[{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/","section":"Coding","summary":"","title":"Coding","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/crm/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"CRM","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/ddd/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"DDD","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/flutter/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Flutter","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/graphql/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"GraphQL","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/luciosoft/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Luciosoft","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Luciosoft The Blog","summary":"","title":"Luciosoft The Blog","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/mobile/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Mobile","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/opensource/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"OpenSource","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/riverpod/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Riverpod","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/twentymobile/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"TwentyMobile","type":"tags"},{"content":" The Article I Promised # In my last post I told you why I decided to make TwentyMobile open source. Today I\u0026rsquo;m taking you behind the scenes: how the app is built, the architectural choices, and all those \u0026ldquo;why doesn\u0026rsquo;t this work?\u0026rdquo; moments that every developer knows too well.\nThe Architecture: DDD and Connector Pattern # When I started writing TwentyMobile, I knew I didn\u0026rsquo;t want an app that worked only with Twenty CRM. The idea was to create a mobile client that could, in the future, connect to any CRM. Ambitious? Maybe. But the right architecture makes the difference between a project that scales and one that dies under its own weight.\nI chose Domain-Driven Design (DDD) combined with a Feature-First approach. In practice, the project structure looks like this:\nlib/ ├── core/ # DI, Router, Theme, Notifications ├── domain/ # Models (Contact, Company, Note, Task, Workflow) │ └── repositories/ # The abstract CRMRepository interface ├── data/ # TwentyConnector (the GraphQL client) ├── presentation/ # UI organized by feature │ ├── onboarding/ │ ├── home/ │ ├── contacts/ │ ├── companies/ │ ├── tasks/ │ ├── workflows/ │ └── ... └── shared/ # Shared widgets At the heart of everything is the Connector Pattern: an abstract CRMRepository interface that defines all necessary methods (30+ methods!) to interact with a generic CRM. The concrete implementation is TwentyConnector, a GraphQL client that talks to Twenty\u0026rsquo;s APIs.\nIf tomorrow I wanted to support HubSpot or Salesforce? I\u0026rsquo;d just need to create a HubSpotConnector implementing the same interface. The UI wouldn\u0026rsquo;t change one bit. That\u0026rsquo;s the magic of DDD done right.\nThe Tech Stack # Let me tell you about the technology choices and why I made them:\nRiverpod for state management. After years of Provider and BLoC, Riverpod was a breath of fresh air. Code generation with riverpod_annotation reduces boilerplate to a minimum.\nGoRouter for navigation. Supports deep linking, typed parameters, and integrates well with Riverpod for authentication redirects.\nFreezed for domain models. Guaranteed immutability, automatic copyWith, and especially those .fromTwenty() factory constructors that let me map Twenty\u0026rsquo;s GraphQL responses to my domain models.\nGraphQL Flutter for APIs. Twenty CRM exposes everything through GraphQL, and I have to say, once you understand how it works, it\u0026rsquo;s much more powerful than REST for a mobile app. You ask for exactly the data you need, nothing more.\nThe Features That Drove Me Crazy # The Business Card Scanner # This was one of the most fun features to implement. The idea: point your camera at a business card, the app reads the text with MLKit, and automatically creates the contact in the CRM.\nThe reality? Business cards are a nightmare. Creative fonts, non-standard layouts, information scattered in seemingly random ways. I had to write a custom parser (BusinessCardParser) that tries to figure out what\u0026rsquo;s a first name, what\u0026rsquo;s a last name, what\u0026rsquo;s an email, and what\u0026rsquo;s a phone number. It works 90% of the time. For that remaining 10%\u0026hellip; well, there\u0026rsquo;s always manual entry.\nSlide-to-Execute for Workflows # This is the feature I\u0026rsquo;m most proud of from a UI perspective. When you execute a manual Twenty CRM workflow from the app, the confirmation button isn\u0026rsquo;t a simple \u0026ldquo;Tap\u0026rdquo;. It\u0026rsquo;s an iOS-style slider that you have to drag from left to right.\nThe reason is simple: workflows can do important things (send emails, update records, trigger webhooks). You don\u0026rsquo;t want to execute them by accident because you touched the phone with your thumb while pulling it out of your pocket.\nThe implementation includes:\n85% drag threshold for activation Progressive haptic feedback at 25%, 50%, 75% Shake animation if something goes wrong Anti-fat-finger threshold to prevent accidental activations Voice Notes # In a meeting you can\u0026rsquo;t start typing notes on your phone without looking rude. But you can record a voice note after. I integrated speech_to_text for automatic transcription and save it as a note in the CRM. Fast, practical, and you don\u0026rsquo;t even have to look at the screen.\nThe Problems Nobody Tells You About (Part 2) # The 52KB TwentyConnector — Yes, I know. It\u0026rsquo;s a huge file. Over 50 thousand bytes of GraphQL queries, mutations, and parsing logic. Every time I open it, the IDE takes a second too long. Refactoring has been on my list for a while, but as they say\u0026hellip; \u0026ldquo;if it ain\u0026rsquo;t broke, don\u0026rsquo;t fix it\u0026rdquo;. And it works. Terrible as code quality, excellent as functionality.\nTwo-factor authentication — Implementing the 2FA flow with OTP was\u0026hellip; an adventure. Twenty CRM supports TOTP, and the app has to handle the case where the user has 2FA enabled. I had to create a dedicated OTP screen that slots into the login flow only when needed. All with a timer that invalidates the code every 30 seconds. Nothing earth-shattering, but those UX details make the difference.\nToken refresh — The app has to handle the case where the user puts the app in the background for hours and then reopens it. The JWT token will have expired, and if you don\u0026rsquo;t handle the refresh correctly, the user sees errors everywhere. I implemented an AppLifecycleHandler that automatically re-authenticates when the app comes back to the foreground. Sounds trivial, but the number of apps that get this wrong is staggering.\nAI as Co-Developer # One thing that surprised me is how much AI agents contributed to the project. I\u0026rsquo;m not talking about using Copilot for autocomplete. I\u0026rsquo;m talking about autonomous agents that open PRs, fix bugs, and optimize performance.\nIf you look at the commit history on GitHub, you\u0026rsquo;ll find branches like jules/optimize-country-code-search — created automatically by the Jules agent I integrated into my development workflow. The agent analyzes issues, scans the code, proposes solutions, and if tests pass, opens a PR.\nThe PRs I\u0026rsquo;ve received include:\n🔒 Security fix: PII data protection in logs 🧹 Cleanup of swallowed exceptions in vCard generator ⚡ Avatar URL parsing optimization 🔧 Added autofill hints to login forms Not bad for a co-developer who never sleeps and never asks for vacation.\nThe Numbers (for the Curious) # Some numbers about the project:\n85+ commits on the main branch 28+ branches for features and fixes Version 1.0.5, build 31 30+ methods in the CRMRepository interface iOS and Android support with responsive layout for tablets 0 data collected — privacy first How to Try It # If you want to try TwentyMobile, here are the links:\n📱 Google Play Store 🍎 App Store (search \u0026ldquo;TwentyMobile\u0026rdquo;) 💻 Source code on GitHub 🌐 Official website The app supports two access modes: API Token for administrators and Email/Password for standard users. There\u0026rsquo;s also a Demo Mode to explore the interface without configuring anything.\nFinal Thoughts # Building TwentyMobile has been an incredible experience. I learned a ton about GraphQL, about DDD applied to Flutter, and about managing an open-source project. But above all, I learned that the best way to solve a problem is to share the solution.\nIf you have a Twenty CRM instance and you\u0026rsquo;re missing a mobile app, give it a try. If you\u0026rsquo;re a Flutter developer and want to contribute, the code is there. And if you have questions, open an issue on GitHub or reach out.\nUntil next time.\n","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/twentymobile-mobile-crm-flutter/","section":"Coding","summary":"Behind the scenes of TwentyMobile: DDD architecture, Connector Pattern, manual workflows with slide-to-execute, and the late nights debugging GraphQL.","title":"TwentyMobile: How I Built a Mobile CRM with Flutter, DDD, and a Bit of Madness","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"15 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/gpl/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"GPL","type":"tags"},{"content":" The Problem Nobody Was Solving # Let me tell you something. I\u0026rsquo;d been using Twenty CRM for a while — for those who don\u0026rsquo;t know it, it\u0026rsquo;s a beautiful, modern, open-source CRM with an active community. Works great in the browser. But I\u0026rsquo;m a mobile developer. And I do my job on the go: between meetings, at the airport, at the client\u0026rsquo;s office. Every time I needed to check a contact or update a note, I had to open the browser, log in, wait for it to load\u0026hellip; and if I was on the subway with half a bar of signal, good luck.\nI was looking for a native mobile app for Twenty CRM. It didn\u0026rsquo;t exist. I looked for alternatives. Nothing decent. At that point I told myself: I guess I have to build it myself.\nFrom Personal Project to Open Source # The first few weeks of development I spent in classic mode: closed source, private repo, nobody sees anything until it\u0026rsquo;s ready. The typical approach of a developer who\u0026rsquo;s afraid someone will see their spaghetti code.\nBut then something happened. I was using Twenty CRM, which is open source. I was using Flutter, which is open source. I was using Riverpod, GraphQL Flutter, Freezed\u0026hellip; all open source. My project was literally standing on the shoulders of dozens of developers who had decided to share their work for free.\nAnd what was I doing? Keeping my code closed. It felt hypocritical.\nChoosing the License: GPL-3.0 # When I decided to make the project open source, the first question was: which license? I evaluated the options:\nMIT — Too permissive for my taste. Someone could take the code, close it, and sell it as their own. No thanks. Apache 2.0 — Similar to MIT but with patent protection. Better, but still too permissive. GPL-3.0 — Strong copyleft. If someone modifies the code and distributes it, they must release their modifications under the same license. That\u0026rsquo;s what I wanted. GPL-3.0 protects the project so it always remains open source. If someone wants to contribute, perfect. If someone wants to fork and improve it, perfect. But they can\u0026rsquo;t take my work and close it. Seems fair to me.\nWhat This Means in Practice for TwentyMobile # TwentyMobile is a mobile client for Twenty CRM built with Flutter. What it does is simple to explain but not trivial to implement:\nContact and company management with fast search, comprehensive details, and optimistic updates Notes and voice notes to capture information on the fly Tasks with notifications so you never forget a follow-up Business card scanner with integrated OCR Manual workflows to execute automations directly from your phone Everything connects to your self-hosted Twenty CRM instance. Zero data collected, zero proprietary cloud, everything travels directly between your phone and your server.\nThe Fears of Making Code Public # I\u0026rsquo;ll be honest with you: before pressing that \u0026ldquo;Make public\u0026rdquo; button on GitHub, I had a moment of panic. The typical thoughts:\n\u0026ldquo;The code isn\u0026rsquo;t perfect\u0026rdquo; — And when is it ever? I released with things that still make me cringe. The TwentyConnector is a 52KB file. Fifty-two thousand bytes of GraphQL code in a single file. I know, it\u0026rsquo;s too big. But it works. And the refactoring will come. In the meantime, the world can see how I solved certain problems, and maybe someone finds a better way.\n\u0026ldquo;Someone will copy everything\u0026rdquo; — With GPL-3.0, they can copy. But they must keep the license and release their modifications. And honestly, if someone takes my code and improves it, all the better for everyone.\n\u0026ldquo;Who will ever contribute?\u0026rdquo; — This was the biggest surprise. Through integration with AI agents like Jules, I\u0026rsquo;ve already received automatic PRs for security fixes, performance optimizations, and code cleanup. It\u0026rsquo;s not the traditional human-made community, but it\u0026rsquo;s a community that works.\nThe Side Effect I Didn\u0026rsquo;t Expect # Making the project open source forced me to write better code. Not because someone was actually reading it — at least not right away — but because I knew someone could read it.\nI started commenting more. Structuring commits better. Writing a decent README. Documenting the architecture. Things I should have been doing anyway, but that the laziness of a solo developer tends to skip.\nAnd then there\u0026rsquo;s the portfolio advantage. When someone asks me \u0026ldquo;what can you do?\u0026rdquo;, I send them the GitHub link. Actions speak louder than résumés.\nAdvice for Those Considering It # If you have a personal project and you\u0026rsquo;re thinking about making it open source, here\u0026rsquo;s what I\u0026rsquo;d tell you from my experience:\nDon\u0026rsquo;t wait for perfection. Perfect code doesn\u0026rsquo;t exist. Release when it works, improve later. The community (human or AI) will help you.\nChoose the license carefully. It\u0026rsquo;s not a bureaucratic detail. The license defines what others can do with your work. Do your research before choosing.\nWrite a good README. It\u0026rsquo;s the first thing people see. If the README is poor, nobody will look at the code.\nPrepare for weird issues. On any open-source project, sooner or later someone will open an issue like \u0026ldquo;doesn\u0026rsquo;t work\u0026rdquo; without giving any context. It\u0026rsquo;s part of the game.\nUse CI/CD from day one. Automated tests, automated builds, linting. If the project is open source, these things are not optional.\nWhat\u0026rsquo;s Next? # TwentyMobile is on GitHub, on Google Play, and on the App Store. The project is active, features keep coming, and the code is there for anyone who wants to take a look, contribute, or simply learn something.\nIf you want to know more about the project, check out the official website. And if you\u0026rsquo;d like to contribute, PRs are open. Even AI agent PRs are welcome, apparently.\nNext time I\u0026rsquo;ll tell you in detail how the app is built from a technical perspective. Spoiler: Flutter, DDD, Connector Pattern, and a whole lot of GraphQL.\n","date":"15 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/why-i-made-twentymobile-open-source/","section":"Coding","summary":"The story of how a project born to solve my own problem became open source. Spoiler: it wasn\u0026rsquo;t an easy decision.","title":"Why I Made TwentyMobile Open Source (and Why You Should Too)","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"19 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/ai/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"AI","type":"tags"},{"content":" It all started with a complaint # Let me tell you something. About a year ago I was scrolling through the reviews of Send to Kindle — my app for sending documents to Kindle — and I stumbled upon a review that said something like: \u0026ldquo;The app works but the converted PDF is garbage, completely unreadable.\u0026rdquo; One star, obviously.\nNow, PDF conversion has always been a pain. Anyone who works with documents knows: a PDF can contain anything. Text, images, tables, insane layouts. And converting it into a readable format for Kindle without losing formatting is a nightmare. For years I used Calibre on the server side to do the heavy lifting, and it worked\u0026hellip; sort of.\nBut that review got me thinking. Maybe it\u0026rsquo;s time to level up.\nThe epiphany: AI isn\u0026rsquo;t just for chatbots # Let\u0026rsquo;s be honest: when people hear \u0026ldquo;artificial intelligence\u0026rdquo; they immediately think ChatGPT, chatbots, those things that write your emails. But AI is so much more, especially for mobile app developers.\nI figured this out while working on Send to Police, my app for submitting guest registration forms to Italian police. I had already integrated Google MLKit for reading identity documents and Gemini Flash as a fallback for the most desperate cases. And it worked beautifully. So I thought: if AI can read a crumpled 1987 paper ID card with a faded photo, why can\u0026rsquo;t it help me with PDFs?\nWhat I actually did # I started integrating AI at strategic points in my Flutter apps, without rewriting everything from scratch. This is the key point: you don\u0026rsquo;t need to throw away your existing code. AI plugs in as an additional layer.\n1. Smart document recognition # In Send to Police I built a cascading system:\nFirst attempt: MLKit on-device, fast and private. Works great for passports and electronic ID cards. Second attempt: proprietary algorithm for old Italian paper ID cards (the ones even your grandmother can\u0026rsquo;t read). Third attempt: Gemini Flash via API, only with user consent. The beauty of Flutter is that managing this cascade is natural. A well-structured try-catch, some async/await, and you\u0026rsquo;re done. The user doesn\u0026rsquo;t notice anything: they take a photo and the data appears.\n2. Smarter PDF conversion # In Send to Kindle I added a pre-conversion analysis layer. Before sending the PDF to the Calibre container, the app now analyzes the document to determine if it\u0026rsquo;s a scanned PDF (basically an image), a PDF with real text, or a mix of both. This analysis determines what type of conversion to apply.\nFor scanned PDFs I integrated OCR with AI support, which recognizes text in images. The result? Conversions that were previously unreadable now come out clean. That one-star review might be worth at least three stars now. Maybe.\n3. Firebase as the glue # One thing I\u0026rsquo;ve learned over the years is that Firebase is the indie developer\u0026rsquo;s best friend. In both apps I use:\nFirebase Remote Config to manage feature flags without releasing updates Cloud Functions for lightweight backend Firebase Storage for file management Pub/Sub to communicate with conversion containers The integration with Flutter is flawless thanks to FlutterFire plugins. If you haven\u0026rsquo;t checked them out yet, I highly recommend giving them a try.\nIf you\u0026rsquo;re curious about how I use these tools in my projects, stop by luciosoft.it.\nThe problems nobody tells you about # But it\u0026rsquo;s not all sunshine and rainbows. Let me share some mishaps:\nMemory explosion — When I deployed the PDF conversion container on Cloud Run, large files crashed everything. I had to go from 2GB to 4GB of RAM, and for really huge files you need 8GB. At one point I thought: I\u0026rsquo;m running a nuclear power plant just to convert a PDF. But it works.\nThe -1017 bug — Firebase Storage has a mysterious error, code -1017, that pops up when you upload files downloaded from Google Drive. I spent two days debugging before realizing the issue was in how iOS handles temporary files. The solution? Use putData instead of putFile. Two lines of code, two days of work. Classic.\nGrandpa\u0026rsquo;s ID cards — My recognition algorithm for old paper IDs works well in 90% of cases. But that remaining 10%\u0026hellip; people with documents folded in four, kept in their wallet for twenty years, with a photo that looks like an impressionist painting. For those, there\u0026rsquo;s Gemini Flash, which sometimes manages to extract data even from those desperate situations.\nTips for those who want to get started # If you develop Flutter apps and want to integrate AI, here\u0026rsquo;s what I suggest from my experience:\nStart with the problem, not the technology. Don\u0026rsquo;t add AI because it\u0026rsquo;s trendy. Add it where it solves a real user problem.\nUse a cascading approach. AI isn\u0026rsquo;t infallible. Having a fallback (or two, or three) is essential. On-device first, cloud second.\nPrivacy first. Especially with sensitive data like identity documents. Data should travel as little as possible.\nFirebase Remote Config is your friend. You can toggle AI features on and off without releasing an update. Trust me, you\u0026rsquo;ll need this.\nTest with real files. Tests with perfect files always pass. But then a user shows up with a 50MB PDF generated by a 2003 scanner and everything explodes.\nWhat\u0026rsquo;s next? # I\u0026rsquo;m working on new integrations. The idea is to use lighter AI models directly on-device for certain tasks, without going through the cloud. Flutter with its plugins and the growing community makes all of this possible.\nIf you want to try my apps:\nSend to Kindle — to send articles and documents to your Kindle Send to Police — for guest registration without going crazy And if you feel like it, stop by luciosoft.it to see what else I\u0026rsquo;m up to. Spoiler: more apps, more experiments, and probably more bugs to fix.