Skip to content

04Journal

Notes on software engineering, automation, AI, security and the strange places where technology meets Italian bureaucracy.

  1. 6 min read

    Row-level security is where your business rules should live

    • Cybersecurity
    • Software Engineering
    • PostgreSQL

    Hiding a button is not authorization. For systems that hold other people's documents, the database has to enforce who sees what. Notes from building on PostgreSQL and Supabase.

  2. 7 min read

    Anatomy of an operational bot: how automation saves 1,000 hours a year

    • Automation
    • AI
    • Software Engineering

    The automations that save real time are never a chatbot. They are small, boring workflows built around one person's routine. This is how I design them, and how I measure the result.

  3. 6 min read

    Italian bureaucracy is a software problem

    • Business Systems
    • Automation
    • Italy

    After years inside CAF and Patronato offices, I stopped seeing forms and started seeing state machines. Here is what that changes when you build systems for service businesses.