Davide Aversa 🎃

The StarterPack has been going around recently, so let's pin an introduction for new followers. I am Davide, an Italian developer. I got a Ph.D. working on video game AI, and now I work for a Greek company. But you can also expect posts about writing, books, tabletop RPGs, and Pepito (my cat). ❤️

It is so nice to see my timeline full of cool people doing cool stuff all the time 💕

"This blog is about celebrating that friendship" with open source developers. That was our first post in Feb 2008. Today, all 1,557 posts (2008–2026) live in the Atmosphere as verified @standard.site records: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/02/welcome-to-google-open-source-blog.html

Theres something terribly vulgar about having the whole world at your fingertips and treating it as nothing more than a menu. If you're going to participate in the world, you ought to cultivate some curiosity about the people who make that participation possible.

Che spettacolo

GODDAMMIT 🫠😵‍💫

If you don’t speak English and want to talk about how cool open source is, I am all ears.

What a time to be alive.

Volleyball TV mi sta facendo vedere un magnifico slideshow della partita. Che siano maledetti. #superlega #volley

A lot of the discourse around "putting effort" into gamedev code without AI tools reminds me of how people gaslight women into not getting an epidural during childbirth because of "natural/bonding" crap. That’s bullshit. If women could teleport the baby out of their wombs, they absolutely should!

Placita is open! Anyone with an Atmosphere account can sign in and save places. Import a list, add a tag and a note, and choose which places are public. Your places are records in your own account, not in our database. Early alpha. Tell us what breaks. placita.app

This new Fright Fest game from @chris.pardy.family is really neat. You pick two besties from your follows, and then your rpg.actor characters go on a turn-based tactics adventure, collecting candy and beating monsters in a town populated with familiar faces from your social graph. 🎃 Go try it! 👻

How I arrived on @mu.social

People in the ATmosphere are all fucking geniuses.

some folks reported not being able to use certain adult-focused platforms (like onlyfans and fansly) — there was an internal miscommunication and these were accidentally added to the list of disallowed domains. this is now fixed! but you may need to refresh your app to get the update. 💙

The new #elixir logo is so much easier to 3d print ❤️

This really isn't good @alexbenzer.com, it creates a two-tier system for who can habe profile links. Just having the link record contain a Boolean or be labelled by a labeller to require a consent interstitial would be better and not disadvantage a population of people who tend to be early adopters

Data are so mean. I burned my brain trying to improve the statistical model of my volleyball forecast app, made a complex, beautiful beast, tested it on previous seasons, and got only a 0.01 log-likelihood increase 🫠 Nothing beats my dumb original Glicko measurement.

please feed the artists. there's a green button now

I built a fun little Chrome extension that lets plants invade your abandoned tabs the longer you leave them unread. To access them again, you have to slash through the vines 🪚🌿

gm beautiful people!

Introducing #Assemblage 🧡 Add @semble.so cards and collections and @margin.at annotations to an infinite canvas, draw connections between them to create context, expand your understanding and see the bigger picture! → assemblage.renderg.host #ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 #ATberlin 🧶

Suddenly relevant in the software development community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8cc...

This is very true. I’ve never used an off-the-shelf skill, and I have no interest. All my skills are highly personalized shortcuts to very personal workflows.

For the ZX Spectrum lovers, there was enough documentation around to also simulate the whole Spectrum PCB with very precise ULA emulation (cross checked with the actual gates implementing it). On my GitHub as usually.

Calling all Obsidian users! We now have an Obsidian plugin that lets you easily manage links in your notes using Semble. Install it here: community.obsidian.md/plugins/semb... read more here: blog.cosmik.network/3mybawxqrf22h Setup details below 🥳

Non si giudicano i libri dalla copertina, ma questi sono grandi opere, e l’edizione era troppo bella ed economica per lasciarli scappare. 😅

I replied to a Gemma user asking what they would like to see in future Gemma models, and somehow this became my most popular post ever! With great insights and requests. Thanks everyone! 🤩🙏🏼 I tried to answer everyone, and I've added all the requests to my doc. Keep it coming!

How is it possible that my only boat is a damn picture of a ferry I took in New York 10 years ago? I live near the sea. Do I hate boats?

Attention: LEGOs

After 10 years, I disabled my lobste.rs account. I think it's clear I am not a culture fit anymore with whatever it is they have going on there. I feel more and more like I don't belong in almost any tech community because I believe LLM agents are real, passkeys are good, and fascism is bad.

Maintaining my personal journaling app means I have to fight with a billion edge cases with dates and times. But I can also spend a billion hours tuning my personal LCARS interface. (Still not happy with the colors, and there are many glitches, but version 2 is a big improvement over version 1)

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

X and Meta interfering in Brazilian elections. Starlink siding with Russia. That's just this week. It's not a word I use lightly, but we are at war with the tech oligarchs whether we like it or not.

I learned everything I know about agentic coding by watching Geordi La Forge work with the Enterprise's computer.

The Obsidian Chessboard Viewer plugin, in version 0.25.0, gains the advanced technology of showing L-shaped arrows for knights' moves. 🐴 github.com/THeK3nger/ob...

We've got some great tools not only for publishing, but for making the writing process easier! Like… - multiplayer cursors - private editor-only comments - subpages (canvas too!) What else would be helpful for getting that first draft on the page, editing your posts, or making writing more fun?

I have an idea that I never find time to develop. So, I am reposting this to try to publicly hold myself accountable for working on it in November.

Correct, nobody does this because that would obviously be fucking stupid

🍵📏TEA CEREMONY FOR GIANTS🫨💪 As part of the annual Takayama Takeakari (高山竹あかり 'Bamboo Lantern Festival') a very special tea ceremony is held within the grounds of Takayama Chikurin-en (高山竹林園). If you ever wanted to feel like one of The Borrowers then this is the gathering for you😆 #高山竹あかり #高山竹林園

We must pace the frontier of bangers

I like that LLMs can now experience the quintessential developer experience: going over a codebase, thinking "This is very badly designed!" and discovering it was written by an older version of themselves.