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  • December 2024 · Project
    Better Secret Santa 🎄

    I created a web app that makes giving Christmas gifts in a large group stress-free!

  • November 2024 · How-To
    Block Shortcuts in Google Docs

    A script to prevent Google Docs from overriding shortcuts like Alt+L or Option+/

  • October 2024
    What's my server setup?

    I learned DevOps to run 6 websites on a 5€ server because I'm cheap. Here's how I did it.

  • June 2024 · Project
    AI-Powered Climbing App

    Recording yourself while climbing is a great way to improve your skills. Check out how you can automatically manage recordings.

  • May 2024
    Blocsummer Statistics 2024

    An analysis showing how many people managed to do each boulder of a competition held in Graz.

  • April 2024 · Project
    Busy Friends Make Scheduling Hard

    How I built a site that makes it easy to find time to meet your friends in your schedule in 10 days.

  • January 2024
    36 Useful Shortcuts for Developers

    Boost your productivity with these shortcuts for Mac, IntelliJ, and general text editing.

  • January 2024 · Project
    Restoring Images (With AI)

    Make celebrity faces pretty again using autoencoders with skip connections.

  • June 2023
    How to find long-lost passwords in your clipboard history

    I was able to find a lost password in my clipboard history using creativity, some SQL, and command line tools. A lesson in problem-solving for me.

  • December 2022 · Project
    What's a split keyboard and how did it take me 4 months and 400€ to build one?

    'Build your own split keyboard', they said. Notes and pictures of my journey towards awesome ergonomic typing.

  • December 2022 · Project
    Giving my blog a facelift

    TLDR I was inspired to redesign and polish all parts this website. The landing page, the blog overview, and the reading page. In this post, I explain my thoughts behind the decisions for layout, logo, fonts, and animations.

  • November 2022
    The 46 things I packed for 135 days in South-East Asia

    Working part-time while traveling Thailand, Laos, South Korea, Japan.

  • October 2022 · Project
    Comparing Survey Creation Platforms

    Can custom development still shine in a world dominated by SaaS? Read how 'Studo Survey' outperformed Google Forms in terms of UX.

  • July 2022
    How to enable Android's Smart Lock with the Redmi Smart Band Pro

    I’ve been a happy user of a few generations of Mi Bands for many years now. Starting with the Mi Band 2 and its tiny black and white display, next the Mi Band 3 which was comparatively comfortable.

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Filippo Orru, 2025