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Consciousness cannot be an algorithm In 1989, Roger Penrose — British mathematical physicist, the one who proved black holes are inevitable in general relativity, Nobel Prize 2020 — publishes The Emperor’s New Mind1 and makes a claim that infuriates half…

A bedtime story generator, the second time around: tiers, judges, weekly broadcasts, image consistency, and the unreasonable cruelty of being judged on taste rather than on green checkmarks.

Preamble Recently I found myself in the delightful situation of wanting to rebuild my home network from scratch — again.

I wanted a personal assistant that knows my markdown notes, remembers ongoing ideas across sessions, and helps me navigate POCs, drafts, and technical decisions.

Lambda Managed Instances gives Lambda a very different compute model: EC2-backed, multi-concurrent, and tuned for predictable high-volume workloads.

Amazon S3 Vectors is now generally available.

Amazon ECS Express Mode removes a surprising amount of container boilerplate.

Overview When I presented Kroz at the AWS Summit 2024 in Milan, it was a fascinating but simple prototype: a text adventure dynamically generated by AWS Bedrock, with procedural rooms and basic game logic.

How I built an AI-powered bedtime story generator on AWS with App Runner, Bedrock and Lambda, then migrated the frontend to my home Kubernetes cluster using Pod Identity for secure AWS integration.

A complete project to automate greenhouse watering with a Raspberry Pi Pico W, MicroPython, and AWS Bedrock AI.

Building an ECS Cluster with Raspberry Pi 4 Nodes Using AWS ECS Anywhere In this guide, we’ll explore how to set up an Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster using three Raspberry Pi 4 devices as external instances, leveraging AWS ECS Anywhere.

In recent years, concerns have emerged about a perceived decline in creativity across various domains, particularly in the arts and technology sectors.

Building a Vue 3 Notes App with AWS Amplify V2 Introduction After the Summit, I decided for a while to give it a try to new amplify - boooom.

Introduction Text-based adventure games were among the earliest forms of digital entertainment, immersing players in interactive storytelling through simple text commands.

Introduction I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as part of the AWS New Voices Program, an exclusive initiative by AWS designed to help community members refine their public speaking skills.

I am a Platform Engineer working in Prima Assicurazioni with a Bachelor and a Master degree in Computer Science.

Errare è umano, perseverare è bellissimo.

Preamble In the last few months, my experiences have led me to a profound realization: the world is inherently problematic from any perspective.

Prelude If you miss the beginning of my series, here’s my article about how to build an e-learning platform on AWS.

Prelude If you miss the beginning of my series, here’s my article about how to build an e-learning platform on AWS.

Prelude To build a streaming platform, as discussed here - read it if you miss it!

Prelude Today I want to deep dive into how you can leverage AWS Amplify, a tool that provides a comprehensive set of tools and services that streamline the process of developing and deploying web applications on AWS infrastructure: we will explore how to…

Prelude In the past year, I worked on a project to build an e-learning platform (actually, it’s so much more!).

Preamble Recently (false) I became nostalgic and fascinated with stuff from the past, but someone told me many times I’m a future-man cause I tend to project everything in my life.

The Doomsday rule This is a repost of an old article :) A few months ago I came across the name of J.

Introduction Function composition is something we as developers do every day, more or less.

Much more than a post (again) What is the quantum theory?

Intro If you work with AWS, you might be involved in building infrastructure to enable some of your customers (both internal and external) to use a particular service, or just to try one of the hundreds open-source application available on Github.

Introduction This is a repost of an old article :) Everyone use Docker and normally when something is so diffused, there’s always someone else that try to figure out how to leverage the diffusion to do bad things (you know what happened in Breaking Bad).

Prelude Today I’m gonna talk about how you can leverage Traefik2, k3s, Cloudflare, and RaspberryPI to get the best out of your…apartment.

Introduction As you might know, at the re:Invent AWS recently announced the capabilities of running Lambda by getting the code directly from a docker image you provide, as illustrated here.

Prelude Hi guys, after a series of back-to-the-future-I-didn’t-have-time-to-write-new-things… I’m back.

Introduction This is a repost of an old article :) In the first part of this series - I run VSC in the browser and I was just fine - I wrote many stupid things around the possibility of having a VSC server instance running inside AWS over a simple, immuta…

Introduction This is a repost of an old article - that actually also inspired my talk of the last year at FullStackConf2019 :) Serverless and managed things are the best choices if you don’t want to deal with infrastructure (3 2 1: fight) buuuuut…even imm…

Preamble This is a repost of an old article :) In 1962, Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó introduced the Busy Beaver competition for Turing machines: in a class of machines, find one which halts after the greatest number of steps when started on the empty

Preamble Recently I became nostalgic and fascinated with stuff from the past, so I decided to create a Vagrantfile to work with FreeBSD1.

Intro Mute post Bye

Intro If you work with AWS, you might be involved in building infrastructure to enable some of your customers (both internal and external) to use a particular service, or just to try one of the hundreds open-source application available on Github.

Introduction Function composition is something we as developers do every day, more or less.

Introduction First of all…happy new year!

Intro As you might know, I use to work with AWS doing and destroying stuff like many other devopssss out there: this post is all about some challenges and problems I had to deal recently - in the last months - and involves some notes about how to deal with

Intro In the last 50 days I had to work a lot for many… many different reasons.

Prelude In the last two months, many things happened in my life, so this is the reason I wasn’t able to dedicate a lot of time to my blog.

Prelude This is a twin post of - I guess - a good one that I wrote a long time ago: I was just surfing the blog thinking about all I would like to do, and I came to my old thoughts.

Introduction In the first part of this series - I run VSC in the browser and I was just fine - I wrote many stupid things around the possibility of having a VSC server instance running inside AWS over a simple, immutable, ec2 instance.

Introduction Serverless and managed things are the best choices if you don’t want to deal with infrastructure (3 2 1: fight) buuuuut…even immutable things are not so bad for this purpose - at least, if they are immutable for real 🤣 Today I wanna talk about

Introduction In the last two weeks, I released a few CDK stacks: I made some experiments around API Gateway and service integration that came out in two serverless forms, the Contact Form and the Upload Form, read to be deployed in your static web page 😎.

Introduction A few days ago I wrote about a simple stack that leverage API Gateway and Lambda-proxy integration to create a safe upload endpoint to let unknown users push inside a bucket of your choice.

Introduction The AWS CDK is becoming day by day pretty easy to use.

Introduction Hi everybody, thanks for the claps, it was a great month - rain rain rain again - now I’m back.