Eliseo Martelli

I’m looking forward to the September 9 Apple event, but this year I don’t think I’ll be buying any more hardware beyond the AirPods Max 2 I picked up before the summer.

The other day, I was configuring the network on a Rocky Linux machine with my friend Francesco.

“What if I died tomorrow?”

From individual perspective, software development is not less than any other art form.

Lately, I’m suffering whenever I’m ready to press the shutter on my camera.

Last night the Mail app on my Mac woke me.

Update: August 21, 2026 Things moved since I wrote this.

Why bother?

Last week, I wrote that my AirPods Pro case was dead.

For a few months now, I’ve struggled to look, but I’m still interested in seeing.

I got my AirPods Pro in February 2021.

Today I aspire to be calm, to listen and to be heard, to brush off my shoulders all the weight I’ve accumulated over the past few days, and to be a better version of myself for the people around me.

Sometimes you go out into the streets with a camera, walking, suffering through the heat and cold, dealing with pain, and maybe you shoot nothing.

I usually don’t think about these things, but last night, the moment I realized it, I died inside for a second.

You’re listening to a song you love and want to save it.

I continue, mistakenly, to define myself by what I produce.

These last few days have been very demanding.

Sometimes I find cinema, museum, exhibition, or theater tickets in my drawers and I’m always afraid to throw them away.

I still struggle with always trying to find rationality in irrational moments.

I was looking at a scar on my arm earlier.

Yesterday morning I watched a puddle drying up, taken by force by the sun’s rays.

It’s as if I have a constant need to explain myself.

Today I spent the day in bed.

It took me a few days to pretend to move on, and a few years to smile again.

Over the last two days, I was reflecting on the meaning of being enough, especially after speaking with a great photographer.

Sometimes I wonder why I spent days of my life questioning whether I was actually capable of smiling.

You’ve probably read four hundred seventeen reviews of the AirPods Max 2 already.

I recently watched a video by Tsoding where he rendered a full 3D scene using just a plain canvas 2D element, without any WebGL or Three.js.

A picture of the darkroom Yesterday I spent my afternoon at Spazio Gnu, a shared photography space in Turin, Italy.

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

A week ago, Francesco and I bought a couple of R36S handhelds.

After two wonderful, albeit intense years, working with Consortium GARR on bioinformatics tools, it’s time for a new challenge.

If you’ve ever looked at a build log for a complex project, you know the feeling.

Many of you might know that I’ve recently started shooting more film, and I’ve fallen in countless deep rabbit holes, like scanning.

As 2025 comes to a close, I’m taking a moment to commit this year to the archives (pun intended).

The Christmas season is here, and with it the tradition of gathering the family for a movie.

First things first, let me take this out of the way: I am not a professional camera technician.

I recently decided to add a Leica Elmarit-M 90mm f/2.8 to my kit.

As software developers we are keen to discuss APIs, interfaces, and the beauty of well-crafted systems.

If you shoot film, and later you scan it, especially into formats like DNG, you end up with a file that is poor in metadata.

I’ve recently integrated a new piece of hardware into my film photography workflow: a Plustek OpticFilm 8100.

The spam volume received through the contact function and the newsletter function has recently crossed the threshold of “annoying” into “actively degrading my life.”

Yesterday I went to see the Lee Miller exhibition at Camera here in Turin (for the second time).

Today I was using Apple Podcasts on my iPhone, and I noticed something that made me do a double take.

Spotify’s vision has always been to be everywhere you are.

A few weeks ago, I expressed my concern about the loss of iPadOS 26’s essence as it transformed into a fully windowing environment.

Over the years I’ve been to plenty of photography exhibitions, from small local artists to the big international names, and something that struck me was that for every artist who brings genuine artistic weight and perspective, there’s a flood of unauthent…

Safari in macOS 26 has broken something fundamental: the stability of the interface.

With iPadOS 26, Apple has made the iPad more powerful than ever, but the cost of doing that was loosing access to Split View and Slide Over.

Hey, it’s been a while since I last wrote about Apple products, and the last time I did, I was pretty critical of the state of the software.