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.
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3 Things a Day
Ruthless prioritization. Do the 3 most important things. Ignore the rest.
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Ebooks for Kindle
Legal free Kindle ebooks for Amazon DE, IT, BR, ES and more.
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Blackjack Strategy Trainer 21
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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Give Your Screenshots a Sound — a Stream Deck Button That Dings When the Image Is on the Clipboard
A Stream Deck button that plays a ding the instant a phone screenshot lands in the clipboard — no more counting to three. Plus a foldable multi-display gotcha (and the fix),...
AI / Programming
1,000 Stars: My Material Design 3 Skill Hit a Milestone I’d Never Reached
My Material Design 3 skill for AI coding agents just passed 1,000 stars on GitHub — my first repo ever to do so. The story, what it does (30+ MD3 components, Compose-first,...
AI / Programming
How I Let My AI Coding Agent Run sudo on My Linux Box Without Pasting Into a Terminal
Letting an AI coding agent run root commands on Linux without pasting sudo into a terminal — a tiny reusable asroot helper built on pkexec and polkit's graphical password dialog.
AI / Programming
How I Gave the Claude App Access to My Self-Hosted Second Brain
I gave the Claude phone app access to my self-hosted memory — a remote MCP server over Tailscale Funnel, OAuth and Qdrant, running on a solar-powered PC at home.
Linux / Tech
Google Drive on Linux: A Fast rclone Mount (and Why Your Thumbnails Are Missing)
How I finally got Google Drive working as a fast, normal folder on Linux with rclone — and fixed the non-obvious problem of missing image thumbnails on FUSE mounts.
AI / Programming
How to Build, Theme, and Audit Material Design 3 UIs with AI Agents
A practical guide to material-3-skill — components, theme generation, the 10-category MD3 audit, and the real Compose bugs it catches in production code.
AI / Programming
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....