Balenet

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

Posts

2026

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

27 February
Is product management my calling after all? Work

26 January

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