Creativity

Essays on how systems, tech, and curiosity fuel meaningful creative work.

Vibe Coding: The Hottest Programming Language of the Year
November 4, 2025
What’s the hottest programming language of this year?
According to Andrej Karpathy, it’s your language! The renowned computer scientist coined the term “vibe coding” in his now world-famous post on X¹, where he introduced the concept of AI-assisted coding taken to its extreme. It’s not that it didn’t exist before, but he gave it a name, and with that, a whole new meaning.
So what exactly is vibe coding? And why do I think you should try it (at least once)? Let’s explore that together.
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How I Automated My X Account Cleanup
November 2, 2025
In Italy, the 2nd of November is the Day of the Dead. A time to remember and, in a way, revive what’s gone.
So I thought, what better day to bring back my old X (formerly Twitter) account?
When I logged in after four years of inactivity, what I found was a graveyard of auto-retweets, broken links, and random thoughts from a younger me. Before I could start posting again about my writing, my old profile needed a proper account cleanup.
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Enhancing WordPress Content Protection: Beyond Blocking Right-Clicks
November 28, 2023
Trying to protect your content by blocking right-clicks? You’re actually locking out your readers, not the thieves.
As a WordPress professional, I’ve seen all kinds of “security” tricks across websites. One, however, always makes me cringe: blocking right-clicks.
It’s still surprisingly common, even though it harms accessibility and user experience far more than it helps prevent content theft.
Let’s look at why this outdated approach does more harm than good, and what you can do instead to protect your content without alienating readers.
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Tweak Your WordPress Theme, How to Add Custom PHP
March 3, 2016
I already talked about how to add custom CSS to your site. It’s now time to learn how to add custom PHP code as well!
In most of my posts on this website, I tell you to add custom code to the functions.php file. How should you do it? And what is the best way to do it?
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Why I Write in Markdown
September 1, 2015
Markdown keeps my writing flow focused — no distractions, no mouse clicks.
Every few years, a new editor promises to “redefine writing.”
Some add real-time AI suggestions, others layer menus and formatting bars on top of your words. Most of them look nice, until you realize they’ve slowed you down.
Markdown never did that.
I’ve been writing in Markdown for more than a decade. It started as a practical choice: my work in customer support required writing lots of documentation, internal posts, and replies that needed clean formatting. Markdown made that fast. But over time, it became more than a tool; it became part of how I think about writing: structure without friction.
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