announcement (7)

Welcome to the jungle

There is a concept out on the internet of second brains and digital gardens: islands hosting a compilation of personal knowledge with different degrees of structure. I have always been...

🐇 New year's resolution

  One year is gone again… 2022 really flew by, bringing along a strong wind of change: new job, new house, new life balance,… what’s next? What to expect for...

A new interactive menu!

  Did you know that GitHub has an extremely powerful command palette that you can access by simply pressing the Ctrl+k buttons? If you didn’t, you are welcome 😉 I...

New year's resolution

  Yes, it’s 2022. The new year came with things we wished would end still wreaking havoc on this forsaken land. At the same time, many of us kept postponing...

Webmentions: letting Disqus go

I have taken a clear direction in this ever more connected life: trying to retain possession of my content and privacy. Let me explain. Privacy and content ownership I was...

A new skin! (again)

The website got a new skin, again. I feel energized again after defending my Ph.D. thesis, and I want to get into the habit of writing at least one page...

A new skin!

We (Filopoe.it) just got ourselves a new skin, based on the sleek TeXt theme. Let’s be honest, it’s been way too long since I stopped by to write something. Also,...

cinema (1)

Gli scienziati non piacciono a nessuno

A: “Gli scienziati non piacciono a nessuno.” B: “Alla gente piace quello che la scienza gli dà, ma non le domande…” B: “…no, non le domande che la scienza pone.”...

code (10)

[SOLVED] Blown out Steam UI on Ubuntu 23.04, 4K display

I just opened steam to chill playing Dredge (go check it out if you haven’t heard about it! 🎣) to find out that suddenly a steam client update broke the...

Ubuntu 23.04 - Lunar Lobster 🌕🦞

I just upgraded my main workstation from Ubuntu 22.10 to 23.04 (Lunar Lobster). While the process itself was pretty seamless, I hit a few minor bumps afterwards. Here I am...

[Solved] Fix Ubuntu's broken Firefox+1Password integration

⚠️ DISCLAIMER: this article contains potentially triggering amounts of facepalms ⚠️ For a while I have been wondering why the 1Password app would seamlessly integrate with Chrome but not on...

A new interactive menu!

  Did you know that GitHub has an extremely powerful command palette that you can access by simply pressing the Ctrl+k buttons? If you didn’t, you are welcome 😉 I...

[solved] Ubuntu 22.04 with ZFS root boot stuck at GNU Grub 2.06

My home workstation runs on Ubuntu 22.04 and this week, for the first time, I suspended it instead of turning it off. Everything worked well when after a few hours...

Installing Ruby on Ubuntu 22.04

Almost exactly one year ago (:scream: time flies!) I posted a 6-step guide on how to start your own Jekyll static website (check out the link if interest). Now, after...

6 steps to own your content
with a personal static website!

In this article I will explain how to freely host a brand new static website online in six steps, using GitHub pages and Jekyll. Basically, this is a short guide...

R's need for speed:
plotting millions of points in seconds!

Have you ever had to generate a scatterplot with one million points, or more? As a bioinformatician working in the academia, and specifically on large datasets, this happens to me...

Webmentions: letting Disqus go

I have taken a clear direction in this ever more connected life: trying to retain possession of my content and privacy. Let me explain. Privacy and content ownership I was...

Printer-styled range in Python:
a case study

Recently, I had to convert a printer-styled range string into the corresponding list of selected elements. This made for a nice case study on Python class properties, iterability, length, and...

journal (3)

2022W#40

Weekly journal Finally refreshed the sourdough! 💪 I am happy to say that it survived my laziness, and it turned into four beautiful pizzas (now stocked in the freezer for...

2022W#39

Weekly journal This week I kept up with my gym plans, so all is good on that end. 🧘 On Tuesday, I went to see the Traviata at the opera...

2022W#38

I have never been one to write about personal matters or to keep a sort of public journal on my website, but here we are… In the past few weeks,...

photos (1)

Gita sull'isola del Garda

Qualche giorno fa sono stato in gita sull’isola del Garda con i miei genitori, con partenza in barca da Desenzano del Garda. Una volta giunti sull’isola siamo stati subito accolti...

recipe (2)

Flipped banana cake

This is a spin I gave to the flipped banana cake 🍌 recipe by the famous Italian cook book “Il cucchiaio d’argento”. A small version of the original recipe is...

