Development
My Story
I was born in Naples, Italy. For those who don’t know it, it’s a place where art, criminality, religiousity, awesome food, the best pizza in the world, strong coffee, the sea, 2 volcanos and greek+roman+christian civilitazions meet and thrive(d) for thousands of years. Not an easy place …
Your First Year In Code
With my extreme surprise, but also extreme happiness, I published a book! I say surprise because I didn’t plan to but heard about the awesome Isaac Lyman and his idea of writing a guide book for new and aspiring developers, not too techincal but instead full of advices and knowledge that is …
Things I Know as of 2018
It honestly came as a surprise a post on Overreacted by Dan Abramov. He lists all the things he doesn’t know as of 2018, in an attempt to “devalue” in the eyes of newbies any experienced developer by showing off the gaps in knowledge that usually we take for granted, expecially …
Freecodecamp
Frontend development was never my area. I’ve always been more of a Backend/System Administrator. I’ve never truly grokked the idea of events, DOM, making requests elsewhere and things running outside my machine, without me giving precise instruction when to run and what arguments to …
Programming Isn't Easy
I was reading, as usual, Scott Hanselman’s blog and couldn’t agree more on his complaining on the recent WWDC keynote asserting that programming is easy. From his post:
When we tell folks - kids or otherwise - that programming is easy, what will they think when it gets difficult? And it …