Gianluca Truda

Become Stronger. Defy Nature. Have Fun.

8 bits of advice to flourish at the Recurse Center

A byte-sized guide to developing your taste and agency at the world’s best programming retreat.

6 Feb 2025 · 10 min · Gianluca Truda

Return Recurse.Gianluca

How I spent my 12 weeks at the Recurse Center annihilating my skill issues, shipping projects, and having fun.

27 Jan 2025 · 5 min · Gianluca Truda

Salvador DALL-E: Falling for Svelte and serverless shennanigans

How I learned Svelte and outsmarted Vercel to make a delightful frontend to OpenAI’s DALL-E … just for my mom.

24 Jan 2025 · 8 min · Gianluca Truda

Streams of beautiful riches

Enter richify.py: a real-time Markdown rendering tool that supports streaming input. Built with Rich and shipped effortlessly with uv.

23 Jan 2025 · 1 min · Gianluca Truda

What I made at the Recurse Center

Links to the projects, games, blog posts, and tools I shipped in my 12 weeks at RC.

2 Jan 2025 · 7 min · Gianluca Truda

Never graduate, revisiting RL, and orbital mechanics | Weeknotes

Week 44 of 2024. Week 12 of RC.

4 Nov 2024 · 5 min · Gianluca Truda

The universe is a big and numerically-unstable video game | Weeknotes

Week 43 of 2024. Week 11 of RC.

28 Oct 2024 · 6 min · Gianluca Truda

Cargo build and SpaceX-inspired graphics | Weeknotes

Week 42 of 2024. Week 10 of RC.

21 Oct 2024 · 9 min · Gianluca Truda

Gigabucks, burning my Mac's GPU, and Karpathy's lament | Weeknotes

Week 41 of 2024, Week 9 of RC.

14 Oct 2024 · 8 min · Gianluca Truda

DevLog: llmpossible

How I built a command-line LLM on Apple Silicon for RC’s ‘Impossible Stuff Day’

8 Oct 2024 · 21 min · Gianluca Truda