Hello!
RSS FeedHi, I’m Antonio Molinari - Magnum to friends.
Developer and designer, born in ‘77, I live near Cremona in Italy with my wife and two kids.
I’ve been working on the web since the late 90s, so I’ve seen quite a few things come and go. With my studio Incode I handle web development projects - I have an almost irrational attachment to Ruby/Rails, I’ll admit.
I’ve served as CTO and mentor for several startups, on projects ranging from blockchain-based asset tracking to document management.
I love learning, thinking critically, and having long conversations with interesting people about interesting things. Passionate about technology, music… and 42!
Projects
This is a non-exhaustive list of personal and work projects (mostly the former) I'm investing my time in with unwavering enthusiasm. Thanks to everyone who makes that possible :-)
- flycal
Flycal helps you see when you are free and when you are busy, using Google Calendar as the source of truth. It is built so you can sketch availability for meetings in a few clicks, or ask the same questions from the terminal in a few seconds. The project has two user-facing parts, FlycalApp (web) and FlycalCli (command line). Both sit on the same engine, Flycal core.
- emcp
Self-hosted Ruby host for multiple MCP integrations: HEY, Basecamp, Fatture in Cloud, Google Workspace, Toggl, Twitter, Bluesky, Teslamate and more.
- higgins
Higgins is a macOS menubar app that improves selected text with AI. Select text in any app, press a shortcut, pick a prompt, and the improved version is pasted back in place.
- mcpme
Ruby MCP server with OAuth 2.1 that exposes a run_shell tool on the machine where it runs.
- aicli
Natural language to shell commands — chat with OpenAI or Anthropic and run suggested commands in one flow.
- railsapp
Opinionated Rails starter for Kamal deploys: PostgreSQL, Solid Queue/Cache/Cable, Google OAuth, and a remote DB pull task.
- buildapage
Vue 3 + Vite template that loads tabular data from public Google Sheets, with a standalone gviz loader bundle for any page.
- migrate-notes
Python tools to migrate notes between Notion and Markdown folders — idempotent, resumable, both directions.
- localwebdev
Dockerized local web dev environment with Apache, SSL, PHP, and MySQL — point DOCROOT at your projects folder.
- filedepot
Ruby CLI to push and pull versioned files between people over SSH, keyed by stable handles.
Recent Articles
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Higgins: a butler, forty-one commits, and my (almost) first Swift app
I had forked it with the classic "I'll get to it over the weekend" intention. The weekend, as tradition demands, never came. Then an ordinary evening came instead, and in place of the weekend there was an AI with access to the project.
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Eighty-six minutes, three hundred commits, and a Ctrl+C
I forget shell syntax constantly. Not the commands — the commands I know. It's the flags. It's `find` versus `fd`, it's which of the seven `tar` invocations is the one that actually extracts, it's the exact incantation for "every file over 100 MB modified in the last week, sorted by size". I've been doing this for twenty-odd years and I still open a browser tab for `rsync`.
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Five MPC integrations, one Sunday, and a switch that said no
The tools I use every day have excellent command-line interfaces. HEY has one. Basecamp has one. Google Workspace has `gws`. They're good CLIs — thoughtfully designed, well documented, the kind of thing you'd expect from people who care. And for months, none of that was any use to me where I actually work.
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One Mac, and a number called %CPU
For about a week my MacBook Pro had been feeling tired. Not broken — tired. The kind of tired where a click on a file in an open panel lands half a beat late, where the pointer refuses to turn into a hand over a link, where a window drag stutters once and then behaves for ten minutes so you start to wonder whether you imagined it.
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Teaching an agent to read my mail
The day my software got a feature request from its only user — and the user is an AI.
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Editing a Font Like Source Code.
The headline font I admired turned out to be Inter with the corners filed off. Turns out a typeface isn't a closed object — it's source you can open.