Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid
A lone developer was walking uphill, his feet unstable on the fine-grained black sand of the terrain. Sweat droplets were falling from his face to the ground, forming tiny rivers that went unnoticed.
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ChatGPT as a Digital Wellbeing Tool
As an Italian citizen, I feel obliged to follow our most important music festival: Sanremo Music Festival. However, a typical Sanremo night broadcasts on TV from 8:30PM to 2:00AM. That’s more than 5 hours. Moreover, music performances are continuously interrupted by some boring speeches and sometimes speeches are interrupted by boring music performances.
ChatGPT Is Pretty Honest About Itself
As a cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) technology, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize the way we communicate and interact with computers. However, like all new technologies, ChatGPT also comes with its own set of limitations and ethical concerns that must be considered.
A Trivial, Dangerous, False Assumption on Links
I can recognize a scam email or SMS when I see one. Anyway, I realized that there is a simple URL trick (sometimes used by scammers) that always catches me off guard. It is based upon a particular encoding of URLs that is clearly explained in this short Wikipedia page:
The Shame-Based Approach to Learning Git
A few months ago I was working on a university project and, since I was about to integrate my work into the main branch, which is a tricky phase, I was assisted in the process by Marco, a member of my team. I shared my screen with my fellow and showed him the Git history of the branch I had been working on. We hadn’t established clear conventions for commits, but he was pretty shocked by how I…
The Stack Overflow Antipattern
Sometimes programming can be frustrating. In the last few years I’ve noticed a recurrent pattern that drives me mad. I like to call it Stack Overflow Antipattern.
GitHub Arctic Vault, Code and Memory
A couple of days ago I was surfing GitHub when I stumbled across something that caught my interest. A little notification box was telling me that I earned a badge for being an “Arctic Code Vault Contributor”.
What This Blog Is
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