\n","date":"19 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/flutter-and-ai-app-revolution/","section":"Coding","summary":"From document recognition to intelligent PDF conversion: how AI transformed my Flutter apps without overhauling the codebase.","title":"Flutter and AI: how I revolutionized my apps without rewriting them from scratch","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"19 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/geminiai/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"GeminiAI","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"19 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/sendtokindle/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"SendToKindle","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"19 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/sendtopolice/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"SendToPolice","type":"tags"},{"content":" The Frustration That Got Me Here # Let me tell you something. When I was a mid-level developer, I spent a ridiculous amount of time doing issue triage. Analyze the context, figure out which files were involved, estimate if it was a 5-minute fix or a 5-day saga. Wasted time, I always thought. But hey, it\u0026rsquo;s part of the job.\nThen I became senior. And the triage work increased. Because now I not only had to do it, but I also had to explain it to juniors. Great.\nNow I\u0026rsquo;m an architect. And guess what? Triage is still there. Except now I also have to make sure the proposed solutions are consistent with the overall system architecture. Turns out this problem follows me wherever I go.\nBut something interesting happened over these years: AI agents actually became usable. And I started asking myself: can\u0026rsquo;t I delegate at least part of this work?\nJules Orchestrator # I built an architecture I called Jules Orchestrator. The name comes from Google\u0026rsquo;s AI agent that I use under the hood: Jules.\nThe idea is simple: when an issue comes in on GitHub, a webhook triggers the orchestrator which analyzes the context, passes everything to AI, and if the AI proposes a sensible solution, it implements it and opens a PR. If tests pass, the PR is ready for review.\nHere\u0026rsquo;s the diagram:\ngraph TD A[User Report / Issue] --\u003e|Webhook| B(Ingestion) B --\u003e|Trigger| C{Analysis Module} C --\u003e|Scan Codebase| D[Context Extraction] D --\u003e|Prompts + Context| E[Jules Agent] E --\u003e|Reasoning| F[Proposed Solution] F --\u003e|Code Generation| G[Implementation] G --\u003e|Run Tests| H{Verification} H --\u003e|Pass| I[Create Pull Request] H --\u003e|Fail| E I --\u003e|Review| J[Developer Review] J --\u003e|Approve \u0026 Merge| K[CI/CD Pipeline] K --\u003e|Automatic Deploy| L[Production] L --\u003e|Feedback Loop| A How It Works in Practice # Ingestion - An issue or bug report comes in, the webhook fires. Analysis - The devtriage module reads the report and scans the codebase to understand context. Agent Activation - Jules receives everything and starts reasoning. The interesting part is that it can understand dependencies between files and evaluate the impact of changes. Implementation - If it finds a solution, it generates the code. Verification - Tests run automatically. Pull Request - If tests pass, PR opened. Otherwise, it retries. What I Learned # This stuff doesn\u0026rsquo;t replace the developer—at least not yet. But it freed up my time. The trivial bugs, the ones you already know how to fix but that steal half an hour each, are now handled by AI. I do PR reviews and focus on architectural problems, which are the ones that actually require my experience.\nThe other thing I noticed is that AI can also handle routine maintenance: library updates, small refactors, minor security fixes. Stuff I used to pile up in the backlog for months.\nFinal Thoughts # We\u0026rsquo;re just at the beginning of this story. Jules Orchestrator works well for Luciosoft, but every project is different. If you\u0026rsquo;re interested in experimenting, the code is on GitHub.\nOh, and if you\u0026rsquo;re thinking \u0026ldquo;but this makes developers useless\u0026rdquo;: no. It makes them more efficient. Which is different. At least as long as someone still needs to figure out what to build and why.\n","date":"3 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/apps-developed-and-maintained-by-ai/","section":"Coding","summary":"How I delegated bug triage to AI and finally started sleeping better.","title":"Apps Developed and Maintained by AI: Where Are We Heading?","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"3 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/automation/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Automation","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"3 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/devops/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"DevOps","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"3 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/devtriage/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"DevTriage","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"3 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/jules/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Jules","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"22 January 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/alloggiati/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Alloggiati","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"22 January 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/mlkit/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"MLKit","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"22 January 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/ocr/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"OCR","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"22 January 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/alloggiati/","section":"Police","summary":"","title":"Police","type":"Alloggiati"},{"content":" How It All Started # A few years ago, my mom started running a small B\u0026amp;B. Naturally, as the \u0026ldquo;tech-savvy son\u0026rdquo;, I became her unofficial IT support. You know how it goes. Among the many things she asked me to \u0026ldquo;fix\u0026rdquo;, there was this guest registration process. For context: in Italy, every accommodation must report guest data to the State Police within 24 hours of arrival.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not gonna lie, the first time I watched her manually copy passport data into the Alloggiati Web portal, I nearly lost it. I thought: it\u0026rsquo;s 2026 and we\u0026rsquo;re still doing this by hand? There has to be a better way.\nThe Technical Problem # The Alloggiati Web portal works, don\u0026rsquo;t get me wrong, but manual entry is slow and error-prone. Especially when you have foreign guests with complicated names, or those old Italian paper ID cards—the ones so worn out that even a handwriting expert would struggle to read them.\nAs a software architect now, I couldn\u0026rsquo;t resist: I started thinking about how to automate the whole thing. The basic idea was simple: scan the document, extract the data, format it, send it to the portal. Easy to say, a bit harder to do. As a software architect now, I couldn\u0026rsquo;t resist: I started thinking about how to automate the whole thing. The basic idea was simple: scan the document, extract the data, format it, send it to the portal. Easy to say, a bit harder to do.\nUnder the Hood # I built a multi-layer recognition system. This wasn\u0026rsquo;t a random choice—it came from real-world experience:\nGoogle MLKit (On-Device) - Works great for passports and electronic ID cards. It reads MRZ codes (those character strips at the bottom of documents) in milliseconds, all on-device so no data leaves the phone. This was a top priority for me.\nCustom Local Algorithm - But MLKit alone isn\u0026rsquo;t enough. I had to develop a specific algorithm for old Italian paper ID cards. I know those things well because I\u0026rsquo;ve seen every type come through my mom\u0026rsquo;s place. Reflections, folds, faded ink\u0026hellip; I had to handle it all.\nGemini Flash as Fallback - And when everything else fails? I integrated Gemini Flash as a last resort. Only if the user consents, the image gets analyzed by Google\u0026rsquo;s AI which can figure out even the most desperate cases. I think it\u0026rsquo;s a good balance between automation and privacy.\nA Note on Privacy # I want to be clear about something: data never passes through my servers. The app reads the document, extracts data locally, and sends it straight to the Police portal. No intermediate clouds, no databases. I made this choice from day one because it seemed like the only sensible thing to do with such sensitive data.\nTry It Out # The app is called Send to Police and it\u0026rsquo;s free. I built it first for my mom, then figured it might be useful for others too. If you run an accommodation and you\u0026rsquo;re tired of copying data by hand, let me know what you think.\nDownload for Android\niOS version is in the works, coming soon.\n","date":"22 January 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/alloggiati/send-to-police-guest-registration/","section":"Police","summary":"How a personal frustration turned into an app. OCR, MLKit, and a bit of AI to solve the guest registration nightmare.","title":"Send to Police: Guest Registration Made Actually Bearable","type":"Alloggiati"},{"content":"","date":"October 3, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/culinario/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"culinario","type":"tags"},{"content":"Giuseppe te ca 1 euro, vammi a cattari na buttigghia i pommarola chi stamatina ma scuddai ma pigghiu a putia. Cu restu a cattiti chiddu chi voi, basta chi non ti catti vularie. Si proprio te na cattari, a cattiti i carruba chi su boni. 1 Questa frase sembra molto normale oggi, va be in sicilia ovviamente, ma un un tempo, non molto lontano, quando la globalizzazione, la tecnologia e commercializzazione dei prodotti non era così forte come ai giorni odierni, la frase non reggeva. Non tutti avevano la possibilità di comprare una bottiglia di pomodoro. E allora come si faceva? non si mangiava la famosissima e ricorrente pasta alla norma? Magari all’epoca non era così ricorrente era un piatto della domenica. No non se ne faceva a meno e per non farlo mancare a tavola, quasi tutti si adoperavano a fare le bottiglie in casa, in garage oppure in giardino. Giuseppe era molto ubbidiente e tornò a casa con la passata e le carrube. La passata che diede alla mamma, gli ricordò la storia di buttugghi i pummorola allora disse alla mamma, se poteva raccontarle la storia di quando lei faceva le bottiglie in casa. La mamma dapprima stentò a raccontarla, aveva già raccontato la storia delle bottiglie si tante volte che non aveva voglia, ma davanti alla faccia del figlio Giuseppe che esprimeva in uno sguardo \u0026ldquo;dai dai mamma ti prego raccontamela per favore..lo sai che mi piace tanto..\u0026rdquo; Allora la mamma non ne può fare a meno e comincia la storia.\nLa preparazione delle bottiglie di pomodoro era una ricorrenza annuale, era una cosa bellissima e per noi tutti nella famiglia era come se fosse una festa. La notte precedente alla preparazione delle bottiglie di pomodoro, non riuscivo a pigliare sonno per l’agitazione e per la voglia di fare le bottiglie. La mattina prestissimo, prima ancora dell’alba, mi posizionai li in terrazza ad aspettare il rientro del nonno. Quel momento lo ricordo sempre, mi luccicavano gli occhi a vedere la lapa i Puddicinu arrivare carica di pomodori, tutti rossi ma rossi, rossi belli tutti luccicanti. Non so se perchè ero piccina oppure perché i pomodori erano i casa 2, riuscivo a percepire l’odore già da quella distanza. Di corsa balzavo giù per le scale urlando come una forsennata Oggi facemu i buttigghi!! Oggi facemu i buttigghi!! una volta lì davanti alle cassette, ne prendevo sempre un paio, li toccavo, il odoravo… ummm che buoni!!! Ii adoravo. Gli davo una sciacquata veloce e li mangiavo così sani sani.\nNel cortile la nonna preparava tutte le bottiglie di vetro, bottiglie recuperate da innumerevoli bevute di birra. Una per una, le insaponava e metteva in ammollo nella bagnarola. Noi ragazze, le davamo una mano, le immergevamo nelle bagnarole in modo da rimuovere bene tutto il detersivo e così da lavarle bene bene. Ogni tanto di nascosto arrivavano i cugini che ci bagnavano con la pompa, noi per giocare poi bagnavamo loro. Era divertentissimo ridevamo e correvamo come i pazzi. La nonna se ci vedeva si biliava e ci urlava contro Viditi chiddu ca aviti a fari, si vi sciuppiati poi vi dugnu i supra. Oggi amu a travagghiari amo a fari i buttigghi, e si cuntinuati accusi finisci chi vi sciuppiati e namu a ricurdari a iunnata. 3 infine tutti bagnati finivamo di sciacquare le bottiglie rimaste. Lasciavamo tutte le bottiglie, tantissime bottiglie al sole tutte luccicanti a riposare e asciugare. Ma i giochi con l\u0026rsquo;acqua non finivano qui! Subito dopo si cominciava con il lavaggio delle cassette dei pomodori. buttavamo i pomodori dentro le bagnarole, li lasciavamo in ammollo per un pò e poi uno per uno li prendevamo e riponevamo dentro le cassette.\nLa nonna e le zie nel frattempo, preparavano un gran fuocherello acceso per terra e sopra al fuoco c’era la più grande casseruola mai vista, io anche se piccola, ero molto alta, superavo il metro e venti ma ciò nonostante, non arrivavo a vedere dentro la casseruola. Per vedere dentro, dovevo salire su una scaletta. Mi piaceva guardare i pomodori mentre cuocevano, era bello tutto quei pomodori che strofinavano tra loro, tanto calore e bollore che usciva e un profumo intenso di pomodoro. I pomodori più piccoli ogni tanto saltavano in alto per il tanto bollore. Con un grande arnese, che io da piccola lo vedevo come il più grande cuppino che si è fuso ad uno scolapasta, venivano afferrati i pomodori pronti, quelli più pronti, pronti perché stavano a galla, lì pronti ad uscire. Una volta afferrati, li facevano rotolare giù per la macchina mangia pomodori. La macchina mangia pomodori, stava sotto il controllo della zia Pizzitta. Lei si occupava di mettere in moto la macchina, fermarla se bloccata e aiutava i pomodori a essere spremuti per bene. Li aiutava con un mattarello, li spingeva giù per il canale e man mano che scendevano, gli diceva: entrate entrate, mettetevi in fila e non spingete ci state tutti e a breve sarete uniti per sempre. Un bel succo rosso vivo, molto concentrato, caldo e intenso, colava giù dalla macchina e finiva in una grande pentola. Da un altra estremità della macchina, uscivano le bucce e Pizzitta, di tanto intanto si occupava di passarle nuovamente nella macchina.\nLa postazione successiva era proprio la mia e della zia Maria. Io mi occupavo di prendere le bottiglie dalle ceste, di staccare le foglie dal grande mazzo di basilico e di mettere due foglioline all’interno di ogni bottiglia. Mi piaceva tanto questo compito perchè sentivo l’odore intenso del basilico sulle mani. La zia Maria, prendeva la bottiglia da me preparate e la metteva sotto il rubinetto, girava la valvola e fuoriusciva il caldo succo di pomodoro. Lasciava aperto il rubinetto fintanto che la bottiglia non si fosse ben riempita di succo di pomodoro. La postazione successiva era proprio la mia e della zia Maria. Io mi occupavo di prendere le bottiglie dalle ceste, di staccare le foglie dal grande mazzo di basilico e di mettere due foglioline all’interno di ogni bottiglia. Mi piaceva tanto questo compito perchè sentivo l’odore intenso del basilico sulle mani. La zia Maria, prendeva la bottiglia da me preparate e la metteva sotto il rubinetto, girava la valvola e fuoriusciva il caldo succo di pomodoro. Lasciava aperto il rubinetto fintanto che la bottiglia non si fosse ben riempita di succo di pomodoro.\nLo zio Tano, con grande maestria e tanta attenzione, prendeva le bottiglie molto calde per via del sugo che fumava fin fuori dal collo delle bottiglie, le piazzava sotto un\u0026rsquo;altra postazione. Prendeva un tappo e lo attaccava ad una calamita di un altro macchinario, poi con decisione e fermezza girava una grossa manovella fintanto che il tappo non fosse ben attaccato alla bottiglia. Faceva una veloce verifica in modo da testare che fosse ben chiusa e dava l’ok a Giorgo che si occupava di prendere la bottiglia e riporla nella cassetta. Giorgio non era di famiglia ma era come se lo fosse. Noi lo facevamo stare li a svolgere il suo compito. Sebbene fosse un piccolo compito, lo faceva tanto contento. Adesso le bottiglie di pomodoro, dopo tutti questi step seguiti con cura sono pronte!! Giuseppe era ancora molto attento e sentendo la false e sapendo che la storia non finisce così subito ribatte dai mamma lo so che non finisce così, continua a raccontare. E allora la mamma riprende: è vero, Il bello deve ancora arrivare.\nSi prendevano dei grandi barili ex barili di petrolio davvero enormi sempre molto più alti di me. Lo zio o la nonna con l’aiuto di una scala, si calavano dentro a testa in giù e pian piano ci mettevano dentro le bottiglie di pomodoro, disposte una accanto all’altro non proprio attaccate ma vicine, poi sopra uno strato di panni e pezze vecchi e così via. Quando si giungeva alla fine, sopra l’ultimo strato di pezze, si mettevano delle pietre per tenere il tutto fermo. Infine si versava dentro l\u0026rsquo;acqua con una pompa che dal basso saliva fino in cima, era importante che fosse riempito tutto fino all’orlo. A questo punto, proprio sotto i grandi barili, venivano accesi altri grandi fuochi. Dopo un pò di ore, il tempo di mettere apposto tutta l\u0026rsquo;attrezzatura, si spegnevano i fuochi e si lasciavano dentro le bottiglie tutta la notte a raffreddare e a riposare.\nNta notti a Nonna non pigghiava sonnu, si girava e si vutava, stava cu penseri pi buttigghi. Giuseppe u sai picchì a nonna aviva u penseri e buttighie? 4 disse la mamma. Picchi na vota, succidiu nu macello, i buttigghi non furunu chiusi pi come si devi e nta nanzi a notti, i buttighi scuppiarunu e na ranni botta si sintiu! 5 rispose subito Giuseppe a tono. Si bravo, fecero una botta fortissima e la nonna saltò in aria. Quella notte fortunatamente era andato tutto bene, nessuna bottiglia scoppiò. L’indomani mattina, tirarono fuori tutte le bottiglie una per una ed erano tutte integre, troppo belle e troppo buone. Riponemmo le bottiglie all’interno delle cassette che poi posizionammo all’interno di grandi scaffali. Che bello tutte le bottiglie per l’anno per la famiglia erano pronte. Ne prendemmo subito un paio e preparammo una pasta al pomodoro per tutti. Quella pasta, la ricordo ancora, aveva il sapore dei pomodori ma anche di tutti noi e di tutti gli sforzi fatti per produrre la passata. Dai Giuseppe è pronto, adesso mangiamoci la nostra pasta al pomodoro e immaginiamo di averla fatta con le nostre mani. Dai Giuseppe è pronto, adesso mangiamoci la nostra pasta al pomodoro e immaginiamo di averla fatta.\nTraduzioni: # Giuseppe tieni 1 euro, vai a comprare una bottiglia di pomodoro, questa mattina me la sono scordata di comprarla alla bottega. Con il resto dei soldi, comprati tutto quello che vuoi, però non ti comprare porcherie. Se proprio te le devi comprare, compra le carrube che sono più sane. Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nprodotti a kilometro 0, prodotti in campagna familiare.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nPrestate attenzione a quello che fate, se vi fate male poi io vi do altre botte. Oggi dobbiamo lavorare, dobbiamo fare le bottiglie di pomodoro, se continuate così, rischiate di farvi male e poi finisce che finiamo all’ospedale e ci ricorderemo per sempre di questa giornata sventurata. Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nDurante la notte la nonna non prendeva sonno. si girava e rigirava, stava con il pensiero alle bottiglie. Giuseppe lo sai perchè la nonna aveva il pensiero alle bottiglie? Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nPerché una volta è successo che non erano state chiuse bene e allora durante la notte sono scoppiate, facendo un gran fracasso Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"October 3, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/story/i_buttigghi_i_pummarola/","section":"Storie","summary":"*Giuseppe te ca 1 euro, vammi a cattari na buttigghia i pommarola chi stamatina ma scuddai ma pigghiu a putia. Cu restu a cattiti chiddu\u0026hellip;","title":"I buttigghi i pummarola","type":"story"},{"content":"","date":"October 3, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/sicilia/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"sicilia","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"October 3, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/siciliano/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"siciliano","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"October 3, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/tipico/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"tipico","type":"tags"},{"content":"Bicchieri svuotati dall\u0026rsquo;alcol e sparsi di qua e di là su un tavolo colmo di disordine. I bicchieri, sono pieni di menta e lime ormai secchi con uno stretto intreccio che li lega insieme. Posaceneri pieni colmi di cicche, cenere e carta bruciata ancora lievemente fumante. Una forte puzza di fumo presente in tutta la stanza. Amici e gente che non conosco, dormono non molto lontano da me, alcuni sono schiacciati uno sull’altro tutti presi da un forte sonno profondo, pesantemente sprofondati in divani e cuscini che reggono il peso e si deformano per rendere più confortevole il viaggio.\nMi sento bene un lieve giramento di testa ma bene, qualcosa è successo ma in quel momento non ricordo nulla. Sorrido e sprofondo ancora in un altro sonno profondo. Riapro gli occhi e vedo i posaceneri che cominciano a muoversi, vanno verso il pattume dove vengono svuotati da Petra. Dal posacenere cade di tutto ma nonostante il posacenere sia trasparente non permette di vedere attraverso. I posaceneri vengono sbattuti per fare cadere la cenere residua, ma rimangono comunque neri, di un nero scuro scuro che mi accende un ricordo, il nero del nero di seppia della pasta mangiata la sera prima, che buona! Faccio forza per tirare su il braccio pendente giù dal divano e scorgo un cuoricino sull\u0026rsquo;avambraccio con una scritta si senti lu cori chi batti. Sai aunni truvarmi. 1 Sono molto perplesso, non ricordo ma sento qualcosa e mi piace.