Anyone who has spent years doing systems integration immediately understands the appeal of MCP. The dream in this field has always been the same: a clean contract between systems, where every method is described, every parameter is typed, every response is predictable. No more 80-page PDFs read half-heartedly, no more …

A practical configuration for a 32 GB M5 Mac that still needs to remain usable

Running large language models locally has become surprisingly practical on Apple Silicon. With a modern Mac, Ollama, and a carefully quantized GGUF model, it is possible to run models that only a short time ago …

How an MCP server turns electricity exchange data into natural conversations

The Italian electricity market produces an enormous amount of data every day: hourly prices by zone, traded volumes, liquidity, the PUN (Prezzo Unico Nazionale — the national single price). Essential data for traders, energy analysts, industry journalists, and companies operating …

OK. We've all been there. You're setting up a new microservice, you need a database connection string, a Keycloak client secret, an OCIR auth token — and before you know it, you're copy-pasting credentials into a .tfvars file and telling yourself "I'll fix this later".

Later never comes. Until it does …

Hello, dear citizen of the free world. I’m writing while I’m in a restricted lifestyle. On Monday night Italy’s prime minister decided that the entire country would be covered by restrictions that can be summarised as follows:

“I stay at home”

All travel was banned unless justified …

I will ride like a gentlemen

On September 24th I will ride in the Distinguished Gentlemen Ride

This is me an my bike at a recent Ducati Scrambler event

As a rider of a stylish Ducati Scrambler, I will join my local chapter of the DGR. It is a retro-themed …