Hi, I'm Ivan
Ivan Morgillo
I make mobile apps, AI agents, and a fool of myself live on Code with the Italians. Speaker, author, father in the Italian countryside, too much coffee.
Personal projects
Products I ship, not just write about
A working shelf of small products, experiments, and apps I keep improving in public.
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Streakup
Build a daily push-up habit. Visualize streaks and long-term progress.
Open project
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3 Things a Day
Ruthless prioritization. Do the 3 most important things. Ignore the rest.
Open project
$35/mo
Ebooks for Kindle
Legal free Kindle ebooks for Amazon DE, IT, BR, ES and more.
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Trainblackjack
Practice blackjack basic strategy with adaptive feedback.
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Smart Pantry
Manage your pantry, reduce waste, and eat fresh.
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Brainrot Tax
Add friction to addictive app loops. Watch an ad to unlock your apps.
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AI Bedtime Stories
Personalized bedtime stories for kids in seconds.
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Swimminglane
Track swimming progress and performance data.
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Ludus Magnus
Manage your athletic journey.
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Random Events
Your monthly event creator.
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Giftit
Never forget a perfect gift idea again.
From the blog
Latest writing
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Your AI Coding Rules Should Not Live in Cursor Rules
I stopped treating editor-specific AI rule files as the source of truth and moved my Rails and Flutter standards into plain Markdown that Cursor, Claude, Codex, Copilot, and...
AI / Programming
A 10 GB Memory Leak Killed My Bluetooth Trackpad: bluetoothd –experimental on Ubuntu
How a runaway bluetoothd process — silently leaking memory for three days under the --experimental flag — quietly killed my Apple Magic Trackpad on Ubuntu 25.10, what the...
AI / Programming
How I Run My Daily Standup on a Local LLM: Git, Gemma 4, llama.cpp and Telegram
A real-world pipeline that scans my Git repos every morning, formats the day's commits with a local Gemma 4 E4B on llama.cpp, and posts the summary to Telegram — no cloud, no...
AI / Linux
Hacking a $15 LED Matrix with an AI Agent, Python, and a Webcam Feedback Loop
I was at Action (the European equivalent of a dollar store for nerds) when I spotted a B.K. Light LED Pixel Board — a 32×32 RGB LED matrix with Bluetooth, for about 15 euros....
AI / Programming
Claude Code Persistent Memory: How I Wired Mempalace Into My Telegram Bot
Claude Code forgets everything between sessions. Here's how I added persistent memory across conversations with Mempalace, wired into a Telegram bot.
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Apple Magic Trackpad on Linux: How I Made It Work on Ubuntu XFCE
Get the Apple Magic Trackpad working on Linux: a guide for Ubuntu XFCE with BlueZ fixes, libinput tuning, autostart, battery indicator, and troubleshooting.
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When Ubuntu Updates Break NVIDIA… Again
Every now and then I update Ubuntu, sip my coffee, install all-the-things… and everything looks fine. Until I suspend. Because of course the moment the PC suspends, NVIDIA...
Linux
How to Add “Convert to GIF” to Thunar on Linux (XFCE)
Add a right-click Convert to GIF action to the Thunar file manager on Linux XFCE using FFmpeg and a shell script — turn any video into a GIF in two clicks.
Programming
Run GitHub Actions on Your Own Machine (No Cloud Required… Kinda)
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Bringing DHH’s Omakub to WSL2?
Setting up a developer environment on WSL2 with Alacritty, Zellij, Cargo and the Tokyo Night theme inspired by DHH's Omakub.