Alessandro Molina

Detailed plans can make coding agents look aligned while hiding guesses.

Architectural probes do the opposite: fake software that reveals structure before implementation, then evolves step by step.

https://amolnotes.substack.com/p/stop-planning-start-probing-and-evolving

#AI #CodingAgents #agenticengineering #vibe_coding #software #programming

KDE has introduced Big screen mode.

https://www.techpowerup.com/349057/kde-plasma-6-7-beta-introduces-plasma-bigscreen-mode-for-htpcs

I have been looking for something like that for years, especially for my gaming PC, media center raspberry and steam deck. Every time I had to switch to desktop mode it was a pain.

Love @kde recently

#linux #OpenSource #tv

I maintain OSS projects, and I constantly juggle git repos, issue trackers, CI, reviews, terminals, coding agents, logs, and random operational tasks.

Most developer dashboards try to solve this by replacing your workflow with their workflow.

Your editor becomes secondary. Your terminal disappears. Git becomes a button inside somebody else’s UI. Eventually the dashboard becomes the place where everything has to happen.

https://amolnotes.substack.com/p/the-terminal-is-still-the-integration

#python #programming #github #terminal #tui

April issue is out!

I’m tweaking the newsletter to better match what Python data engineers care about: less visualization, more data munging.

So expect a bit less Shiny and Streamlit, and more ADBC, SQLGlot, and practical ecosystem updates.

https://pythondataeng.substack.com/p/monthly-python-data-engineering-april-4e5

#python #dataeng #datascience #data #ml #machineLearning #database #compute

#Amibench last release includes out of the box a monitor widget. That surfaced to me that my #amiga #a600gs cpu was constantly at 80/90C even with a heat sink. I wasn't at ease with that and I tried a quick fix by installing inside the case a mini usb vent. Has been doing wonders and now the system is constantly below 50C 😎

I have been thinking for a while that I wanted to write a blog post on how the problem of inspecting "hostile python environments" exists and how picopip was born as a solution to that problem.

This evening I decided it was finally time to put might thoughts in line and write them down. I hope it will be at least an interesting read for some people.

https://open.substack.com/pub/amolnotes/p/when-you-dont-control-the-python

#python #packagemanagement #deploy #devops

I finally found the time to cut the release, so I'm happy to share that Beaker #session #caching #locking management framework for #python version 13.0.0 is now out with support for redis clusters as backend. https://pypi.org/project/Beaker/1.13.0/

As I'm primarily interested only about #amiga #nextgen news (AROS, Amibench, MorphOS, OS4.1) and not much about classic content and a lot of digging was necessary to find what I cared about, I built a small website where everyone can keep up with #amigang news.

So https://aminext.cc/ was born.

The website is still in early stage, and it will surely improve over time.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #gaming #aros #morphos #amigaos4 #amigaos #amibench

Today I decided I would scratch my own itch and make a Launcher for classic games on #CommodoreOS

So I built a prepackages solution to curate my list of games in ~/ClassicGames and released it as "Commodore Classics Launcher".

You can see it in action here: https://tube.inlinestyle.it/w/jy4QNXam2cZ285LZ49cEMW

It's obviously opensource at https://codeberg.org/a_mol/commodoreos-classics-launcher

NOTE that this only works on https://www.commodoreos.net/CommodoreOS.aspx as its specifically tailored for it.

#retrogaming #emulation #commodore #amiga

It’s here 😉
I guess I know what I’m going to do for the next few evenings 🤣

#Amiga #a600gs #amigakit #retrogaming

I couldn’t resist and in the end I bought an #A600GS to have a modern amiga system.

I’m still confused about where the #Amiga community is going to between OS4.1 / OS 3.2 / AROS // ApolloOS / MorphOS but I had to start from somewhere

Curious how much performance you can squeeze out of decision-tree models when generating pure SQL?

With Orbital 0.3 we redesigned how tree-based models compile to SQL, cutting query size by ~7x and getting up to 300% speedups in real workloads.

If you ever hit limits with ML inference in databases, this blog post digs into what changed and why it matters.

👉 https://posit.co/blog/orbital-0-3-0/

#Python #DataEngineering #MachineLearning #SQL #ScikitLearn #opensource

2025, I can get a good enough internet connection on a plane in the middle of the Atlantic or on a ship in the middle of the mediterranean sea, but it seems that I still can't get a decent connection on a train in one of the most populated areas of #italy

I guess well done #italotreno ?