Balenet

Welcome to Balenet, personal website of Francesco Balestrieri. More about me.

Posts

2026

Claude rewrote my static generator in Typescript while I made coffee Ai Devlog

5 November
Tony's Pizza Napoletana, San Francisco Pizza Travel

11 October
Frictionless note taking with Apple Shortcuts and Google Docs Productivity

31 July
My first 'Dollar' in the App Store Devlog

9 July
Experiences with AI-assisted design Ai Devlog

29 March
I fulfilled my childhood dream of owning a software house Hobbies Devlog

27 February

2025

My AI Advent of Code Ai

24 December
The best pizza apps in the App Store Pizza

8 December
Managing API keys in Xcode and Github actions Ai Devlog

15 November
How I finally got into coding agents Ai Devlog

6 November
DNS Filtering with Pi-hole and NextDNS Tech

27 October
The hardest thing I have ever done Gaming

27 September
It took me 236 hours but I finished Elden Ring! Gaming

9 June
My standard pizza recipe with poolish Pizza

16 April
Book notes: Smart & Gets Things Done Books Work

12 April
Building a budget gaming PC in 2025 Gaming Tech

9 February
Balenet-gen: a static site generator written in Swift Devlog Ai

10 January

2024

Book notes: How big things get done Books Work

6 November
Minimizing the cost of context switching Productivity

24 June
(In Italian) L'intelligenza artificiale in breve Ai

9 May
AI designed this app Ai Devlog

14 April
The dreaded roadmap Work

5 March
Conway's law is a thing (notes on Team Topologies) Books Work

28 February
Everything I know about pizza - part 1 Pizza

13 February
Gunpla Level 3: RG MSN-04 Sazabi, and peak gunpla Hobbies

28 January

2023

Book notes: Doom guy, by John Romero Books Gaming

7 December
Gunpla Level 2: MG Gundam Wing EW and MG Nu Gundam RX-93 Ver.Ka Hobbies

14 October
My two tiny contributions to the gaming industry Gaming

2 October
Designing a bonus plan Work

20 September
Book notes: It doesn't have to be crazy at work Books Work

3 September
Attempts at note taking and journaling Productivity

19 August
Book Notes: Ask Your Developer Books Work

12 July
My Gunpla progression: Level 1, Gundam RX-78-2 RG Hobbies

4 May
Challenge accepted: write a game for the Garmin Forerunner 235 Devlog Ai

14 April
Creating a personal website with Zola and ChatGPT Ai Devlog

13 April
Benchmarking a 2014 iMac Retina against Mac Mini M1/M2 Tech

13 February

2022

Updating a 2014 iMac Retina from Mojave to Bigsur Tech

6 November
Retro gaming with Picade, Raspberry Pi 4 and Retropie Gaming Tech

10 October