Ivo Bellin Salarin

aka nilleb · Turin → Lyon

Italian, living in France since 2006. Software engineer by trade — the work side lives on nilleb.co. This is the personal one: things I tinker with after hours, and twenty years of notes written in Italian, French and English.

Tinkering

Around the house

• labs.nilleb.co — an ESP32-S3 e-ink voice assistant that writes notes to my vault, plus 3D-printing notes.
• Matins — a morning newspaper for e-readers, composed from my read-later queue and RSS feeds, served over OPDS.
• Jean Carmet — the week's shows at our local theatre-cinema, rebuilt every Monday from the venue's PDFs.
• family.nilleb.io — a family tree viewer for any Gramps file: load an export, get an interactive hourglass chart.
• trésor — a one-page, browser-only household treasury forecast.

On my Mac

• tessera — a tiling window manager in Rust, because none of the others did Spaces right.
• stts — local speech-to-text and text-to-speech, tuned for Apple Silicon.
• omnisess — search every AI coding session (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor…) from one place.
• localhost-router — https://app.localhost for every local port.
• Window Switcher — a Raycast extension that lists the windows on the screen under the cursor, across Spaces.

In the browser

• pagecast — a Raycast-style command palette for the page you're on; published as a Firefox/Zen add-on.

Agents & plumbing

• varda — hands markdown tasks to AI agents and runs them in sandboxes.
• switchboard — Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram behind one API, for bots that talk to the family.
• proxium — an authentication proxy that injects API keys so agents never see them.
• ics_normalizer — makes Outlook and Google Calendar agree on time zones.

Notes, 2004 → today · 196 posts