01 / Fields of study
Three fields. One method.
Pick a question. Build the smallest thing that answers it. Publish what holds.
Infrastructure
How systems are kept in a known state. Puppet, automation and classic infrastructure, practised in the field as example42.
BAI
What coding agents do when given real tools. Native software built with them, and instruments to watch them work.
CMedia
What happens when the notes are published. Two podcasts, machine-written fiction, a daily digest, a course catalog.
02 / Index of experiments
What left the lab.
Seven experiments that run in public. Use them, read them, or argue with them.
№ 01 / AI / Native macOS app
Smack
A native macOS instrument. It shows what the machine is doing: processes, performance, Docker, local AI agents. Nothing leaves the Mac.
Built with AI coding agents, to watch AI coding agents, among other things. Lives in the notch or the menu bar. Free and open source, MIT licensed.
Active. Version 1.1.
№ 02 / Infrastructure / Web console
Pabawi
One console for classic infrastructure. Inventory, remote execution and provisioning across Puppet, Bolt, Ansible, SSH, Proxmox, AWS and Azure.
Active. Apache 2.0.
№ 03 / Infrastructure / Puppet consulting
example42
Puppet and DevOps consulting by Alessandro Franceschi. Support, training, health checks and migrations, with open-source modules left behind.
In the field since 2007.
№ 04 / Media / Course catalog
OpenSkills
A map of the IT landscape in short, source-backed courses. 33 domains, 38 career paths. Enough context to check what the AI just told you.
Growing. 900+ courses.
№ 05 / Media / Podcast, in Italian
La Brigata dei Geek Estinti
An Italian podcast with a rotating crew. Not even the host knows who will show up. Retrocomputing, platform engineering, AI, security.
On air. 120+ episodes.
№ 06 / Media / Generated fiction
Abnormalia
Systems confess. People narrate themselves. Mixed-media stories written end to end by Swamp workflows. Once an Amiga diskmag.
Self-generating.
№ 07 / Media / Daily digest
Alvagante
Curated links, AI engineering notes and a news digest ranked each morning from over a hundred feeds. AI, security, science, geopolitics.
Rebuilt every morning.
03 / Correspondence
Three reasons to write.
Infrastructure that needs a second opinion.
Puppet and DevOps consulting, through example42. Book a call.
Users & investorsA product to use, or to back.
Smack, Pabawi and OpenSkills are in active development. Partners and investors are heard.
GuestsSomething to say on air.
The podcasts take guests. Italian or English, unscripted.