I tried Kiro: a 24-hour "cook-and-serve" experiment on AWS (RSS -> Telegram)

I tried Kiro. These days I was in the mood for a “cook-and-serve” project: a minimal AWS soffritto (just enough infrastructure to make it real), a pinch of AI (apparently mandatory in 2025), and no more than ~24 hours (not consecutive) to build something end-to-end inside Kiro. After the last event I organized, I got an idea: a Telegram bot that, every day, publishes into a dedicated channel the items from a list of RSS feeds-only those from the last 24 hours—then translates and summarizes them in Italian. ...

January 4, 2026 · Ugo Palumbo

Another... one bites the dust!

As Queen used to sing, Another… bucket of tools instead of “one bites the dust”: I’ve published a new repository, another_bucket_of_tools. The repository will contain a collection of shell scripts developed with AI, recreating commonly available utilities with custom improvements tailored to my specific needs. These are shell scripts that can already be found on the Internet but are developed again from scratch based on my requirements, starting with the idea of not writing a single line of code myself but learning to write prompts to have the AI do it as accurately as possible and with as few queries as possible. ...

May 1, 2025 · Ugo Palumbo