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Reading books and commenting on them with ChatGPT
November 26, 2024
I just finished reading Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy 1 . On this occasion, I discovered a new use for ChatGPT and LLMs. ChatGPT and I chatted about the...
From Corniolo to Passo Braccina via Valpisella
November 16, 2024
I took a daily hike in my beloved Apennine Mountains a few weeks ago. One of my favourite motorcycling routes is the narrow, engaging, panoramic road that...
A walk after the storm
October 21, 2024
A walk on the beach right after the storm. Lots of logs scattered all around, for miles. And sanderlings running all over the place. The post A walk after...
Journalists should not surrender their weapons
October 16, 2024
Kara Swisher, a dean in digital and classical journalism, has an interesting article in the New York Magazine. As a witness and protagonist she recounts how...
Eve 2.2.0
October 15, 2024
Today I released Eve 2.2 . It is a maintenance release that drops old Pythons and adds support for the latest versions of the language. Long overdue, it also...
Gimme gimme gimme
October 4, 2024
Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? The maintainer of man is a good friend of mine, and one day six years ago I jokingly said to him that if you...
Fattura Elettronica v3.5
September 30, 2024
I just released FatturaElettronica .NET v3.5.0 . This version adds multi-language support, all thanks to the excellent work done by Michael Mairegger . We...
I am Herman Melville
September 14, 2024
I never knew about the connection between Ray Bradbury, John Huston, and Heman Melville. Today, few people are aware that Bradbury, renowned science fiction...
Books are strange objects
September 13, 2024
Dave Rupert, on why he likes books: Books are strange objects. Chapters and chapters of coherent research and lived experiences assembled by people who...
Under ASP.NET 8, NGINX returns 502 Bad Gateway after authentication by IdentityServer
September 12, 2024
Today, I learned the hard way that NGINX has small buffer sizes, which can cause trouble in specific scenarios like mine. We have two ASP.NET 8 applications...
The loneliness of the low ranking tennis player
September 12, 2024
I admit, like many of my compatriots in this last year and a half, I follow a lot more tennis than usual, and it is all the fault (or merit) of Jannick...
Why Github actually won
September 10, 2024
In the end we won because the open source community started to converge on distributed version control and we were the only ones in the hosting space that...
Solar will get unfathomably cheap
September 4, 2024
At home, we haven’t done anything about it yet: we’re still 100% grid-dependant and old-fashioned, partly because it would be problematic for us as we live...
Capability makes you life simpler
September 2, 2024
Quoting Bryan Baun : Capability makes your life simpler. Tolerance, skills, knowledge, and health are always with you, wherever you go. They are assets but...
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
August 30, 2024
A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database? A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of...
Infocom: The Documentary
August 29, 2024
For nerds of my generation, Infocom is a legend. Today, I watched the long-time overdue Infocom: The Documentary and I found it to be a gem. raw HTML omitted...
I'm leaving Twitter/X
August 14, 2024
I’m abandoning Twitter/X. I’ll freeze the account without deleting it; never say never, but I don’t plan on coming back. I no longer feel comfortable on that...
The crazy engineering of Venice
August 5, 2024
We spent a weekend in Venice 1 a short while ago, and one of the things that caught my attention was the wells in the city’s squares. Is there fresh water...
Capability makes you like simpler
August 5, 2024
Quoting Bryan Baun : Capability makes your life simpler. Tolerance, skills, knowledge, and health are always with you, wherever you go. They are assets but...
Digital market is going back to 20th century
August 1, 2024
Rand Fishkin on the evolution of digital marketing: Well, marketing friends, we gotta have a serious talk. Because the way we’ve done marketing for the last...
A Solarpunk Manifesto
August 1, 2024
I dig the attempt at a Solarpunk Manifesto . Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the...
The tour of Mount Civetta in the Dolomites
July 29, 2024
I left home at 5 AM on my Triumph Bonneville, arrived in Palafavera at about 9 AM, and left on foot half an hour later. I was eager to see the Civetta’s...
David Foster Wallace on screen time
July 29, 2024
Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable to...
ShellCheck
July 24, 2024
Today I learned about ShellCheck , a static analysis tool for shell scripts that “finds bugs in your scripts”. It can and should be run on the command line,...
Bash-Oneliner: a collection of terminal tricks for Linux
July 22, 2024
Bash-Oneliner is an excellent resource for Bash/Linux users. Most of the “tricks” are well-known, but there is always something to learn. More importantly,...
