per allenare l’Intelligenza Artificiale – [Your data is not a buffet: how to deny consent to AI] A practical guide to reclaiming your privacy among ChatGPT, social media, and creative programs,…

SUGGESTED READS FOR MAY 10, 2026

Effetto Dory (Dory effect) – please use your preferred translation service to read Pixel Art: la guida per disegnare sprite 16×16 (Pixel Art: The Guide to Drawing 16×16 Sprites) — please use your preferred translation service to read Difficoltà progressiva: perché i vecchi giochi erano così difficili (Difficulty spikes: why old games were so hard) — please use your preferred translation service to…

People & Blogs: my interview

I am a long time follower of Manuel Moreale, and a supporter of his works. I have loved since time 0 the People Blogs editorial column of his blog that, over time, has evolved into a newsletter. Anyway I loved the idea of being part of the people being interviwed, so I politely asked [ ]

SUGGESTED READS FOR APRIL 26, 2026

Sorry for the four links in Italian provided in this roundup of interesting reads, but I found them really good and wanted to share them here anyway.

SUGGESTED READS FOR 19 APRIL, 2026

I know that today 4 out of 5 links are in Italian, but they are good enough to take a translation service and read them anyway.

Apple Silicon evolution (2020 to mid.2026)

While browsing online I found this image which makes a small recap of the last five years and half evolution of the Apple Silicon platform. Even if I would have ordered things differently, I ve decided to repost this on my blog to keep a track of it, and to show how far and fast the [ ]

inertia

My health has been fragile for over two weeks now, and my family obligations are pressing. The weather is somewhat on our side, but more often than not it knocks the wind out of us with strong, cold winds, reminding us that Old Man Winter still has a few tricks up his sleeve… and so, [ ]