Hello!

Senior full-stack developer specialized in backend and modern JavaScript frameworks. I build scalable applications, design APIs, and handle DevOps with Docker and AWS. Passionate about turning ideas into functional, user-focused solutions. At the moment I serve as Senior Developer at Lifetronic Srl in Pisa, Italy.

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• UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design

  by Vishnu Haridas

  The first time I learned about UTF-8 encoding, I was fascinated by how well-thought and brilliantly it was designed to represent millions of characters from different languages and scripts, and still be backward compatible with ASCII.

• Building Vector Tiles from scratch

  by Andre Debuisne

  I have been looking for a more efficient way to render the map.

• We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes

  by Pavel Panchekha

  A number of 70s computing systems had nine-bit bytes, most prominently the PDP-10, but today11 Apparently, it was the System/360 that really set the standard here. all systems use 8-bit bytes and that now seems natural.

• The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy

  by Ben Collier

  A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.