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Did I Finally Solve My Audiobook Woes? Well, Maybe.
Almost exactly 20 years after the first mention of audiobooks on my blog, have I found the solution to all my woes to manage them, have them accessible, and organizing them? I think, probably, yes.
I Gave Up My 3D Printer
Long-time readers of the blog might remember that a few years ago I bought a Neptune 4 Pro. This was back when we lived in London, I had a bit more spare time on my hands – as most of my job involved talking more than coding – and I was playing around with a few electronics projects, for which a 3D printer is a great companion.
Given how much more noise about IPv6 is happening, I'm hoping more people will see IPv6 in Real Life and understand that there's unfortunately **still a very long way to go** before IPv4 can be really considered legacy.
In the meantime, I decided to make the website a little bit more manageable, for myself.
https://ipv6-in-real.life/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon
Integrating Paperless-NGX with my own PDF Renamer
You may remember that a couple of years ago I wrote a post about trying to find a better workflow to manage the waterfall of PDF documents that me and my wife receive on a regular basis: bank and credit card statements, electricity (and now gas), water, and phone service bills, invoices, and so on. This became particularly more important as we prepared to…
So I Started Playing With Claude Code
I know it's getting old having to preamble this, but what you're about to read is my own personal opinion, does not represent my employer, my employer has had no preview of what I'm writing, etc. Before someone tries putting words in my mouth (or as it turns out, on my blog), no article you've read or you'll ever read on…
Not Building My Own Thermostat — I Went With TadoX, Here’s My Impressions
When my wife and I started looking for the house we wanted to buy, we have been looking at both second hand, and newly built homes, as both of those end up with a different set of tradeoffs. At the end, we decided the right trade off was to get a new build — and it turns out that almost all of the new builds being sold are sold "on plan", with contracts drawn up well before the house is finished.
Reflection On My School Days
This is an extended, long-form version, of something I mentioned in passing on Threads. Just in case you think I keep repeating myself. Despite the awfully silent 2025, for reasons I explained previously, I've been writing this blog for over 20 years. Almost all of that is in English (though the original posts were in Italian), almost all of that is in long-form (though there were a few short, near-microblogging posts, from the time before…
Will We Ever Get An European Payment Rail?
Preamble and full disclosure. The topic I'm writing about in this post is somewhat connected to my employer, Meta Platforms (i.e. the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp), who dabbles in payment rails in certain markets, and has dabbled on a larger basis before. I am not involved in any of those products, have no insider knowledge of their internal work, or their communications with the various regulators, consortiums, or…
https://flameeyes.blog/2026/02/13/will-we-ever-get-an-european-payment-rail/
The Blog’s Most Clicked Articles in 2025
I'm not a big fan of the whole "wrapped" meme from services — a lot of things for me don't quite line up on a calendar year basis, so I don't find that particularly compelling to look at. I also find it fairly silly to "wrap" an year at the beginning of December for any service that doesn't have seasonal patterns — the reason why Spotify, the ur-wrapper, releases theirs well before the year's end, is because for many people,…
https://flameeyes.blog/2026/01/30/the-blogs-most-clicked-articles-in-2025/
Market Segmentation: EcoFlow Delta 3 Plus
One of the things that seriously annoy me about being on the Internet, particularly around the communities heavily influenced by Doctorow and Stallman, is that most of those members, confronted with business decisions influencing design and implementation of devices and services, can only respond with one of two discussion-terminating memes: enshittification or defective by design. I find these answers annoying because they…
https://flameeyes.blog/2026/01/16/market-segmentation-ecoflow-delta-3-plus/