\nUna scimmia entra dalla finestra era stata spalancata per via della puzza di fumo. La scimmia, comincia ad urlare e fa un chiasso della madonna, quasi tutti si svegliano, si alzano di colpo ed escono fuori in giardino. Io salto in piedi di colpo e faccio dei movimenti ondulatori avvicinandomi verso la scimmietta, cerca\tndo di farla uscire dalla finestra. Ma la scimmia non ne vuole sapere, prende un mela e me la scaglia contro poi prende un arancia e la scaglia sempre contro di me con più potenza e cattiveria, continua così con tutto il cestino di frutta. Io dopo aver preso la prima mela in faccia prendo un bastone e come in fruit ninja cerco di colpire la frutta mandandola a destra e a sinistra. Frutta che vola in tutta casa e muri che si sporcano di succhi vari. Appena la frutta finisce, cerco di avvicinarmi alla scimmia aprendo le braccia in cenno di pace, allora le dico scimmietta camo a fari, non vidi chi semu a menzu a na strada. Magari tu ta mettiri a fari burdellu. 2 Allora la scimmia comincia a parlare e io sono ancora più perplesso e dice ma chi ci fai ca, senti lu cori e vai a circari a fimmina chi ieri sira t’apriu lu cori. 3 A quel punto ho realizzato che stava tutto nella mia testa, le scimmie possono anche lanciare la frutta ma non credo parlino e poi che ci fa una scimmia in sicilia? I ricordi ancora non mi aiutano, penso che un caffè possa aiutarmi, allora mi alzo e sento un dolore al ginocchio, mi accende un ricordo dei piccoli kart della gara organizzata la sera prima. io troppo grosso, non ci stavo nel kart e allora mi sbattevano le ginocchia sulla carrozzeria del kart. Prendo la caffettiera del caffè e mentre cerco di aprirla, vedo un\u0026rsquo;altra scritta sull’altro braccio non ti fari pigghiari du sonnu! vidi chi ie ionnu! vidi chi ionnu! 4 ma che minkia è successo ieri notte penso…\nFiuuuubrururburur bu sento il rumore del caffè, è salito, spengo il fornello e mi verso una grande tazza, ne avevo proprio bisogno. Il rumore e probabilmente l’odore sveglia anche Pippo che si avvicina un pò storto e dice Minkia comu ni divirtemmu aieri sira\u0026hellip;chi c’è u cafè? 5 Faccio un cenno con la testa allora si versa anche lui una tazza e si accende subito una sigaretta. Gli chiedo se si ricordava qualcosa della donna che avevo conosciuto la sera prima, ma niente, non ricordava nulla e rideva come un matto guardando le scritte che avevo addosso. Perlustrai attorno in cerca di qualcosa e vidi teli da mare bagnati, mi ricordai del bagno di mezzanotte dopo i kart. Ad un tratto vidi dei biglietti, biglietti di un circo, ricordavo davvero poco sul circo, però pensai alla scimmia di poco fa e magari poteva esserci qualcosa di collegato con la mia strana immaginazione. Allora mi guardai attorno presi i miei averi e dissi Minni vaiu ou circu. Coccaduno vole a veniri o vi siddiati? 6 sai come quando butti lì qualcosa e l\u0026rsquo;unica cosa che senti è l\u0026rsquo;eco di ciò che hai detto. Ecco, la scena è stata proprio questa. Buttai un cenno di saluto a caso a cui ovviamente nessuno rispose mi girai e mi incamminai verso l’uscita. Una volta fori, pensai a come andare. Il circo non era lontanissimo e avevo voglia di riflettere ma soprattutto smaltire tutto l’alcol che avevo assunto la notte prima, allora decisi di andare a piedi. Man mano che camminavo mi ricordai che comunque non avevo alcun mezzo con me in quanto era passato Pippo a prendermi in motorino la sera prima.\nRosso e bianco era il grande capannone centrale che si intravedeva già in lontananza, schiamazzi e urla di bambini, fuochi e versi di animali si sentivano da più vicino. Ero stanco e non volevo perdere troppo tempo, allora pensai a cosa potevo fare per accedere ma soprattutto per ricevere risposte. Mi avvicinai all’ingresso e fui subito attratto da una signora bella tutta truccata con colori molto vivaci, i capelli tutti intrecciati che formavano una torre che finiva a punta e su una stellina luminosa. Mi avvicinai, non sapevo cosa dire allora improvvisai: Buongiorno signora ieri mi sono scordato la giacchetta qui, non è che l’avete vista? La signora tirò fuori un sorriso a 27 denti di cui più della metà splendevano d’oro e d\u0026rsquo;argento e rispose Fosse solu a giacchetta chi ti scurdati aieri sira! Ieri voi carusi, facistu nu maciello! 7 Allora vista la mala figura, mi sentii a mio agio a parlare sinceramente di ciò che ero venuto a fare, la donna mi prese in simpatia anche perchè ieri l’avevamo fatta ridere parecchio allora mi concesse di entrare a dare un occhiata in giro, mi disse di andare al bar dove avrei potuto trovare risposte e disse, spetta u figghiolo ca scimmia. 8 Entrai e andai alla ricerca del bar dove ordinai un caffè mentre attendevo il ragazzo con la scimmia. Poco dopo aver finito il caffè arrivò il ragazzo con la scimmietta. Non appena arrivato, la scimmietta mi corse addosso e mi strofino la testa sul braccio con dolcezza come per salutarmi. Io ricambiai e mi ricordai che durante la notte avevamo giocato assai insieme, le lanciavo noci, nucidde e nocitte e la scimmietta le prendeva al volo e le mangiava. Nel frattempo Marcello mi raccontò tutto della serata trascorsa lì al circo e io man mano avevo dei ricordi un pò più nitidi. Avevo messo la mano nella bocca del leone e non avevo avuto paura. In questo momento solo al ricordo mi salì un gelido formicolio di paura. In questo istante molto probabilmente, non l’avrei mai fatto. Filippa si chiamava la ragazza con cui avevo parlato la notte prima e faceva parte delle danzatrici volanti. Mi ricordai che avevo avuto una scossa notevole guardandola lì, sul filo mentre danzava era di un soave indescrivibile. Marcello, mi disse che subito dopo lo spettacolo avevamo parlato tanto ed eravamo stati molto vicini. Non ricordavo bene però sentivo qualcosa. Allora chiesi dove potevo trovarla e mi disse che a quest\u0026rsquo;ora stava sempre al capannone centrale ad allenarsi.\nMI diressi verso il capannone e nel contempo cercavo di ricordarmi, il cuore mi batteva ero leggermente agitato non sapevo che dire che fare. Ad un tratto la vidi e la riconobbi, stava proprio di fronte al capannone stava facendo una pausa, man mano che mi avvicinavo i ricordi diventano sempre più chiari, mi ricordai dei capelli neri ricci degli occhi sempre neri molto penetranti, mi apparve tutto chiaro. Però una volta lì davanti ero imbarazzatissimo e non sapevo che fare, preso dall’imbarazzo e da qualcosa ma non so bene cosa, mi avvicinai e la bacia in bocca. Lei inizialmente mi allontanò e rimase un po scossa ma poi si prese e cominciò a baciarmi e ci legammo insieme per un pò. Dopo qualche istante, ci allontanammo, giusto per vederci in faccia. Lei stava per dire qualcosa allora io la interruppi e le mostrai il braccio. Braccio in cui la notte prima era stata scritto il messaggio d’amore. Il volto di lei, si trasformò in un punto interrogativo, era perplessa come per dire ma che minkia è? Molto probabilmente non era la donna della sera prima pensai. Diventai rosso, non sapevo che fare, pensai che ormai qualcosa fosse nato. Nato a caso ma forse non veramente a caso e comunque poteva non avere importanza. Un attimo dopo realizzai che il tutto non aveva senso e pensai di girarmi e scappare via, via da quell’imbarazzo da quella scena troppo strana, in effetti avevo appena baciato una completa sconosciuta così a caso. Sono ancora in tempo! stavo per girarmi e filare via quando ad un tratto lei fece un sorriso, sorriso strano che voleva dire qualcosa, un po malizioso, si avvicinò e mi baciò ancora più intensamente come se mi conoscesse. Ma boh io come al solito non ho capito niente, ero un pò stanco e assonnato, ho guardato l’altro braccio e ho riletto non ti fari pigghiari du sonnu! vidi chi ie ionnu! vidi chi ionnu! allora spinto da questa frase e dall’impeto del bacio, mi svegliai di colpo e continuai a baciarla per tanto, tantissimo tempo. Eravamo come completi sconosciuti dove, l’unica parola scambiata era stato un bacio, a volte un bacio può dire ed esprimere più di mille parole. MI diressi verso il capannone e nel contempo cercavo di ricordarmi, il cuore mi batteva ero leggermente agitato non sapevo che dire che fare. Ad un tratto la vidi e la riconobbi, stava proprio di fronte al capannone stava facendo una pausa, man mano che mi avvicinavo i ricordi diventano sempre più chiari, mi ricordai dei capelli neri ricci degli occhi sempre neri molto penetranti, mi apparve tutto chiaro. Però una volta lì davanti ero imbarazzatissimo e non sapevo che fare, preso dall’imbarazzo e da qualcosa ma non so bene cosa, mi avvicinai e la bacia in bocca. Lei inizialmente mi allontanò e rimase un po scossa ma poi si prese e cominciò a baciarmi e ci legammo insieme per un pò. Dopo qualche istante, ci allontanammo, giusto per vederci in faccia. Lei stava per dire qualcosa allora io la interruppi e le mostrai il braccio. Braccio in cui la notte prima era stata scritto il messaggio d’amore. Il volto di lei, si trasformò in un punto interrogativo, era perplessa come per dire ma che minkia è? Molto probabilmente non era la donna della sera prima pensai. Diventai rosso, non sapevo che fare, pensai che ormai qualcosa fosse nato. Nato a caso ma forse non veramente a caso e comunque poteva non avere importanza. Un attimo dopo realizzai che il tutto non aveva senso e pensai di girarmi e scappare via, via da quell’imbarazzo da quella scena troppo strana, in effetti avevo appena baciato una completa sconosciuta così a caso. Sono ancora in tempo! stavo per girarmi e filare via quando ad un tratto lei fece un sorriso, sorriso strano che voleva dire qualcosa, un po malizioso, si avvicinò e mi baciò ancora più intensamente come se mi conoscesse. Ma boh io come al solito non ho capito niente, ero un pò stanco e assonnato, ho guardato l’altro braccio e ho riletto non ti fari pigghiari du sonnu! vidi chi ie ionnu! vidi chi ionnu! allora spinto da questa frase e dall’impeto del bacio, mi svegliai di colpo e continuai a baciarla per tanto, tantissimo tempo. Eravamo come completi sconosciuti dove, l’unica parola scambiata era stato un bacio, a volte un bacio può dire ed esprimere più di mille parole.\nTraduzioni: # Se senti il cuore che batte, sai dove trovarmi.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nScimmietta che sta succedendo, non vedi che siamo già a disagio. Devi contribuire anche tu a fare traffico.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMa che ci fai ancora qui. senti il tuo cuore e vai a cercare la donna che ieri sera ti ha aperto il suo cuore.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nNon ti fare prendere dal sonno. Vedi che è giorno, vedi che è giorno.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nPerbacco, come ci siamo divertiti ieri sera… che c’è il caffè?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nVado al circo. Qualcuno vuole venire o vi scocciate?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nFosse solo la giacchetta che ti sei scordato ieri sera! Ieri voi ragazzi, avete fatto un chiasso esagerato!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nAspetta il ragazzo con la scimmia.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"September 7, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/story/che_ci_fa_una_scimmia_in_sicilia/","section":"Storie","summary":"Bicchieri svuotati dall\u0026rsquo;alcol e sparsi di qua e di là su un tavolo colmo di disordine. I bicchieri, sono pieni di menta e lime ormai secchi\u0026hellip;","title":"Che ci fa una scimmia in Sicilia?","type":"story"},{"content":"","date":"August 25, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/campagna/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"campagna","type":"tags"},{"content":"Erano le 4.30 e Pierluigi aveva ancora gli occhi chiusi. Era sommerso in un sogno profondo. il sogno di un gioco, guardie e ladri. Pierluigi, era alla ricerca di un posto posizionato in alto, un luogo dove avrebbe potuto godere di una buona visione con multiple vie di fuga. Scelse la terrazza di Floride, una terrazza enorme che offriva una vista sulla piazza centrale del paese. Da lì poteva vedere tutta la piazza e seguire le guardie che avevano appena finito di contare e stavano per andare alla ricerca dei ladri.\nUn sobbalzo lo svegliò aprì leggermente gli occhi e vide a bettula 1 del nonno. L’aveva usata come cuscino e gli aveva biascicato addosso mentre dormiva.\nIl sobbalzo era stato causato da Stella la cavalla del nonno che si stava destreggiando nella dura salita che portava alla campagna. Cooooocoocode sentì, un colpo di ali e la bettola iniziò a muoversi. Pierluigi, aveva sonno e non si fece domande sul perché la bettola si muoveva ed emetteva versi di gallina, chiuse gli occhi e riprese a dormire.\nAppena arrivarono in campagna, si fermarono di fronte all’orto. Scesero dal cavallo, il nonno disse Sta Iddina non è chiu bona a nenti. Non fa qiu ovae non è bona mancu più fari u brodu, c’amo a tagghiari a testa. 2 allora il nonno si girò verso Pierluigi e gli diede un coltello dal manico di legno molto affilato, l\u0026rsquo;aveva affilato la mattina con tanta cura. Pigghia stu cuteddu, cià fari nun tagghiu nte cannarozzi. Te ca. 3 Pierluigi aveva solo 9 anni era ingenuo e perplesso non capiva il perché di questa azione e non si spiegava perché doveva essere proprio lui a farla. Era molto impaurito dalla gallina. Il nonno la prese tenendola per le ali e tenendogli la testa e gli disse fozza tagghia! allora Pierluigi si avvicinò e avvicinò il coltello alla gola della galliana, la sfiorò, non appena vide il sangue, rabbrividì e si fermò. Il nonno cercò di riprendere il coltello per terminare la gallina. Ad un tratto la gallina gli sfuggì di mano e cominciò ad emettere versi smorzati. Si mise a correre sguazzando sangue di qua e di la. Il sangue schizzò su Pierluigi e sul nonno e sul prato, Sembrava una scena splatter come nei film di Tarantino. Cercarono di acchiappare la gallina ma gli sfuggì, dopo un pò la gallina si stancò e cominciò a barcollare qua e la. Il nonno in un balzo l’afferrò e con un colpo secco gli recise la gola, mentre lo fece, si sentì un ultimo stridulo coccodè che mise fine alle sofferenze della povera gallina. Allora la prese e la appese ad un palo vicino all’orto e disse ora voggiu a vidiri si tornunu staceddi da mala sorti! 4 tutta questa crudeltà per far scappare gli uccellini che in quei giorni mangiavano il raccolto. Il nonno aveva fatto uno spaventapasseri ma non era stato sufficiente. Ci teneva molto alla sua campagna aveva fatto tanti sacrifici e avrebbe fatto qualsiasi cosa per raccoglierne i frutti.\nPierluigi era un po scandalizzato dalla scena a cui aveva assistito. Un attimo dopo, si mise al lavoro, doveva mbvirare 5, spostando la suca di rasola a rasola.\nMise la suca sotto un grande albero di pesche e si sedette ad aspettare. Ad un tratto, gli calò la palpebra e si trovò di fronte le guardie che stavano salendo dalle scale principali. Allora Pierluigi, scappò verso l\u0026rsquo;altra uscita della terrazza ma un\u0026rsquo;altra guardia arrivò velocemente su dalle stesse scale. Una guardia disse ormai sei un trappola, arrenditi. Pierluigi, ci teneva a non essere catturato e avrebbe fatto di tutto, allora si sporse dalla terrazza mentre i due si avvicinavano. Fu lì che capì che poteva farcela, col cuore in gola e la guardia ad un soffio, flush si tuffó dalla terrazza. Durante il volo emise un gemito di follia, ammortizzó la caduta facendo delle capriole sul prato morbido che lo aiutò ad attenuare la caduta. Si chiuse sì tanto in se stesso che successe una cosa insolita, emesse una flatulenza e subito dopo sentì qualcosa che spinse nelle mutande proprio in prossimità del sedere. Non era paura ma causato dalla contrazione che fece il suo corpo. Era piccolo e non sentì alcun dolore, si alzò e continuò a correre fino a casa verso il bagno per finire ciò che era cominciato. Ad un tratto mentre si lavó le mani, sentì l\u0026rsquo;acqua, la sentì fino ai piedi si svegliò e vide una pozza enorme, si era scordato di spostare la suca e il pesco era pieno colmo d’acqua. Allora prese la suca e di corsa la sposto nella rasula sotto. Dopo un po\u0026rsquo; arrivo il nonno, Pierluigi era stanco e aveva fame chiese al nonno che ore sono? Il nonno alzò lo sguardo e guardò il sole e disse iè menzionnu ora ni calamu e annamu a manciari. Iai fami? Te docu manciati na pessica. 6 Pierluigi accenno un sospiro di sollievo, domandava spesso che ore erano al nonno, era affascinato da come sapesse sempre l\u0026rsquo;ora esatta senza l\u0026rsquo;uso dell\u0026rsquo;orologio. Il nonno preparò con le foglie dei fichi d\u0026rsquo;india ei limoni marci u pastrozzu 7 un secchio di mangime che diede alle pecore, andavano pazze per u pastrozzu. Mise la suca sotto un grande albero di pesche e si sedette ad aspettare. Ad un tratto, gli calò la palpebra e si trovò di fronte le guardie che stavano salendo dalle scale principali. Allora Pierluigi, scappò verso l\u0026rsquo;altra uscita della terrazza ma un\u0026rsquo;altra guardia arrivò velocemente su dalle stesse scale. Una guardia disse ormai sei un trappola, arrenditi. Pierluigi, ci teneva a non essere catturato e avrebbe fatto di tutto, allora si sporse dalla terrazza mentre i due si avvicinavano. Fu lì che capì che poteva farcela, col cuore in gola e la guardia ad un soffio, flush si tuffó dalla terrazza. Durante il volo emise un gemito di follia, ammortizzó la caduta facendo delle capriole sul prato morbido che lo aiutò ad attenuare la caduta. Si chiuse sì tanto in se stesso che successe una cosa insolita, emesse una flatulenza e subito dopo sentì qualcosa che spinse nelle mutande proprio in prossimità del sedere. Non era paura ma causato dalla contrazione che fece il suo corpo. Era piccolo e non sentì alcun dolore, si alzò e continuò a correre fino a casa verso il bagno per finire ciò che era cominciato. Ad un tratto mentre si lavó le mani, sentì l\u0026rsquo;acqua, la sentì fino ai piedi si svegliò e vide una pozza enorme, si era scordato di spostare la suca e il pesco era pieno colmo d’acqua. Allora prese la suca e di corsa la sposto nella rasula sotto. Dopo un po\u0026rsquo; arrivo il nonno, Pierluigi era stanco e aveva fame chiese al nonno che ore sono? Il nonno alzò lo sguardo e guardò il sole e disse iè menzionnu ora ni calamu e annamu a manciari. Iai fami? Te docu manciati na pessica. 6 Pierluigi accenno un sospiro di sollievo, domandava spesso che ore erano al nonno, era affascinato da come sapesse sempre l\u0026rsquo;ora esatta senza l\u0026rsquo;uso dell\u0026rsquo;orologio. Il nonno preparò con le foglie dei fichi d\u0026rsquo;india ei limoni marci u pastrozzu 7 un secchio di mangime che diede alle pecore, andavano pazze per u pastrozzu.\nIl nonno prese il cavallo e si incamminarono verso casa. Mentre scendevano Pierluigi guardò la campagna ed in lontananza vide la gallina che stava lì, illuminata dal sole, riusciva a vedere chiazze di sangue rosso, qualche goccia che colava piano piano giù. Si sentiva un po\u0026rsquo; in colpa per la gallina, ma il pensiero svanì un attimo dopo arrivati a casa di fronte a una gran tavola bandita con tutta la famiglia lì pronti a pranzare.\nBértula o bisaccia è un manufatto tessile comunemente diffuso su tutto il territorio regionale. Il suo uso ha origini antichissime ed è fortemente legata alla vita quotidiana. In ambito contadino, viene utilizzato per trasportare cibo come frutta, verdura o latte e uova. Oppure anche per utensili.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nQuesta gallina non produce più niente. Non fa più le uova e non è più buona neanche per fare il brodo, dobbiamo tagliarle la testa.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nPrendi questo coltello e coltello, devi fare un taglio in gola. Tieni\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nOra voglio vedere se tornano ancora questi uccelli che portano solo guai\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMbvirare annaffiare le piante, utilizzato sia con l’utilizzo della suca (canna, pompa) oppure anche tramite canalette a scorrimento d\u0026rsquo;acqua.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nE’ mezzogiorno, tra poco torniamo a casa e andiamo a mangiare. Hai Fame? Tieni mangiati una pesca.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nU pastrozzu composto di limoni e aranci, lasciati sotto un telone e sotto al sole, rimangono lì per giorni, settimane a macerare, in modo da comporre questa melma da un odore molto distinguibile e forte. Viene utilizzato come mangime per gli animali, ha ottimi valori nutrizionali.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"August 25, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/story/la_campagna_e_la_gallina/","section":"Storie","summary":"Erano le 4.30 e Pierluigi aveva ancora gli occhi chiusi. Era sommerso in un sogno profondo. il sogno di un gioco, guardie e ladri\u0026hellip;.","title":"La campagna e la gallina","type":"story"},{"content":"Din..Don..Din..Don.. Era Domenica mattina, le campane suonarono la prima volta alle 8 la mattina, il suono era molto forte e riecheggia in tutto il paese, quella domenica come tutte le domeniche a quell\u0026rsquo;ora quasi tutti dormivano compreso Gino. La vecchietta Concettina invece era sveglia da prima dell’alba, sprizzava di gioia e tanta energia, era il suo unico giorno di uscita. Come ogni domenica, Concettina, stava seguendo la sua routine domenicale, si stava preparando a festa!\nConcettina, dopo aver fatto una colazione molto abbondante, aveva bisogno di tante energie di domenica, si attinge ad effettuare tutte le sue preparazioni. Una doccia molto lunga per sentirsi ben profumata e sveglia, dopo si preparava i capelli, facendo tanti boccoli raccolti uno per uno per comporre come un mazzo di tulipani. Nonostante l’età Concettina aveva ancora tanti capelli, tutti neri. Faceva il colore pochissime volte. Il nero dei suoi capelli era sempre molto forte e acceso. Di domenica, usava legare i capelli con nastro di colore azzurro e rosa e ci faceva sopra un bel fiocco. La faccia tutta incipriata per coprire le occhiaie e un pò i solchi degli anni, pesanti rughe che nonostante la cipria, restavano comunque visibili. Sulle labbra, passava un rossetto, di un rosso ma di un rosso, molto forte che accendeva tutta la faccia e delineava un gran sorriso. Sorriso che aveva sempre stampato in faccia, un sorriso vissuto, che esprime molta serenità e bontà.