Writing
SwiftDeck — Why I Rewrote the Stream Deck App From Scratch
The official Elgato app used almost a gigabyte of RAM across eight processes and got stuck whenever my monitor went to sleep. So I wrote a native macOS replacement.
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Work, releases, writing, and public moments in one continuous record. Dates come from the archive itself; ongoing threads stay open.
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2026
14 entries Writing
Layers and Ensembles: Engineering a Development Loop Like a Network
How a sentence I kept typing to my AI agents turned into a skill system, and why it ended up shaped like a neural network: depth, width and a council of specialists.
Writing
Kinetip — Making a Pen Tablet Feel Native on macOS
I run my Mac with a pen tablet instead of a mouse. The vendor driver kept getting in the way, so I wrote my own. Here's the input path from tablet to screen, and what keeping a realtime driver alive taught me.
Writing
Patcher v5.4.2 — What Changed Since v5.1.0
v5.1.0 finished the patch editor. Since then I've worked on everything around it: the shared data, the public side, multi-panel modules, and a lot of small fixes.
Writing
Acoustic Treatment on a Budget — What Actually Worked in My Square Room
A new apartment, a square room, and €310 of polyester panels. The biggest improvement came from moving the desk, which cost nothing.
Writing
CostaMeno — Finding the Cheapest Fuel in Italy with Open Government Data
I wanted to know which pump nearby was cheapest without a login, an ad or a location prompt. It turned out the government already publishes the data.
Writing
Impulse Dev Diary — Entity Pools, Dead Threads, and 3am Cascade Failures
One bad night building a live WebGPU visual engine: how a freeze in the entity pool happened, why it was so hard to find, and the boring fix that solved it.
Writing
Home Assistant as Infrastructure, Not a Hobby
A dedicated server, a UPS, cheap AliExpress switches and a lot of YAML. How I rebuilt my home automation from scratch so I could actually rely on it.
Writing
Three Small Tools for Living with Local AI
mini-tagger, mini-renamer and lms-guard: three small macOS utilities I built because running models locally is great, except for everything around the model.
Writing
The Live AV Pipeline — From Modular Patch to Finished Video
A modular set looks improvised from the audience. Here's the weeks of patching, documenting, soundchecking and editing that go into one.
Writing
Impulse — A Visual Engine Built for Live Performance (and AI)
I perform audiovisual sets. TouchDesigner taught me how visual engines work, and its interface convinced me to build my own.
Writing
Giving AI Agents Eyes and Hands in Creative Tools
My AI assistant could read my code but not my canvas. MCP servers for Figma and Blender changed that. Here's what it was like to use them on real work.
Writing
I Planned My Apartment in Figma (And I'd Do It Again)
I moved into a new place and did the obvious thing for a UX engineer: opened Figma. Treating the rooms like an interface problem gave me a set of rules I still use.
Writing
Stream Deck + Karabiner — Building an Input Layer That Fits How I Actually Work
I stopped putting up with the default keyboard and built my own input setup out of a Stream Deck XL and some Karabiner rules. It isn't really about speed.
2025
4 entries Writing
Sonifying AI Work — thear
A small Python tool that turns Claude Code's activity into sound through Ableton and OSC, so I can hear the work instead of watching it.
Releases
Without Us
A brutalist, techno-futuristic landscape of corrupted digital space — a story of hyperconnectivity's collapse, built from the ground up with modular synthesis. If Ruled by Code was an introduction to this world, Without Us is the moment of its unraveling.
Writing
Voice Coding with Talon — A Year of Hands-Free Development
My wrists were getting tired, so I started coding by voice. A year later, here's what works, what doesn't, and how my Talon setup works with JetBrains and the terminal.
Events
MENT Festival and Kino Šiška
Joined a panel talk at MENT Festival in Ljubljana, then performed a live modular set at Kino Šiška.
2024
7 entries Writing
Patcher — Building a Database for Eurorack Modular Synthesis
I kept losing my modular patches, so I built somewhere to keep them. Then other people started using it.
Writing
Reactive Visuals — Angular Meets Three.js
My visuals code got tangled once audio, OSC and UI controls all tried to drive it at once. Treating every input as a stream untangled it.
Work Ongoing
Product Designer · XTEL
Leading redesign work for advanced analytics software, turning dense enterprise workflows into clearer product directions and a more coherent design language. My engineering background helps keep proposals realistic, implementation-aware, and developer-ready from the start.
Writing
Poly Highlights — Designing a Luminance-Corrected IDE Theme
My eyes were tired after a couple of hours with every theme I tried. Here's how I fixed it by designing the colors around brightness first.
Releases
Persist
1 track released under the Polyterative alias.
Events
Live at perAspera festival
Performed a modular synthesis live set at perAspera festival in Bologna.
Events
Spatial sound and dedicated AV sets
Expanded the live practice through a multichannel spatialized performance and a dedicated audiovisual event in Bologna.
2023
1 entry Work
Started the dotgrid visual system
An ongoing TouchDesigner system for real-time VJ sets and installations, driven by modular synthesis over OSC.
2022
1 entry Events
Angular Flex: Building with Style
Led a public workshop in Bologna on design principles and Angular Flex Layout, including a live interface build.
2021
4 entries Releases
Is It You
A swirling, ethereal exploration of the search for connection — born from a dream and composed in a single hour. Haunting melodies and unpredictable rhythms for the countless strangers we pass every day, each one asking: is it you?
Work
Senior Frontend Developer · XTEL
Owned frontend architecture for promotions-optimization interfaces used in FMCG and retail contexts. Worked across Angular, RxJS, TypeScript, and SCSS while bridging data science, product, and UX on data-heavy workflows where clarity really matters.
Releases
First Patcher release
Released the first version of the open-source Eurorack workspace that would grow into Patcher v6.5.
Events
Began performing with Bologna Modulare
Started playing collaborative modular-improvisation sessions under the Polyterative name.
2020
3 entries Releases
Ruled by Code
A deep and introspective look at the digital age — five drone tracks exploring algorithmic control, identity, and the blurring line between the virtual and the real.
Releases
Parzialmente Nuvoloso
A sonic exploration of the human experience across three long-form pieces — Cirri, Strati, and Cumuli — an invitation to introspection and resilience.
Work Ongoing
Founder · Patcher.xyz
Built and continue to run an open-source product from concept to community: product direction, UX, frontend architecture, backend choices, releases, and user feedback loops. A long-running proof that I like owning hard problems end to end.
2019
1 entry Releases
Looking for Truth
8 tracks released under the Polyterative alias.
2017
2 entries Releases
Absence
An emotional exploration of the voids within us — hauntingly beautiful chillstep written over nine months, from October 2016 to July 2017. The debut EP.
Work
Frontend / Android / UX Engineer · Otre Solutions
Worked across manufacturing software for warehouse management, supply-chain planning, and production monitoring. The common thread was translating operational complexity into interfaces people could actually use day to day.
2016
1 entry Work
Android Engineer · GESP
Early R&D work on a computer-vision project aimed at speeding up logistics data entry — a short engagement, but a useful introduction to product constraints outside straightforward CRUD apps.
2012
1 entry Work Ongoing
Electronic Music Producer & Live Performer · Freelance
Long-running creative practice in experimental techno, modular synthesis, and live AV performance. It is separate from my software work, but it strongly informs how I think about systems, rhythm, interaction, and tooling.
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