Before I start expressing my feelings and reasonings, I want to put a disclaimer in this article: I am not a scientist, I am not telling anything new, and I don’t want to convince anybody. If you find an inaccuracy, please report it and help me make this article better. …

I never actually wrote retrospective articles, but the last two years have been such crazy times; I’d love to keep track of them and the progress I made while trying to carry on in quarantine, social limitations, and these uncertain years. Let’s make it clear from the beginning: I am…

Writing a functional Blockchain from scratch has never been so easy — Blockchain is a scorching topic in computer science these days. It becomes famous in 2008 thanks to the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, which (as you may know) uses a Blockchain to record every transaction into a public distributed ledger. But… how much do we know about Blockchain? I mean, what if we…

Before discussing Rolex and mechanical watches in general, let me introduce myself a bit. I am a Senior Software Architect, book author, and international speaker. Even if my main source of income is my full-time job, I have a mortgage and loans to pay off, so I try to earn…

Don’t get scared by RegEx! They are easier than you think! In computer science, some topics may sound scarier than others. Regular Expressions, in detail, may sound incredibly scary at first… but once you got it, you’ll find ’em incredibly easy and useful! Why do I need RegEx? First of all: what is a RegEx…

Some thoughts about the “how would you recommend to begin with FP?” question after my speech at Codemotion 2019 in Milan. On the 24th of October 2019, I made my first speech at the Codemotion conference in Milan, Italy. I talked about functional programming and how it can make our…

After some time working with different programming languages, I started to think about building my own language. That’s what I came up with! I’ve always been fascinated by programming languages. Every programming language brings its own syntax, semantic, and paradigm. If you have to choose how to implement your own…

Building high-quality REST and GraphQL APIs is hard. But there’s an easy way to get started in a few minutes. One year ago, I started to develop the backend for a quite popular website. I’ve tried different approaches, different technologies, and even different programming languages. Then I started to look…

My personal thoughts about JavaScript, PHP, Golang, Haskell, and Elixir. Which is the best one? During the last years, I had the opportunity to experiment with different programming languages. I really like to learn different languages, approaches, and paradigms. I’m an inquisitive person, and programming languages have always fascinated me. …