\nScorreva tutti i vestiti migliori, li guardava, li riguardava, li girava, ma alla fine sceglieva quasi sempre il suo vestito preferito. Un vestito bello a quadri nero bianco e grigio. Molto classico ed elegante. Ci attaccava sopra la sua spilla d’oro, spilla di un delfino che aveva ricevuto da sua mamma e a sua volta, sua mamma l’aveva ricevuta da sua Mamma Concetta. Aggiungeva, una collana di perle e due orecchini di perle per dare un tocco ancor più di eleganza. Prendeva la sua borsetta e la riempiva di tutto ciò che poteva essergli utile, un fazzoletto bianco, tutto ricamato da lei stessa, con le sue iniziali PC, un foulard nel caso facesse freschetto, un ventaglio nel caso facesse caldo e un ombrello nel caso piovesse. Pensava proprio a tutto e aveva tanto tempo per prepare tutto al minimo dettaglio.\nUna volta pronta, si posizionava nel suo posto preferito, posto in cui passava le mattine e i pomeriggi, in genere stava lì, seduta sul balcone a non fare nulla, guardare le macchine passare, i bambini giocare, le foglie cadere e il tempo passare. Invece oggi, aveva una cosa da fare. Stava lì seduta ad aspettare Petra. Petra era una ragazza giovane, figlia di Pippo, cugino di terzo grado di Concetta. Petra era molto affezionata a Concetta e ogni domenica, andava a prenderla a casa e l’accompagnava in chiesa, Concetta faceva fatica a camminare per i suoi dolori di artrosi dovuti all’età.\nPetra arrivò puntuale alle 10 be un ora prima dall’inizio della messa. Al suo arrivo di nuovo Din..Don..Din..Don.. le campane suonarono di nuovo a festa. Concetta abitava circa 150 mt di distanza dalla Chiesa, generalmente una persona giovane e in salute ci mette circa un minuto a percorrere questo tratto, invece Concetta e Petra uscivano almeno un ora prima, si la vecchietta Concetta aveva qualche acciacco ma non era per quello che uscivano così prima bensì perchè Concetta aveva tanto tempo a disposizione e quello era il suo giorno e voleva goderselo al massimo.\nPetra una volta arrivata, salutava Concetta. Buongiorno Zia Concetta! Ma comu ti parasti! Si troppu bedda stamatina! 1. Concetta ricambia con tanta gioia e un gran sorriso Buongiorno Petra! oggi, tu si a chiu bedda du paesi! Putemu fari a sfilata! 2. Petra aveva portato un fiore come tutte le domeniche, raccolto dal suo giardino. Si avvicinò a Concetta e lo mise sotto al fiocco e disse. Ora putemu nesciri si troppu bedda! 3. Allora prese la borsetta e insieme si avviarono piano piano verso le scale. Concetta si appoggiò a Petra da un lato e al corrimano in legno dall’altro lato. Faceva scivolare la mano sullo scorrimano, ma benché si fidasse molto di Petra, non si fidava delle sue gambe quindi, stringeva molto forte lo scorrimano che provocava uno stridio derivante dall’attrito della sua mano sudata che scivolava sullo scorrimano. Una volta finite le scale, Concetta si sedeva sul bisolo per fare una piccola pausa. Concetta una volta seduta disse Hai Hai! Chi bella iunnata i suli sta matina\u0026hellip;ma Petra dimmi chi facisti a ieri sira? mi dissiru chi niscisti con cocca adunu. 4 Petra rispose ieri niscia cu Ginu. Ie un bravu figghiolo! allora subito Concetta ribatte: E cu ie Gino? I cui è figghiu? Petra ci penso un attimo, poi rispose: ie u figghiu i Mimma e i Pippu a bonanima sua. 5 Concetta subito curioso ribatte e chi facisti? cunta cunta…6 Allora concetta comincia: ma chi nì sai mi vinni a pigghiari fino a casa! ruvao tutto allicchittato supra a so vespa..Matri tuttu troppu beddu chi capiddi sistemati ie na camicia pulita\u0026hellip; 7 Non finì di raccontare la storia che arrivò Mari Ciccia. Le tre si scambiarono affettuosi saluti e si incamminarono verso la messa. Appena partiti sentirono ancora Din..Don..Din..Don.. l’ultima ora, le campane suonavano ogni 15 minuti. Gino questa volta fece un sussulto sentendo le campane ma poi si girò dall’altra parte e continuò a dormire. Petra una volta arrivata, salutava Concetta. Buongiorno Zia Concetta! Ma comu ti parasti! Si troppu bedda stamatina! 1. Concetta ricambia con tanta gioia e un gran sorriso Buongiorno Petra! oggi, tu si a chiu bedda du paesi! Putemu fari a sfilata! 2. Petra aveva portato un fiore come tutte le domeniche, raccolto dal suo giardino. Si avvicinò a Concetta e lo mise sotto al fiocco e disse. Ora putemu nesciri si troppu bedda! 3. Allora prese la borsetta e insieme si avviarono piano piano verso le scale. Concetta si appoggiò a Petra da un lato e al corrimano in legno dall’altro lato. Faceva scivolare la mano sullo scorrimano, ma benché si fidasse molto di Petra, non si fidava delle sue gambe quindi, stringeva molto forte lo scorrimano che provocava uno stridio derivante dall’attrito della sua mano sudata che scivolava sullo scorrimano. Una volta finite le scale, Concetta si sedeva sul bisolo per fare una piccola pausa. Concetta una volta seduta disse Hai Hai! Chi bella iunnata i suli sta matina\u0026hellip;ma Petra dimmi chi facisti a ieri sira? mi dissiru chi niscisti con cocca adunu. 4 Petra rispose ieri niscia cu Ginu. Ie un bravu figghiolo! allora subito Concetta ribatte: E cu ie Gino? I cui è figghiu? Petra ci penso un attimo, poi rispose: ie u figghiu i Mimma e i Pippu a bonanima sua. 5 Concetta subito curioso ribatte e chi facisti? cunta cunta…6 Allora concetta comincia: ma chi nì sai mi vinni a pigghiari fino a casa! ruvao tutto allicchittato supra a so vespa..Matri tuttu troppu beddu chi capiddi sistemati ie na camicia pulita\u0026hellip; 7 Non finì di raccontare la storia che arrivò Mari Ciccia. Le tre si scambiarono affettuosi saluti e si incamminarono verso la messa. Appena partiti sentirono ancora Din..Don..Din..Don.. l’ultima ora, le campane suonavano ogni 15 minuti. Gino questa volta fece un sussulto sentendo le campane ma poi si girò dall’altra parte e continuò a dormire.\nCamminarono per ben 15 minuti tirati facendo qualche pausa qua e là e si ritrovarono in piazza. Una volta in piazza, camminarono ancora più piano in modo da farsi vedere da tutti. Si sedettero proprio nella panchina centrale della piazza, tutti le guardarono, loro salutarono e si misero a chiacchierare con tutti, quando ancora Din..Don..Din..Don\u0026hellip; Ad un tratto, si avvicinò Cammela a cuttigghiara era sempre in cerca di qualcuno a cui raccontare i suoi curtigghiu ma soprattutto ascoltare altri curtigghi in modo da riempire il suo tempo, allenare la sua parlantina. Una volta lì davanti Buongiorno signore, ma come siamo belle questa mattina! le tre, ricambiarono il saluto. Carmela utilizzava sempre la stessa strategia, inizialmente buttava giù una serie di complimenti e ringraziamenti vari in modo da attrarre l’attenzione e fare sentire bene il suo pubblico, poi quando tutte pendevano dalle sue labbra partiva con la sua storia, inizia sempre dalla storia più in voga del momento, poi se vedeva esserci un ricambio allora andava giù più pesante fino agli scoop che manco i muri conoscevano. E fidatevi lei ne sapeva davvero tante, il suo lavoro era quello ed era assatanata dal saperne sempre di più, sapere tutto di tutti. Quel giorno esordì con la storia da Fubba (la furba). La Fubba, era una vecchietta che non si vedeva mai, stava sempre chiusa in casa e non si sapeva niente di lei, non si sapeva cosa facesse, come vivesse e se fosse ancora viva. Si parlava di lei spesso, era l’unica di cui nessuno aveva filtro. Si raccontavano tante storie brutte e belle ma la maggior parte di queste vedeva sempre la donna in maniera cattiva vincente e furba. Ieri a putia ntrasiu na signora, Gina (la proprietaria della putia), mi dissi\u0026hellip;chi mai l\u0026rsquo;avia vista. Iera vecchia, ma strana, aviva nu stile tuttu particulari cu nu cappeddu a tipo chiddi chi si vidunu nta televisione e parrava italianu. Ma Italianu bonu, comu parrano chiddi chi studiano assai, sicuru chi fici magari i superiori. Na vota chi ntrasiu, vaddau tutti i cosi e ci fici 50 mila dumanni, e da ago e filo si cattao fino a attrezzi i travagghiu. Proprio strana sta vecchia. Si cattau si tanti cosi. Gina mi dissi chi manco nto misi migghiori fici tutto sto guadagnu. Appena nisciu Gina cuminciò a cantari e ballari da contentizza e chiamò subito so figghiu Filippò e u mannau mi ci va appresso pi capiri da unni nisciu sta vecchia. Allora Filippu ci cuntao chi si fici u giro i tutti l’attività du paisi. Cattò, tutto cattau, inchiu u carrello si cattò magari nautru carrelo e u ghinchì. Tutti aierie ieruno sbarruati i sta cosa e tutti i vindanti mi cuntaruno a stissa cosa chi era troppu stranuuu. Ma a sapiti na cosa? Filippu a nsucutau fino a casa e ndovinati aunnni ruvao\u0026hellip;A casa da Fubba! Cumbinazioni ie fossi o ie proprio a Fubba? E cu sapi e cui a cunusci! mai nuddu a vidiu nta facci! 8 La storia era quasi finita quando fu interrotta dalle campane Din..Don..Din..Don..Din..Don..Din..Don.. che suonavano di più per segnalare che mancava solo l\u0026rsquo;ultima quarto d’ora all\u0026rsquo;inizio della messa. Allora le tre ringraziarono Carmela per la storia e si incamminarono verso la chiesa. Carmela non aveva tratto alcun guadagno da quello scambio allora si avvicinò e disse, u sapiti chi c\u0026rsquo;è, magari io a nari a missa oggi, vengu con vui così vi ncumpagnu fino a ghiesa. 9 In questo modo, nel tragitto poteva ascoltare le loro discussioni. Le tre lo sapevano, conoscevano bene Carmela, ma era inutile cercare di evitarla o non parlare. Allora si misero in marcia e ripresero a chiacchierare lo stesso però ogni tanto aggiungevano al discorso una fandonia in modo da rendere il lavoro di Carmela più difficile.\nAppena arrivarono sul ponte che regala una bella vista della grande chiesa del paese dall’alto, rimasero tutte e tre sbalordite, c’era un matrimonio e la piazza di fronte alla chiesa era tutta piena di persone belle, sorridenti e vestite a festa. Concettina allora divenne ancora più contenta, i suoi occhi si illuminarono e una lacrima di gioia scivolò giù per il viso. Anche Mari Ciccia lacrimò, ma le sue lacrime erano lacrime di dolore per suo marito, l’aveva perso da qualche mese e ancora il ricordo era molto accesso. Petra invece era contentissima, nella folla distinse gli sposi, e già si immaginò il suo futuro con Gino li in mezzo sorridenti. Carmela non era per niente sorpresa ovviamente già era a conoscenza del matrimonio e sapeva tutto sul matrimonio si trattava di una fuitina 10. Carmela era venuta apposta per vedere come le persone si erano vestite, studiare la gente e conoscere altre storie per dissetare la sua irrefrenabile voglia di conoscenza altrui.\nBuongiorno Zia Concetta! Ma comu ti sei vestita e sistemata bene! Sei troppo bella questa mattina! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nBuongiorno Petra! oggi, tu sei la più bella del paese! Insieme possiamo fare la sfilata di moda! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nOra possiamo uscire, sei troppo bella! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nHai Hai! Che bella giornata di sole questa mattina\u0026hellip;ma Petra dimmi che hai fatto ieri sera? Mi hanno detto che sei uscita con qualcuno. Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nE’ il figlio di Mimma e Pippo defunto e degno di rispetto. Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nE che hai fatto? racconta… Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nNon puoi capire, è venuto a prendermi fino a casa! e arrivato ed era tutto sistemato con la sua vespa bianca. Mi davvero troppo bello, con i capelli e la camicia perfetti… Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nIeri alla putia (negozio tipico siciliano dove in genere si vende qualsiasi cosa) è entrata una signora*, Gina (la proprietaria della putia), mi disse che non l’aveva mai vista. Era anziana e strana, aveva uno stile particolare, portava un cappello come quello che si vede alla televisione. Parlava in italiano molto bene. Come parlano le persone che studiano tanto, sicuramente avrà conseguito anche la scuola superiori. Una volta che entrò, ha guardato tutto il negozio e fece tante domande. Comprò tutto da ago e filo, fino agli attrezzi da lavoro. Ha comprato così tante cose che Gina, la proprietaria del negozio, neanche nel mese migliore guadagna così tanto. Appena uscita, Gina si mise a ballare e a cantare dalla contentezza e chiamò suo figlio Filippo e lo mandò a seguire la signora in modo da capire da dove proveniva. Filippo, raccontò che fece tutto il giro dei negozi del paese e comprò tantissime cose, Riempi il carrello e si comprò anche un altro carrello e lo riempì. Tutti i venditori erano sorpresi di questa cosa e mi raccontarono tutti la stessa cosa. Era troppo strano. Ma la sapete una cosa. Filippo la seguì fino a casa e indovinare dove andò….A casa della Furba! E’ una combinazione oppure è proprio lei? E chi lo sa? Chi la conosce! Mai nessuno l’ha vista in faccia.* Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nLo sapete che c’è, anche io devo andare a messa oggi, vengo con voi così vi accompagno. Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nFuitina: fuga repentina che identifica l’allontanamento di una coppia di giovani aspiranti coniugi dai rispettivi nuclei familiari di appartenenza, allo scopo di rendere esplicita (o far presumere) l\u0026rsquo;avvenuta consumazione di un atto sessuale completo.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"July 11, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/story/il_giorno_della_messa/","section":"Storie","summary":"Din..Don..Din..Don.. Era Domenica mattina, le campane suonarono la prima volta alle 8 la mattina, il suono era molto forte e riecheggia in\u0026hellip;","title":"Il giorno della messa","type":"story"},{"content":"","date":"July 11, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/messa/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"messa","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"26 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/plugin/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"plugin","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"26 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/youtube/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"youtube","type":"tags"},{"content":"With this article I want to explain how to build an app for your personal youtube channel in 10 minutes. I did this basic project to create Italiano con Eli app, created for the YouTube channel Italiano con Eli. While I was developing the app I decided to generalize the solution so that it can retrieve any video to any Youtube channel. The complete and working application is available at the following link github. You can make a Fork or a Clone or use it as it or by modifying it as you like. If you like you can also put a like to my git project.\nRequired configuration # The only thing to do to be able to use it is to configure the connection to the Youtube API so that you can use the search for your channel videos. For a correct configuration you can follow the following steps:\nLog in to the Google Api Console with your Google Account if you don\u0026rsquo;t have it, create a new account.\nGo under projects and click on NEW PROJECT, enter the name and wait for google to create project.\nClick on the link in the Google API library and search or select the youtube API as highlighted in the photo below\nClick on the link in the Google API library and search or select the youtube API as highlighted in the photo below\nafter click ability and go under the credentials menu item Select Youtube Api v3, select public data and confirm\nNow Google will create your api key\nthe api key recovered in step 6 will be inserted within the application and replaced the page main.dart instead of the key as follows:\nstatic String key = \u0026#34;\u0026#34;; // ** ENTER YOUTUBE API KEY HERE ** static String channelid = \u0026#34;UC_8mNVpafplqHNy85No4O2g\u0026#34;; // ** ENTER YOUTUBE CHANNEL ID HERE ** the channel id must refer to your youtube channel. You can simply extract it from the link of your youtube channel, taking the final part of the link:\nThe configuration is finished, you have just created your App for your personal Youtube channel! Yehaa!\nSome references to the code # To facilitate the development of the application I used the following two flutter plugins that you can find on flutter packages pages.\nThe plugins used are the following:\nyoutube player Flutter\nyoutube API\nthe application code is very simple and I have given apage division structure\nfairly clear:\nModel contains the model of data recovered from API youtube. Now the class also does something more, there is a method that also retrieves the data from youtube and inserts it in the model and some method to recover the data. There is also a system that recovers data only if it is not cached using the shared preference flutter. This mechanism is very useful as the Google API is paid according to the use. Using the cache will save you drastically in calls. if you have never used the cache in flutter you can read this mine other article: flutter shared preferences in depth.\nPages contains the APP pages\nhome page\ncategory page\nplay video page\nUI contains a widget to represent the list of videos. I created it separately as a widget to create a view that can be used on both the home page and category and I could also use it in other pages in the future.\n**Main.dart ** just to initialize view, the model class, load the youtube data and pass it to the respective pages.\nUsing this structure, the code is very simple to maintain, for example the home page contains only the following code:\nimport \u0026#39;package:flutter/material.dart\u0026#39;; import \u0026#39;package:youtubeapichannel/Model/YoutubeData.dart\u0026#39;; import \u0026#39;package:youtubeapichannel/UI/YoutubeVideoList.dart\u0026#39;; YoutubeData youtubeData; class Home extends StatefulWidget { Home(YoutubeData inyoutubeData) { youtubeData = inyoutubeData; } @override _HomeState createState() =\u0026gt; new _HomeState(); } class _HomeState extends State\u0026lt;Home\u0026gt; { callAPI() async { setState(() {print(\u0026#39;UI Updated\u0026#39;); }); } @override void initState() { super.initState(); //callAPI(); } @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { if(youtubeData!=null) return new YoutubeVideoList(youtubeData.getHomeList()); else return new Container(child:new Text(\u0026#34;problem loading data from youtube!\u0026#34;)); } } Then simply receive the class containing the list of videos as input and call the YoutubeVideoList plugin that is under the UI to represent them in the form of a list of YouTube videos.\nThe only flaw is that when I made it I was not so expert and I decided to pass the data as a parameter. Today flutter offers better technical provisions for passing data from one view to another, in fact I should make an update and do the usual refactor.\n","date":"26 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/youtube_channel_android_and_ios_app_in_ten_minute_with_flutter/","section":"Coding","summary":"Create an Android and iOS app for any YouTube channel in 10 minutes with Flutter. Full source code, YouTube API setup, and caching included.","title":"Youtube Channel Android and Ios APP in ten minute with Flutter","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"June 18, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/commissioni/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"commissioni","type":"tags"},{"content":"Gino apri gli occhi, quella mattina si svegliò un po’ turbato di ciò che era avvenuto la sera prima ma soprattutto con un brutto pensiero, forse aveva fatto un incubo. Sollevò lo sguardo, guardò l\u0026rsquo;orologio e la sua faccia si scurì immediatamente. In un attimo aveva realizzato che era giovedì e doveva fare una commissione. Non aveva la minima voglia di fare questa commissione e rabbrividì al solo pensiero. Si girò d\u0026rsquo;altro lato sperando di addormentarsi nuovamente e di svegliarsi il giorno dopo. Chiuse a malapena una palpebra quando sentì una voce dal profondo e non era un incubo, purtroppo, era sua mamma che urlava: Gino svigghiati chi iè taddu. Ti ricoddi chi m’ha spicciari da cosa a posta? U sai chi io non ci pozz’ annari! 1 Quindi, era tutto vero. Sua mamma aveva bisogno di lui, ma la commissione alla posta Gino non l’aveva mai mandata giù, la faceva controvoglia e lo metteva di malumore. Allora risponde alla mamma: mamma fammi dommiri, fammi dommiri autri 10 minuti! Poi mi siddiu e sugnu stancu e u sai che na suppottu Naiu Valia! 2 la mamma gli urlò subito contro insistentemente fin tanto che Gino decise di alzarsi. Scese le scale con i capelli e la faccia stropicciata, prese il caffè e lì accanto trovò le carte, carte che doveva portare alla posta. Le guardò, poi si mise a giocare con la tazzina di caffè mettendola vicino agli occhi in modo da fare sparire le carte dal suo sguardo. Alla fine si rassegnò, si alzò, prese le carte e uscì.\nAttraversò il vialetto e si ritrovò di fronte alla piazza del paese. In piazza a distanza vide due donne, già da lontano riconobbe Cammela a cuttighiara 3 che parlava con una certa veemenza che la caratterizzava. Stava raccontando alle vicine la disavventura proprio di Gino del giorno prima \u0026ldquo;Scinni Papà\u0026rdquo;. Carmela non appena lo vide arrivare, cambiò subito discorso, tanto sapeva tutto di tutti e aveva tanti cuttigghi a disposizione da raccontare. Gino si sentì un po’ osservato mentre passava e percepì in sottofondo un po’ di sghignazzi. Una volta in piazza, vide Don Gianni che stava lì seduto ad aspettare che il tempo passasse. Don Gianni salutò Gino con molto rispetto e un bel sorriso affettuoso, erano molto amici i due. Gino ricambiò. Poco più avanti Ciccio invece gli disse: Ma tò patri a unni u lassasti? Aoggi nun scinniu? 4 chiaramente una provocazione, una presa in giro poco velata da parte di Ciccio. A quel punto Gino capì che si riferiva al giorno precedente e allora rispose a tono: Ciccio Birra ma picchì non ti bivi na birra e ti cucchi? 5\nProseguì però senza fermarsi, non voleva problemi quella mattina, già ne aveva tanti, la sua missione principale era la commissione in posta.\nSuperata la piazza, si ritrova di fronte alla posta. Già in lontananza poteva sentire la puzza di sigaretta misto profumo d’arancia e di cocco di Naiu Valia e già gli veniva un senso di vomito. Non appena arrivò all’ingresso la vide. Naiu Valia era lì, sicca sicca, con i capelli scuri, la faccia scura, vestita di nero, come sempre, a non fare nulla. Aveva quello sguardo rilassato ma anche minaccioso e incavolato. Allora Gino entra in silenzio e lei subito a tono: cu non mori si rividi! Ma cu ti porta? C’ha fari? 6 Gino rispose dicendo che doveva fare due raccomandate, prendere un pacchetto…. non lo fece neanche finire di parlare che rispose Ma chi ti sbigghiasti ora? tutto oggi a fari? iè tardu, su i 10, no sai chi io a fari a pausa? Si voi mi poi spettari ca, poi quannu tornu videmu chi putemu fari. 7 Gino non aveva voglia di problemi quella mattina allora rispose che andava bene e si sedette. Aspettò lì seduto sino alle 11 ma niente, di Naiu Valia nessuna traccia. Allora si fece una passeggiata e andò a bere un po’ d’acqua al lavatoio (posto utilizzato una volta per lavare i panni).