Weekend Code AdventuresPosts by Francesco Barberahttps://weekendcodeadventures.xyz/2026-10-09T00:00:00ZFrancesco BarberaAn empty div is invisible: prerendering a Vite SPA without SSRhttps://weekendcodeadventures.xyz/006-an-empty-div-is-invisible.html2026-10-09T00:00:00Z2026-10-09T00:00:00ZWhy a client-side Vite SPA scored Lighthouse SEO 92 while crawlers got an empty div, and how a small build plugin prerendered it without SSR or new dependencies.We Won't Buy: a fake shop for real shopping urgeshttps://weekendcodeadventures.xyz/005-we-wont-buy.html2026-07-03T00:00:00Z2026-07-03T00:00:00ZWe Won't Buy is a fake fashion shop for real shopping urges: browse, fill the cart, check out, and spend nothing.The rise of home-made toolshttps://weekendcodeadventures.xyz/004-the-rise-of-home-made-tools.html2026-02-21T00:00:00Z2026-02-21T00:00:00ZAI shrinks the time from idea to working prototype. How I built my own Pomodoro and task manager, and why home-made tools are on the rise.LLMs as non-deterministic compilershttps://weekendcodeadventures.xyz/003-llms-as-non-deterministic-compilers.html2026-02-03T00:00:00Z2026-02-03T00:00:00ZWhat if LLMs are compilers from natural-language intent to code? An experiment generating Assembly and Python and comparing their performance.LLMs and one big text filehttps://weekendcodeadventures.xyz/002-llms-and-one-big-text-file.html2026-01-26T00:00:00Z2026-01-26T00:00:00ZWhy I traded productivity apps for one big text file, and built Ambrogio, an LLM-powered CLI to ask questions about my schedule and tasks.Running with an engineer's precisionhttps://weekendcodeadventures.xyz/001-better-runner.html2024-10-10T00:00:00Z2024-10-10T00:00:00ZHow I built Better Runner, a small TypeScript tool that tracks my runs without a database, bringing an engineer's precision to running.