Claudio Cicali

Voglio raccontare per me e per chi altri fosse interessato i passi che sono stati necessari, negli ultimi mesi, per tornare in controllo del mio corpo e, di conseguenza, della mia vita.

When developing a fairly complex web application, one of the things I hate most is how mangled and tangled the 'scripts' section of package.json becomes over time.

After a week-long visit to the city that never sleeps, I've gathered some tips, reflections, and nonsense to share.

Dopo una visita di una settimana nella città che non dorme mai, ho raccolto qui qualche indicazione, qualche riflessione, qualche sciocchezza.

Let's take a moment to talk about password security, starting with a somewhat absurd example to clear up an issue that has constantly bothered me.

Yet another starter kit from yours truly; this time we talk HTMX, JSX and Fastify!

How I got lost in a simple idea.

You should focus on making things good enough from the start, rather than relying on a mythical "Future You" to fix issues down the road.

Not everything about Regexp is complicated and boring.

I tried to run Mastodon on my laptop and I almost fully succeeded.

I have used Copilot daily for three months now, mostly writing TypeScript, React and nodejs code.

Do you know the reason why we are so accustomed to writing self-closing tags as <Something /> and not <Something/>, with the space in between?

New job, new laptop, new Gmail?

After having enjoyed a full week on the beautiful Zakynthos island, let me share with you some tips and ideas for your next trip to the island.

After having spent a full week on the Gran Canaria island, I want to share some of my impressions so to give some ideas to future visitors and of course as a journal for the future self.

No, non inizierò dicendo che "pare ieri" perché non lo pare affatto.

Small engineering teams working in a startup usually have the luxury to be allowed to try several approaches and ideas toward their main goals, when it comes to product development optimizations: _leverage integrations, worship simplicity _and maintain _c…

Follow me while I'll be diving into the details that made it possible to get a perfect score in Lighthouse, while having fun developing this website.

It has been a really long time since I had my own website so I decided to do something about it.

I am not sure I really like “serverless” software development.

I just came back from a week on the bike: this time I took the way to the Baltic Sea, pedalling for about 310km in 4 days.

OK, I know, this might sound quite a peculiar topic at first but maybe you can get some interesting tips from the whole story.

My own definition of “drawing seriously” is more or less the same that applies to “running seriously”; you get to that status when you look forward to the next moment you’ll be only with yourself and your paper and pens, or your running shoes.

This one has been my second year in Lisbon, attending the glaring WebSummit.

As my birthday present, C invited me to visit with her the town of Dessau, in Saxony-Anhalt.

During our recent trip to France I had the pleasure to drive a rented car of a class I have never driven before: a new Mercedes C200 convertible.

I just came back from a relatively short vacation–a week – in Crete and I would like to share some of my impressions of that experience with you, fellow travelers.

Over the past few months, I got involved in the world of cryptocurrencies and I played a bit trading some of them.

In this article I’ll tell you how I fixed my Node.js development environment to be able to use a “macro” reference (or an “alias”, if you wish) for my TypeScript modules so that instead of writing an awful… import { Something } from "../../../..

I hope you agree with me when I say that Visual Studio Code (from here on just VSC) is today’s best text editor.

The end of the century was without doubt (surprise!)

I guess this is the mandatory blog post at the end of my (first) Whole30 Program.

The idea is to create a repository on each server, set them as two new remotes and then just push to them to deploy, using the post-receive git hook which is run after the push has terminated.

I received my first salary in the “software industry” as a software developer at the beginning of April 1988, which was 30-something years ago.

There has been quite an interesting discussion blossomed from a recent article about the Senior Developer role and what it really means.

Questo è il racconto dei miei cinque giorni in bicicletta, da Praga verso Berlino.

Have you ever wanted to stop an animated GIF?

I recently came to find a limitation on the otherwise amazing Github API.

Sono a Regensburg e il treno che mi deve portare a Hof è in ritardo di dieci minuti e quei dieci minuti potrebbero essere un problema, visto che a Hof avrò solo nove minuti per prendere la coincidenza successiva.