\nUna volta ritornato vide due vecchiette dentro che dovevano ritirare la pensione e Naiu Valia che era appena tornata. Gino allora si avvicinò e Naiu Valia lo richiamò subito Gino ma che fai? non vedi che c’è gente. Devi aspettare il tuo turno e prendi il numerino. Mica siamo al mercato qui! allora Gino stava per innervosirsi ma sapeva che non era il caso e non poteva perchè se tornava a casa senza aver sbrigato le commissioni poi sentila la mamma. Allora disse: va bene aspetto e prese il numerino.\nNaiu Valia, cominciò a parlare con le vecchiette di tutto, sembrava di essere davvero al mercato. Cominciarono dal l\u0026rsquo;uncinetto per finire con le ricette di cucina siciliane. Gino non ne potè più, era stanco e si addormentò. Non appena aprì gli occhi vide che non c’era più nessuno ed era finalmente arrivato il suo turno. Allora si avvicinò al bancone, lì di fronte a Naiu Valia, lì pronto con tutte le sue carte e le sue cose da sbrigare, dice: è il mio turno adesso giusto? Naiu valia rispose: Ma beddu chi ti sbigghiasti ora! Non vidi chi ie menzionnu. Io annari a manciari. Tranquillu….rilassati i poi fari dumani! tantu ca fari? 8 Naiu Valia, cominciò a parlare con le vecchiette di tutto, sembrava di essere davvero al mercato. Cominciarono dal l\u0026rsquo;uncinetto per finire con le ricette di cucina siciliane. Gino non ne potè più, era stanco e si addormentò. Non appena aprì gli occhi vide che non c’era più nessuno ed era finalmente arrivato il suo turno. Allora si avvicinò al bancone, lì di fronte a Naiu Valia, lì pronto con tutte le sue carte e le sue cose da sbrigare, dice: è il mio turno adesso giusto? Naiu valia rispose: Ma beddu chi ti sbigghiasti ora! Non vidi chi ie menzionnu. Io annari a manciari. Tranquillu….rilassati i poi fari dumani! tantu ca fari? 8\nSe siete arrivati a leggere fin qui avete capito perchè l’addetta della poste aveva come soprannome Naiu Valia. Questa storia ovviamente è un’ esasperazione. Non vuole essere provocatoria verso gli uffici postali né verso gli addetti postali né contro il sud o il nord, è solo una storia, prendetela così com\u0026rsquo;è e state tranquilli e rilassatevi!\nTraduzioni e audio: # Gino svegliati che è tardi, ti ricordi che mi devi sbrigare quelle commissioni all’ufficio postale? Lo sai che io non posso andarci! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMamma fammi dormire! fammi dormire altri 10 minuti! Poi mi scoccio e sono stanco e lo sai che non sopporto l’addetta della posta! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\ncuttighiara persona che ama sparlare di altre persone Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n*Ma dove hai lasciato tuo papà? Oggi non è sceso con te? * Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nFrancesco detto Ciccio Birra perchè non ti bevi una birra e vai a letto? Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nChi non muore si rivede! Ma chi ti ha consigliato di venire? Che cosa devi fare? Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMa ti sei svegliato ora? Devi fare tutto oggi? è tardi, sono le 10, non lo sai che io alle 10 devo faccio la pausa? Se vuoi puoi aspettarmi qui. Quando trono vediamo che cosa riusciamo a sbrigare. Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMa bello, ti sei appena svegliato! Non vedi che è mezzogiorno. Io devo andare a pranzare. Stai tranquillo e rilassati, le puoi sbrigare domani le commissioni. Tanto che cosa hai da fare? Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"June 18, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/story/naiu_valia..la_commissione_alla_posta/","section":"Storie","summary":"Gino apri gli occhi, quella mattina si svegliò un po’ turbato di ciò che era avvenuto la sera prima ma soprattutto con un brutto pensiero,\u0026hellip;","title":"Naiu valia..La commissione alla posta!","type":"story"},{"content":"","date":"18 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/optimization/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"optimization","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"June 18, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/poste/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"poste","type":"tags"},{"content":"We as programmers have different skills and we use lot of patterns, but I think the thing that we mature over time and we have more in common is the resources optimization for time saving. Everyone knows that time is the most important thing! The same way of saying it: time is money. The saying is based on human time. Human time must be used as an additional value for creativity, invention, construction innovation and implementation. We programmers are lucky, we have another measurement time unit, nowadays almost tending to infinity. This is machine time and we have to make the most of it.\nOnce we used slaves, then horses, mules, engines motor. Today we have evolved, culturally and mentally. The slaves of this era are machines. By machines I mean our PCs, or better yet our servers, the cloud or robots.\nI decided to write this article to report useful techniques to make our work more efficient and consequently have more time. My main technique to be used to obtain this result is:\nwrite down the manual steps that we perform to do a task\nsearch for possible alternative solutions\nreflect on how we can automate each single step\nreflect on how we can automate each single step\nput everything together\nstarting from point 1 if our time for the task is not equal to 0\nAn example # Often to speed up our work we write scripts, these scripts are necessary otherwise we would have to write n command statements. Daily or monthly or after doing something else, we have to do it. So let\u0026rsquo;s open the terminal and run the scripts. To avoid launching manual the script, which implies remembering, finding the script and launching it, we can proceed in the following way:\nif it is something that must be done with a fixed date\nSchedule it using a scheduler\nWith linux, we can make a cron\nWe can use atrigger to execute the scheduling in the event that our script is on a server to which we do not have access to server side\nIf instead there is no fixed scheduling date and we have to execute it as needed\nWe can use a keyboard shortcut. In linux but also on Windows it is very simple to set a shortcut. In my case using Ubuntu just go under *settings *-\u0026gt; keyboard shortcuts and add our new parameter that will count the path to our script and the desired shortcut. As you can see in the following image, I use it for example to debug my blog and then to deploy:\nas beautiful as it may seem and can help us make us more efficient, with two buttons, you\u0026rsquo;re done, yes can always optimize. Will you say, what else you can do to optimize this? and why? The reason is simple, in order to run it I necessarily need to have my machine available and turned on. So it would be better where you can always use a server or the cloud in order to do everything remotely so that you can have more control and above all not depend on a local machine.\nToday there are many tools available for us to run scripts or create small web pages or small applications or showcase sites, the free plan of these services, provides many tools including:\nHosting space\nDatabase space\nFunctions for microservices\nContainer\nVirtual machines\nand whoever has more put them\nThere are so many that sometimes we tend not to see them, despite being under our noses. The ones I use most are:\nFirebase\nGoogle Cloud\nAmazon AWS\nGoogle Script\nThe last service unlike the others is not a cloud service but simply an engine of functions that can be scheduled or activated in relation on google service. They are very integrated with our Google account and it will really give great potential to automate:\nmailing\ndata synchronization\ndocument editing\ncalling external API\nstoring data in excel\netc etc \u0026hellip; it\u0026rsquo;s bad to say etc etc but really, the list would be too long, it allows you to automate everything which is Google.\nThe other three are the top three best cloud providers. To begin with I recommend using Firebase because it offers so many services and it is simler and with a faster learning line.\nConclusions # We have to pay more attention to what we all do without thinking on it. If we do something repetitive every day, even if we take very little time to do it, let\u0026rsquo;s take it into consideration and think about it. After years, repetitive things can become many and we risk saturating all our time by doing only repetitive things. I leave you and greet you with a phrase that has come to me now. It probably doesn\u0026rsquo;t make sense or maybe it\u0026rsquo;s already of someone\u0026rsquo;s but I don\u0026rsquo;t know. It is better to create a system that solves a problem than to solve the problem itself!\n","date":"18 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/save_time__do_more_things/","section":"Coding","summary":"Automate repetitive tasks with scripts, cron jobs, and cloud services like Firebase and Google Cloud. Practical tips to reclaim your time.","title":"save time = do more things","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"18 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/script/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"script","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"18 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/timing/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"timing","type":"tags"},{"content":"Scendi papà! disse Gino seduto sulla sua vespa una volta arrivato nella piazza centrale del paese. Non sentendolo scendere allora ripeté dai..scendi papà! Ma niente, allora una terza volta scendi pa.. lo ripetè girandosi, ma il papà non c\u0026rsquo;era! Allora cominciò ad impallidire e divenne bianco, un tutt\u0026rsquo;uno con il bianco della sua tanto amata Vespa. Sfortunatamente per Gino quel giorno era la festa del paese di Sant\u0026rsquo;Antonio e la piazza era piena colma di gente. Tutti, in piazza, si girarono a guardare la scena e cominciarono a ridere. Gino dal bianco divenne rosso, poi girò la vespa era molto preoccupato per il papà allora tornó indietro alla sua ricerca. Dal paese scese giù in velocità cercando di guardare in tutte le direzioni, era agitato e man mano che scendeva e non lo trovava si agitava sempre di più. Una volta arrivato al paese adiacente vide un vecchietto seduto a bordo strada su una sedia bianca, in silenzio che osservava. Gino si avvicinò e gli chiese se aveva visto suo papà. Lui rispose 153, 24, 7 e 1. Gino non capì allora proseguì per la strada e dopo poco, finalmente trovo tanta gente, tutti attorno a soccorrere il papà. Hai hai! Urlava il padre. Chi figghiu sciaguratu chi iaiu! Nenti vali! mancu a Vespa sapi puttari!\nGino quella mattina aveva commesso due grandi errori. Quello di aver fatto cadere il padre dalla vespa senza accorgersene, ma anche di essersene accorto troppo tardi e davanti a troppa gente. Il secondo fu il problema più grosso, che lo segnó a vita. Da quel momento la sua storia tramite il cuttigghio, fu raccontata a tutti in paese poi nel paese vicino e così via in tutta la città. Fintanto che tutti non arrivarono a conoscere la disavventura di Gino. Fu un attimo che Gino fu soprannominato \u0026ldquo;scinni papà!\u0026rdquo;\nFortunatamente Gino, non andava troppo veloce con la Vespa allora suo papà, se la cavò con solo qualche piccola ammaccatura e un’abrasione lungo tutto il braccio. Gino non se n\u0026rsquo;era accorto poichè quella mattina era sommerso di pensieri, pensava alle commissioni che lo attendevano l’indomani.\nMa alla fine, cosa voleva dire il vecchietto saggio a bordo strada? Era lì da tutta la mattina e aveva visto passare 153 macchine, 24 moto ape, 7 motorini e 1 solo stupido, si è fermato dopo essere passato più volte con e senza papà.\nTraduzioni: # Chi figghiu sciaguratu chi iaiu! Nenti vali! mancu a Vespa sapi puttari! Chi figghiu sciaguratu chi iaiu! Nenti vali! mancu a Vespa sapi puttari!\nChe figlio sciagurato che ho! non vale nulla! non sa neanche guidare la sua vespa!\ncuttigghio\nsparlare di altre persone\n","date":"June 17, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/story/scendi_pap%D0%B0.._uno_strano_soprannome/","section":"Storie","summary":"\u003cem\u003eScendi papà!\u003c/em\u003e disse Gino seduto sulla sua vespa una volta arrivato nella piazza centrale del paese. Non sentendolo scendere allora ripeté\u0026hellip;","title":"Scendi papà.. uno strano soprannome!","type":"story"},{"content":"","date":"June 17, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/soprannomi/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"soprannomi","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"June 17, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/vespa/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"vespa","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"June 6, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/banniare/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"banniare","type":"tags"},{"content":"Si cominciava ad intravedere qualche raggio di sole, che splendeva sui ciottoli bianchi della spiaggia. I piccoli vetrini creavano un riflesso ancora più forte, quasi abbagliante. In lontananza si intravedevano delle barchette che dondolavano in mare. Quella mattina l\u0026rsquo;acqua era molto calma, piano piano le piccole barchette si avvicinavano verso la riva e divennero pescherecci di media grandezza. Sul lungomare, una coda di lape (moto ape) in attesa. Gino sta ancora dormendo, ieri ha fatto consegne fino a tardi. Oggi u mari ie chinu i pisci! 1 si sente urlare in lontananza. La prima barchetta di un anziano pescatore attracca, un pescivendolo si avvicina e con il suo garzone comincia a scaricare cassette piene di pesce. Le trasportano sulla loro ape, di colore giallo sbiadito, ne aveva fatta di strada e ne aveva preso di sole quell’ape. Riempiono il cassone con le cassette piene di pesce fresco e ci misero sopra pezzi di ghiaccio per mantenerlo.\nChi bellu pisci, pisci friscu!! pisci spada, sciabulata, aguglia, curstadelle io iaiu! 2 sentì in lontananza Gino, stava ancora dormendo e voleva tanto continuare a dormire ma oggi era martedì e come tutti i martedì puntuale passava Francu u pisciaru. Mu fai un chilu i curstadelle!! 3 sentì Gino urlare dalla casa accanto. il pescivendolo si ferma, scende e si avvicina alla bilancia, bilancia bellissima, enorme, con due piatti e un bilanciere dorato. Mette due pesi da mezzo chilo sopra un piatto della bilancia, sull’altro, mette un foglio e ci butta sopra a pugni le costardelle fintanto che i due vassoi non siano in equilibrio. Signura c’ha regalu! sulu sta junnata 5 euru o chilo! 4 Sempre urlando, in modo che anche le massaie vicine potessero sentire. Un cestino di vimini (u panaru) cala giù con una carrucola dal balcone. Il garzone prende i soldi dal cestino e ci mette le corstadelle, ci aggiunge due limoni e un pò di prezzemolo. Fortunatamente per Gino, quella mattina nessun altro tra i suoi vicini rispose all’offerta di Francu. Allora sentì il forte rumore dell’ape che piano, piano si allontanava. Il rumore stava per terminare e finalmente Gino avrebbe potuto riprendere a dormire.\nBanane, mulinciane, pumadoru, kiwi io iaio. Culi voli l’ovaaa! 5 il sonno di Gino fu presto interrotto da Pippo u viduraru. Viniti,viniti,accattati,accattati, tutta roba frisca iè! 6 Alla fine Gino come tutti i martedì, decise di alzarsi, anche se ancora presto e ancora assonnato, spalancò la finestra, un forte sole e tanto calore illuminò la sua giornata.\nAudio Siciliani # Oggi u mari ie chinu i pisci! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nChi bellu pisci, pisci friscu!! pisci spada, sciabulata, aguglia, curstadelle io iaiu! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMu fai un chilu i curstadelle!! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nSignura c’ha regalu! sulu sta junnata 5 euru o chilo! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nBanane, mulinciane, pumadoru, kiwi io iaio. Culi voli l’ovaaa! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nViniti,viniti,accattati,accattati, tutta roba frisca iè! Your browser does not support the audio element. \u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"June 6, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/story/la_sveglia_inattesa.._a_banniata/","section":"Storie","summary":"Si cominciava ad intravedere qualche raggio di sole, che splendeva sui ciottoli bianchi della spiaggia. I piccoli vetrini creavano un\u0026hellip;","title":"La sveglia inattesa.. A banniata!","type":"story"},{"content":"","date":"June 6, 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/it/tags/vendita-a-domicilio/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"vendita a domicilio","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"5 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/cloud/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Cloud","type":"tags"},{"content":"There are many ways to secure our functions. This topic is not clear when you start using the Cloud Function and it is also constantly changing. I decided to implement my own method that uses the basic and simplest authentication, the Basic Auth. It certainly is not the safest method but it was enough for my purpose. The only flaw is that the function has to be added and implemented in every Cloud function that we make.This implementation then gives us the possibility to call our function from anywhere we want to by simply adding as a parameter of the request the user and the password encrypted in the Basic Auth.\nTo simplify the verification, I created a function that I place in each Cloud Function. This function does the parsing of the request data, verifies if there is a basic auth and, if present, it checks whether the user and password data match. Here is the code I used:\nvar compare = require(\u0026#39;tsscmp\u0026#39;) const checkAuth = async() =\u0026gt; { // parse login and password from headers const b64auth = (req.headers.authorization || \u0026#39;\u0026#39;).split(\u0026#39; \u0026#39;)[1] || \u0026#39;\u0026#39; const strauth = new Buffer(b64auth, \u0026#39;base64\u0026#39;).toString() const splitIndex = strauth.indexOf(\u0026#39;:\u0026#39;) const splitIndex = strauth.indexOf(\u0026#39;:\u0026#39;) const login = strauth.substring(0, splitIndex) const password = strauth.substring(splitIndex + 1) //function to validate credentials using https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsscmp //Prevents timing attacks using Brad Hill\u0026#39;s Double HMAC pattern to perform secure string comparison function check (name, pass) { var valid = true // Simple method to prevent short-circut and use timing-safe compare valid = compare(name, \u0026#39;user\u0026#39;) \u0026amp;\u0026amp; valid valid = compare(pass,\u0026#39;password\u0026#39;) \u0026amp;\u0026amp; valid return valid } if (!check(login, password)) { res.statusCode = 401 res.setHeader(\u0026#39;WWW-Authenticate\u0026#39;, \u0026#39;Basic realm=\u0026#34;example\u0026#34;\u0026#39;) res.end(\u0026#39;Access denied\u0026#39;) } } Then we can use the function within the method called by our Cloud Function in the following way:\nexports.helloWorld = async (req, res) =\u0026gt; { await checkAuth(); let message = req.query.message || req.body.message || \u0026#39;Hello World!\u0026#39;; res.status(200).send(message); }; And that\u0026rsquo;s it, our functions are now safe! Not much but it\u0026rsquo;s a starting point. So in the end if our system is breached,it is not a big problem, in this function we only return Hello World!\nHow do we instead call our function with Flutter? We simply have to create the Basic Auth with user and password and add it to the request as follows:\nvar basicAuth = \u0026#39;Basic \u0026#39;+base64Encode(utf8.encode(user:password\u0026#39;)); http.Response response = await http.get(apiUrl, headers: \u0026lt;String, String\u0026gt;{\u0026#39;authorization\u0026#39;: basicAuth}); print(response.statusCode); //200 print(response.body ); //Hello world! This method is not one of the best, however, it is very fast to implement and also gives us an advantage because it can be used in the same way from all Cloud providers. Finally, we can recall it from anywhere using any language, and it does not force us to use json keys that could be displayed.\nThe only problem I had was having the username and password inside the code that I didn\u0026rsquo;t really like. I solved it by putting these parameters within the firebase configurations. If you are interested in this, you can read this article Flutter 2 indispensable plugins with great potential.\n","date":"5 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/fast_way_to_secure_your_function_with_basic_auth/","section":"Coding","summary":"Secure your Cloud Functions quickly with Basic Auth. Step-by-step JavaScript implementation and Flutter integration for cross-provider compatibility.","title":"Fast way to secure your Function with Basic Auth","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"5 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/secure/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Secure","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/firebase/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Firebase","type":"tags"},{"content":"In the article shared preferences in depth, I explained how to use shared preferences in Flutter. In this article I want to show you a class that I designed to simplify its use. I created this class out of the need to store user data. For example, I used it in Send to Kindle to store a mail list. I also used it to store the user\u0026rsquo;s token list and to purchase data.\nOverall, this structure can be used where there is the need of working with a list of strings. In my previous article, I have already shown how to store a list of strings in local cache. This class, however, makes it even easier to use and adds methods that allow us to work faster.