All writing

Everything I've published, oldest at the bottom, most recent at the top.

On my AI usage

Everything you read here is thought up and drafted by me. I use AI (mostly Gemini) strictly as a grammar check. We are surrounded by content generated faster than it can be read.

I choose to value your time instead.

  1. 09/07/2026Microsoft, Copilot, and how to add friction

    I was watching with deep sadness the thousands of layoffs that Microsoft has announced in the past days, and the backlash when they removed…

  2. 09/05/2026Why AI needs to dream: a guide to long-term memory

    Agentic Memory is an area of the AI world where even benchmarks are vague. How do you really measure "memory"? Retention? Relevance? Recall…

  3. 05/04/202610 Lessons learned when building Charlie

    Last week, we launched Charlie, our first AI Agent, specifically designed and tailored for financial institutions. While designing and…

  4. 01/03/2026Can a Rabbit help catching Bugs?

    AI-assisted code reviews: are they actually helpful, or just more noise in an already crowded inbox? Today I want to talk about my…

  5. 18/01/2026How Evals Help Build Reliable AI

    I finished 2025 with a negative AI post, so let's start 2026 with a positive one. I'm leading a project for an AI-based tool, and something…

  6. 24/12/2025On AI Slop

    I've started to notice a very predictable trend: AI-generated messages in my inbox. What finally pushed me to write this was how casually…

  7. 11/08/2025How we test 100k-Line Nested JSON trees without going insane

    Today I want to share an interesting challenge that's been bugging me since I joined InvestSuite last December. It's stories like this that…

  8. 15/06/2025A Physics book for people who hate Physics

    My relationship with physics has always been… troubled. Probably because I had a high school teacher who never managed to spark any…

  9. 29/05/2025No, AI is not replacing Data Engineers.

    Claude 4 landed, and as usual, it kicked off the usual hype cycle. "Best coding model ever" "It writes stories!" "AI is replacing…

  10. 19/04/202545 Minutes, 100% AI-Generated Code

    Last Saturday, I woke up with an idea: what if StoryTeller, the product I work on, had an interactive dashboard with an AI agent that could…

  11. 08/03/2025Simplicity speaks louder than Complexity

    A few days ago, I had my first technical presentation at my new company. I joined InvestSuite 3 months ago and it was finally time to…

  12. 22/01/2025How I created my first Course with Datacamp

    I just published an online course! covering advanced Microsoft Fabric topics like security, deployment, admin settings, and version…

  13. 13/11/2024Reinventing a Full Stack Web App: here's how

    🧠 Breaking Down Full Stack Development This post has been sitting in my drafts for over 7 months for two reasons: First, since the project…

  14. 22/10/2024Data Culture - How we promoted Power BI in a Corporate Environment [🎙 Power BI Ticino 2024]

    Last Friday, I took the stage at the Power BI Ticino Conference to share one of my favorite projects at Acer: our Power BI Champions…

  15. 29/09/2024A MUST for Multi-cultural Teams: The Culture Map

    Cultures can be very different One of my favorite lessons in my international master's course was about cultural differences. I remember…

  16. 09/08/2024The Pro Trick for Measure Descriptions in Power BI

    "How does this MEASURE/COLUMN work?" This is one of the most frequent requests I was receiving. And it's easy to see why. In complex Power…

  17. 12/07/2024Personal Notes about Simply Said

    "Simply Said" is the best communication book I've read recently. I discovered it thanks to Jordan Cutler (who runs an amazing tech…

  18. 03/06/2024Giving our AI superpowers with OpenAI Tools

    In recent months, I have been experimenting with AI tools to leverage new, powerful technologies and create value. Like you, I am inundated…

  19. 01/04/2024The 3 (+2) ways to Get Data in Power BI, simply explained

    There's quite a bit of confusion swirling around about how Power BI reports gather data. Where is the data actually stored? How frequently…

  20. 19/11/2023My AI-tweaked Data Saturdays 23 Notes

    Last Saturday I had the privilege of attending Data Saturdays 37 at Parma, an event series focused on Microsoft data platform technologies.…

  21. 20/10/2023Finding the Best Time to Go to Work: Now with Car Accidents Data & Power BI Dashboard!

    I want to express my gratitude for the positive feedbacks I received a few months ago when I used Google Maps data to determine the best…

  22. 13/09/2023My Second Brain... 6 Months later: Obsidian update

    It's been quite the journey since I first delved into Second Brain technologies for organizing my team's documentation. I previously shared…

  23. 07/07/2023Analyzing My Commute Data to Find the Best Time to Go to Work

    When my commute buddy and I find ourselves stuck in traffic during our car journeys, we often daydream about finding the ideal route and…

  24. 29/05/2023The unnecessary hype strategy behind Microsoft Fabric

    If you are into Data Engineering in Microsoft Azure Cloud Environment, you probaly heard about Microsoft Fabric being announced last week…

  25. 14/05/2023How I ended up with AI-generated Music Reviews on TikTok

    This is a fun story, with a series of technologies and topics that I couldn't believe they were capable of living together... EDM, TikTok,…

  26. 27/03/2023What Power BI is still missing

    During these months, I had the chance to take a look at Power BI at the enterprise level, juggling advanced requests from hundreds of users…

  27. 24/02/2023Maximizing Productivity with Obsidian: My Second Brain for Organizing Work Notes

    🧠 Introduction to Second Brains & Brain Dumping As I'm working with data all the time, I'm aware of the importance of keeping it in a safe…

  28. 28/01/2023Personal Notes about Presentation Patterns

    Presentation Patterns Written by Neal Ford, Matthew McCullough and Nathaniel Schutta, "Presentation Patterns - Techniques for Crafting…

  29. 26/12/2022Road to 100% Test Coverage on notion-sdk-py

    There is something bizarre with me if two of my favourite activities are writing documentation and hitting my head against tests, which are…

  30. 07/11/2022A turbulent journey through Power BI source control

    One of the most annoying issues I have when working with Power BI files is that source control is a real pain. Considering that Microsoft…

  31. 16/10/2022My first weeks at Acer Europe

    This is a post for my future self when I will be asking myself: “How were my first days at Acer like?”. Note: I'm working at Acer EMEA HQ,…

  32. 28/09/2022Personal Notes about The Definitive Guide to DAX

    Disclaimer: this will be a long, long post, written in my own way. It’s essentially a dump of my personal notes, taken when reading “The…

  33. 05/09/2022My surreal experience with COBOL

    I was feeling curious... So, I decided to challenge myself and try to learn a bit more about COmmon Business-Oriented Language aka COBOL,…

  34. 21/06/2022First time with Tailwind CSS: showing off my books!

    I'm back with another post, this time exploring a new CSS framework, Tailwind CSS! In the previous months I started using Angular and…

  35. 21/04/2022My Personal Airflow - How I'm monitoring my scripts with Python, Appsmith and SQL Server

    Here's the story of how I created my first full-stack project for monitoring my daily activities, using Python and SQL Server in backend…

  36. 20/05/2021Using a Neural Network for sending memes to my girlfriend

    Well, my GF's tastes in memes are simple: she loves wholesome memes and, most importantly, she loves animals. That's why I created a fun…