What I'm doing now.

Working on

Client work is cooking: something's in the oven, can't say more yet. Clients have deadlines, I have NDAs, life goes on. Meanwhile, pushing this portfolio further than it strictly needs to go: Workers analytics, D1 persistence, edge-rendered sitemaps, cron jobs. The line between 'my personal site' and 'my test environment' keeps blurring. I've decided that's a feature.

Reading

Cloudflare Workers docs and engineering blog: D1 internals, Durable Objects patterns, tail consumers. The kind of rabbit hole where you open one tab and come out with fourteen. In between: picking up some history of the Aeolian Islands. Turns out Lipari was running obsidian trade networks across the Mediterranean 8,000 years ago. Distributed systems, early adopter edition.

Thinking about

How far the edge can go before you actually need a server. Every time I hit a limit and expect to reach for a database, there's a Durable Object or a D1 binding instead. Also thinking about the cost of convenience: every SaaS that 'just works' is a black box you can't see inside. Building it yourself isn't necessarily slower: it's just more honest about what the box contains.

Playing with

Workers cron triggers for scheduled background jobs, zero cold starts, runs at the edge. Built a lightweight uptime monitor that pings URLs on a schedule, writes results to D1, and fires a Discord webhook when something drops. Monitoring client uptime from an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The infrastructure doesn't care about geography. I appreciate that.

Location

Lipari, Aeolian Islands, Italy · 38.47° N, edge-friendly.