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Antoine Roquentin, the protagonist of the novel, is a former adventurer who has been living for three years in Bouville, a fictional French seaport town, researching the life of an 18th-century diplomat. During his previous life around the world, Antoine has seen many places, me…
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Years ago, I translated an excellent essay by Terry Windling, On Tolkien and Fairie-Stories, from American English to Italian. I remember arguing with …
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Someone did it –the perfect Daft Punk tribute after their break up. Also ideal for those hard-coding sessions. For the first time in 14 years, experien…
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A couple of weeks ago I went hiking the Translagorai, an 80 km-long trail that teaverses the whole Lagorai mountain range in the Alps. The route takes …
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Wendy Molyneux, writing unabashedly for McSweeney’s, summarizes all I have to say on the COVID vaccine and never dared to say: You think vaccines don’t…
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I’m pretty psyched about the upcoming .NET6 release. I’ve already touched on ASP.NET 6 Minimal APIs. Continuing on the long-established tradition, the …
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I happened across this book by pure chance. After having ice cream in our favourite place in Milano Marittima, my wife and I visited a small street mar…
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Another day, another lesson learned: modern .NET does not support the Windows-1252 encoding out of the box. Today my colleague was happily porting a le…
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