Welcome
I build, experiment, and share what I learn.
I'm Angelo Luchi. I care about useful products, thoughtful systems, and the entrepreneurial hustle of turning ideas into something real. This site holds my projects, my writing, and an open door—say hello anytime via the contact page.
Featured projects
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HAB Log
A private video/voice journal that transcribes everything you say and makes it searchable — so you can talk through your thoughts today and actually find them tomorrow.
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Foxtail Technology
A FileMaker hosting company built from a single colocated server in 2004, grown to a multi-datacenter operation over 12 years, and merged with Proof+Geist in 2021.
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Wicked Weddings LA
Horror-themed wedding ceremonies officiated by Michael Myers in the shadow of the house from John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween, in South Pasadena, CA.
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FM Barcode API
A free REST API for generating barcodes in 20+ formats, purpose-built for FileMaker's InsertFromURL function. Still running. Still free. Hundreds of millions of barcodes generated.
Latest from the blog
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Building a Coat of Arms: Heraldry as a Systems Diagram
I designed a coat of arms. It turned out to be less about tradition and more about how I think.
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How This Site Is Built
A walkthrough of the stack behind aluchi.com — Astro on Cloudflare, Markdown from GitHub, KV caching, and no CMS in sight.
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Linux Mint on a 2013 Mac Pro
Installing Linux Mint 23 on a 12-core Mac Pro 6,1 — the trash can — including WiFi driver wrangling, keyboard choices, and why this machine is still worth using in 2026.
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IP Camera Fetcher
An experiment to see if AppleScript was still viable for building a real application — turns out it was more capable than expected.