Farewell to SynthWave82: the blog's old theme goes open source
MAuToBlog moves from a synthwave theme to a new wave one. The old theme, a companion since the blog was born, is not retiring: it becomes SynthWave82 Classic, open source on GitHub.
Projects
My open source projects, told from the inside: Loom, Mosaico, Doc Analyzer, PlayNotch and more. Why I built them, how they work and what I learned. The code is on GitHub.
Loom 0.7: When the Answer Is on Page 40 of a PDF
Loom 0.7 fixes its most annoying limit with long documents: instead of the first 8000 characters, the LLM now gets the passage that actually answers the question. Plus a loom_grep MCP tool for exact …
Mosaico: a Yabai Alternative for macOS 27, No SIP Needed
Yabai stopped getting along with the macOS 27 beta, and I stopped getting along with the restart-service command. So I built Mosaico: a tiling window manager for macOS packed into a single app - BSP …
Loom: Hybrid BM25 + Embeddings Search, Multilingual, HTTP
Loom gets an upgrade: optional hybrid semantic search (BM25 + embeddings) arrives to handle the cases where keyword search alone falls short - paraphrases and multilingual queries. On top of that, …
PlayNotch: a Music Controller in Your MacBook Notch
Over Italy’s June 2 Republic Day holiday weekend, I built PlayNotch, my first Swift app: an interactive music controller that lives inside the MacBook notch and handles Apple Music, Spotify, and …
Loom: Local LLM Memory with MCP Server and CLI, No Docker
Loom is an open source tool written in Go that turns your files into a memory layer LLMs can query. Inspired by Karpathy’s llm-wiki pattern, but with its own architecture: precomputed summaries, …
Doc Analyzer Reinvented: Goodbye Gradio and ChromaDB, Hello Qdrant and Streaming
Doc Analyzer has undergone a radical transformation: out with Gradio and ChromaDB, in with Qdrant, LLM response streaming, a pure HTML/JS interface, multi-collection management with a Memory/Persist …
Doc Analyzer: The New Release - More Formats, More Flexibility
Discover Doc Analyzer’s new features: multi-format support, a modular architecture, and flexibility in choosing the language model.
Doc Analyzer: Privacy-First Document Analysis with DeepSeek R1
How to build a privacy-first document analysis system using DeepSeek R1 and RAG. A complete guide to the architecture, implementation, and deployment with Docker.