\nFirst, I created the method to save a local cache list as follows:\nclass CashedUserData { static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; _writes = Future.value(); //add list by key reference in local cache static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; addlist(String kPrefKey, List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; stringList) async{ static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; addlist(String kPrefKey, List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; stringList) async{ _writes = _writes.then((void _) =\u0026gt; _doAddList(kPrefKey,stringList)); return _writes; } } static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; _doAddList(String kPrefKey, List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; list) async { List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; cached = await load(kPrefKey); cached.addAll(list); await (await SharedPreferences.getInstance()).setStringList(kPrefKey, cached); } Then I created another method to retrieve the list, I have also put the appropriate checks here, if empty or null:\nstatic Future\u0026lt;List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt;\u0026gt; load(String kPrefKey) async { return (await SharedPreferences.getInstance()).getStringList(kPrefKey) ?? []; } As I used it, I needed to add more methods. Methods to:\nClear the list.\nEnter one string at a time\nOverride the list\nCheck if an element exists\nTake the first item on the list.\nSave an item at the top of the list.\nIn this way the class eventually became like this:\nclass CashedUserData { static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; _writes = Future.value(); static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; overrideListData(String kPrefKey, List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; stringList) async{ _writes = _writes.then((void _) =\u0026gt; _doOverrideListData(kPrefKey,stringList)); return _writes; } static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; addlist(String kPrefKey, List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; stringList) async{ _writes = _writes.then((void _) =\u0026gt; _doAddList(kPrefKey,stringList)); return _writes; } static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; save(String kPrefKey, String id) async{ if(await CashedUserData.exist(kPrefKey, id)) return; _writes = _writes.then((void _) =\u0026gt; _doSave(kPrefKey,id)); return _writes; } static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; saveAsFirst(String kPrefKey, String id) async{ List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; actuaList = await load(kPrefKey); if(actuaList!=null \u0026amp;\u0026amp; actuaList.length == 0 ) return save(kPrefKey,id); if(actuaList.contains(id)) actuaList.remove(id); if(actuaList.length\u0026gt;1) actuaList.removeAt(0); List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; newlist = new List(); newlist.add(id); newlist.addAll(actuaList); _writes = _writes.then((void _) =\u0026gt; _doOverrideListData(kPrefKey,newlist)); return _writes; } static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; delete(String kPrefKey, String id) { _writes = _writes.then((void _) =\u0026gt; _doDelete(kPrefKey,id)); return _writes; } static Future\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; getFirst(String kPrefKey) async { List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; dataList = (await SharedPreferences.getInstance()).getStringList(kPrefKey); return (dataList!=null \u0026amp;\u0026amp; dataList.length\u0026gt;0) ? dataList[0] : \u0026#34;\u0026#34;; } static Future\u0026lt;List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt;\u0026gt; load(String kPrefKey) async { return (await SharedPreferences.getInstance()).getStringList(kPrefKey) ?? []; } static Future\u0026lt;bool\u0026gt; exist(String kPrefKey, String id) async { List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; userDataList = (await SharedPreferences.getInstance()).getStringList(kPrefKey) ?? []; return (userDataList!=null \u0026amp;\u0026amp; userDataList.length \u0026gt; 0) ? userDataList.contains(id) : false; } static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; _doSave(String kPrefKey, String id) async { List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; cached = await load(kPrefKey); cached.add(id); await (await SharedPreferences.getInstance()).setStringList(kPrefKey, cached); } static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; _doDelete(String kPrefKey, String id) async { List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; cached = await load(kPrefKey); cached.remove(id); await (await SharedPreferences.getInstance()).setStringList(kPrefKey, cached); } static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; _doAddList(String kPrefKey, List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; list) async { List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; cached = await load(kPrefKey); cached.addAll(list); await (await SharedPreferences.getInstance()).setStringList(kPrefKey, cached); } static Future\u0026lt;void\u0026gt; _doOverrideListData(String kPrefKey, List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; list) async { await (await SharedPreferences.getInstance()).setStringList(kPrefKey, list); } static update(String kPrefKey, String currentItem, String kindlemail) async{ List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; actuaList = await load(kPrefKey); if(actuaList!=null \u0026amp;\u0026amp; actuaList.length \u0026gt; 0 ) { try{actuaList[actuaList.indexOf(currentItem)] = kindlemail;} catch (e) {} } await overrideListData(kPrefKey, actuaList); } } By doing this I simplified the call points. Furthermore, if the plugin shared preference used changed, there would only be one place where to take action.\n","date":"1 June 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/flutter_useful_class_for_shared_preferences/","section":"Coding","summary":"A reusable Flutter class to simplify Shared Preferences management with add, delete, update, and cache operations for string lists.","title":"Flutter useful class for shared preferences","type":"Coding"},{"content":" An Happy man # It was dark and quiet. A slight fishy smell was perceived on the nose. A rustle in the distance like when the sea beats on the shoreline. It was a beautiful evening. Gino, like every evening, was there, ready on his white Vespa, with a bright smile on his face and proud of himself. The wind lifts and moves its curly curls. At a certain point a man approaches, gives him a package and tells him Piazzale Dante 26. He replies, yes sir! He puts the package in the trunk, starts his Vespa with a sharp blow to the pedal. A burst and a strong discharge of gasoline comes out of the exhaust pipe. Gino breathes intensely, loves that strong smell of burnt mixed petrol with a background of the sea, makes him feel alive. He takes off on the twenty-fourth of May, and goes down fast, darting through the few cars he encounters. As he travels his way, he thinks of his children Pino and Matilde, who are about to go to bed at the moment. Then he bends over the wasp with a gentle movement, as if he were cradling his children. Arriving at the square, he stops, takes the package and heads for number 26. A beautiful family home. Drin Drin! A woman answers the intercom telling him to enter in. Gino enters, the woman asks him: Do you want something? Shall I make you a coffee? Gino replies, Thanks lady but I never drink coffee in the evening! So get a cookie I just made them! the woman reiterates. Gino takes a biscuit, they say goodbye and returns to his Vespa. As he returns, he finishes the last piece of the biscuit and thinks\u0026hellip; Ho my god how good are these biscuits! and smiles.\nA busy girl # At the same time, somewhere else, a little further but not too far, Alessia, a woman with all her hair shaved, a nice tattoo that comes out of her white T-shirt, is there waiting for something. There is no smell all covered by the smog of the big city. While waiting, he looks at his smartphone, answers a message, when suddenly he hears the number 16. He jumps up and suddenly turns, takes a few steps and heads towards the restaurant entrance. Come in and say Here I am! A parcel is given to him. He takes it and heads for his new electric bike. Hop on, attach the smartphone to the handlebar and start browsing which shows him where to go for package delivery. Then it rushes through the traffic, heavy traffic at that hour. It is found in the midst of machines and scooters that go beyond her and make fur continuously. During the journey she doesn\u0026rsquo;t think at anything, she can\u0026rsquo;t wait to make the last delivery, the evening ends and she can finally go home. Be careful where you go! the scream of a taxi driver. Alessia nervously replies Idiot, a little respect for cyclists! Finally at the delivery point, he reads the name on the smartphone, rings the intercom. Someone replies saying inside 6 staircase 2 third floor. Then attach her new bike to a pole, travel the way as if it were a maze. Arrived, she sees a very silent man, he was there waiting for her. Alessia delivers the package and greets him. The man returns the greeting and immediately closes the door. Alessia going out thinks that sad man\u0026hellip;An insensible drone\nAn insensible drone # In the same instant of time, somewhere else, much further away, a drone is there, still, the wind does not scratch it, it does not move, it is also waiting. There is a metallic smell in the air. When all of a sudden a package rolls off a conveyor belt and hooks to the drone. Immediately afterwards,is heard Bip Bip followed by Sfruet Sfruet. The propellers start spinning with perfect synchrony, a slight hum is heard. The drone begins to rise from the ground with the packet attached below. Fly fast and look up at the city, and think \u0026hellip; ha no! can not think! He goes towards something, he doesn\u0026rsquo;t know what, for him the position x. Once arrived, it descends slowly until it lands. A series of checks and a message starts from his soul depth. He is waiting. At a certain point a girl with golden ringlets approaches her, caresses him \u0026hellip; Not exactly she puts her hand down so that the dorne recognizes her. The drone greets her cordially* Buonasera Marta* and gives her the package. The girl takes her package and runs away without saying goodbye. Poor drone, a little sad \u0026hellip; Ha no! true can not be sad! Restart its propellers and return to base. In the same instant of time, somewhere else, much further away, a drone is there, still, the wind does not scratch it, it does not move, it is also waiting. There is a metallic smell in the air. When all of a sudden a package rolls off a conveyor belt and hooks to the drone. Immediately afterwards,is heard Bip Bip followed by Sfruet Sfruet. The propellers start spinning with perfect synchrony, a slight hum is heard. The drone begins to rise from the ground with the packet attached below. Fly fast and look up at the city, and think \u0026hellip; ha no! can not think! He goes towards something, he doesn\u0026rsquo;t know what, for him the position x. Once arrived, it descends slowly until it lands. A series of checks and a message starts from his soul depth. He is waiting. At a certain point a girl with golden ringlets approaches her, caresses him \u0026hellip; Not exactly she puts her hand down so that the dorne recognizes her. The drone greets her cordially* Buonasera Marta* and gives her the package. The girl takes her package and runs away without saying goodbye. Poor drone, a little sad \u0026hellip; Ha no! true can not be sad! Restart its propellers and return to base.\n","date":"28 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/story/an_home_delivery/","section":"Stories","summary":"Three delivery stories across eras: a happy man on a Vespa, a busy cyclist in traffic, and an emotionless drone. A tale about humanity and technology.","title":"An home delivery","type":"story"},{"content":"","date":"28 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/delivery/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"delivery","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"28 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/relax/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"relax","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"28 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/story/","section":"Stories","summary":"","title":"Stories","type":"story"},{"content":"","date":"26 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/ads/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"ads","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"26 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/android-app/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"android app","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"26 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/gain-money/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"gain money","type":"tags"},{"content":"When we have an idea for an App, there are many questions that come to our mind, the first ones are:\nIs this app already on the market?\nCan this idea work?\nHow much does it cost to develop it?\nHow much can we earn?\nHow to monetize this idea?\nHow to monetize this idea?\nIn this article I want to talk about how to monetize. There are many ways and many tools that allow us to monetize, I want to report here my experience, my mistakes and suggestions on how to use these tools at the best.\nWhen I started, I had no clear idea. My main goal was not to earn money but to set up a self-sustainable service, which had no costs or costs very close to zero, so that I could afford to sell the service at a low price.\nFirst step # The first thing to do is to identify our potential audience, to do this I recommend using Google adWords or Facebook Ads. These tools are great to understand what our potential audience might be. To do this we must enter the keywords of our App services, select the age range and the countries involved. The result we get from this analysis is the total number of potential users and the country with the highest percentage of use. It could help us identify our competitors and understand what is their audience like and what sets us apart.\nEarning tools # It is time to establish our monetization method; there are really many different ways and choosing one of them depends on our type of business. However, the most used ones and the most adaptable in the world of Mobile Apps are the following:\nAdvertising\nProducts and Subscriptions in the app\nSales and data analysis\nAdvertising: # Although one of the largest web giants in the world Google earns only or almost with advertising, the latter is not, in my opinion, a good tool to be used in all contexts, I believe it has the following problems:\nIt is not appropriate at the beginning\nThe profit is very low unless you have many users\nThe product must attract and involve the user for some time.\nThere is the risk of being too annoying and could ruin the user experience.\nThe simplest advertising to implement with Flutter is the same used in google, therefore Google AdMob.\nSale of products: # if you decide to put your App on sale, you have various sales options available through the Google play console, including:\n**The price related to the App download **\nThis allows us to set a price for the App download. This is the simplest thing to implement, as we only have to just set the price of the app inside the console. Once done, we can be over with it unless we want to put a further check inside the app to prevent people from creating pirated copies of our app and from buying it. In my opinion setting a price from the beginning is now outdated, people do not trust buying in the dark. Although they can always ask for a refund, I think it is still an obstacle to impose a price from the beginning. It certainly makes sense for some apps, it is often used for the pro version of the app.\nProducts in the App\nThis type of product gives access to a free version of the application and makes the products available within the app itself. In this case, however, in addition to defining the various products, choosing and setting the various prices, we must also develop a piece in our app to retrieve the products from the Google Play Store in order to be able to show the products. Although libraries and plugins are available, we still have to develop it in order to use it.\nSubscriptions in the App\nSubscriptions are very similar to products with the difference that they have an expiring date and therefore have a temporal validity.\nDifferences between Products and Subscriptions # The product in the App can be used only once, expended immediately, or it could be used forever: it actually depends on the value that we decide to assign in our app. Once bought, it unlocks something. The subscription instead has a specific deadline, therefore it includes the same behavior as the base product but has a duration that can be weekly, monthly, three-monthly and annual.\nHow much do you really earn from selling on google play store? # This is something that is not known at first. As in normal life, when money is involved, everyone has to earn it. By \u0026ldquo;everyone\u0026quot;in this case I mean Google and the state. Google offers:\na showcase\na store\nrefund management\nprice management\ncurrency normalization\ntaxes in all countries of the world.\nAnd lot of other stuff\nAlthough the 95% of this service is completely automatic, it has to be paid. But the interesting thing is that the percentage that Google takes is about 30% of the price of our app. the percentage due to the State instead depends on the country of reference of the purchase. Example: if we sell an app with a cost of 2 euros, our actual net profit will be around 1 Euro. Instead if we subscribe the percentage due to Google changes and drops to 15%. But why does Google encourages us to sell subscriptions? It does not take long to get there, once we have sold the product, we won’t have any further earnings. The subscription instead is forever.\nWe establish the price # It is not easy to establish the right price but it is very important to choose it properly. The main mistake I made, and I believe many people commit, is the fact that we underestimate the product we have developed. Since we have been working on it for a long time and know it well, we tend to underestimate it. From my experience, I understood that the right way to define it is to multiply by 3 or 4 the price that I would be willing to pay. Google play console allows you to enter different prices for each country, although some countries are richer and more willing to pay for an App, I decided to put the same price for everyone, in my case I think it\u0026rsquo;s right. Also because it is a very low price. In addition, the App send to kindle is intended for the owners of a kindle who therefore can be willing to pay a few euros for a convenient feature.\nWe define the strategy # This I think is the most complicated part and depends a lot on the type of app or service that we have implemented. Consider send to kindle I can ask myself this question: Can I earn only with advertising? Although my audience is growing and can become very large for now, the answer is no and I believe it will be no also in the future. Why? I decided to make the app bloody fast and therefore the user interaction is too short. The user enters, sends the content to the kindle and he is done. He has nothing else to do in my app.\nSo the choices I could follow were the following:\nSuggest something else related to the context\nUse a different tool rather than advertising.\nIn the end I decided not to use advertising as the main income. So why did I use it anyway? I used advertising as an element of annoyance and boredom. Yes you got it right! boredom, I created a system in a way that every three submissions, you are forced to watch an advert video, in order to continue. People can continue watching videos, but sooner or later they will get so bored with watching advertising videos that they will decide to consider removing the advertisements.\nIn addition to converting articles, send to kindle also converts pdfs and various ebook formats. I recently decided to introduce a subscription for this. It allows you to perform an infinite number of conversions for a year. I decided to put a subscription because the conversion uses a container in the cloud and I have costs for the cloud service to be paid every month. In this way, if my users had to subscribe, I would receive something every year which, I hope, will be useful in order to pay for the cloud service and also earn something. As long as you\u0026rsquo;ll find it in the app store means it\u0026rsquo;s working;)\nConsiderations # In these days almost everyone is trying to offer a service using a subscription. This is because in the long run it is the most profitable. In my opinion, every app and every system need the right considerations and choices. I think a lot of people today can understand and are more likely to buy a product on time rather than signing up for a subscription. People don’t like the subscription, moreover it must be well motivated and you have to think about how to sell it and make everyone understand the advantages that they get. However, do not bandage your head too much, the price is not forever. Google play console, allows you to change the price at any time. If the person works well and the app grows, the value of the latter grows so it is correct to increase the price and add new features that open new doors to new earnings.\n","date":"26 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/strategie/how_to_earn_money_with_your_app/","section":"Strategies","summary":"Explore app monetization strategies: ads, in-app purchases, and subscriptions. Real-world pricing tips and lessons from Google Play Store.","title":"How to earn money with your app","type":"strategie"},{"content":"","date":"26 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/in-app-purchase/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"In App Purchase","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"26 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/strategie/","section":"Strategies","summary":"","title":"Strategies","type":"strategie"},{"content":"","date":"22 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/kindle/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"kindle","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"22 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/kindle/","section":"Kindle","summary":"","title":"Kindle","type":"Kindle"},{"content":"Today I want to tell you a story, the story of my creation and the project that has brought me more success and satisfaction to date.