Alessio Franceschelli

Running AI coding tools natively on Windows can sometimes feel like playing on hard mode compared to Linux or macOS.

I think we are still light years away from applying it to just any job, unless the result is automatically verifiable.

A few days ago I published Burla.

I finally had the guts to publish Burla.

If you’re still defaulting to Claude Opus in GitHub Copilot, you’re probably burning quota for very little in return.

I keep seeing engineers burn through 100 premium requests in an hour, then wonder why their engineering managers think GitHub Copilot is getting too expensive.

I prefer WSL to shut down when I close the last terminal.

There’s a growing trend in the AI-assisted coding world.

If you’re like me, you probably love the Claude models.

You build a project.

You’ve got a middleware.

Lately, I’ve successfully self-hosted a decent private chatbot and even run a near real-time voice-to-text model locally.

One of the most common questions I get asked is: “Which AI model should I be using with GitHub Copilot?”

Voice assistants used to be simple, reliable helpers.

Now that the Windows 10 May 2020 Update is finally available to everyone, without requiring to join the Windows Insiders program and install preview versions, it’s finally time to embrace WSL2.

Logs are a key element for diagnosing, monitoring or auditing the application’s behaviour, so if you are either a library author or you are developing an application, it is important to ensure that the right logs are generated.

GitHub Actions are a great free tool to have continuous integration of your opensource .NET library for free, directly into GitHub, saving you from setting up other tools and linking accounts.

I often get asked if it is better to have a global.json in a .NET project (not necessarily .NET Core) to define a specific .NET Core SDK version and, unfortunately, if you need a short answer you will get from me the typical engineer answer: it depends!

HttpClientLab turns the HttpClientFactory into a lab, so you can mock the HttpClient to write tests.

Recently I had to install Python 3.4 on the Raspberry Pi, which is not part of the current distribution as it is based on Debian Wheezy which includes Python 3.2.3.

Have you just updated Android Studio to version 1.3 Beta and have you found yourself overwhelmed by all the warnings in the Gradle files?

Once every while I feel the need to publish something on the web… a futile website, a lonely forum, a new blog… but since I am a software developer, i finally (eureka!)