AI has recently been used on this blog just to improve the graphic design: I’ve asked for help on several occasions to fine-tune aesthetic details that would otherwise have taken me forever. But never when it comes to the content. And that will never happen because, since this is a personal blog, writing using soggy...

I had a PDF in English, so I asked Claude Code to translate the text into Italian and convert it to EPUB. Done – it works and reads well. It took me less than 5 minutes. Things that, I don’t know, might not even have occurred to me to do before. ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your...

I won’t go into the reasons why you should use a password manager. I’m assuming that if you’re reading this blog, you’re nerdy enough to already have one. Right? Anyway, I’ve used plenty of password managers over the years. I’ve used Enpass, LastPass, Apple Password, Bitwarden, 1Password, and Dashlane, and there are...

If you have a blog and you’re not making any money off it, for crying out loud, just put your full post in the RSS feed – let us read it without having to use some gizmo tool to view it in its entirety. We’ll check out your website anyway, we probably already know it, but – for heaven’s sake! – forget about the...

It’s impressive how writing a blog and feeling responsible for your readers – no matter how little you know them – can make our brains stick to promises we’d normally break without a second thought. Kev Quirk wrote about this recently, discussing his weight and his desire to lose weight. I found last time that...

Maybe, for the first time in my life, after trying dozens of them and reselling them or sending them back because they hurt or bothered me behind the ears due to the temples of my glasses, maybe I’ve found the over-ear headphones that, in addition to having an exceptional sound for my expectations, don’t hurt behind...

Even the most foolish entrepreneur today thinks he can replace consultants, technicians, lawyers, and accountants with a credit card and a subscription costing just twenty dollars a month. I wrote a few lines on my Italian blog about why corporate digital bricolage needs to be governed. Otherwise, that idiot will...

In February, my gratitude subscription was expressed with a donation ($10) to Johan Sanneblad, lead developer of Notebook Navigator. Notebook Navigator is an excellent plugin from Obsidian that made me fall in love with Obsidian all over again. I wrote that Bear was definitive, and in fact he was for a long time....

In my professional experience, I’ve often dealt with corporate communication. Many users don’t know what an email is, don’t know how to write, don’t know how to reply, or – even worse – sometimes don’t even realize they need to reply. The inability to communicate within an organization, both internally and, above...

One thing about AI is that I use it. I use it for work, but also for personal stuff1. And there’s nothing wrong with that. I also wrote about it here (in Italian): I don’t remember how to do some things that I now do with a calculator, and sooner or later I’ll probably forget how to do things that I now do with an...

Over the past two years, I’ve started this my virtual subscription to projects for which I express deep gratitude. Projects related to applications I use, or blogs I follow, or podcasts I listen to, and so on. I wrote about them for 2024 and 2025. This year too I decided to continue with this habit, but unlike other...

With a toot1 on Mastodon in which he appreciated this post, dear Nicola made me think about how little I put into promoting my professional blog on these shores. Lately – due to a work context that, at this stage of my life, I still consider unstable – I’ve been updating it more frequently than in the past. The...