Chocolate salame

This is a very yummy and easy to prepare cold dessert that my Granma used to give us every time we went to visit when we were children. Everyone in...

science (5)

Vaccini e Omeopatia

Che dire, (come avevo accennato) anche quest’anno ho fatto da referente per l’edizione trentina dell’evento di corretta informazione scientifica indetto da Italia Unita per la Scienza. Come l’anno scorso, cercherò...

La bufala é servita,
a Trento (IUxS)

Quest’anno “Italia Unita per la Scienza” (info) sta organizzando non una giornata, bensì un’intera settimana di eventi di corretta divulgazione scientifica. Trovo questa iniziativa lodevole, e proprio per questo motivo...

uniSTEM 2014 - Trento

UniStem, a partire dal 2009, organizza ogni anno una giornata totalmente dedicata alla conoscenza delle cellule staminali e della loro importanza in campo scientifico. Nelle maggiori città universitarie – aiutati...

Un esperimento divulgativo

Partiamo del retroscena: da Febbraio faccio parte di una squadra di studenti di Biotecnologie dell’Università degli Studi di Trento, con cui parteciperó all’edizione 2013 di “iGEM”. iGEM (international Genetically Engineered...

Gli scienziati non piacciono a nessuno

A: “Gli scienziati non piacciono a nessuno.” B: “Alla gente piace quello che la scienza gli dà, ma non le domande…” B: “…no, non le domande che la scienza pone.”...

sketch (10)

Inktober 2020

Alcuni dei disegni dell’Inktober 2020. Obiettivo: disegnare una volta al giorno, seguendo le tematiche ufficiali (prompts) ma ispirandosi ai film dello studio ghibli. Quest’anno, in collaborazione con la mia carissima...

Inktober 2019

Alcuni dei disegni dell’Inktober 2019. Obiettivo: disegnare una volta al giorno, seguendo le tematiche ufficiali (prompts). Anche quest’anno, tra alti e bassi, sono riuscito a seguire un po’ di più...

Inktober 2018

Alcuni dei disegni dell’Inktober 2018. Obiettivo: disegnare una volta al giorno, seguendo le tematiche ufficiali (prompts). Quest’anno sono riuscito a seguire un po’ di più l’obiettivo, usando diverse tecniche, dall’acquerello,...

Tao Dance Theater - 4 & 5

Four Darkness. A bell tolls. Light. Dark background, light floor. Four persons wear identical and asymmetric clothes, of dark grey shades, slightly cerulean. One sleeve is too long, covering the...

Inktober 2017

Alcuni dei disegni dell’Inktober 2017. Obiettivo: disegnare una volta al giorno, principalmente ritratti e pose. La bzoza è permessa, volevo solo migliorare la tecnica e i risultati. Purtroppo, verso metà...

Eyes+palettes

I decided to end the year with a few eyes studies and a proper palette, to see how the marker colors are on this new artbook :)

Brush markers

I bought a new set of brush markers from TOUCH, the cool gray set.

Inktober 2016

Alcuni dei disegni dell’ultimo Inktober 2016. Obiettivo: disegnare una volta al giorno senza fare la bozza a matita, ma direttamente con inchiostro (china etc..) I disegni qua sotto sono solo...

tissue+head

Another old sketch from 2011.

painful

An old sketch from 2011.

travel (7)

May '23: Europe train trip, pt. VI

May 18th - trip to Vienna, with a stop in Prague. Transit day today! Early train to Vienna with a few hours stop in Prague for lunch. We ended up...

May '23: Europe train trip, pt. V

May 17th - second day in Berlin. We woke up late today 😄 took the chance to recharge after all the traveling so far! 😴 Then, we met with a...

May '23: Europe train trip, pt. IV

May 16th - first day in Berlin. As soon as we arrived in Berlin, we were welcomed by one of our BIMSB friends who was so nice to help us...

May '23: Europe train trip, pt. III

May 15th - second day in Hamburg. Today, we headed straight for a coffee as soon as we woke up. We ended up enjoying a short break in a shared...

May '23: Europe train trip, pt. II

May 14th - first day in Hamburg. I woke up early in the morning at the border between Denmark and Germany, where the train had to stop for 1-2 hours...

May '23: Europe train trip, pt. I

May 13th - the night train. The train departure from Stockholm was 40 minutes delayed, but at least the train strike in Germany was canceled. Then, we found out the...

Gita sull'isola del Garda

Qualche giorno fa sono stato in gita sull’isola del Garda con i miei genitori, con partenza in barca da Desenzano del Garda. Una volta giunti sull’isola siamo stati subito accolti...