Alberto Barrago | Articles https://albz.it/ Technical articles and notes by Alberto Barrago. en GitLab Alert: the GitLab work that involves you, in your menu bar https://albz.it/articles/gitlab-alert/ https://albz.it/articles/gitlab-alert/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT GitLab Alert is a macOS menu bar app that keeps the GitLab work needing your attention out of a browser tab and in the corner of your screen: merge… Telemaco: a headless browser engine in Rust, without the Chromium https://albz.it/articles/telemaco/ https://albz.it/articles/telemaco/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Telemaco is a headless browser engine I've been building in Rust. It runs real JavaScript through V8, keeps a real DOM tree, owns its own layout and paint… Iron Doctrine: building deterministic online multiplayer with a shared ECS engine https://albz.it/articles/iron-doctrine/ https://albz.it/articles/iron-doctrine/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Iron Doctrine is a real-time strategy game I'm building in a pnpm monorepo, with a deterministic ECS engine at its core and, as of this week, a working… Otelma: building a local LLM runtime from scratch https://albz.it/articles/otelma/ https://albz.it/articles/otelma/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Otelma is a local LLM inference runtime I'm building in Go. The idea is deliberately smaller than Ollama: understand what actually sits between a GGUF… I Built a CLI to Answer One Question: What Will This Change Break? https://albz.it/articles/serval-cli/ https://albz.it/articles/serval-cli/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT We've all been there. You open a repository, change a file that looks completely harmless, run the tests, and open a pull request. Then someone comments:… wir: What Is Running, a Port and Process Inspector Written in C https://albz.it/articles/wir-what-is-running/ https://albz.it/articles/wir-what-is-running/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT I recently released wir (What Is Running), a command-line tool written in C to inspect what's running on specific ports and get detailed process…