Book review: Learning Domain-Driven Design
The book “Learning Domain-Driven Design” by Vlad Khononov is divided into four parts and has two appendices. The first part is about strategic design, while the second part is all about tactical de...
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AI Context Kit: Cross-session persistence, context compression, easier distribution
Since the last update to AI Context Kit, I have been testing it in various real-world scenarios. One thing that frustrates me (and a lot of other developers) with AI-assisted development is that ev...
Skills Central: A Pragmatic Setup for Reusable AI Skills
If you are following my work, you know that I try to incorporate reusable AI workflows into my projects as much as possible. I’ve been using skills for a while now and in this post, I want to share...
AI Context Kit, Evolved: Why I Moved to AGENTS.md + Agent Skills (and how I used the Codex macOS App for the Migration)
When I released the first version of AI Context Kit in early January, I already had a solid foundation: specification, templates, and reusable prompt workflows. But once the project was “in the wi...
Completing the LeadEssentials Course with the Blue Belt
I’m happy to announce that I’ve completed the LeadEssentials course and earned the Blue Belt. With this belt, I’ve completed all lectures of the course. Compared to the earlier belts, this one req...
AI Context Kit: A Portable Instruction System for Context-Aware AI Collaboration
Today I’m releasing “AI Context Kit”, a template repository that aims to make AI collaboration repeatable, portable, and predictable across LLM providers. If you use more than one model (or more t...
Looking Back at 2025: Learning, Architecture, and the Year AI Became Practical
As 2025 comes to an end, it is time for another annual review. This year has been a year full of learning and growth, both personally and professionally. There were several highlights and challenge...
Lead Essentials: Main Composition Module finished (White Belt 4th stripe)
Over the past months, I’ve slowly but steadily worked my way through the Lead Essentials course. With this module, I’ve now reached the White Belt with its fourth stripe – and it really felt like o...
My Journey to Passing the B1 Certification for Italian as a Foreign Language
In October, I took the CERTIFICAZIONE DI ITALIANO L2 DI LIVELLO B1 DEL CONSIGLIO D’ EUROPA exam from the Università Roma Tre. It was the final point of a few months of consistent study, daily pract...
Share Copilot Prompts and Instructions Across Teams Using Rider and VS Code
Instructions and prompts It is no secret that I am using GitHub Copilot as my personal coding assistant. To optimize the quality of Copilot’s answers (and code), I recently started to use custom in...