Neuromancer in 2025
Neuromancer has become more than just an influential novel; it’s now the blueprint for the entire Cyberpunk genre. Even if you’ve never read it, you’ve felt...
What doesn't change
Everyone’s either panicking that AI will replace them or assuming they don’t need to learn anything anymore. Both miss the point entirely. AI amplifies what...
Maintaining curiosity
I believe what’s important isn’t the specific technology itself, but rather maintaining curiosity that always looks toward new alternatives and making...
I'm speaking at DevMarche Summer AI Afternoon
On Thursday, I will be conducting an MCP Server session at the Summer AI Afternoon event organized by DevMarche in collaboration with DevRomagna, the...
Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
The biggest news in tech this week (which isn’t over yet) is, without a doubt, that Cloudflare is about to introduce a pay-per-crawl model for AI bots—huge...
Sometimes bad weather can feel like a gift
Simon Collison in Another Week in Edale perfectly captures why I enjoy hiking in bad weather, something those in my proximity consider borderline reckless: A...
How software became a lifestyle brand
Omer has an intriguing essay up on his blog: choosing software used to be straightforward. does the app do what you need, or not? but now, opening notion or...
Working on databases from prison
Preston Thorpe: I’m very excited to announce that I have recently joined Turso as a software engineer. For many in the field, including myself, getting to...
The Cure's Acoustic Hits
In 2001, The Cure released Greatest Hits, the compilation with which they ended their contract with Fiction Records. The first edition of the anthology was...
I canceled my Bluesky account
I deleted my Bluesky account. I didn’t follow anyone anyway, and I only used it to repost content from my website. Being almost mainstream now, I found...
Quoting Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its...
AI coding is less fun
I’ve been doing “agentic coding” for some time, and well, it’s weird. On stable, mature technology (in my case, the C#/.NET stack), it is beneficial, as it...
If a note can be public, it should be
Quoting Dries Buytaert: A few years ago, I quietly adopted a small principle that has changed how I think about publishing on my website. […] The principle...
MCP Remote
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...