# caserta (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover caserta. Page: Feed: --- ## [After the diagnosis: the privilege of being able to afford it](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/dopo-la-diagnosi-follow-up/) _2026-07-15 · Mirko Caserta_ An adult autism diagnosis shouldn't be a luxury. Two reflections: on the privilege of being able to afford one, and on how to start understanding yourself even before a formal diagnosis. ## [Songs](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/songs/) _2026-07-12 · Mirko Caserta_ My new album: nine original tunes, complete with downloadable lead sheets in PDF and MuseScore format. ## [Fifty-one years for a word](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/diagnosi-autismo/) _2026-07-09 · Mirko Caserta_ In June 2026, at fifty-one, I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, level 1. It wasn't a surprise: it was a confirmation. ## [A madman](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/un-matto/) _2026-05-15 · Mirko Caserta_ Paolo Nori says a madman is a useless masterpiece. I think exactly the opposite: he is an extremely useful masterpiece, in fact a necessary one. ## [Unhinged](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/unhinged/) _2026-04-27 · Mirko Caserta_ A door taken off its hinges, then a mind taken off its hinges, then a compliment. The slow journey of a metaphor that still works because of the hinge it pictures. ## [Hectoring](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/hectoring/) _2026-04-25 · Mirko Caserta_ How a Trojan prince's name became a verb for browbeating. The seventeenth-century London gangs that stole it, and what hectoring still names that argument and anger do not. ## [Touch ID for sudo in Ghostty and zellij](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/touchid-sudo-ghostty-zellij/) _2026-04-23 · Mirko Caserta_ How to get the Touch ID prompt to work with sudo on macOS, including the pam\_reattach workaround needed inside terminal multiplexers like zellij and tmux. ## [Frolic](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/frolic/) _2026-04-21 · Mirko Caserta_ An old word for an old kind of joy — where frolic comes from, why its k quietly fell off, and what the word still protects that its more serious cousins do not. ## [The shell's \`until\` loop](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/until/) _2026-04-21 · Mirko Caserta_ A practical tour of the until loop: syntax, when it reads better than while, and five real-world examples for waiting on services, files, ports, retries, and background jobs. ## [Pizza Paper Specs](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/pizza-paper-specs/) _2026-04-20 · Mirko Caserta_ On the checkered paper under the pizza, the sketches drawn between a Margherita and a Diavola, and the grease ring that landed squarely on the retry policy. ## [Every Channel. 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Free trial, no IP lock. ## [Rabbit Hole](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/rabbit-hole/) _2026-04-20 · Mirko Caserta_ The small doorway that swallows an afternoon — where the phrase comes from, why the internet turned it into a verb, and how to tell a good rabbit hole from a bad one. ## [Belt-and-Suspenders Safety](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/belt-and-suspenders/) _2026-04-19 · Mirko Caserta_ On the engineering philosophy of using two independent safeguards for the same failure — and why redundancy is sometimes wisdom, not waste. ## [Pipe-delimited arrays in Bash](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/pipe-delimited-arrays-in-bash/) _2026-04-16 · Mirko Caserta_ A simple pattern for storing structured records in a Bash array and splitting them with IFS. ## [RAG](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/rag/) _2026-04-16 · Mirko Caserta_ Retrieval-Augmented Generation — how language models learn to reach outside themselves for facts, and why it matters that they do. ## [Stochastic Parrot](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/stochastic-parrot/) _2026-04-15 · Mirko Caserta_ A sceptical metaphor for what large language models are doing when they sound like they understand us — where the phrase came from, and why it still stings. ## [Uncanny Valley](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/uncanny-valley/) _2026-04-14 · Mirko Caserta_ The small wrongness of an almost-human face — why it unsettles us, where the term comes from, and why the valley is no longer confined to robotics labs. ## [Untracker](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/untracker/) _2026-03-31 · Mirko Caserta_ I built a $0.99 app that strips tracking parameters from every URL you copy. Here's why, and how it works. ## [My Noises Presets](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/noises-presets/) _2026-03-26 · Mirko Caserta_ A collection of user presets I made for Noises, the beautifully crafted noise generator instrument by AudioThing. ## [Digital signatures in Java: the hard way vs. the Bruce way](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/bruce-before-after/) _2026-03-25 · Mirko Caserta_ A before-and-after comparison showing how Bruce turns 20+ lines of JCA boilerplate into clean, readable code for digital signatures in Java. ## [Ego Death](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/ego-death/) _2026-03-19 · Mirko Caserta_ The experience of the self dissolving — what it is, where the term comes from, what neuroscience is starting to say about it, and why it matters. ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0cn9lO8NbJmU) _2026-03-18 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Lissajous / Vectorscope Display](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/lissajous-vectorscope/) _2026-03-05 · Mirko Caserta_ The hypnotic curves traced by two sinusoids plotted against each other — and why mix engineers stare at them to keep stereo images honest. ## [Monotropism](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/monotropism/) _2026-02-14 · Mirko Caserta_ A cognitive theory of autism that frames it not as a deficit, but as attention flowing in a single, deep channel rather than many parallel ones. ## [Sycophancy](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/sycophancy/) _2026-02-06 · Mirko Caserta_ Flattering the powerful at the cost of the truth — an ancient corrosive habit, and its strange comeback as a technical term in AI alignment. ## [Roll, Pitch, Yaw](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/roll-pitch-yaw/) _2026-01-30 · Mirko Caserta_ The three rotational axes of any rigid body moving through space — tilt, nod, turn — and why these three nautical words ended up running half the modern world. ## [Interoception](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/interoception/) _2026-01-22 · Mirko Caserta_ The sense of the internal state of the body — how the brain perceives signals from inside you, and why it matters for emotion, intuition, and health. ## [Contacts](https://mirkocaserta.com/pages/contacts/) _2025-09-10 · Mirko Caserta_ Get in touch with Mirko Caserta through various channels including email, GitHub, Telegram, YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, and BandCamp. ## [About](https://mirkocaserta.com/pages/about/) _2025-09-10 · Mirko Caserta_ Learn more about Mirko Caserta, a Senior Developer in Rome, Italy, who works on enterprise backends and is passionate about technology, music, and amateur radio. ## [Krik](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/krik/) _2025-07-27 · Mirko Caserta_ A static site generator developed entirely with Claude AI assistance, showcasing the power of AI-driven development in Rust and the revolutionary impact of AI coding tools. ## [Curriculum Vitae](https://mirkocaserta.com/pages/cv/) _2025-07-26 · Mirko Caserta_ Complete professional profile of Mirko Caserta, Senior Developer and Software Architect with over 30 years of experience in enterprise software development, cloud platforms, and diverse technology stacks. ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BhlZbnJOp1c3) _2025-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Missa](https://mirkocaserta.com/posts/missa/) _2024-09-15 · Mirko Caserta_ An improvised music album inspired by ecclesiastical themes, featuring the sound of Hans Zimmer's organ from Interstellar and reflections on my early days as a church organist.