Eliseo Martelli

I wonder what’s up with the marketing team at Samsung.

Anecdote time.

At the start of the week, I added a new phrase to my vocabulary: “Sgnacca il butun,” a quirky Piemontese expression meaning “push the button.”

I returned home for the holidays a few days ago and decided to update my parents’ Mac mini, which was stuck on macOS 12 Monterey, to macOS Sequoia using Open Core Legacy Patcher (having successfully done so on other Macs).

I’ve finally finished reading Tamara Shopsin’s LaserWriter II after a reading block that lasted for about two months, and it made me do some reflections on what is happening with consumer electronics.

Since I started browsing minifeed.net more frequently, I’ve found myself reading more and more articles and subscribing to more RSS feeds, this also makes me feel more connected to the indie web.

Growing up, I was mesmerized by Top Gear and later by The Grand Tour, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond.

One of the things I detest the most in the world is the feeling of wasting time doing nothing.

Suggested video: It appears as thought an increasing number of people seem to operate in the world without realizing these are things they can do themselves.

Over the past week, I’ve been making an effort to strike a balance between my digital and analog life.

I often find myself feeling detached from reality when I’m surrounded by superficial conversations.

Update: March 25, 2025 Guess what?

My recent decision to switch to TIM, one of Italy’s largest telecom providers, turned into a frustrating experience filled with technical glitches, hidden fees, and customer service challenges.

We often assume newer is always better when it comes to technology.

An image of Knuth I started building a new app called Knuth, named after Donald Knuth, creator of LaTeX.

Creating a personalized recommendation system for a blog doesn’t require massive machine learning models or complex neural networks.

Update: March 5, 2025 I wrote a small application that outputs ProcessInfo.ThermalState.

I’m pleased to announce the release of Micromachine, a new open-source library designed to simplify state management in Go applications.

This year brought 366 sunrises and 366 sunsets—a journey marked by extended pauses from one of my favorite hobbies and periods of intense stress.

For the next week, I intend to experiment with utilizing Fish as my primary shell on macOS.

Keeping your users informed about the latest version of your application is important for enhancing the user experience.

In a recent conversation with Cesare Nai, we found ourselves reflecting on the current state of photography and its role in modern communication.

Abstract This document specifies the Human Connection Protocol (HCP).

Start rant.

If you are a long-time reader of this blog, you might remember I already had a newsletter.

Since I recently got into the vintage Polaroid hobby, I started researching how I can be less wasteful with the material needed to take pictures with those cameras.

I kept a close eye on Polaroids since news about “The Impossible Project” started surfacing (I was 12 at the time).

Graduated A few weeks ago, I was reading The Beekeeper by Maxence Fermine.

<rant> It’s so sad to see photography influencers giving misleading advice on this platform.

A quick disclaimer: I will not talk specifically about technology, photography or what else.

Today marks the day Telegram decided to roll out Stories (but only for Telegram Premium users at the moment).

[Un]MuteMic is one of my favorite macOS utility apps.

Photography is not just a 3-tuple of light, time and space.

I’ll admit it: having static “Featured Posts” for my blog articles was boring.

As a young adult, I made one of the most characterizing purchases for my apartment: A coffee machine.

I was watching a video on YouTube and I realized that there wasn’t a way to invoke the picture-in-picture functionality with a shortcut (at least on Safari 16.4).

Last week I got stuck on a reverse engineering exercise (using GDB to analyze memory content is a lot of fun.

I was listening to a podcast about street photography, and the presenter mentioned Vivian Maier.

I’m working on an unnamed application (I can’t tell much about it now, but I will share more when I can) where I needed a way to load plugins dynamically based on the app’s configuration.

Whenever I read around the web terms like crypto, web3 or nft, the blanket of pure skepticism covers my eyes, and I can’t stop myself from asking questions about the subject.

Photography is certainly not a new thing for me.

The evolution of portable, personal, and on-demand music started in 1979 thanks to Sony with their Walkman (ウォークマン), after about 20 years of pocket radios.

My home network is getting another friend, and I wanted to share the experience of setting everything up with you.

Apple Far Out event cover As of every year, we just had Apple’s September event: “Far out”.

What’s an iPad?

Network Equipment Having a good firewall in place when building a home network is something that now is more important than ever.

VPNs are one of the preferred ways to tie-up multiple servers (and clients) together, but their nature becomes a bottleneck when the infrastructure to link becomes larger.

A cache server is a great tool to speed up recurring network requests (example: system updates) and reduce the overall used internet bandwidth.

Today’s post aims at helping people that are working/studying from home and don’t have a stable internet conection.

This article is going to show you how an existing tool intended for completely different purposes can be used to automate the boring task of manually setting up and mantain a fleet of IoT devices.