This is not a story about clean architecture diagrams, carefully written specs, or rock-solid requirements. This is a story about vibe coding. I had an idea stuck in my head: “What if my own WordPress blog could behave a bit like Bitly?” During my Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast I’m displaying long urls, I wanted […]
Author: Enrico Murru
Zero-Dollar Entry: What Salesforce’s Free Tier Means for Small Teams (and What It Really Is)
For small teams operating in the CRM/automation space, announcements of “free licences” always raise eyebrow-levels. But as with most things in enterprise software, the devil’s in the fine print. Salesforce has recently updated its small-business pricing and tiering, including a true $0 per user/month option for tiny teams. In this article we’ll unpack exactly what’s […]
Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast S1E4: Ethics, Creativity, and the Future of AI with Filippo Zanella
I rolled up my sleeves once again to dive into the world of artificial intelligence with someone I deeply admire: Filippo Zanella, Principal AI at Salesforce, professor at H-Farm College, and one of the most insightful voices in the Italian AI community. This wasn’t just a tech chat — it was a full-spectrum exploration of […]
UK Court to AI: “You May Learn… But Don’t Copy – Inside the Getty Images vs Stability AI Ruling
When the UK High Court dropped its November 2025 judgment in Getty Images v. Stability AI, the tech world briefly stopped doomscrolling to witness something rare: a legal system trying to understand how machine learning actually works. That alone deserves a medal, or at least a commemorative mug. At the heart of the case was […]
ARIANNA — Finding the Thread Through My Bookmarks Labyrinth
Every developer has that one itch they can’t stop scratching. For me, it was bookmarks.Not the simple “save this tab” kind — but the where did I save that link, which browser was I using, and why do I have three profiles of the same person kind. So I built ARIANNA — Your Intelligent Bookmark […]
Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast – S1E3: How AI Is Rewriting Public Service
At Nerd @ Work Lab, my goal has always been simple: to get our hands dirty with ideas. In every episode, I try to explore how technology meets people — not in abstract theory, but in the messy, beautiful, unpredictable world of real life. In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Nino […]
Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast – S1E2: The Human Side of AI, What the Future of Work Really Looks Like
Artificial Intelligence isn’t just reshaping industries — it’s reshaping us.In the latest episode of Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast, I sit down with Alan Ferrari, founding partner at NextForce and a member of the Italian National Association for Artificial Intelligence (ENIA), to explore how the digital revolution is transforming the way we work, learn, and […]
InBuddy v1.4.0 – From a Coffee Chat to the Draft Studio Revolution
It all started with a chat with my friend and ex-colleague Gaetano Castaldo.We were talking about LinkedIn content habits, and he casually said:“You should really add a way to manage drafts — like a list of posts ready to go.” Simple idea, right?Of course, I couldn’t resist taking it a few steps further. And just […]
Building a WordPress Theme from Scratch — With a Little Help from AI
What happens when a developer who lives in the world of Javascript, browser extensions, NodeJS apps and static site generators suddenly needs a WordPress theme? Spoiler: curiosity happens. And a weekend disappears into a rabbit hole of PHP, CSS grids, and AI-assisted tinkering. The Setup I wanted a theme for my Nerd @ Work blog […]
ChatGPT Atlas vs. Perplexity Comet: the beginning of another browsers war?
If 2024 was the year of AI assistants, 2025 is the year they move into your browser. Few days ago, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Atlas, its first AI-native browser, aiming to reinvent how we interact with the web. Atlas is more than a search engine or a Chrome clone with a chatbot on the side: it […]