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This site is a bit of a mix, you’ll find opinions, personal projects, and things I’m working on (or I'm thinking to carry out). Whether it’s a crazy idea, a logo design I actually like, or a melody that got stuck in my head, it all ends up here. 

Yes, I’m an introverted tech nerd with a soft spot for programming, robotics, 3D printing, messy sketches, and loud music. I spend most of my time exploring the weird overlap between coding, design, and creativity, building stuff, breaking stuff, and occasionally making it all work again. I’m especially into understand machines and people, but I’ve also got a thing for drawing, composing moody tracks, and killing some demons in DOOM way more than I probably should.

This site is a bit of a mix, you’ll find opinions, personal projects, and things I’m working on (or I'm thinking to carry out). Whether it’s a crazy idea, a logo design I actually like, or a melody that got stuck in my head, it all ends up here.

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Elric and Corum and the Michael Moorcock’s universe

Introduction: a world beyond the familiar Fantasy, as a genre, has become saturated with a recurring cast: elves with bows, dwarves with axes, witches muttering incantations in candle-lit towers. While there's a nostalgic charm in revisiting these familiar archetypes, they…

I'm returning to Thunderbird after years of using Spark

After years of jumping between email clients, many of which have either disappeared, become bloated, or pivoted into something unrecognizable, I’ve decided to return to an old acquaintance: Thunderbird. Or more precisely, its better-behaved fork, Betterbird. Before I…

The LinkedIn mirage or when narcissism replaces competence

There’s a strange theater playing out on LinkedIn, a never-ending performance where everyone is an “innovative thought leader”, “visionary strategist”, or “transformational change agent”. Scroll long enough and you’ll begin to wonder if you’re the only one not running…

From Nietzsche to nonsense: when tech tries to teach life

In recent years, a new breed of tech entrepreneur has emerged, not merely as a CEO or startup founder, but as a would-be philosopher, eager to hand down lessons on life, humanity, and the future. Armed with buzzwords, startup…