# adriano (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover adriano. Page: Feed: --- ## [The ASMOKE Essential 'smart' grill is neither smart nor essential](https://adriano.fyi/posts/asmoke-essential-smart-grill-is-neither-smart-nor-essential/) _2025-05-13 · Adriano Caloiaro's personal blog_ The grill I recently purchased an ASMOKE Essential ‘Smart’ pellet grill. Before purchasing it, I did what any average consumer does and watched several YouTube review videos. As it turns out, those were all astroturfed , paid content from ASMOKE. My experience convinced me to write this post as counter-programming to ASMOKE’s prolific astroturfing. This post is what I wish I had… ## [Fly.io Postgres failover fix](https://adriano.fyi/posts/fly-dot-io-postgres-failover-fix/) _2024-11-28 · Adriano Caloiaro's personal blog_ Fly.io Postgres failover fix ( flyctl pg failover ) This is a note to myself, meant to be succinct and helpful. I’m sharing it publicly to save others time. Most of the time Fly.io works as I expect it to, but occasionally there are edge cases that lack documentation, public announcements, or both. It’s possible that at some point Fly.io announced a breaking change and I missed it, but… ## [Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)](https://adriano.fyi/posts/hetzner-raises-prices-while-significantly-lowering-bandwidth-in-us/) _2024-11-28 · Adriano Caloiaro's personal blog_ Hetzner raises prices This morning I received an email from Hetzner stating that they are raising prices in the US while significantly reducing bandwidth. The largest price percentage increase is 27.52% for CPX21 servers, and the smallest is 4.17% for CX3+ servers. Bandwidth allotments are decreasing on average, across all products, 88.19% from previous allotments. I’ve been a big fan of… ## [ChatGPT is Slipping](https://adriano.fyi/posts/chatgpt-is-slipping/) _2024-11-17 · Adriano Caloiaro's personal blog_ ChatGPT is slipping Three months ago I put code in production that utilizes gpt-4o and/or gpt-4o-mini models to analyze feedback about businesses and categorize it. The prompts instruct the models to identify categories of feedback, and in a second phase, extract some examples of what people said. This is a simplification, but it took very little effort to craft some prompts that enabled even the…