Last update: July 2025; written on the kitchen table in a hot 29°C summer afternoon.

A General Update

I am still working at Helvia and living peacefully in my little hometown with my beautiful companion. I am happy with that. I don’t want to live in big cities and, as I grow older, I feel I am attracted more and more to nature and the countryside. Not that I am in the countryside, but to give you an idea. I am in the perfect compromise between my “I wanna go living in the middle of a forest” and my partner “I don’t want to live too far away.” My hometown is also growing more interesting in the last years, with more events and cultural activities and sport events and new shops.

I am back from a week in the mountains in which I did absolutely nothing other than reading and hiking in the forest and enjoying the fresh weather. I had the insane idea of spending more time there in July and work from there… if only I could find a solution to the lack of internet connection.

Things I did recently

• I made a bunch of small tools to solve some personal annoyance. I would like to write an article on them.
• On my day job, I am focusing on MCP servers, so I started creating MCP servers for my specific use cases (starting with a Calibre one).
• I am working on the blog in order to create a new section for short posts and I revisited template.

Things I am Working On

As someone with more ideas than time or energy to pursue them, this list will be a mess. But anyway, here’s what I’m working on:

• I am sitting on 3 first-draft novels I will have to revise at some point.
  • The Alchemist is a nice world, but I strangled myself into a very complicated temporal mechanic. I have some plot points to solve.
  • The Alignment Problem is the one I have made for NaNoWriMo 2025. It is more traditional sci-fi, so it has less problematic plot developments. I may give it a spin to see if it has more momentum.
  • I have an itch to finally cleaning up my second novel. Just to put that in a state in which I am “okay” with it. So that I can move on.
• Still sporadically writing on my Italian blog L’Ornitorinco Elegante. Not as frequent as I wish, but I am just a single person.
• Everything else (blog posts and personal projects) are in a confusing mess, but I am kinda working things out.

Things I am Reading

During my vacation trip, I discovered the litRPG genre and I am starting the seven books series (so far) of Dungeon Crawler Carl. I am also finally taking the Three-Body Problem trilogy.

The complete list of books I am reading is on my StoryGraph profile.

Or you can check the latest ChangeLog.

• I re-read The Lord of The Rings. It has been a while, and this is the first time I read it in the original English.
• I am reading the sci-fi trilogy started by The Three-Boty Problem by Liu Cixin. I am halfway through the second book.
• I am also reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman. It is my first book of the litRPG genres. So far it is great.

Things I am Watching

In 2024, I watched almost 200 movies. I rediscovered my movie passion and that I actually have a lot of time for them if I remove all the useless crap I did in their place.

The full real-time list of what I watch is currently on my Letterboxd profile.

Or, once again, check the monthly recap on my latest ChangeLog.

• Star Trek Strange New Worlds is back and I am all for it!
• Wednesday is always adorable in its distorted way.

Things I am Playing

I am playing a bit more on my Steam Deck. Recently I bought Blue Prince and it is very cool (but incredibly frustrating at times).

I got a Switch 2 because I am a sucker. I didn’t had a lot of time to play, but Gioia is enjoying Mario Kert World. :)

I bought Ufo 50 and I am playing it. Very sporadically.