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Technical articles by Marcello Martini about artificial intelligence, software engineering, cloud-native systems, and applied research.

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10 September 20267 min read
The price of a chatbot on a site with no server
My site has no server and still answers questions. The agent runs free on a Hugging Face Space, a ping from my flat keeps it awake, and a token budget ends the day.
AgentsWebAutomation
5 September 202610 min read
How this site is built
This site ran on Hugo for two years and now runs on Astro. What I moved, what I refused to move, and three bugs that produced no error at all.
WebAutomationTooling
1 September 20265 min read
Thirty three containers, zero open ports
Real HTTPS for 33 self-hosted containers with nothing forwarded on the router: loopback binds, a reverse proxy, DNS-01, and two traps nobody warns you about.
ToolingAutomation
20 August 20265 min read
Rebuilding my terminal from a git clone
A new Mac gets my whole terminal back in one command: Ghostty, zsh with four plugins that earn their keep, and chezmoi plus Bitwarden for the secrets.
TerminalTooling
19 August 20263 min read
The tools I actually use
Three small tools that changed how I work every day: chezmoi for dotfiles, Atuin for shell history, and a lump of plastic that halved my screen time.
ToolingFocus