Alessandro Bahgat's Blog

How far is the nearest hospital, for every place on Earth?

A few days ago I experimented with a couple local AI models by having them play Zork.

I was testing a local AI model this weekend when it started responding in Thai.

A few months ago, I was toying with the idea of building a video game.

A few weeks ago, Workday’s CEO called AI agent startups “parasites” on an earnings call.

Learning algorithms from books I learned most of what I know about algorithms by poring over a copy of Introduction to Algorithms I got while in university.

We’ve all been there.

Over the last several weeks, I’ve had to spend time setting up Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

Delivering feedback is a critical part of my day job as a manager at Google.

I just received my copy of Programming Machine Learning, a book by Paolo Perrotta.

Back in 2011, as I was getting a bored with my job and I started looking for new options.

A while ago, I found myself in the enviable position of having to rapidly grow my team.

Over a year ago I switched from having my site hosted on a CMS to having it built statically and served as a collection of static pages.

Several months ago I was looking for a night light when I stumbled upon Zing’s Indiegogo page.

After many years of running my own site on Wordpress, I finally pulled the trigger and decided to migrate to a different stack.

I spent some time during the last weeks playing with the Open Data published by the City of Milan.

One of the things I was not expecting when I moved to Amsterdam was its active and vibrant tech community.

A few weeks ago I attended The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam and joined a bunch of fellow programmers for another edition of the Kings of Code Hack Battle, the same kind of event as the one where Bring Your Own Music was born.

I visited the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam recently and, to my surprise, I left the exposition having learned something that matters beyond art.

Posting source code on WordPress.com is quite simple: the platform already provides an extremely easy to use shortcode called sourcecode, based on a fairly flexible syntax highlighter plugin.