Last update: October 2025; written on my desk in cozy rainy afternoon.

A General Update

I am still working at Helvia and living peacefully in my little hometown with my beautiful companion. I am happy with that. I don’t want to live in big cities and, as I grow older, I feel I am attracted more and more to nature and the countryside. Not that I am in the countryside, but to give you an idea. I am in the perfect compromise between my “I wanna go living in the middle of a forest” and my partner “I don’t want to live too far away.” My hometown is also growing more interesting in the last years, with more events and cultural activities and sport events and new shops.

October hasn’t been as good as September. I felt a bit more emotionally unstable, but overall it was fine. It’s the first month of real autumn: my favorite season!

Things I did recently

• I made a bunch of small tools to solve some personal annoyance. I would like to write an article on them.
• On my day job, I am focusing on MCP servers, so I started creating MCP servers for my specific use cases (starting with a Calibre one).
• I create a new section for short posts on my blog. I didn’t use it a lot now, but I just didn’t have the time.

Things I am Working On

As someone with more ideas than time or energy to pursue them, this list will be a mess. But anyway, here’s what I’m working on:

• I am sitting on 3 first-draft novels I will have to revise at some point.
  • I am now really focusing on my second novel, Boss Fight. It bothers me that I never finished the rewrite after the first short draft I made during NaNoWriMo. So, I want this done.
• Still sporadically writing on my Italian blog L’Ornitorinco Elegante. Not as frequent as I wish, but I am just a single person.
• Everything else (blog posts and personal projects) are in a confusing mess, but I am kinda working things out.
• I am finally working on my personal journaling app called “Captain’s Log.” This was in my someday list for years.

Things I am Reading

During my vacation trip in August, I discovered the litRPG genre and I am starting the seven books series (so far) of Dungeon Crawler Carl. I am also finally taking the Three-Body Problem trilogy.

The complete list of books I am reading is on my StoryGraph profile.

Or you can check the latest ChangeLog.

Things I am Watching

In 2024, I watched almost 200 movies. I rediscovered my movie passion and that I actually have a lot of time for them if I remove all the useless crap I did in their place.

The full real-time list of what I watch is currently on my Letterboxd profile.

Or, once again, check the monthly recap on my latest ChangeLog.

• I am also enjoying the new season of Only Murders in the Building.
• Very little movies in the last month, but I try to keep the one-per-week streak.

Things I am Playing

I am playing a bit more on my Steam Deck.

I got a Switch 2 because I am a sucker. I didn’t had a lot of time to play, but Gioia is enjoying Mario Kart World. :)

In October, my gaming focus is only on Ghost of Yotei.