Balenet

Welcome to Balenet, personal website of Francesco Balestrieri. Here you can find my thoughts about various topics, but mostly software engineering and pizza.

Posts

• My standard pizza recipe with poolish

  16/04/2025

• I finally read Smart & Gets Things Done by Joel Spolsky, and I regret it

  12/04/2025

• Building a budget gaming PC in 2025

  09/02/2025

• Balenet-gen: a static site generator written in Swift

  10/01/2025

• Book notes: How big things get done

  06/11/2024

• Minimizing the cost of context switching

  24/06/2024

• (In Italian) L'intelligenza artificiale in breve

  09/05/2024

• AI designed this app

  14/04/2024

• The dreaded roadmap

  05/03/2024

• Conway's law is a thing (notes on Team Topologies)

  28/02/2024

• Everything I know about pizza - part 1

  13/02/2024

• Gunpla Level 3: RG MSN-04 Sazabi, and peak gunpla

  28/01/2024

• Book notes: Doom guy, by John Romero

  07/12/2023

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

  14/10/2023

• My two tiny contributions to the gaming industry

  02/10/2023

• Designing a bonus plan

  20/09/2023

• Book notes: It doesn't have to be crazy at work

  03/09/2023

• Attempts at note taking and journaling

  19/08/2023

• Book Notes: Ask Your Developer

  12/07/2023

• My Gunpla progression: Level 1, Gundam RX-78-2 RG

  04/05/2023

• Challenge accepted: write a game for the Garmin Forerunner 235

  14/04/2023

• Creating a personal website with Zola and ChatGPT

  13/04/2023

• Benchmarking a 2014 iMac Retina against Mac Mini M1/M2

  13/02/2023

• Updating a 2014 iMac Retina from Mojave to Bigsur

  06/11/2022

• Retro gaming with Picade, Raspberry Pi 4 and Retropie

  10/10/2022