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In recent years, concerns have emerged about a perceived decline in creativity across various domains, particularly in the arts and technology sectors. This phenomenon has sparked debates on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on human artistry. The Impact of AI on Artistic Creativity Prominent artists have voiced apprehensions regarding AI’s influence on creative processes. Musician Nick Cave has expressed deep concern over AI’s potential to undermine the artistic struggle inherent in songwriting. He views AI-generated music as a threat to the authenticity and emotional depth that characterize human-created art. ...

Introduction Text-based adventure games were among the earliest forms of digital entertainment, immersing players in interactive storytelling through simple text commands. Inspired by these classic games, I set out to create my own using AWS Bedrock, Amazon’s managed GenAI service. This article details how I leveraged generative AI, AWS infrastructure, and modern development tools to build and deploy my game, Kroz, bringing an old-school experience to modern cloud-based architecture. What is described in this article is also available here in form of slides - also, in a more available way! If you want to skip straight to a next-to-bedrock powered game, go instead here ...

Introduction I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as part of the AWS New Voices Program, an exclusive initiative by AWS designed to help community members refine their public speaking skills. As an AWS Community Builder and a Platform Engineer with over eight years of experience working with AWS, this opportunity is a game-changer in my journey as a tech speaker. What is AWS New Voices? The AWS New Voices Program is a specialized training initiative aimed at empowering new and aspiring speakers in the AWS ecosystem. What makes this program unique is its dedicated coaching by a professional trainer—the same expert who trains AWS C-level executives for high-impact global presentations. The goal? To help us craft and deliver talks that resonate with technical audiences worldwide. ...

Preamble In the last few months, my experiences have led me to a profound realization: the world is inherently problematic from any perspective. While addressing challenges is often a catalyst for growth and improvement, it’s not always a foolproof strategy—as evidenced by my numerous changes in approach throughout this year. This blog post delves into the complexities of navigating these challenges. Brace yourself for a narrative that aims to be both mundane and reflective simultaneously. ...

Prelude Hi guys, after a series of back-to-the-future-I-didn’t-have-time-to-write-new-things… I’m back. What happened in the last months… ok, covid19 put the whole world in trouble, I bought an apartment, I opened a company and I resign my contract. Really. Nothing. Special. But TODAY - I wanna talk about a project I have since a while, and I worked on a boring Sunday afternoon: I hacked my blog to let Polly read it for you! 😎 😎 😎 ...

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Intro As you might know, I use to work with AWS doing and destroying stuff like many other devopssss out there: this post is all about some challenges and problems I had to deal recently - in the last months - and involves some notes about how to deal with multistage environments, decoupling and many other practices you should all know about. The first thing to emphasize is that each of these best practices is fairly clear and well-defined, for sure online (perhaps discussed by bloggers more experienced than me XD) and deeply described in many books. The problem - at least, in my experience - is not about understanding these best practices, sharing them within a team and starting to use them as a group. The huge problem is actually the one of verifying and scaffold a behavioral pattern to put them in place, by definition of standards within a context that did not use them previously. ...

Intro In the last 50 days I had to work a lot for many… many different reasons. The main ones: I was accepted as a Speaker at FullStackConf19 in Turin, talking about coding in mobility. You can find the slide of my speech here and the material I prepared the talk in this Github repo. By the way, I was truly inspired by some of the talks during the conference, and I started brainstorming around the next post; I moved back to Italy and trust me -> it was a pretty complex goal to achieve, with particular regards to my car; I joined Enerbrain and I’m really having fun with theme building smart-energy solution as a Devops Engineer; I joined a softball team - yes, it’s mixed, but it’s officially played also by men hahe. Let me say that it’s not the usual kind of team, it’s more a sort of “group of old friends playing drinking and…” overall having fun together; What else… oh yes, I migrated my blog to Hugo and I also migrated my release pipeline to Gitlab. ...

Prelude In the last two months, many things happened in my life, so this is the reason I wasn’t able to dedicate a lot of time to my blog. What can I say… I’ve been in South Africa, and I literally lived experiences I will never forget and cannot be described. I visited the Blyde Canyon and the Rain Forest. I made so many safaris, I saw the elephants in the morning washing and drinking from the river, the giraffes, I saw the warthogs - and by the way, they are exactly as Pumba in the Lion King by Disney - the lion, which was about to attack the buffalos, I found the white rhinos, the hyenas and the leopards. I ate in places with monkeys literally running free, I slept in a lodge - which was more similar to a castle than a lodge, and so much more comfortable than my apartment - and I had showers with an astonishing view on the savannah and nothing else. I visited Cape Town and I bought a beautifully engraved ostrich egg, I took a boat for the island of the seals. I made pictures of so many panoramic points on the coast, and I saw one breeding of ostriches. I reached the tip of Good Hope with the funicular up to the lighthouse, and I saw where the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean meet. I saw the South Africans penguins, I stopped inside False Bay and after that, I visited the botanical garden, with so many flowers, directly under the mountains, connected to the wild forest. It was an amazing trip, but it is not the only thing it happened to me. In fact, I also decided to leave Germany… ...

Prelude This is a twin post of - I guess - a good one that I wrote a long time ago: I was just surfing the blog thinking about all I would like to do, and I came to my old thoughts. I was curious, you know? so I read it, and read it once again, I reflected a bit on it - and I found it inspiring in a sense: even better, I would say I found myself surprised to agree with myself of almost 1 year and a half ago, in most of the things I wrote. For me, it was an important moment because it has been like a kind of retrospective. This is the reason I wanted to give this new lifestyle-kind-of post just the same title as his father. Like: I’m still learning. Or even better: I’m still learning - Revenge of the Fallen but I wanna warn you, once again - this is a deeply full-of-truth-and-complaints post - ok no, just kidding. This is more kind of a story, in five Chapters. ...