Last update: March 2025

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.

I am still struggling with mental health; I am still wavering at the boundary of depression, rising and falling with each wave. But I have to admit that, recently, I am quite good. Nothing changed, but I did. Or, at least, my outlook on things. I am focusing more on my surrounding and on the things I can actually act upon. It helps.

My online activity is still very low. I have found some interesting spaced in what I call the more humane tech (Wikipedia, the Fediverse, and such). However, I think it is important to focus on concrete activities. Social medias and web forums should be the pause between activities, not the other way around.

Things I did recently

• I have updated all my active side-projects (MovingAI-Rust, the Obsidian-Chessboard plugin, my blog theme, and so on).
• My local volleyball team is taking part for the first time in Italy’s top league play-off and I am on a high (we have no chance to pass, but it is so great to be there!)
• I am back to be active on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the only remaining good website out there. The only one true to the original Internet spirit. If we want to protect it, we must be active on it. So I am doing patrolling as always. In March, I added a bunch of biographies about women with a dedicated crater on Venus.

Things I am Working On

As someone with more ideas than time and effort to put into it, this list is going to be a mess. But, anyway, here is what I am working on:

• I am sitting on 3 first-draft novels I will have to revise at some point.
  • The Alchemist is a nice world, but I strangled myself into a very complicated temporal mechanic. I have some plot points to solve.
  • The Alignment Problem is the one I have made for NaNoWriMo 2025. It is more traditional sci-fi, so it has less problematic plot developments. I may give it a spin to see if it has more momentum.
• 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.

Things I am Reading

Recently, I am still enjoying two kinds of books. Philosophy books, especially ancient ones (both Western and Eastern) and Star Trek books. With some variations sprinkled in from time to time, of course.

The complete list of books I am reading is still, unfortunately, on my Goodreads profile.

Or you can check the latest ChangeLog.

• I am re-reading The Lord of The Rings. It has been a while, and this is the first time I am reading it in the original English.
• I am starting the Dragonlance book series. I got them in a bundle, and I am up for some very cheesy and classical fantasy. So why not?

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.

• My ongoing series are: Severance and Reacher. I also started the new Daredevil one. It looks good so far (but way darker and sad).

Things I am Playing

I am playing a bit more on my Steam Deck. There are a bunch of quick games I can play in 20 minutes’ bursts. It is a good compromise when you don’t have a lot of mental space for longer games. I still playing Hades 2 and I am enjoying it a lot.