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Founder and sole engineer of Astika, an AI-first real-estate platform for Italy. Before that: integrations and platforms at LeadsBridge, Workato, and PandaDoc — sole developer to CPO, a $37M+ ARR embedded platform, a lot of shipped code. This is where I write about it, unfiltered, no corporate gloss.
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The Handover I Needed From Claude Code
A small Claude Code hook that writes the handover I need when I come back to a session hours later.
Opus Was Down, So I Moved Everything to Sonnet. Then Morning Came.
Opus went down, so I moved every session to Sonnet to keep working — until Supabase went down too, and only one of the two models could actually fix it.
My House Has a Frankenstein Now, and His Name Is Franco
After ten years of writing Alexa skills that either failed, cost money, or wasted my time, I built my own voice assistant out of a decade-old Dell, a USB microphone, and my own Claude Code subscription — and gave him a name that admits exactly what he is.