Trees and Robots - Writings

This is the first issue of a series of posts called Recently, the concept for which I first encountered while reading Tom MacWright’s excellent blog.

This post serves as a brief introduction to agents, models and harnesses as seen through the lens of a conceptual framework built around narrative and the expression of narrative as the foundational elements of intelligence.

Dear past me, No matter how ridiculous it may sound, your notes on skiing really helped!

It’s been a couple of weeks since I augmented our electric but otherwise dumb shutters with Z-Wave controllers, so that we may operate them remotely via Apple’s Home app and via MQTT.

After 13 lunch breaks and a full weekend of work, I’m extremely pleased with our new light fixture for the dining table.

One of the quirks of our house is the extremely tiny clearances between the boxes of our rolling shutters and our fixture frames.

This post explains the rationale behind taskparser, a CLI productivity tool to extract tasks out of multiple Markdown documents and render them in tabular or CSV format.

While nobody knows when, and even if, the long-awaited year of the Linux desktop will actually come, the Linux ecosystem has undeniably made a lot of progress over the last few years.

Generated with DALL-E 3, which absolutely nailed what I had in mind in a way that is as stunningly captivating as it is intensely worrying.

I’ve just made it back from the slopes, having gone to ski in the alps for the first time in roughly ten years, and I have some notes that I would really, really like my future self to revisit the next time I decide to go skiing: Whether renting or buying,

Happy 2024!

Salasso is the italian word for bloodletting, the withdrawal of blood from a patient to prevent or cure illness and disease.

A very simple way to persist the logs of tasks run via crontab is to pipe stdout and stderr into /usr/bin/logger, which merges them into the machine’s syslog.

Over the last few weeks I have found myself in need of a machine supporting NVIDIA’s CUDA framework for GPGPU computing, namely to accelerate the training of machine learning models.

Santa Croce, Pizzo Rabbioso e Monte Corno, our first via ferrata of the year!

Slice the zucchini lengthwise into strips and quickly sear them on high-heat.

How do I write good software?

Happy 2022!

I am always surprised by those who would rather discuss about whether technology is shortening our attention span as opposed to the degree to which it is doing so.

A yearly theme is an overall idea of how I would like to approach each year or season.

TL;DR - Unsure as to how to improve your running technique?

A few days ago, a project I am involved with received a PR described as follows: This Pr simplifies code contributions by fully automating the setup with gitpod (A free online vs code like ide) with a single click it will launch a ready to code workspace…

In the website of [The Theme System Journal][5], the amazing hosts of the Cortex podcast Myke Hurley and CGP Grey present the concept of yearly theme: Instead of resolutions, we set an overall idea of how we would like to approach each year or season.

What follows is one of the simplest, most overlooked, most wonderful pasta recipes.

TL;DR - there are ways to make React applications without build systems.

I’ve recently upgraded to a 2018 MacBook Pro 15’’ from a 2013 MacBook Pro 13’’.

This post details the steps needed to start programming an Arduino UNO board using the rust programming language and working on Mac OS.

The official Android documentation recommends using Android Studio’s profiler to inspect all network traffic, including HTTP requests.

I’ve been asked to keep some stuff for a friend who’s moving into a new house, including an old Apple iMac G5 that is destined to end up in the bin.