starting up
here we go; first blog post.
who am i
i'm Marco, i'm writing this post from my VPS machine in a vim editor.
i've been a software engineer for 10+ years now, and i've been looking forward to this moment for quite a while now.
what drives me
i'm primarily a very curious person, but not in a binge-a-lot-of-documentaries way. i specifically like studying how things work, and by things i mean everything.
i started studying physics because i liked the idea to learn a GUT about the universe; after 3 years, and half of my degree's exams passed, i dropped out of uni to manage a club, then studied programming and made a job out of it.
i make electronic music in a way that confuses a lot of people: i make every single sound i use from scratch using oscillators, modulation, eq, compression, etc. no samples, no patches. this is the extent to which i like to understand how things work.
i guess the bottom line as to what drives me is the idea that after all you don't need that many layers to grasp from the atom to the galaxy; you just need a very deep comprehension of what structures enable all the scales in between.
why this blog
i see how things are going in the dev world. i see how the ecosystem has evolved for the past decade, i see how AI is threatening to disrupt the entire market and the way we do and make things.
over time, i think i have evolved a quite unique approach to software (i mean not just coding, but also maintaining, project-managing, deploying, etc) and i still think it makes sense today because i can finally answer with confidence to many of the deep questions i used to have for the first half of my career.
the uniqueness of my approach isn't the result of a supreme intellect; it's just the natural evolution of my deep need for simplicity and focus, because another thing about me is that i get either distracted or bored very, very easily.
about anarchism
another thing about me is that i struggle to see humanity as a hierarchy. i just can't wrap my head around this societal model. i just see humanity as a huge market of opinions and ideas. those who borrow their worldview from their culture or their leaders are just giving up part of the human experience; what i find concerning is that many people may be giving up this human feature not because they're not interested, but because they don't know that they can form their own opinions and still fit somewhere in the big game of humanity.
therefore i'll be posting very opinionated ideas here, and my readers are free and actually encouraged to challenge them. whenever i have data to support my arguments, i'll explicitly specify so. but the general approach to reading this blog should be to focus on the relatability of my experience (if it's relatable to you) rather than to the objectiveness of my thesis.
the blog
this blog is running on the following very simple ssr engine i built:
please, take a look at the codebase and appreciate the incredible simplicity of its components. i hope you'll find it as enjoyable as i do.