Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I feel like the embodiement of the definition of done. Like literally. 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Definitely worth sharing, thanks for bringing it here! I love also how the business case is presented in a careful and effective way 033
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoJuan Luis @juanlu.space · 18/09/2026Found this amazing little story from @itsfoss.bsky.social about a small logistics company in Italy migrating to Linux that I think is worth sharing! itsfoss.com/linux-storie... I can see lots of SMEs in Spain that would benefit from similar help... (via @pietroppeter.bsky.social on LinkedIn)itsfoss.comHow an Italian Logistics Company Moved From Windows to Linux: A Real Migration StoryMišo Oroz shares how he migrated a small transport and logistics company in,Bergamo, Italy to Linux and open source to reduce cost and ordinary technical problems. 0146
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.terrytao.wordpress.comA Severe Misalignment of AI in MathematicsI am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have… 19922230
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoCompute! Paris @computeparis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026🚀 Join the Mission: Volunteer or Apply for a Scholarship at Compute! Paris 2026! 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that applications are now open for volunteers and scholarships for Compute! Paris 2026! Whether you want to contribute behind the scenes or need support to attend, this is your chance !compute.eventsJoin the Mission: Compute! Paris 2026Volunteering and diversity scholarships at Compute! Paris 2026: ways to join the conference beyond a standard ticket. 132
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoEvan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 18/08/2026Acadia is out today! Bringing the benefits of Elm to SQLite and PostgreSQL: - Friendly error messages - Custom types for precise column data - Simple module system for easy reuse Check it out! acadia.engineering/blog/rethink...acadia.engineeringRethinking Database Programming 58931
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoSylvain Corlay @sylvaincorlay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Ten years ago, I founded QuantStack on a conviction: that we could build a sustainable business by supporting world-class open-source software to advance science. We had no outside funding, no guarantees, just trust in open collaboration. Read the full story: quantstack.net/blogs/Decade...quantstack.netQuantStackA team behind major open-source projects of the scientific computing ecosystem such as Jupyter, Conda-Forge, Mamba, XTensor/SIMD, Apache Arrow/Parquet and more. 1147
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Happy to be joining and talking (“Sailing Seas of Scientific Nim”) in great company in the Babel of Compilers session Thursday afternoon. See you in Paris Nov 25 and Nov 26, looking forward to be there! (Tickets from 60€ students, 200€ individuals, 400€ corporate) 010
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoMara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Not every open-source project wants more contributors right now, and that's fine. Four shapes maintainers run — walled castle, clique, university, hippie commune — and your `CONTRIBUTING.md` is saying the quiet part out loud. No wrong answer, just an honest one. blog.stdlib.io/do-you-want-...blog.stdlib.ioDo you WANT contributors?Four ways to run an open-source project—castle, clique, university, commune—and which one you're really running. 36617
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoRecurse Center @recurse.com · 17/07/2026Watch the full film on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjm...youtube.comThe programming retreat with no teachers, no classes, and no curriculumYouTube video by Recurse Center 075
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026🌋 (1815)➡️☁️☁️☁️➡️🚫🌾(1816)➡️🐴🔪🥩➡️🚶♀️➡️😓➡️💡🚲(1817) 010
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoGeology of the Tour de France @geotdf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Today's Tour de France stage ends at Le Lioran, at the top of the Cantal Volcano, Europe's larges stratovolcano. Two years ago, we made this clip there, our favorite :) How volcanism led to the invention of the bicycle! @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social @uugeo.bsky.social 210521
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoGOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 05/06/2026#GOTOpodcast: @rtfeldman.bsky.social and @anjana.dev talk about rewriting the Roc compiler from Rust to Zig during the exact period AI coding tools went from interesting to really useful. 🎧 Listen to the episode: gotopia.tech/podcast 072
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoEvan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 06/07/2026New Elm release today! 🎉 0.19.2 🥳 Incremental builds of 850k lines of Elm in <350ms. Gearing up for a batch of smaller releases as we head towards Elm 1.0. elm-lang.org/news/faster-... 917156
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Nice day at @oss-torino.bsky.social setup a new meta oss repo and played with an obsidian vault as a git repo workflow. played with Claude, both from ghostty and with claudian obsidian plugin. Nerd sniped by someone working on mojo python interop to do the same with Nim codeberg.org/pietroppeter... 020
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026“We want to like ourselves, not please ourselves” (in this likely wrong translation I am tempted to go with both) 000
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoVicki @vickiboykis.com · 15/06/2026new post: how I develop recently using local models. the tooling is now good enough to do agentic workflows and everyone should give them a try! vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/r...vickiboykis.comRunning local models is good nowLocal agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months 1825737
