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Microsoft Surface GO: more than a tablet
I’ve just received a new corporate PC, and my old computer (a Dell XPS, 15”, 16 GB of RAM) was sitting at home, unused. So I decided to sell it and to buy a convertible - a tablet with a keyboard.
a review of the book The Phoenix Project
I’ve just completed the reading of a book calld The Phoenix Project - a Novel about IT, DevOps, and helping your business win.
Pair Programming vs Pull Requests
I attended a hackaton recently: an italian bank organizes an event every year for employees only, me and another programmer friend were invited by an employee to conribute to his idea.
Thinking of customers like a CEO: lessons learned along the way
The story I’m going to talk about is not related to my current job, anyway.
Tips & Tricks from my linux experience
This article is the summary of a talk I gave for Linux Day Avellino 2019. Slides are here.
How internet ads work
Since money was invented, people felt the urge to advertise their products to others. I live very near to Pompeii (Italy) and if you visit this incredible town you’ll discover that in 79 a.D. there were a lot of ads painted on walls, trying to sell you wine, prostitutes, or ask for a vote.
Jest and Puppeteer from the barricades
When I started my career as a software developer I immediately become “friend” with the concepts of unit testing and integration testing. At the time (2012) the backend was written in Java and the frontend was written in GWT, a Java framework to build UIs that is compiled to JS.
What is the difference between var, let and const in Javascript
I did some interviews in the last few days, the role we were searching was “super-duper senior javascript master” so I asked this very simple question as starter:
Detect network issues from your pc to a remote url
Suppose you see that a website, or a URL, that seems to be unaccessible.
Typescript, Babel, Webpack, ESLint: my configuration
The purpose of this post is to give you, dear reader, an example of the configuration I use on some projects. Configuring the whole stack is sometimes frustrating. Here’s what works for me.