\nLet\u0026rsquo;s start from the dawn # I was born and especially raised in the digital age and I have always been in contact with technology. Unfortunately I have never had an excellent relationship with books, I believe and I hope to be able to catch up in the future. This bad relationship with books, however, has led me to the success I\u0026rsquo;m about to tell you. A long time ago, being frustrated by the fact that I wasn\u0026rsquo;t reading enough, I decided to buy a Kindle thinking that would give me new reading opportunities.\nThe Kindle indeed gave me different satisfactions, I have read several books but my main use has always been to read online articles retrieved from the web. I used to read programming, technology, science and math articles. Yes, as you have already understood, I am not a writer and least of all a philosopher, I write because I like it but I don\u0026rsquo;t think I can do it well as I haven’t studied subjects related to writing.\nOk, I\u0026rsquo;m too long-winded now! But why did I tell you this story? Why was the Kindle the cornerstone of my success? Since I appreciated its skills so much, I decided to recommend it to many of my friends and relatives. I also recommended it to a close colleague of mine, with whom we often given each other suggestions on how to get the most out of the kindle. The app that we used most was a smartphone app that allowed us to send items to the kindle. One day this app stopped working and disappeared from the store in a mysterious and unknown way. There were other apps in the store that did this, but they didn\u0026rsquo;t work very well and some of them weren’t free. My colleague and I were somewhat frustrated by this.\nMy colleague # My colleague # One day my colleague tells me: why don\u0026rsquo;t you make the app to send content to the kindle? I thought about it for a moment, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t sure from where to start, but then I said to myself: I\u0026rsquo;m a programmer and I have the basics … I can do it! This is how Send To Kindle was born. Today I owe a lot to my dear colleague and to his question.\nWhen I released the first version of the app, it was very spartan, I implemented it for myself, my friends/relatives and especially for my colleague. I did not believe and I could never imagine that today, one year after its creation, I would have reached more than 70,000 installations worldwide and this number grows daily.\nWhat have we learned? # This app made me grow in a short time and made me understand many things that I want to summarize and share with you:\nIf don\u0026rsquo;t try, you don\u0026rsquo;t succeed Sometimes we think about it too much or we wait for perfection before releasing something. Instead, in many cases, it is better to throw it there and then if it works we are always in time to update it and add new features.\nThe more you do/work on it and the more chances you have to succeed\nIf you succeed you have to run like crazy\nIt is Impossible to satisfy everyone\nEven if you have thought and worked to the smallest details, once your app or your site begin to mesh and populates with users, your problems will begin and that\u0026rsquo;s where you have to do your best in order not to lose your users.\nIt is Impossible to satisfy everyone Every user has his own needs and it is not possible to make a generic product that will satisfy everyone.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t follow too much and evaluate user requests well I tried it on my skin, users may never be satisfied! An example, Send To Kindle in the first period only used to send articles. All the negative reviews said: the app doesn’t send documents/files. So I implemented the sending of documents which cost me time and money. Now, what do you think users say? Some are satisfied but many others always put a star and say: it doesn’t send files larger than 25 mb. In your opinion, if I ever increase this limit what will they say?\nDo many frequent releases\nEven if one day everything goes well, always think that the next day everything will be st**\nPay attention to the answers given to customers\nAlways be updated with the moves of your competitors\nContinue to update and innovate\nFinal considerations # I am aware of the fact that Send To Kindle is not an unusual invention or an innovation. In fact, I did not invent something completely new, I improved something that was already there with new technologies and I made it more efficient. I think my strong point is that I made the mobile service accessible. Sometimes it takes little to be successful, you just need to be better than your competitors. Certainly, a lot of effort and a lot of work are needed to do it. Congratulations if you\u0026rsquo;ve read this far!!! if you haven’t done it yet, download Send To Kindle, and send this article or other articles to you kindle! Have a better reading and relaxing experience!\n","date":"22 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/kindle/send_to_kindle_mobile_the_story/","section":"Kindle","summary":"The origin story of Send To Kindle app — from a colleague\u0026rsquo;s idea to 70,000+ installs. Key lessons learned about app development and user feedback.","title":"Send To Kindle Mobile the story","type":"Kindle"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/chatbot/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"ChatBot","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/dialogflow/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"DialogFlow","type":"tags"},{"content":"In these days, I wanted to experiment and deepen my knowledge in the field of chatbot, I made this choice because at this moment, this technology is widely used and really growing.\nA little theory # Chatbots have been around for a long time, really for a long time, they date back to the early 60s70s with ELIZA and PARRY. These two projects were born for the purpose of creating a simulated conversation with a machine. In many cases, these two chatbots have managed to deceive the people involved, but using very vague but intelligent answers.\nThese two projects, however, despite being classified as chatbots, were very stupid, they do not have the same conception of today\u0026rsquo;s chatbot. The software behind the old chatbots was very simple, we can see it as a one-to-one mapping (question -\u0026gt; answer). There was no interpretation of the question. Most modern Chatbots, on the other hand, use natural language that we can imagine with the composition of three main elements:\nlexical analysis (decomposition of sentence into token)\ngrammatical analysis (association of parts of speech)\ngrammatical analysis (association of parts of speech)\nsyntactic analysis (token arrangement in a tree structure)\nanalysis semantics (assigning a meaning)\nThus described it seems simple and we as humans are able to do it without knowing the existence of all these steps. Teaching a machine how to process the steps listed above is really difficult. Especially the last point of the semantic analysis.\nNowadays the most common Chatbots that we use without realizing it are Ok Google, Alexa, Siri, Cortona and every day there are more and more new ones. The growing areas where they are most used are banks, customer service and e-commerce.\nBut why are chatbots called by personal names? # I have not found this answer online but I believe the answer is simple. As we have to interact with something with human features, what could be the best way to do it, if not to give a name with which we can call it? Almost all interactions with other people begin with the person\u0026rsquo;s first name, it is needed to request his/her attention.\nWhat\u0026rsquo;s behind the hood? # But what\u0026rsquo;s behind these Chatbots? In the case of Ok Google, the service in the background is just DialogFlow, This service made available to everyone, allows everyone in an agile way to create a real chatbot in a few steps and without any programming knowledge, the concept is very easy, it is basically based on the creation of intents and answers.\nI will explain in this article how to use DialogFlow and how to implement it using Flutter. Why Flutter? Because I think it is really growing at the moment. The project is growing so much that it is compatible with many platforms. In particular, it works natively on Android and IOS and works really well, according to the tests made, it has performances almost equal to the native languages ​​(Java / Swift / c ++). Although still in Beta, the Web function is going great, and it also works for desktop environments (linux and Windows). What is missing? Just TV and Smartwatch, I believe that the support will arrive shortly!\nCan you show me the code? # I don\u0026rsquo;t want to go in detail in DialogFlow configuration, there are really many good tutorials that explain the setup and how to use it. I assume that you have Flutter installed. If you haven’t, you can start from this guide. After installing Flutter, since its conception is Mobile, if you want to compile also for web you must execute the following commands:\n//enable web flutter versione flutter channel master flutter upgrade flutter config --enable-web //new web project and run in chrome cd into project directory flutter create . flutter run -d chrome Once the web version of flutter has been enabled and the project has been created, we can proceed by update the pubspec.yaml file. This file contains the configurations and dependencies to the plugins that we use in our project. We must therefore add the dependencies to DialogFlow, the compatible version for both web and mobile is as follows:\nflutter_dialogflow: ^0.1.3 assets: - assets/yourapifile.json We must also add in the assets the json file downloaded from google cloud relating to the service account that has access to the DialogFlow project. The implementation of dialog Flow requires very little, just a few lines of initialization code:\ndialogFlow.AuthGoogle authGoogle = await dialogFlow.AuthGoogle(fileJson:\u0026#34;assets/yourapifile.json\u0026#34;).build(); dialogflow = dialogFlow.Dialogflow(authGoogle: authGoogle); Finally we have to ask DialogFlow to process the intent in order to receive a response, do this with the following line of code:\ndialogFlow.AIResponse response = await dialogflow.detectIntent(query); print(response.getMessage()); The whole working implementation can be found at the following link Github. In order to use it, you only need to add your service account Json key, which you will have to create on Google Cloud and associate it with DialogFlow.\nfinal result screen:\n","date":"19 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/when_flutter_meat_dialogflow_born_a_multi_platform_chatbot/","section":"Coding","summary":"Build a multi-platform chatbot using Flutter and DialogFlow. From chatbot history to a working implementation for Android, iOS, and web.","title":"When Flutter meat DialogFlow born a multi platform ChatBot","type":"Coding"},{"content":" Prerequisites # This article requires a good knowledge of the following topics that you can study at the following links:\nFirebase Remote Config\nFlutter Shared Preferences\nWhy are we talking about these two plugins that would see having nothing in common? i With this guide I will show you how to benefit from this two plugins and how to save money using the free services offered by Firebase! :)\nIn the talian with Eli app, created for the youtube channel Italian with Eli, I created a project on Firebase, so you can use the remote config and other potential that Firebase makes available for you. The app takes care of showing a video list from the youtube channel, if interested you can download the source code on github, you can use it with any youtube channel.\nTo make the Italian with Eli app more original I thought of adding questions to the videos on the topics covered in the videos. So I needed a place to save the question data. With Firebase, the most logical and also most direct thing would be to use Realtime Database or Firestore. I thought of using remote config! Yes you got it right remote config! You will be thinking \u0026ldquo;this guy is crazy\u0026rdquo; and “why is he doing that?” I fully share with you this thought… there is a bit of madness in the choice made. The reason why I thought of using remote config is the following:\nI didn\u0026rsquo;t have much time available\nremote config is free and has no limitation of use\nyou can give access to the service to an external person\nthe other choices would have led me to have to also build a back end interface to allow the census of the questions\nI had already used remote config and I would have been faster in the implementation.\nBut how does a service not born with this scope work? It works very well indeed, I must say that I was surprised by the responsiveness that shows the app and the system that I put up. To make it work so well, however, I had to put the two plugins together in the way that I explain below. Inside the remote config console I\u0026rsquo;m going to insert a new parameter for each video.\nIn the name field I insert the id of the youtube video and inside the parameter a json containing the questions and answers structured as follows:\n{ \u0026#34;Playlist\u0026#34;: \u0026#34;PLsrqydfBIVzy9IMGwSQieTVeSWC7cRCnN\u0026#34;, \u0026#34; Questions \u0026#34;: [ { \u0026#34; question \u0026#34;:\u0026#34; How do you say how much is it ??: \u0026#34;, \u0026#34; answare \u0026#34;: [ \u0026#34; How much does it cost? \u0026#34;, \u0026#34; How much does it cost? \u0026#34;, \u0026#34; How much does it cost? \u0026#34; ] }, { \u0026#34;question\u0026#34;: \u0026#34;How do you say how much are they ?:\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;answare\u0026#34;: [ \u0026#34;How much do they cost?\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;How much do you cost?\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;both / both\u0026#34; ] }, { \u0026#34;question\u0026#34; : \u0026#34;Choose the correct option\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;answare\u0026#34;: [ \u0026#34;How much does this computer cost? 300 Euros\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;How much computer does it cost? 300 Euros\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;How much does this computer cost?\u0026#34; ] }, { \u0026#34;question\u0026#34;: \u0026#34;How much does it cost? is\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;answare\u0026#34;: [ \u0026#34;singular\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;plural\u0026#34; ] } ] } In addition, firebase provides an easy insertion that also performs json validation, this allows us to edit more easily and not to make mistakes.\nIn the Flutter app I then built the Quiz object which contains the youtube id, a list of Questions and the Question will contain a list of Answers. With various useful management and constructor methods for deserializing Json data as follows:\nclass Answer { final String answerText; final bool isCorrect; Answer (this.answerText, this.isCorrect); } class Question { final String question; final List \u0026lt;Answer\u0026gt; answers; Question (this.question, this.answers); } class Quiz { List \u0026lt;Question\u0026gt; _questions; int _currentIndex = -1; int _score = 0; String _videoId; Quiz.fromJson (String videoId, String jsonInput) { _videoId = videoId; _questions = new List \u0026lt;Question\u0026gt; (); var jsonQuestions = json.decode (jsonInput); jsonQuestions [\u0026#39;Questions\u0026#39;]. forEach ((quest) { List \u0026lt;Answer\u0026gt; answers = new List \u0026lt;Answer\u0026gt; (); bool iscorrect = true; quest [\u0026#39;answare\u0026#39;]. forEach ((ans) { // put the first to true answers.add (new Answer (ans, iscorrect)); iscorrect = false; }); answers.shuffle (); _questions.add (new Question (quest [\u0026#39;question\u0026#39;], answers)); }); } Quiz (this._questions) { _questions.shuffle (); } List \u0026lt;Question\u0026gt; get questions =\u0026gt; _questions; int get length =\u0026gt; _questions.length; int get questionNumber =\u0026gt; _currentIndex + 1; int get score =\u0026gt; _score; Question get nextQuestion { _currentIndex ++; if (_currentIndex\u0026gt; = length) return null; return _questions [_currentIndex]; } Question get prevQuestion { _currentIndex--; if (_currentIndex \u0026lt;0) return null; return _questions [_currentIndex]; } String get correctAnsware { return _questions [_currentIndex] .answers.where ((x) =\u0026gt; x.isCorrect == true) .first.answerText; } void answer (bool isCorrect) { if (isCorrect) _score ++; } saveScore () async { SharedPreferences preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance (); preferences.setInt (\u0026#34;OK\u0026#34; + _ videoId, this.score); preferences.setInt (\u0026#34;KO\u0026#34; + _ videoId, this.length - this.score); //preferences.setString(_videoId, \u0026#34;{\u0026#39;questions\u0026#39;: \u0026#39;\u0026#34; + this.length.toString () + \u0026#34;\u0026#39;, \u0026#39;score\u0026#39;: \u0026#39;\u0026#34; + this.score.toString () + \u0026#34;\u0026#39;}\u0026#34;); } } The app first retrieves the list of videos via the youtube API, then retrieves the relative json from remote config using the video id and passes it to the constructor of the object that deserialize and you\u0026rsquo;re done. Once the app was completed, however, I realized that youtube provides a limited number of daily API calls. Moreover I thought it was useless every time I opened the app that it had to call the Youtube API. The videos, moreover, do not change as much as the channel makes a new video a week.\nTo solve the problem of Youtube API calls and make everything more responsive, I decided to save everything in a list of cached json strings using the Shared Preferences. Finally I added a parameter in the remote config containing a date.\nIn this way I made a mechanism that allows me to update the contents on the devices only if the date is more recent than the one stored in the cache of the single device itself:\nclass YoutubeData { RemoteConfig remoteConfig; String apikey; List \u0026lt;YoutubeDto\u0026gt; allYoutubeVideoList = []; List \u0026lt;YoutubeDto\u0026gt; getHomeList () { return List \u0026lt;YoutubeDto\u0026gt; .from (allYoutubeVideoList.where ((item) =\u0026gt; item.kind == \u0026#34;video\u0026#34; \u0026amp;\u0026amp; item.id! = Item.channelId)); } List \u0026lt;YoutubeDto\u0026gt; allCategory () { return List \u0026lt;YoutubeDto\u0026gt; .from (allYoutubeVideoList.where ((item) =\u0026gt; item.kind == \u0026#34;playlist\u0026#34; \u0026amp;\u0026amp; item.id! = Item.channelId)); } List \u0026lt;YoutubeDto\u0026gt; getCategoryVideoList (String plylistID) { return List \u0026lt;YoutubeDto\u0026gt; .from (allYoutubeVideoList.where ((item) =\u0026gt; item.kind == \u0026#34;video\u0026#34; \u0026amp;\u0026amp; item.id! = Item.channelId \u0026amp;\u0026amp; item.playlist == plylistID)); } YoutubeData (this.apikey, this.remoteConfig); checkAndLoad () async { SharedPreferences preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance (); List \u0026lt;String\u0026gt; videoIDList = preferences.getStringList (\u0026#34;VideoIdList\u0026#34;); DateTime lastUpdateDate, updateDate; String date = remoteConfig.getString (\u0026#34;UpdateDatetime\u0026#34;); updateDate = DateTime.parse (date); if (preferences.getString (\u0026#34;LastUpdateDatetime\u0026#34;)! = null \u0026amp;\u0026amp; preferences.getString (\u0026#34;LastUpdateDatetime\u0026#34;). isNotEmpty) lastUpdateDate = DateTime.parse (preferences.getString (\u0026#34;LastUpdateDatetime\u0026#34;)); else lastUpdateDate = DateTime (2010); if ((videoIDList == null || videoIDList.length == 0) || updateDate.isAfter (lastUpdateDate)) { await loadYtDataAndStoreInSharedPref (); preferences.setString (\u0026#34;LastUpdateDatetime\u0026#34;, DateTime.now (). toString ()); } await loadLocalDataAndAddQuestion (); } loadYtDataAndStoreInSharedPref () async { YoutubeAPI ytApi = new YoutubeAPI (apikey, maxResults: 50); List \u0026lt;YT_API\u0026gt; ytResult = await ytApi.channel (remoteConfig.getString (\u0026#39;ChannelId\u0026#39;)); // save the video count in shared pref SharedPreferences preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance (); preferences.setInt (\u0026#34;TotVideo\u0026#34;, ytResult.length); // save json youtube video in shared pref andvideo list YoutubeDtoyoutubedto = new YoutubeDto (); List \u0026lt;String\u0026gt; videoIdList = new List \u0026lt;String\u0026gt; (); for (var result in ytResult) { videoIdList.add (result.id); String json = jsonEncode (youtubedto.yApitoJson (result)); preferences.setString (result.id, json); } preferences.setStringList (\u0026#34;VideoIdList\u0026#34;, videoIdList); } // add the questions to the previously saved youtube objects loadLocalDataAndAddQuestion () async { SharedPreferences preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance (); List \u0026lt;String\u0026gt; videoIDList = preferences.getStringList (\u0026#34;VideoIdList\u0026#34;); allYoutubeVideoList = new List \u0026lt;YoutubeDto\u0026gt; (); int cntQuestion = 0; for (String videoID in videoIDList) { String jsonYoutube = preferences.getString (videoID); Map userMap = jsonDecode (jsonYoutube); YoutubeDto youtubeDao = new YoutubeDto.fromJson (userMap); youtubeDao.questionJson = remoteConfig.getString (\u0026#34;_\u0026#34; + videoID.replaceAll (\u0026#34;-\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;_trattino_\u0026#34;)); if (youtubeDao.questionJson! = null \u0026amp;\u0026amp; youtubeDao.questionJson.isNotEmpty) { cntQuestion = cntQuestion + \u0026#39;question\u0026#39;.allMatches (youtubeDao.questionJson) .length; youtubeDao.playlist = json.decode (youtubeDao.questionJson) [\u0026#39;Playlist\u0026#39;]; } allYoutubeVideoList.add (youtubeDao); } preferences.setInt (\u0026#34;TotQuestion\u0026#34;, cntQuestion); } } Below you can see an example of how it works:\n","date":"16 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/flutter_2_plugin_necessary_with_great_potentiality/","section":"Coding","summary":"Combine Firebase Remote Config and Shared Preferences in Flutter to build a free, responsive quiz system with smart caching for your app.","title":"Flutter 2 plugin necessary with great potentiality","type":"Coding"},{"content":" # What is shared_preferences where, when and how much to use it? # The shared_preference is a plugin that allows you to save data app dedicated memory, the folder that will contain this data is named in Android with the package name of your app, e.g. com.companyname.appname.