Giovanni Cappellotto's Blog

I’ve recently played The Secret of Monkey Island for perhaps the third time in my life.

I started contributing to Python about four weeks ago.

scotty-format is a helper for the Scotty web framework that assists in defining different response formats based on the request’s Accept header value.

Yesterday, I wrote a small Ruby script to fetch Airbrake’s error groups.

A couple of weeks ago, a colleague shared the latest Radiohead album with me.

Technical interviews can be exhausting.

I always thought one year was a fairly long amount of time, but then I tried to draw each day of the year as a square in a grid.

It all began about 10 days ago when I first learned about the Android Experiments I/O challenge.

To make the SQLite3 console output more readable, execute the following command: 1 (echo ".header ON" && echo ".mode column") > ~/.sqliterc This will create a file named .sqliterc in your home directory, configuring it to enable table headers and set the

Sucker Punch is a Ruby asynchronous processing library using Celluloid, heavily influenced by Sidekiq and girl_friday.

I have always found it challenging to decide on a name for my projects.

The main purpose of this post is to introduce a basic workflow for collaborating on Gist.

The team consists of me, Daniel, Francesco, and Luca.

After about five years, I decided to completely redesign this blog.

Disclaimer: The content of this post is not original.

A couple of weeks ago, I published a post introducing gist-txt, a tool I created for building text adventures.

Yesterday, I published the very first version of a minimal tool to create and publish text adventures.

Ludum Dare 28 marked my first participation in this game jam, an event I had always aspired to join.

The plugin utilizes the Instagram API to retrieve a list of photos using the JSONP format.

Live coding is a programming practice focused on improvisational, interactive programming.

I use Ubuntu on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 laptop, and sometimes Gnome becomes unresponsive after sleep mode.

Wooga organized a contest called EuRuKo Golf, where you can win a ticket to EuRuKo 2012.

Heroku is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that allows you to deploy an application in seconds.

If you want to contribute a new feature to an open-source project hosted on GitHub, you can fork the repository, make your changes, test them, commit them, and finally open a pull request.

I often forget to reference issues or documentation in commit messages.

With git stash, you can temporarily set aside your current updates to focus on other tasks.

Here are some of the lessons learned by Jason Goldberg while running Fab.com that I completely agree with: Do One Thing: Find one thing you can do exceptionally well and focus entirely on that.

Yesterday marked the end of Node.js Knockout.

La Roba is a collective design project from Thiene.

Thounds is a web application that allows you to record your own sounds and share them with your friends or band members.

Welcome to my personal blog.