Busy week work-wise. Fortunately, at least the family situation seems to be significantly improving.
I’m launching a new section in this weekly recap, “Around The Web,” where I post content found on the Web.
Tv series/Movies
This week I haven’t watched any movies or TV series. As I was saying, I’ve been caught up with work and personal life, so I’ve had little time and I’m always very tired in the evenings.
The Australian Open tennis tournament has started instead, which I try to follow as much as possible. The 9 AM matches are pretty easy to follow while I work if I don’t have meetings, less so the ones at 2 AM.
The other night I woke up at 2 completely by chance and caught the Sinner-Spizzirri match: the heat dominated the game but fortunately now the rules require closing the roof above a certain heat index.
Read(ing)
How to know a person (David Brooks) – I started this book with little conviction, but I have to say that from the first chapters it’s quite interesting. The style is fluid and the contents are interesting and useful: stylistically, I think there are a few too many examples and I would have preferred a more theoretical approach on certain things.
The game console 2.0 – I browsed through this digital book that covers the history of major gaming consoles. For someone like me who was born in the second half of the 70s, it’s a nice trip down memory lane, and I remember many of those consoles because I used to see them in the pages of the magazines I read. It’s a shame that some are missing (e.g., Texas Instruments TI-99) that I remember well and that unfortunately aren’t included in the book.
Study
Nothing to report this week either, unfortunately I didn’t have time to study anything.
Personal projects
I have two very interesting posts I’m working on, one about how I use Todoist, and one about the system I’ve set up to track my habits and goals. I’ve been working on them for a while now, and I thought I’d have them published by January, but I didn’t make it and we’re moving to next month. This week everything’s on hold.
Even on the 3D printing front, I haven’t done anything: after fixing the printer last week, I haven’t had time to print anything since I’ve been out of the house for work almost every day.
I’ve started systematically using Perplexity instead, integrating it into my workflow with Obsidian: I’m looking for a new monitor and watch (see here), and I’ve found a nice system to automate everything. I’ll definitely talk about it here in a dedicated post.
Around the Web
New section where I share some interesting links found on the Web:
BMAD Method – “BMad agents act as expert collaborators who guide you through structured workflows to bring out your best thinking”. I tried it quickly and I’m not thrilled with it – it seems too wordy in the brainstorming section. I need to give it a better try though.
Get Sheet Done – “A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode”. I haven’t tried it but I want to do it as soon as possible.
From 0 to 10K on Reddit – An interesting post with some thoughts on how to grow your following on Reddit. I completely agree that the best approach is to publish useful content that solves a problem: the few posts I’ve had success with were exactly those where I talked about something useful and specific. I’ll try to use these tips for my future posts as well.
Personal security checklist – A guide on how to improve your security posture. There are plenty of tips and ideas: don’t think that just because many are obvious, the guide has no value. Try to follow as many suggestions as possible, exploring the various areas in depth, and you’ll realize there’s always something to fix.
Stack Overflow – Always interesting to see industry trends from a privileged vantage point like Stack Overflow’s.