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A chronological index of notes, essays, experiments, and fragments from data, AI, public sector technology, vintage systems, hi-fi, arcade culture, and the long memory of computing.

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Chronological index

2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2021 • 2023 • 2025 • 2026

2015 (4)

1 December 2015 - Happy Birthday Monkey Island (Notes) (gaming, monkey-island)
13 December 2015 - NAD 306 Stereo Integrated Amplifier – Long-Term Review (Notes) (hi-fi, nad-306)
16 December 2015 - IBM Control Desk using IBM Watson (Data & AI) (ibm-control-desk, maximo, watson)
28 December 2015 - Watson translation for IBM Control Desk (Data & AI) (ibm-control-desk, maximo, watson)

2016 (33)

7 January 2016 - IBM Alchemy Sentiment Analysis (Data & AI) (watson)
11 January 2016 - IBM Bluemix overview (Data & AI) (bluemix)
13 January 2016 - My first Internet experience (Data & AI) (fun)
15 January 2016 - IBM Maximo is now integrated with Google Hangouts (Data & AI) (ibm-control-desk, maximo)
3 February 2016 - Node-RED (Data & AI) (bluemix, node-red)
8 February 2016 - Internet of Things on Bluemix (Data & AI) (bluemix, devops, internet-of-things, node-red, ti-sensortag)
14 February 2016 - Create a Maximo Work-Order from an IoT device (Data & AI) (internet-of-things, maximo, node-red, ti-sensortag)
24 February 2016 - Maximo asset meter reading and Internet of Things (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, maximo, node-red, ti-sensortag, watson)
3 March 2016 - Maximo real-time meter data from IoT device (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, maximo, ti-sensortag, watson)
11 March 2016 - IBM Insights for Weather API (Data & AI) (bluemix, iot, node-red, watson)
16 March 2016 - Internet Of Things with Android (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, node-red, watson)
11 April 2016 - IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank service (Data & AI) (bluemix, ibm-control-desk, iot, watson)
12 April 2016 - IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank demo (Data & AI) (ibm-control-desk, iot, maximo, watson)
18 April 2016 - Connect a Raspberry Pi to IBM IoT platform (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, node-red, raspberry, watson)
24 April 2016 - Building intelligent Telegram BOTs with IBM Watson (Data & AI) (bluemix, fun, iot, node-red, watson)
29 April 2016 - Raspberry Pi as managed device to IBM Watson IoT Platform (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, raspberry, watson)
4 May 2016 - ESP8266 and the Moment IoT Became Accessible (Data & AI) (embedded-systems, esp8266, iot, watson)
6 May 2016 - Ultrasonic garage parking assistant with ESP8266 and IBM Watson IoT platform (Data & AI) (arduino, bluemix, esp8266, fun, internet-of-things, iot, node-red, watson)
13 May 2016 - Using a Telegram BOT to create Service Request tickets (Data & AI) (bluemix, ibm-control-desk, maximo, node-red)
16 May 2016 - How to load Maximo meter readings via IBM Watson IoT platform (Data & AI) (arduino, bluemix, esp8266, internet-of-things, maximo, node-red)
20 May 2016 - Cooking Temperatures for Beef with IBM Watson IoT platform (Data & AI) (arduino, bluemix, esp8266, internet-of-things, node-red)
27 May 2016 - Introducing the AlchemyData newsbot on Telegram (Data & AI) (bluemix, node-red, watson)
3 June 2016 - Connect Sensor Tag to Watson IoT platform using a MacBook as gateway (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, node-red, ti-sensortag)
8 June 2016 - Connecting a SensorTag to the IBM Watson IoT Platform Using a Raspberry Pi as a Gateway (Data & AI) (internet-of-things, node-red, platforms, raspberry, ti-sensortag)
11 June 2016 - Hyper-relevant tweets based on Watson Alchemy Data News (Data & AI) (bluemix, node-red, watson)
25 June 2016 - Automatically classifies tickets based on Watson Tone Analyzer Service (Data & AI) (bluemix, ibm-control-desk, maximo, watson)
29 June 2016 - Watson visual recognition for quality control in production lines (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, maximo, node-red, visual-recognition, watson)
5 July 2016 - Glass type detection using Watson visual recognition (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, maximo, visual-recognition, watson)
17 July 2016 - Watson IoT Receptionist BOT (Data & AI) (bluemix, fun, internet-of-things, node-red, raspberry, watson)
28 July 2016 - Asset Management and IoT scenarios (Data & AI) (arduino, bluemix, esp8266, internet-of-things, maximo, node-red)
9 August 2016 - Watson GO – free to play image and location based game (Data & AI) (bluemix, fun, gaming, node-red, social-network, visual-recognition, watson)
14 December 2016 - Virtual IoT device (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, node-red)
19 December 2016 - Applying Visual Recognition to Real-World Enterprise Scenarios (Data & AI) (bluemix, node-red, platforms, watson)

2017 (10)

11 January 2017 - Mood music station based on emotions and Spotify (Data & AI) (music)
27 January 2017 - So long IBM and thanks for all the fish (Notes)
7 February 2017 - Ubuntu bash on Windows 10 (Data & AI)
5 March 2017 - The future of shopping: emotion tracking meets retail (Data & AI) (visual-recognition)
28 April 2017 - A brief history of AI (Notes) (ai)
23 May 2017 - Microsoft loves Linux (Data & AI) (cloud, linux)
12 June 2017 - Xbox One X: Microsoft’s Most Powerful Console Redefines 4K Gaming (Notes) (gaming, microsoft)
4 September 2017 - AI is the New Black (Data & AI) (ai)
14 November 2017 - Ikigai in the Age of Code: Meaning, Work, and the Beautiful Addiction to Building (Notes)
27 November 2017 - The Best Classic Arcade Games of the 1980s (Notes) (gaming)