A guide to Miyazaki weird little guys
July 18, 2024
With so many weird little guys running around Miyazaki’s filmography, it seems time to honor and celebrate them. […] A key aspect of Miyazaki’s weird little...
The art of not reading
July 18, 2024
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any...
The main issue with social media
July 18, 2024
The main issue with social media is that we want them to be everything. We want them to be a place for casual interactions, for discovery, for news, for...
Microsoft MVP
July 11, 2024
Last night, I was at an outdoor theatre with Serena, watching Anatomy of a Fall (an excellent film). Outdoor theatres are becoming rare, which is a pity, and...
A library is a good place
July 10, 2024
I’ve always loved libraries. They are a glimpse of the kind of ‘better world’ we all want to live in. That’s because by their very nature they are inclusive...
Write a lot
July 10, 2024
Write a lot. This is alpha and omega of writing advice, the beginning and the end, and it’s that way for a reason– I don’t know anyone who’s good writing who...
Quoting J.P. Wing
June 24, 2024
When I’m out hiking on my weekend hike I often spend much of the experience in contemplation. My thoughts are usually tickling at Warp 10, going everywhere...
The exponential growth of solar power will change the world
June 21, 2024
The latest issue of The Economist focuses on solar energy. The introductory article is short, compelling, and optimistic. On the economics, they make a good...
Quoting Roger Federer
June 21, 2024
When you’re playing a point, it is the most important thing in the world. But when it’s behind you, it’s behind you… This mindset is really crucial, because...
The appropriate response to a horrible idea is a better idea
June 20, 2024
The post The appropriate response to a horrible idea is a better idea appeared first on nicolaiarocci.com.
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you
June 14, 2024
Charity Majors1 has a good, long-form article on the Stack Overflow blog. The title is misleading as, while AI’s impact on software engineering and its...
Experts vs. imitators
June 13, 2024
I love this concise checklist on detecting fake experts, with which my experience wholeheartedly agrees. The first one: Imitators can’t answer questions at a...
Container security meetup at DevRomagna
June 13, 2024
We’re doing a DevRomagna meetup on container security. It will happen on June 26 at 19pm, it will be in Italian, and the speaker will be the one and the only...
Hidden Tracks: Domodossola – Weissmies
June 11, 2024
Lately, I have become increasingly interested in sound. Of the short films I shoot while hiking, for example, I’ve noticed that I’m primarily interested in...
Quoting Sean Voisen
June 4, 2024
just writing down notes is all that really matters. Any tool that allows you to compose and save text will do. It is the act of writing, not the act of...
The Toschi Hermitage
June 2, 2024
I went on a motorcycle and hiking trip yesterday. It was a glorious day, albeit windy, which helped keep the temperature chill. Mixing hiking with...
How to handle custom claims in an Open ID Connect-authenticated ASP.NET Core app
May 31, 2024
Today, I learned how to handle custom claims in an Open ID Connect authenticated ASP.NET Core app. The scenario goes like this. I have an ASP.NET Core app...
Kagi is profitable
May 31, 2024
Two years after its launch, Kagi, the pay-per-use search engine is profitable. We are also thrilled to report that we have achieved profitability. This...
LLMs don't remember everything you say
May 29, 2024
Simon Willison has a new article explaining an important and often ununderstood aspect of LLMs. There’s a remarkable difference between chatting with an LLM,...
Quoting Elena Kostyuchenko
May 29, 2024
In 2021, in Russian courts, the fate of 783000 people was decided. There were 2190 acquittals. Two thousand one hundred and ninety. The probability of being...
Fattura Elettronica for .NET v3.4.15
May 24, 2024
Today I released Fattura Elettronica for .NET v3.4.15. The Fattura Elettronica project allows for the validation and de/serialization of electronic invoices...
A motorcycle trip across Europe
May 23, 2024
Last night, I returned from Trifest 75, a motorcycle rally organized by the Triumph Owners Motorcycle Club1 at the Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb, Worcester, UK....
The video of my OAuth2 session at WebDay 2024 is online
May 23, 2024
The video my OAuth2 and OpenID Connect session at WebDay 2024 Milan is available online. It is in Italian, and you need to login or register in order to see...
Thirty-seven years ago
May 14, 2024
Thirty-seven years ago, at about 11 a.m., at the Rocca Brancaleone Park, my then-girlfriend and I kissed for the first time under a tree. We decided...
What Open AI just did
May 14, 2024
Open AI just released ChatGPT 4o. The launch demo is available on YouTube, and yes, it is impressive. They did not launch v5, though, and 4o is only...
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