Why CLI-based skills are often cheaper, safer, and more ergonomic than MCP servers — and the one case where MCP genuinely wins.

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 …