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Just a quick update: I know I haven't being posting in a while, between end-of-year work, holidays, flu, and back to work I didn't have much time. Will go back to posting some tech stuff and drawing stuff soon.

A friend showed me anyhow today for Rust. Got to clean up a lot of unwraps and expect! (I’m writing a CLI app, i don’t need custom handling for every error)

I started a new hobby: learning to draw. Attempting that with the drawabox course and “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” from Betty Edwards. Drawabox seems very good from a technical point of view but maybe a bit boring, so i bought that book too which is supposed to be more fun. We’ll see how far I can get!

I randomly ended up in a Masterclass by Tyler Jacobson today at Lucca Comics. And by randomly i really mean i walked into the wrong place… but it ended up being the most interesting thing i did today! His deep dive on how art works for designing fantasy worlds and characters was great. Also learned technical things like contrast > value > temperature > color. Super interesting

I'm (back) on BlueSky 🦋 at @alessandromarrella.com. Looks a bit more populated now!

Tried to get Claude to play Neuralink's webgrid game using their demo container on computer use. It started off great but then the cursor looked off target. Still really fun and exciting tech! See the video on YouTube

datamodel-code-generator is a really useful python library for generating python types out of a openapi/graphql schema

OpenAI's Realtime API + function calling will enable some really cool use cases like controlling UIs completely with our voice, or completely voice-first applications.

Internal tooling deserves a good UX too. The UI can be rough, but tools need to do the job well while minimising frustration and footguns.

Just found out you can use emojis as favicons directly. This utility can generate the code.

val.town is really cool. I was able to quickly add a “backend” to push thoughts to this static site