“Sicilia come Persia o Venezuela, diceva Elio Vittorini”. Di questi tempi, speriamo di no…

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finally I had some time and mental space (and emotional space) to test claude code. Genuinely impressed with the output and had really fun working with it for a two hours session with only prompting (warning: niche project about logic puzzles and nim language). github.com/pietroppeter...

I have been playing with a new kind of puzzle a word based mini sudoku where you have clues with word to insert (it is basically the seek and spell sudoku found on gmpuzzles minus the arrow and minified). It is fun. My 6 year old also has fun with it. Working name: parloku

Screenshot from Hacker News of submission from user pietroppeter. Last submission is titled Pogacar and Ku Coin, 11th submission is titled Linda Pezzano: Trivial Pursuit Salesman

My last 11 submissions to the orange site

Minutes before eating

In Conversation: Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini on Designing Data-Intensive Applications 2E - O'Reilly Media Learn the principles of building reliable, scalable, and maintainable data systems.

I'm doing an online event with @chris.blue and Tzach Livyatan (ScyllaDB) in two weeks. We'll talk about the upcoming 2nd edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications and data systems in general www.oreilly.com/live/in-conv...

I am in Italy and I happily weekly consume Ramen 🍜, Karee 🍛, sushi 🍣, bento 🍱 (lucky to have great spots here in Milan)

At the same time I do not like the fact that I feel I need to hesitate in sharing articles I find interesting about AI just to avoid the controversy. Mild intention to better in this regard from now on.

This the other article I was referring to bsky.app/profile/adol...

At the same time I have wanted for some time to give a proper run to AI assisted coding but have not yet found time to properly do it. Various reasons, including the fact that I have been very busy transitioning to a management position; also, I want to start with SWE tasks and not Data Science ones

State of mind: I both like and find convincing @antirez.bsky.social’s article, but also happen to find interesting and recent NL by @felienne.bsky.social (found here in NL, but easy to read through an automatic translation) about the harms of AI. Not easy emotionally.

My first grilled octopus 🐙 cooked at home. Will do it again 😋

Today I felt like adding stickers to my laptop

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.

On Programming Languages as Languages | Programming Zen When you look up the word “Language” in the dictionary, you’ll find a few variations of similar definitions. My trusty Google Dictionary extension in Chrome, offers up a first definition that is…

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Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
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“Perhaps only the foolish.” 3/3

“Luxury is a necessity for many people who want to feel a sense of dominance over others. But others—if they are civilized people—know that luxury is pretense. If they are ignorant, they will admire and perhaps envy those who live in luxury. But who cares for the admiration of the ignorant?” 2/3

“Luxury is the manifestation of uncivilized wealth that wants to impress those who have remained poor.
It reveals giving importance to appearances and a lack of interest in everything that represents cultural elevation. It is the triumph of appearance over substance.”
1/3

Luxury is not a design problem. From an industrial design methodology book. Very interesting book (besides the luxury quote) that seems relevant also for data projects (and now I am wondering what is luxury in that context)

life is too short to keep signing in the same apps day after day

Conversazione al bar, sento parlare di Emacs 👀. Poi ascolto il resto della conversazione e capisco parlavano di IMAX (Cinema) 🙄 #disambiguation #emacs #IMAX

it comes also with roadmap announcements

In 5 minutes the Python Documentary goes live and the live chat looks lively youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion"

(more examples below)

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I think I will stop commenting or submitting :D

Relevant to anyone building communities

Recent rabbit hole: manually crafted logic puzzles beyond sudoku. Awesome website: www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/ (among my favorites are slitherlink, fillomino, nurikabe). Happy holidays!

Nice two weeks of remote work in #Catania are coming to an end. Productive work, enjoyed time with local colleagues, and managed also to put in a weekend in Lipari and a very nice conference on Vulcanology by @borisetneo.bsky.social. But nothing beats having a swim and granita before work ;) 🌊 🌋 🐘