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MCP Remote
June 18, 2025
I’ve been implementing a remote MCP Server. It comes with a hybrid authentication system that supports the OAuth2 flow and, as a backup, a custom header for...
Free online courses from top universities
June 17, 2025
An impressive list of free online courses from top universities, courtesy of Open Culture. I’m bookmarking them for a friend when he retires. The post Free...
Marp, the markdown presentation ecosystem
June 17, 2025
Today, I learned about Marp, the “Markdown Presentation Ecosystem,” which comes with an enticing promise: to create beautiful slide decks using an intuitive...
Fattura Elettronica v4
June 16, 2025
I just released FatturaElettronica.NET v4. The major version bump is due to a minor breaking change introduced with this version. After removing the...
In bloom
June 16, 2025
After years of care, the orchid in the bathroom has bloomed again. I moved it from the edge of the bathtub, where it had been surviving in a wilted state for...
Blogs are still a thing
June 16, 2025
Quoting Andreas: Blogging is a small niche these days. There isn’t much hype around it, nor is there any money to be made because the VC firms are all busy...
Protests work
June 14, 2025
Quoting Brent Simmons: Chatting with my friends about how I hate these fascist assholes doesn’t do a damn thing. Protests work. (Imperfectly, sure, with no...
The empire strikes back
June 14, 2025
Quoting straight from Jim Nielsen’s note on LLM training on copyrighted data: As a broke teenager, the web was this strange wonderland where you could access...
Exploration by Calibro 35
June 13, 2025
Calibro 35’s Exploration, their latest album that I have just purchased, supremely fits and redefines the instrumental jazz-funk genre, adding a firm pinch...
Agentic coding recommendations
June 12, 2025
Armin Ronacher is on a roll. He just published his Agentic Coding Reccomendations. On the topic of Agenting Coding he recently published: AI Changes...
MCP or connecting our apps to LLMs
June 12, 2025
Last night, I presented a session titled MCP or Connecting our Apps to LLMs at DevRomagna, our local developer’s community, and I think it went well. I had...
Quoting Sam Altman
June 11, 2025
In the 2030s, intelligence and energy—ideas, and the ability to make ideas happen—are going to become wildly abundant. These two have been the fundamental...
People won't use IDEs anymore
June 10, 2025
I’m just back from watching Mastering Claude Code in 30 Minutes, a talk by Boris Cherny, who, I learned, created Claude Code. I was struck by Boris’s reply...
What happens when people don't understand how AI works
June 9, 2025
This week’s obligatory yet solid warning about the misunderstanding of LLMs comes from Tyler Austin Harper’s What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI...
Why Bell Labs worked
June 7, 2025
Why Bell Labs Worked is a fascinating, evocative read. We live in a metrics obsessed culture that is obsessed with narrowly defined productivity. There’s too...
Being fat is a trap
June 7, 2025
Federico Pereiro’s Being Fat is a Trap is, I think, a great piece of advice. Way more people than I wish who are close to me are struggling with eating...
Claude Code first impressions
June 5, 2025
Since yesterday, Claude Code has been included in the Pro subscription we’re signed up for. I’d been wanting to try it for a while, and now nothing was...
When to leave
June 5, 2025
Knowing when to leave might be more important than knowing when to show up. – kupajo in When to Leave The post When to leave appeared first on...
AI changes everything
June 4, 2025
Today’s Armin Ronacher’s AI Changes Everything strongly resonates with me1. I may not be using Claude Code as a daily driver as he now does, but I’ve slowly...
Run your own AI
June 4, 2025
Run Your Own AI by Anthony Lewis is a concise tutorial on how to run large language models on your laptop from the command line via llm-mlx. It focuses on...
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