2018 (1)

1 February 2018 - Artificial Intelligence: Computer Vision (Data & AI) (ai, visual-recognition)

2019 (6)

3 February 2019 - Marshmello makes history with first ever Fortnite in-game concert (Notes) (games, music)
4 May 2019 - Artificial intelligence in video games (Data & AI) (ai, artificial-intelligence, fun, gaming)
10 June 2019 - The five levels of cloud maturity (Data & AI) (aws, cloud, hybrid-cloud)
16 July 2019 - Virtual Machines vs Containers vs Serverless Computing (Data & AI) (platforms, serverless, virtual-machine)
18 September 2019 - How cloud enables digital transformation (Notes) (cloud)
19 November 2019 - Driving Digital Transformation with ServiceNow (Notes) (ai, low-code, now-platform)

2021 (2)

22 June 2021 - Predictive Intelligence (Data & AI) (ai, machine-learning)
23 September 2021 - My Home Office Setup: Wired, Audio, and Video (Notes)

2023 (3)

12 September 2023 - Best MongoDB Atlas Features in 2025: Essential Architecture Insights for a New World (Data & AI) (mongodb, platforms)
15 September 2023 - The Evolution of Data Search: Keywords, Meaning, and Intelligence (Data & AI) (data-search, mongodbatlas)
18 September 2023 - How Generative AI is Transforming Human-Computer Interaction (Data & AI)

2025 (3)

22 August 2025 - A Modern Big Data Architecture for Scalable Data Processing (Data & AI) (bigdata, cloud, internet-of-things)
28 December 2025 - Arcana: Grounded AI for Real-World Systems (Data & AI) (ai, arcana, featured)
30 December 2025 - Designing AI Agents That Actually Work in the Real World (Data & AI) (ai)

2026 (32)

3 January 2026 - Agentic AI and the Rise of Structured Intelligence (Data & AI) (ai, essay)
6 January 2026 - MongoDB MCP Server: Why Model Context Protocol Matters (Data & AI) (mcp-server, mongodb, platforms)
9 January 2026 - Some Things Change. Some Things Never Do | Software Systems (Data & AI) (essay)
10 January 2026 - The Evolution of Football Video Games (Notes)
16 January 2026 - Production AI with MongoDB: From AI Demos to Real Systems (Data & AI) (ai, mongodb, platforms)
23 January 2026 - ai.mongodb.com: AI, this time, is not an add-on. It’s a place. (Data & AI) (featured)
24 January 2026 - The Smartphone Is Becoming the Only Computer You’ll Ever Need (Notes)
26 January 2026 - Data Modeling Beyond Tables: A Talk from MongoDB.local Milano 2025 (Data & AI) (essay, no-sql)
29 January 2026 - Master Data Management and Golden Records (Data & AI) (golden-record, mongodb)
31 January 2026 - Governance Is Not a Checkbox (Notes)
31 January 2026 - AI Tools, Agents, and the Future of Software Development (Data & AI)
2 February 2026 - Data Quality by Design (Data & AI) (featured, golden-record, mongodb)
4 February 2026 - Gödel, Escher, Bach: learning to think by walking in circles (Notes) (ai)
13 February 2026 - Scaling MongoDB to 100K+ Writes per Second (Data & AI) (mongodb)
15 February 2026 - From Legacy Silos to Single View in the Public Sector (Public Sector)
20 February 2026 - From Developer to AI Supervisor (Notes) (essay)
27 February 2026 - MongoDB Data Modeling: The Truth About Relationships, Data Duplication, and Performance (Data & AI)
2 March 2026 - Anthropic’s New AI Can Write 60-Year-Old COBOL Code (Data & AI)
3 March 2026 - Beyond Code Translation: Why Your COBOL Modernization Should Skip the Relational Trap (Public Sector) (mainframe)
6 March 2026 - Understanding the European Digital Stack: Sovereignty, Hyperscalers and the Data Platform Layer (Public Sector)
17 March 2026 - Beyond Hyperscalers: MongoDB Offerings Across Europe’s Sovereign Clouds (Public Sector)
20 March 2026 - Understanding the Search Layer in MongoDB: Observability and Diagnostics in Practice (Data & AI) (platforms)
23 April 2026 - The Great Reorg: The End of Organizations as We Know Them (Notes) (essay)
23 April 2026 - The Space Between Sounds (Notes) (essay)
27 April 2026 - Turkiye Sovereignty and the Shift Beyond Europe (Public Sector)
4 May 2026 - Why Sovereignty, Why Now (Public Sector) (featured)
16 June 2026 - Understanding the EU Tech Sovereignty Package (Public Sector)
21 June 2026 - Can Europe really build a sovereign technology stack on community-driven open source? (Notes)
27 June 2026 - So, You Bought a Used NAD 306? Here is Your Vintage Survival Guide (Notes)
19 July 2026 - Italy Was First. Draft Decree No. 418 Shows What Comes Next (Data & AI, Public Sector) (agentic AI, AI liability, biometric identification, data governance, Draft Decree 418, EU AI Act, Italy AI law, mongodb)
19 July 2026 - Europe’s New Public-Sector Stack Is Not a Cloud. It Is a Coalition. (Data & AI, Public Sector) (AI Infrastructure, Digital Sovereignty, Europe, NATO, Public Sector, Sovereign Cloud, Systems Integration)
12 August 2026 - Mario Noioso su Amazon: Chi possiede la memoria possiede il futuro (Notes)

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