Reflections on Vibecoding

A sorcerer’s guide to wielding chaotic and powerful magicks.

11 Jun 2025 · 2 min · Gianluca Truda

Music Melee: a high-speed parkour FPS for making beautiful sounds

Embracing the exponentials and vibecoding an entire 3D game in a few days with Aider, o3-mini, and Claude 3.7 sonnet.

3 Apr 2025 · 2 min · Gianluca Truda

DevLog: orbital mechanics game in your browser

The development stories and roadmap for Orbital, my physics-based 3D simulator for realistic orbital maneuvers that runs in your browser with WebGL and Three.js.

1 Mar 2025 · 10 min · Gianluca Truda

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

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

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

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