Origins
I am from Verona but I now live in WSL, Bruxelles
Inspirations
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Smalltalk: Squeak,olpc, Scratch, Croquet, Newspeak
- Inventing fundamental new computing technologies: Fonc, Ian's ee380 at Stanford
- N. Dershowitz, E. M. Reingold Calendrical Calculations, 3rd Edition
- Cargo Cult Science (PDF)
- Tufte
- Kahan's writings, i.e. Why I can Debug some Numerical Programs You can't
- Botticelli's Primavera (on Wikipedia) and Birth of Venus (on Wikipedia)
- Van Dyck's Arnolfini's Marriage
- (Good) Books I read
Projects
- PyCalCal: calendrical calculations in Python
Doing
- Android programming
- Python as usual
- Smalltalk in Squeak: where you can really feel like programming is for humans
Books
- (some of) the ones I read
- the ones I own and would like to read someday
- these are candidates to be bought (and read of course !-)