\nThe data that we can store in this space with this plugin are data of these types:\nString\nInteger\nBool\nList\nIt should be noted that these parameters are not persistent, they remain in the area dedicated to the app therefore are eliminated when the app is uninstalled or if the app cache data is removed. So, in general it is right to store non-essential preference data so that it is not a tragedy if they have been lost. A classic example can be the app theme color light or dark or the order of menu title.\nHow to use? # Saving: # import \u0026#39;package:shared_preferences/shared_preferences.dart\u0026#39;; SharedPreferences _preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance(); _preferences.setString(\u0026#34;theme\u0026#34;, \u0026#34;dark\u0026#34;); _preferences.setInt(\u0026#34;countaccess\u0026#34;, 2); Recovery: # import \u0026#39;package:shared_preferences/shared_preferences.dart\u0026#39;; SharedPreferences _preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance(); _preferences.getString(\u0026#34;theme\u0026#34;); _preferences.getInt(\u0026#34;countaccess\u0026#34;); At first we might think that it is of little use since in a string we cannot store a lot of information. In fact, if we think about it in a string, we can also store a lot but really a lot by using a json, below an example:\nimport \u0026#39;package:shared_preferences/shared_preferences.dart\u0026#39;; SharedPreferences _preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance(); _preferences.setString(\u0026#34;{\u0026#34;name\u0026#34;:\u0026#34;Andrea\u0026#34;,\u0026#34;surname\u0026#34;:\u0026#34;Luciano\u0026#34;,\u0026#34;age\u0026#34;:31,\u0026#34;sex\u0026#34;:\u0026#34;M\u0026#34;,\u0026#34;SurnameCouldBeName\u0026#34;:true}\u0026#34;); In this example I put SurnameCouldBeName as a field because my last name is also a first name. All those who don\u0026rsquo;t know me always ask me \u0026ldquo;Luciano is your name or surname?\u0026rdquo;\nAnd every time I would like to do something like that:\nWe can therefore create a collection of people using a list of strings instead of the single string as follows:\nimport \u0026#39;package:shared_preferences/shared_preferences.dart\u0026#39;; SharedPreferences _preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance(); List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; users = new List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt;(); users.add(\u0026#34;{\u0026#34;name\u0026#34;:\u0026#34;Andrea\u0026#34;,\u0026#34;surname\u0026#34;:\u0026#34;Luciano\u0026#34;,\u0026#34;age\u0026#34;:31,\u0026#34;sex\u0026#34;:\u0026#34;M\u0026#34;,\u0026#34;SurnameCouldBeName\u0026#34;:true}\u0026#34;); users.add(\u0026#34;{\u0026#34;name\u0026#34;:\u0026#34;elisa\u0026#34;,\u0026#34;surname\u0026#34;:\u0026#34;luciano\u0026#34;,\u0026#34;age\u0026#34;:32,\u0026#34;sex\u0026#34;:\u0026#34;F\u0026#34;,\u0026#34;SurnameCouldBeName\u0026#34;:false}\u0026#34;); _preferences.setStringList(\u0026#34;users\u0026#34;, users); This could finally be mapped into an object in order to access the data simply and finally show it to the interface:\nClass UserDto() { String name, surname, age, sex, SurnameCouldBeName; UserDto.fromJson(Map\u0026lt;String, dynamic\u0026gt; json) : name= json[name], surname= json[surname], age= json[age], sex= json[sex], SurnameCouldBeName = json[SurnameCouldBeName]; } SharedPreferences _preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance(); List\u0026lt;UserDto\u0026gt; UserObj = new List\u0026lt;UserDto\u0026gt;; List\u0026lt;String\u0026gt; users = _preferences.getStringList(\u0026#34;users\u0026#34;); for(String userjson in users) { Map userMap = jsonDecode(userjson); UserDto = new UserDto.fromJson(userMap); print(UserDto.name); UserObj.add(UserDto); } Think about the possible benefits and applications of this. It can be used to store data returned by an API. In this way, the application would be more efficient and also can work offline without therefore having to use network data for recovering data from the server.\n","date":"15 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/flutter_shared_preferences_in_depth/","section":"Coding","summary":"Master Flutter Shared Preferences: save strings, integers, booleans and JSON data locally. Learn object mapping for offline-capable apps.","title":"Flutter Shared Preferences in depth","type":"Coding"},{"content":"The name chosen by Google this time is very comprehensive and exhaustive. Firebase remote config is a remotely saved configuration, in this case on Google Cloud. This configuration is accessible to insert and update in the Firebase console, under the menu item Firebase remote config which is located at the very bottom, in the last section, in my opinion a little hidden.\nPrerequisites:\ncreate an account on Firebase using our google account\ncreate an app, I used flutter\nconnect our app to the source code using json key file\nBy doing this we could use all the Firebase services, there are many online tutorials and Firebase itself provides wizards with steps to guide you to the correct implementation of Firebase with your app. We can use Firebase Remote Config to store everything our app needs as configuration parameters. First of all, We must identify and configure what we think will change over time. In this way we will have configurations in the app that can be modified in real time remotely so as not to have to carry out a new app deployment. An example may be the case in which we are using an API to recover data, the base url may change over time. By doing this we could use all the Firebase services, there are many online tutorials and Firebase itself provides wizards with steps to guide you to the correct implementation of Firebase with your app. We can use Firebase Remote Config to store everything our app needs as configuration parameters. First of all, We must identify and configure what we think will change over time. In this way we will have configurations in the app that can be modified in real time remotely so as not to have to carry out a new app deployment. An example may be the case in which we are using an API to recover data, the base url may change over time.\nAnother more down to earth-example that I use in the send to kindle app is a parameter that contains the number of actions before showing an advertisement. In this way, if users complain about too many advertisements, I can change it in real time with just changing a parameter into the web interface at no cost.\nThe Firebase system works really well, there is a push-lazy system behind it that uses internet data to retrieve the configurations only if we have really changed something on the server side and therefore we have published a change to one or more parameters. The updating of the parameters takes place in real time so it changes immediately the behavior, state or data in app as real time.\nParameters can also be associated with conditions. For example, a parameter can only be used for users of a certain age in a certain country or language at a specific time. Cool! isn\u0026rsquo;t it?\nAdvantages # Instant and simple remote control.\nReal-time app customization.\nIt decreases the need for a new deployment.\nParameters can be combined with conditions.\nHow do I use it in my apps? # Below I want to show you an example of implementation. In this way I centralized the initialisation and parameter creation part so that they are more accessible. I decided to use a singleton so that I can use it in all the views and all the classes I need it, implemented in the following way:\nimport \u0026#39;package:firebase_remote_config/firebase_remote_config.dart\u0026#39;; class Configuration { int _link_sent_before_ads; int _max_send_limit_size = 24000000; int get linkSentBeforeAds =\u0026gt; _link_sent_before_ads; int get maxSendLimitSize =\u0026gt; _max_send_limit_size; int get maxSendLimitSizeMb =\u0026gt; (_max_send_limit_size/1000000).round(); static Configuration get instance =\u0026gt; _instance; static final Configuration _instance = Configuration._privateConstructor(); Configuration._privateConstructor() { //initializeRemoteConfig(); } loadConfig(RemoteConfig _remoteConfig) async { _link_sent_before_ads = _remoteConfig.getString(\u0026#39;link_sent_before_ads\u0026#39;).isEmpty ? _link_sent_before_ads : int.tryParse(_remoteConfig.getString(\u0026#39;link_sent_before_ads\u0026#39;)); _max_send_limit_size = _remoteConfig.getString(\u0026#39;max_send_limit_size\u0026#39;).isEmpty ? _max_send_limit_size : int.tryParse(_remoteConfig.getString(\u0026#39;max_send_limit_size\u0026#39;)); } initializeRemoteConfig() async{ RemoteConfig remoteConfig = await RemoteConfig.instance; try { //set some default params in case of crash await remoteConfig.setConfigSettings(RemoteConfigSettings(debugMode: false)); await remoteConfig.setDefaults(\u0026lt;String, dynamic\u0026gt;{ \u0026#39;service_api_conversion_1\u0026#39;: \u0026#39;https://ebook-converter.app/calibre/ebook-convert\u0026#39;, }); // Using default duration to force fetching from remote server. await remoteConfig.fetch(expiration: const Duration(seconds: 0)); await remoteConfig.activateFetched(); } on FetchThrottledException catch (exception) { // Fetch throttled. print(exception); } catch (exception) { print(\u0026#39;Unable to fetch remote config. Cached or default values will be used\u0026#39;); } await this.loadConfig(remoteConfig); } } It can finally be used very simply in the following way:\n//call this just first time in app initialization await Configuration.instance.initializeRemoteConfig(); Print(Configuration.instance.maxSendLimitSize); ","date":"15 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/what_is_firebase_remote_config/","section":"Coding","summary":"Learn what Firebase Remote Config is and how to implement it in Flutter using a singleton pattern. Update app behavior in real time remotely.","title":"What is Firebase Remote Config","type":"Coding"},{"content":" Theory # Flutter is a new language that has recently come out from the beta, implemented by Google on the basis of Dart language less known today than FLutter. It is a modern language but based on Dart, the syntax is very similar to any other modern object language. The main concept on which it is based is Everything is a widget. But what does it really mean? All we are dealing with when developing in Flutter is a widget. A widget may or may not have a status, which can determine its content or form. It could be seen as an object as you imagine it with the difference that it can have a state to update the view and it can contain contents and shapes.\nYes, you have understood shapes correctly, since a widget, besides defining properties and methods, can define shapes. Finally, a widget can include or extend another widget. So an app in flutter is the composition of the widgets together. An example could be a form containing n input text widgets etc. and a button also widget.\nThe main widget that we can make are of two types, at least for now before google upsets everything, and are as follows:\nWidgets stateless (statelesswidget) are immutable, like a static class. A button that never changes color can be defined as a static widget. It can also be used in case we need to show only non-interactive descriptions.\nStateful widgets (statefulwidget): one (or more) property related to them, changing, can change the behavior, appearance or functionality of the widget. An app screen that changes based on content in an http response is a widget with status (just because the screen content varies based on the http response). Example: in case we need to request data from users and then update the same widget to validate or show an ok data entered correctly. To update the widget you need to use the setstate with the property updated so that the change is extended.\nStateful widgets (statefulwidget): one (or more) property related to them, changing, can change the behavior, appearance or functionality of the widget. An app screen that changes based on content in an http response is a widget with status (just because the screen content varies based on the http response). Example: in case we need to request data from users and then update the same widget to validate or show an ok data entered correctly. To update the widget you need to use the setstate with the property updated so that the change is extended.\nConsideration # The thing I liked most about Flutter:\nthat we can develop everything through a single language.\nthe livereload works really well and allows us to write the code faster.\nwith single environment and same code we have a build for Android and IOS as Native\nRecently flutter can also be used in web and desktop (Linux \u0026amp; Windows) :)\nAt the beginning I was a little skeptical about using widgets and it was a little complicated and dispersed to understand the advantages. After using them I must say that they are simpler than they seem to be implemented and thanks to this approach it will be easier to reason according to the best practice \u0026ldquo;DRY\u0026rdquo; (Don\u0026rsquo;t Repeat Yourself). On the one hand it adds an incredible nesting during the construction phase of the interface by boxing one widget into another and so on; however it has a logic that is modular in nature and this is excellent for decoupling small widgets that will consist of their properties and their tasks. By decoupling, we can test them and use them with different widgets to make more complex widgets. In this way the code will be more maintainable and functional.\n","date":"14 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/flutter_everithings_is_a_widget_why_but_really_/","section":"Coding","summary":"Understand why everything in Flutter is a widget. Learn the difference between StatelessWidget and StatefulWidget with practical examples.","title":"Flutter everithings is a widget! Why? But Really! ","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"14 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/widjet/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"widjet","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"11 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/google-app-script/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"google app script","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"11 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/google-docs/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"google docs","type":"tags"},{"content":" Research # In these days I have felt the need to create the blog you are reading. While surfing the web, I became aware of the static site generators, I have always known what they are and that they have always existed but I had never given them much attention. Though, while surfing deeper, I was attracted by Hugo, one of the many new engines to generate static websites.\nNo WordPress # I needed to have something static for I don\u0026rsquo;t have a server where I can install Wordpress or other CMS and, for a small personal blog, I don\u0026rsquo;t think it\u0026rsquo;s necessary and it is also too expensive. Finally I wanted the blog to be efficient and scalable and cross platform.\nDRY # The first thing I thought about as a programmer was: how many operations do I need to do to deploy without a CMS? how will I bring my new content online? I am also a Google Docs lover and I like writing and having everything in one place. So I asked to myself: how do I combine Hugo and Google Docs without having to turn a thousand cranks?\nI studied the structure of MarkDown content and I started looking for something to convert Google Docs to MarkDown. The only useful thing I found on the web was this Googlescript mangini/ gdocs2md: Convert to Google Drive Document to the Markdown format, suitable for publishing. to whom I offer my heartfelt thanks.\nAlthough this script is very effective, I needed something more than receiving the conversion of an article by email. To have something more automated, I modified the script a bit and created the link script as follows:\nLink to my github repos\nThe script converts all the documents listed in a Google sheet, organizes into folders by categories, extracts images from articles, adds the MarkDown header, tags and finally creates a zip file containing all the contents. I decided to make the zip public and therefore downloadable, ready for deployment.\nI then created a sort of database using a Google sheet as a table with this struct:\nToDeploy Title Summary SummaryImage Category Date tag1 tag2 tag3 Tag4 Tag5 Language 1 Send As PDF files and web articles to the Kindle from Android 0 Kindle 09/05/2020 kindle pdf web article send to kindle android it In this way I have the possibility to deploy everything or to update only what I modified using the first field ToDeploy field.\nSubsequently, I created another google script that receives the id of the folder where there is the previously created zip. The script finally returns the public url from which it is possible to download the zip with the contents.\nfunction doGet (e) { params = JSON.parse (JSON.stringify (e)); var docid = params.parameters.docid; if (docid == null || docid == \u0026#34;\u0026#34;) return; var parentFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById (docid); if (parentFolder == null) return; var url = parentFolder.getFilesByName (\u0026#34;BlogProd.zip\u0026#34;). next (). getDownloadUrl (); return ContentService.createTextOutput (url); } Finally I put them all together in the following script linux sh.\nSo I can automate building and deployment:\n#!/bin/bash #ln -s /home/yourname/works/luciosoftsite/blog/ ~/luciosoftsite #ln -s /home/yourname/works/luciosoftsite/blog/content/ ~/luciosoftblogcontent #requirements wget|unzip|hugo folderid=”your google doc folder id” yourscriptid=”your google script id” cd ~/luciosoftblogcontent; retriveurl=\u0026#34;https://script.google.com/macros/s/$scriptid/exec?folderid=$folderid”; downlodUrl=$(wget $retriveurl -q -O -); fileName=\u0026#34;download.zip\u0026#34;; wget -c $downlodUrl -O $fileName; unzip -o $fileName; rm -f $fileName; cd ~/luciosoftblog; #hugo serve -D HUGO_ENV=\u0026#34;production\u0026#34; hugo --config config.yaml firebase deploy The script is very simple, it calls the google script to retrieve the download url.\nOnce the url is recovered, the script does the download of the zip, extracts the contents into the Hugo contents folder, executes the command to create Build, and finally calls firebase for deploy.\nAnd even today the magic has happened.\nYes, I could have followed a thousand other ways, even safer and more efficient. But this is a starting point, my goal is bigger. I would like to turn the linux script into a docker container and the google script into a dynamic application with google login. But this is another story that, maybe, you will be able to see in another link at my blog :)\nLink al progetto ghithub\n","date":"11 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/coding/how_to_create_a_blog_with_hugo_e_google_docs_as_backend/","section":"Coding","summary":"Build a static blog with Hugo using Google Docs as a backend CMS. Automate content conversion, deployment to Firebase with Google Apps Script.","title":"How to create a Blog with Hugo e Google Docs as BackEnd","type":"Coding"},{"content":"","date":"11 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/hugo/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Hugo","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"11 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/static-blog/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"static blog","type":"tags"},{"content":"Are you ready to start a new better reading experience? You can finally say goodbye to the uncomfortable night readings from your smartphone.\nReading long articles on a mobile screen can be difficult, especially if the site has lots ads. Reading on a Kindle is much easier on the eyes, and you have more control over the size and the font you use.\nFind Your Kindle Address with 3 step configuration # 1. Recover the email of your kindle, you can find it by accessing to the following link:\nhttps://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/myx#/home/settings/ (make sure that the .com is the Amazon used in your country, the one where you have associated your kindle)\n2. Scroll down to personal document settings and click on it. Edit the kindle address that you need in order to enter the Send to Kindle app.\n3. Scroll down, in the section approved mails, add the e-mail address you use every day or the one you want to send the documents from, please verify that archiving is enabled.\nNow, relax and enjoy sending documents from Send to Kindle.\nSend to Kindle # The best app for doing so is Send to Kindle app. This app is not the same as the Send to Kindle provided by Amazon.\nSend to Kindle allows you:\nsend web articles to your Kindle by Share feature on your mobile web browser.\nSend pdf/epub/azw document by converting it to mobi.\nSend to Kindle Web Article # Download Send to Kindle app from the Play Store Send to Kindle. Locate the article you want to send to your Kindle on any browser or news app.\nOpen the settings for your browser and look for three dots in the top-right corner.\nClick Share.\nChoose Send to Kindle as your sharing app.\nWait for the app to convert your article to the correct format.\nClick the yellow-arrow Send button.\nIf this is the first time you have used the app, you will need to set up your Kindle email address. Tap the message to do so.\nType in your Kindle email and press Save.\nChoose your email client.\nSend the email.\nCheck your Kindle for the article.\nSend to Kindle per PDF, EPUB o AZW # Click on plus icon in search bar Select your pdf file\nClick convert\nSend the mail\n","date":"9 May 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/kindle/how_to_send_pdf_file_and_article_to_kindle_from_android/","section":"Kindle","summary":"Send PDF files and web articles to your Kindle from Android. Step-by-step setup guide for Kindle email and the Send to Kindle app.","title":"How to send pdf file and article to kindle from Android","type":"Kindle"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"}]