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026“The shortest distance is not necessarily the best one, if you want to go to London you do not start walking there, you go on your computer do buy the tickets; same with llm, ask them to write code to do the thing” 442
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026@xogot.bsky.social hi, heads up on automated localization of your site in Italian gone bad ;) 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I did not know there were so many variations of the “there are only two hard things…”; the last one is killing me 😂 www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHar... 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I blinked and it seems Smartboxes are having a come back. Did they make the rounds and become vintage? Addio stress per due! 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Dalla mia timeline su X ogni 3 post vedo questo. Non ci passo spesso e non ci faccio troppo caso ma un tale livello di spazzatura è notevole 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026You come back from a conf, you see a duck and you think @duckdb.org. Mischevious marketing plot! Beware #BigDuck gets in your head! 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Era da un po’ di tempo che non mi sorprendeva un ristorante. Ottimo polpo su pappa al pomodoro e spaghetti calamari e canellini (con mollica e piccante) 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Timeline cleanse. Take a breath, maybe consider getting out of here (or not). Have a splendid day! ⛰️ 🧘♂️ 030
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Humans for Python ❤️ @pythonitalia.bsky.social 010
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026While listening to this morning keynote at PyCon Italia, my brain made a weird connection between languages, performance and community. Diego was speaking about how the performance was not a problem early on and trade-off was on making compiler code readable and lower complexity. Focus on community 120
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 07/03/2026“Sicilia come Persia o Venezuela, diceva Elio Vittorini”. Di questi tempi, speriamo di no… 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 15/02/2026finally I had some time and mental space (and emotional space) to test claude code. Genuinely impressed with the output and had really fun working with it for a two hours session with only prompting (warning: niche project about logic puzzles and nim language). github.com/pietroppeter...github.comGitHub - pietroppeter/puzzleclawContribute to pietroppeter/puzzleclaw development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I have been playing with a new kind of puzzle a word based mini sudoku where you have clues with word to insert (it is basically the seek and spell sudoku found on gmpuzzles minus the arrow and minified). It is fun. My 6 year old also has fun with it. Working name: parloku 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026My last 11 submissions to the orange site 000
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 20/01/2026I'm doing an online event with @chris.blue and Tzach Livyatan (ScyllaDB) in two weeks. We'll talk about the upcoming 2nd edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications and data systems in general www.oreilly.com/live/in-conv...oreilly.comIn Conversation: Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini on Designing Data-Intensive Applications 2E - O'Reilly MediaLearn the principles of building reliable, scalable, and maintainable data systems. 2435
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 11/01/2026State of mind: I both like and find convincing @antirez.bsky.social’s article, but also happen to find interesting and recent NL by @felienne.bsky.social (found here in NL, but easy to read through an automatic translation) about the harms of AI. Not easy emotionally. 200
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 21/12/2025My first grilled octopus 🐙 cooked at home. Will do it again 😋 130
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Today I felt like adding stickers to my laptop 010
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/11/2025In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak. 9969491866
Reposted by Pietro Peterlongojbz @jbzfn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025🗣️ On Programming Languages as Languages | Programming Zen #programming programmingzen.com/programming-...programmingzen.comOn Programming Languages as Languages | Programming ZenWhen you look up the word “Language” in the dictionary, you’ll find a few variations of similar definitions. My trusty Google Dictionary extension in Chrome, offers up a first definition that is… 121
Reposted by Pietro PeterlongoEric Wastl @was.tl · 22/10/2025Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... 51612119
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025“Luxury is the manifestation of uncivilized wealth that wants to impress those who have remained poor. It reveals giving importance to appearances and a lack of interest in everything that represents cultural elevation. It is the triumph of appearance over substance.” 1/3 110
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Luxury is not a design problem. From an industrial design methodology book. Very interesting book (besides the luxury quote) that seems relevant also for data projects (and now I am wondering what is luxury in that context) 020
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025life is too short to keep signing in the same apps day after day 000
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Conversazione al bar, sento parlare di Emacs 👀. Poi ascolto il resto della conversazione e capisco parlavano di IMAX (Cinema) 🙄 #disambiguation #emacs #IMAX 010
Pietro Peterlongo @pietroppeter.bsky.social · 28/08/2025In 5 minutes the Python Documentary goes live and the live chat looks lively youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?... 120