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Workflow

Review your week like a chess game

My chess-inspired system for reviewing my life

A chessboard in black and white.

For the last year, I’ve been using a chess-inspired system to review time periods in my life. It is a stupidly simple system, but effective (in my expirience). So, I thought I could share it with you.

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Movie Posters Grid in Obsidian With Dataview

With the upcoming Bases update in Obsidian, this may become obsolete, but for the time being I am still quite happy using Dataview to embed little graphical elements in my notes.

For example, I have a note summarizing all the movies I watched each month. For that I use a combination of CSS and a Dataview query to generate a grid of movie posters. Until recently I used a very simple Dataview query, but I had a problem: if I watched a movie twice in a month, I got only one entry in my poster grid. This is not what I wanted, so I had to do something more complicated.

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const results = [];
const from = dv.date("2025-07-27");
const to = dv.date("2025-08-28");

for (const page of dv.pages('"03 - Literature/Movies"')) {
    const watched = page.Watched;
    if (!watched) continue;

    // Handle both single dates and arrays of dates
    const watchedDates = Array.isArray(watched) ? watched : [watched];

    // Add an entry for each watch date that falls within the range
    for (const date of watchedDates) {
        const watchedDate = dv.date(date);
        if (watchedDate &&
            watchedDate < to &&
            watchedDate > from) {
            results.push({
                poster: page.Poster,
                date: watchedDate
            });
        }
    }
}

// Sort by date descending and display just the posters
dv.list(
    results
        .sort((a, b) => b.date.ts - a.date.ts)
        .map(item => item.poster)
);

So in short, I have a Watched property on my movie notes that can take multiple values, and for each date in the property I add a “poster” entry to the results array. Finally, I sort the results by date descending and display the posters.

Problem solved.

(Btw, let me know if you want the CSS for the grid.)

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Personal

The Changelog – July 2025

Some reflections on a wavering July

Boats docked at night in the harbor of Nettuno, Italy.

It has been a month of contrasts; of light and shadows. In the midst of all that, I read three books, listened to the new Messa’s album and, of course, I watched KPop Demon Hunters like everybody else.

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Personal

The Changelog – June 2025

Down the ephemeral sweetness of June

A picture of purple hydrangeas.

In this scorching hot June, I started to be myself again and I am again finally able to feel enthusiasm for projects and ideas. And for this reason, I read and watched more things. So let’s explore last month’s books, movie, and my favorite Japanese web radio.

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Personal

The Changelog – May 2025

Better. Maybe.

A picture of some grain-like plants on the gray backroud of the sky..

I dont’t feel like talking much. So let’s just talke about two books abotut the Roman Empire, a movie about Bob Dylan, and how I am catching up with the Mission: Impossible franchise. And Expedition 33.

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Personal

The Changelog – April 2025

A monnth where I lost myself in my head

Giulianello Lake, with blue sky and gree grass and some trees

This month has been harsh. I spent most of it in my head, unable to control a wave of anxiety and catastrophic thoughts. Yet, I tried my best. I read Nexus, watched Conclave just in time for the real one and found another obsucre gem in Netflix back catalog.

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Personal

The Changelog – March 2025

Let's just embrace the contraddictions of our lives

The Palasport of Cisterna di Latina, home of the Cisterna Volley, before Trento vs Cisterna, March 16th 2025

March was a month of contrasts, but, overall, I am happy with it. I wrote two articles, finally watched Flow, and read The Notebook, listen to the new clippings album. And now I am ready for the new season!

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Programming

It Is Okay to “Vibecode”

Sure. It is not the best. But, if it works for you, who cares?

Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park vibing, drinking a soda, in front of computers.

Critiques to vibecoding are often an example of right-Gaussian thinking. If you want to be a developer, you should avoid it. But if not, why should you not take advantage of new tools? Just be aware of the limitations. Here I try to explain why vibecoding is not a cardinal sin.

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Artificial Intelligence

MovingAI-Rust 2.1.0: Now panic-free!

A small update to my pathfinding benchmark parser

The classic Keep Calm and Carry On poster

I released version 2.1.0 of my MovingAI benchmark parser for Rust. The main change is that I removed all panics from the library because idiomatic Rust code should not panic if it can return a Result object.

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Random

How to install MediaWiki on Docker

A quick 10-steps installation guide

The MediaWiki logo on a blurred photo of documents in grayscale.

A quick 10-steps guide to have a MediaWiki instance running locally in 10 minutes with Docker. Because why not? Why should I not the most powerful wiki software to power my local home wiki?