Claudio Piombetti's blog, archived articles for 05/2026

RetroMD was born yesterday, on a whim, one hour

Building an MD viewer for iPad Mini, finding yourself with a project management tool in your hands: RetroMD

18/05/2026, Claudio_VL

RetroMD was born yesterday, on a whim, one hour before dinner, with about 60 seconds of planning, as a way to use an obsolete 1st generation iPad Mini (from 2012) to read Git's README and other .md...

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RetroMD was born yesterday, on a whim, one hour

Developing PHP / Python web applications with Google Gemini AI: random thoughts

17/05/2026, Claudio_VL

"Welcome back! That view is absolute poetry. It looks like you've successfully wrestled 'The Beast' into submission." This is what an enthusiastic Google Gemini 3 wrote after a new feature test...

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