Pietro Peterlongo

yep it's me starting the work for a talk from a thank you slide pietroppeter.github.io/talk-sailing...

Finally played with @letsdisco.dev (and bought a minimal vps). Made a hello world counter app in Nim (with a Mummy server). It is fun! 🕺👑 counter.pietroppeter.xyz

pietroppeter.github.io/naffprop/ an affinity propagation (clustering without the k) performant implementation (Nim for Python) with a beautiful interactive explainer 🤩

Vibed but cool experiment. Created a nimlang python package that makes it easy to try nim with uv, you do not even need to have a c compiler (thanks to existing ziglang python package). In the following minimal example you get 10x improvement for fib(30) github.com/pietroppeter...

I feel like the embodiement of the definition of done. Like literally.

Definitely worth sharing, thanks for bringing it here! I love also how the business case is presented in a careful and effective way

Found this amazing little story from @itsfoss.bsky.social about a small logistics company in Italy migrating to Linux that I think is worth sharing! itsfoss.com/linux-storie... I can see lots of SMEs in Spain that would benefit from similar help... (via @pietroppeter.bsky.social on LinkedIn)

Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.

Looking forward to be there!

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Acadia is out today! Bringing the benefits of Elm to SQLite and PostgreSQL: - Friendly error messages - Custom types for precise column data - Simple module system for easy reuse Check it out! acadia.engineering/blog/rethink...

Ten years ago, I founded QuantStack on a conviction: that we could build a sustainable business by supporting world-class open-source software to advance science. We had no outside funding, no guarantees, just trust in open collaboration. Read the full story: quantstack.net/blogs/Decade...

Happy to be joining and talking (“Sailing Seas of Scientific Nim”) in great company in the Babel of Compilers session Thursday afternoon. See you in Paris Nov 25 and Nov 26, looking forward to be there! (Tickets from 60€ students, 200€ individuals, 400€ corporate)

Not every open-source project wants more contributors right now, and that's fine. Four shapes maintainers run — walled castle, clique, university, hippie commune — and your `CONTRIBUTING.md` is saying the quiet part out loud. No wrong answer, just an honest one. blog.stdlib.io/do-you-want-...

Watch the full film on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjm...

🌋 (1815)➡️☁️☁️☁️➡️🚫🌾(1816)➡️🐴🔪🥩➡️🚶‍♀️‍➡️😓➡️💡🚲(1817)

Today's Tour de France stage ends at Le Lioran, at the top of the Cantal Volcano, Europe's larges stratovolcano. Two years ago, we made this clip there, our favorite :) How volcanism led to the invention of the bicycle! @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social @uugeo.bsky.social

#GOTOpodcast: @rtfeldman.bsky.social and @anjana.dev talk about rewriting the Roc compiler from Rust to Zig during the exact period AI coding tools went from interesting to really useful. 🎧 Listen to the episode: gotopia.tech/podcast

New Elm release today! 🎉 0.19.2 🥳 Incremental builds of 850k lines of Elm in <350ms. Gearing up for a batch of smaller releases as we head towards Elm 1.0. elm-lang.org/news/faster-...

Nice day at @oss-torino.bsky.social setup a new meta oss repo and played with an obsidian vault as a git repo workflow. played with Claude, both from ghostty and with claudian obsidian plugin. Nerd sniped by someone working on mojo python interop to do the same with Nim codeberg.org/pietroppeter...

Palma di Milano

Alba sul vicolo delle lavandaie

“We want to like ourselves, not please ourselves” (in this likely wrong translation I am tempted to go with both)

A Kind of AI

new post: how I develop recently using local models. the tooling is now good enough to do agentic workflows and everyone should give them a try! vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/r...

@xogot.bsky.social hi, heads up on automated localization of your site in Italian gone bad ;)

I did not know there were so many variations of the “there are only two hard things…”; the last one is killing me 😂 www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHar...

I blinked and it seems Smartboxes are having a come back. Did they make the rounds and become vintage? Addio stress per due!

Dalla mia timeline su X ogni 3 post vedo questo. Non ci passo spesso e non ci faccio troppo caso ma un tale livello di spazzatura è notevole

Buona festa del primo voto alle donne

You come back from a conf, you see a duck and you think @duckdb.org. Mischevious marketing plot! Beware #BigDuck gets in your head!

Era da un po’ di tempo che non mi sorprendeva un ristorante. Ottimo polpo su pappa al pomodoro e spaghetti calamari e canellini (con mollica e piccante)

Timeline cleanse. Take a breath, maybe consider getting out of here (or not). Have a splendid day! ⛰️ 🧘‍♂️