https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/ Ivan Morgillo makes mobile apps, AI agents, and developer tools. Speaker, author, Code with the Italians host, father in the Italian countryside. en Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:30:00 GMT https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/22/iphone-screenshots-on-linux-stream-deck/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/22/iphone-screenshots-on-linux-stream-deck/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:30:00 GMT How I screenshot my iPhone straight to the Linux clipboard with one Stream Deck button — iOS 17+ needs pymobiledevice3 and a root tunnel, not the classic idevicescreenshot. No Mac required. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/17/stream-deck-screenshot-ding-clipboard/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/17/stream-deck-screenshot-ding-clipboard/ Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:30:00 GMT 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), with a hat tip to Roberto Orgiu. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/17/material-design-3-skill-1000-github-stars/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/17/material-design-3-skill-1000-github-stars/ Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT 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, compliance audit), and a thank-you. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/16/ai-coding-agent-sudo-pkexec-asroot-linux/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/16/ai-coding-agent-sudo-pkexec-asroot-linux/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:30:00 GMT 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. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/13/claude-app-self-hosted-second-brain/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/13/claude-app-self-hosted-second-brain/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:45:00 GMT 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. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/12/google-drive-on-linux-rclone-mount-and-thumbnails/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/12/google-drive-on-linux-rclone-mount-and-thumbnails/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT 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. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/02/how-to-build-theme-audit-material-design-3-claude-code/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/06/02/how-to-build-theme-audit-material-design-3-claude-code/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT 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. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/05/29/ai-coding-rules-should-not-live-in-cursor-rules/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/05/29/ai-coding-rules-should-not-live-in-cursor-rules/ Fri, 29 May 2026 16:42:19 GMT 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 future agents can all discover. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/05/27/bluetoothd-memory-leak-experimental-flag-ubuntu/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/05/27/bluetoothd-memory-leak-experimental-flag-ubuntu/ Wed, 27 May 2026 10:09:00 GMT 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 symptoms looked like, and the one-line fix that brought everything back. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/05/27/daily-standup-pipeline-local-gemma-llama-cpp-telegram/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/05/27/daily-standup-pipeline-local-gemma-llama-cpp-telegram/ Wed, 27 May 2026 09:51:06 GMT 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 API key, no AUP warnings. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/04/27/hacking-a-15-led-matrix-with-an-ai-agent-python-and-a-webcam-feedback-loop/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/04/27/hacking-a-15-led-matrix-with-an-ai-agent-python-and-a-webcam-feedback-loop/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:24:54 GMT 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. The kind of thing you buy first and figure out later. The official Android app works fine. You type text, pick […] https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/04/07/how-i-added-persistent-memory-to-my-claude-code-telegram-bot-in-20-minutes/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/04/07/how-i-added-persistent-memory-to-my-claude-code-telegram-bot-in-20-minutes/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:53:59 GMT Claude Code forgets everything between sessions. Here’s how I added persistent memory across conversations with Mempalace, wired into a Telegram bot. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/01/17/i-made-apples-magic-trackpad-work-on-ubuntu-xfce/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2026/01/17/i-made-apples-magic-trackpad-work-on-ubuntu-xfce/ Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:53:57 GMT Get the Apple Magic Trackpad working on Linux: a guide for Ubuntu XFCE with BlueZ fixes, libinput tuning, autostart, battery indicator, and troubleshooting. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2025/12/11/when-ubuntu-updates-break-nvidia-again/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2025/12/11/when-ubuntu-updates-break-nvidia-again/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:18:40 GMT 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 decides to have an existential crisis. I start the machine again and black screen. GODDAMMIT! This happened again today, and because Future Me will not remember any […] https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2025/11/12/how-to-add-convert-to-gif-to-thunar-on-linux-xfce/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2025/11/12/how-to-add-convert-to-gif-to-thunar-on-linux-xfce/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:05:34 GMT 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. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2025/08/26/run-github-actions-on-your-own-machine-no-cloud-required-kinda/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2025/08/26/run-github-actions-on-your-own-machine-no-cloud-required-kinda/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:34:43 GMT $EXISTING https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2024/11/05/bringing-dhhs-omakub-to-wsl2/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2024/11/05/bringing-dhhs-omakub-to-wsl2/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:15:59 GMT Setting up a developer environment on WSL2 with Alacritty, Zellij, Cargo and the Tokyo Night theme inspired by DHH’s Omakub. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2024/09/21/using-ngrok-with-rails/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2024/09/21/using-ngrok-with-rails/ Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:34:43 GMT When working with Rails, I like to test my web apps with my desktop browser and my mobile browser. I like using my mobile browser, especially to test the PWA setup. To be able to test the development version running in Docker with my devcontainer setup, I use Ngrok. You need to register and install […] https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2024/06/20/get-started-with-ruby-on-rails-on-wsl2-ubuntu/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2024/06/20/get-started-with-ruby-on-rails-on-wsl2-ubuntu/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:50:50 GMT Complete guide to installing Ruby on Rails on WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04 using rbenv, including Tailwind CSS setup. https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2024/02/02/new-year-old-and-new-challenges/ https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/2024/02/02/new-year-old-and-new-challenges/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:01:05 GMT 2023 ended with me falling in love with Rails again after 15 years. I have always been a huge fan of 37signals. I like their products in a weird way: I have always wanted to use Basecamp, but I always worked for people who used and hated Jira. Then Hey mail came out, and I decided to migrate […]