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Chat applications are the new commodities. Tired of Slack prices or M$-Teams? You are wellcome

I am not a fan of RSS Reader. I use Hacker news, and it works great. But sometimes I need to monitor a lot of topics, so I started to look at the state of RSS Reader, and I tried some of them. Below my tiny thoughts on the topic.

I predict we are in the first phase of VibeCoding: lets call it pre-K8s-take-it-all phase. Let’s see what I mean, and why I need your opinion

Finally Microsoft MIT-licensed the Commodore Basic V2. Lets dive a bit into it.

Fatlama diventa un podcast! Qui la prima puntata, dove parliamo del flop del lancio ChatGPT-5 e dell’entità degli investimenti della Intelligenza Artificiale.

OpenAI colpisce duro, con due novità che mettono pressione ai competitor. E poi: la nostra esperienza con Chat GPT Enterprise.

Docker-compose based Ansible alternative, written in Python. Misterio is able to manage a set of compose target as one, applying status changes easily. If you have stateless microservices, you will love Misterio.

Let’s explore the NEW movies from Netflix. It is so exciting! Spoiler: no, it is quite boring, save yourself if you can.

A tool that weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawler. A beautiful idea againsta AI crazy bots

Good Karma Kit

The Good Karma Kit is “a Docker Compose project to run on servers with spare CPU, disk, and bandwidth.” I like the idea in principle, but it is always a complex thing to do, because if you host unknown content, you can get in trouble easily (like pirated content or worst…)

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FatLama is my cool newsletter about GenAI. It is in Italian, but easy to translate with your ChatGPT4 :)

FatLama è la newsletter di Giovanni Giorgi sulla Generative AI, iniziata nel Maggio del 2024. Si tratta di un formato nuovo: anziché il blog, la newsletter vi arriva comodamente nella casella della posta elettronica.

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I want to share with you two tools I use a lot on some situation, where I need to write short manuals for co-worker or end-customers.

ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

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We already discussed about Queue management solutions in the past, and I am always happy to write about it. Queue managers are not easy to implement, and there is a reson if IBM MQ Series is still a successful product. Some month ago, a big bank customer asked me to provide a small queue implementation to increase asynchronous internal processing of our payment solution.

The project had very strong contraints: I could not use existing queue system because they were not yet available, and I need to be able to provide microservice parallelism in a cloud-environent.

I have very little time to provide a solid solution, and re-inventing the wheel was not an option. Performance was important, but we plan to have a managable numbers of transactions per seconds, far behind modern cloud database capacity.

Challenge accepted.

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HP started designing handhelded calculators from 1968 until the end of ‘80. I buyed an HP-42S around 1993 but it has been designed near 1986.

Here I want to focus on the chip design of the 10C series, a compact set of calculator with programming abilities but with full numeric display. The HP-15C was introduced in 1982, in the full 8bit computer era, the same year of the C/64. Later model will feature a more mature “Saturn” processor. I will describe here this chip at the best of my abilities, because it sheds a light on how custom architecture was done around end of 1979.

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We installed Isso comment system one month ago. It is time to do some review. I will update this page in the next month to add more insights if they would occur to my mind. I chosed Isso for the following reasons:

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