How a $400 Retro Camera Turned Into The Time Travel Camera

A few months ago, I got hit once again by what I usually call the “shiny object syndrome”… I came across one of those digital cameras designed to recreate the look of old film photography, and I immediately liked the idea. I’ve always been fascinated by old photographs and movies, particularly by how easily we … Read more

Building a BASIC RAD in the Age of AI Sounds Crazy. Here’s Why I’m Doing It.

The question of why I decided to build McBasic is perfectly legitimate, especially considering when I am doing it. This is no longer the 1990s, when Visual Basic was, for many developers, one of the simplest and fastest ways to build a Windows application. Today we have an enormous number of languages, frameworks and development … Read more

Local AI Can Code But, Can You Actually Work With It?

A few days ago, Unsloth made Qwen3.8-27B available, and I downloaded it to run locally with Ollama. I had heard about the benchmarks for this model, so naturally it caught my attention right away. Not because running an LLM on your own computer is still something new, but because we are starting to see relatively … Read more

Che ci vuole? Con l’intelligenza artificiale possiamo farlo in pochi giorni…

L’illusione di costruire software con l’AI senza prima costruire le fondamenta Da qualche tempo, nelle aziende, si ripete una scena sempre più comune. Qualcuno presenta un’idea, magari ancora poco definita, e prima ancora di discutere requisiti, vincoli e impatto sul sistema esistente arriva la frase: “Che ci vuole? Con l’intelligenza artificiale possiamo farlo in pochi … Read more