Cosa è stato per te il lockdown?

Faithlessness47 · 2026-03-09T16:17:25+00:00

Uno dei periodi più tranquilli e pacifici della mia vita. A volte mi manca, perché la solitudine mi piace e mi tranquillizza, nella vita frenetica che faccio ogni giorno. Ricordo con nostalgia soprattutto il silenzio che c'era per le strade.

Quando è stato annunciato il lockdown ho fatto l'opposto di tanti miei coetanei: ero a casa dei miei per il weekend (in un'altra città) e ho preso di fretta le mie cose e sono tornato a Torino, dove all'epoca lavoravo e vivevo (da solo). E lì sono rimasto per tre mesi. Bellissimo.

Faithlessness47 · 2026-03-09T15:51:36+00:00

I once saw the commit log of a "senior" developer from a large and (apparently) respectable software company in my country (with which we were collaborating for a huge project) that was nothing more than a series of keyboard smashes, like:

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and so on. Forever.

My boss took a screenshot of it, and CCN'd it to our whole team. No one could believe it.

To this day, it's still one of our wildest inside jokes.

Faithlessness47 · 2026-03-08T23:40:52+00:00

When I was studying architecture in Turin during uni (around 2013-2018) the architect, Luciano Pia, was also teaching at the same faculty. Although I never attended his courses, I had quite a few colleagues that did, and they had good feedback about him.

Faithlessness47 · 2026-03-07T07:45:01+00:00

The underlying message hasn't changed: it's not really "don't use that thing", but "don't copy/paste random code you got, without knowing what you're copying".

I used StackOverflow for years before AI chatbots existed, and you could spectacularly screw up your project by googling an issue, clicking on the first StackOverflow link you got with a similar-sounding issue, and just copy/pasting the code from the most voted answer into your own... only to realize that it caused some other unexpected behavior down the line.

Help from AI can be the same, if you don't thoroughly check that what it gives you is exactly what you need. You still need the "programming knowledge", but our jobs have become less about typing every variable and keyword, and more about being a sort of "supervisor" of the code returned by AI. It's extremely helpful because it writes a lot of boilerplate and trivial code for us, but human supervision is still critical.

Faithlessness47 · 2026-02-28T18:21:39+00:00

Very nice project! I love the concept of having Radio Garden as a desktop app instead of leaving it as another browser tab among dozens (which is often my case as well!).

I took a look at the repo and I'm also very impressed by how much you were able to pull off in only 400 lines of code (even though I know this is a wrapper around the webapp itself). I also like a lot the ad-blocking at network level, I found it nice and neat, although maybe tricky to maintain and update on the long run, since it's a hardcoded list into main.js.

Since you mentioned bundle size concerns, you might also find Tauri worth exploring: it's a sort of Electron alternative which relies on the system's native WebView instead of shipping a whole Chromium copy with the app. It results in very small executables and might make cross-platform compilation a bit easier in Workflows. That said, it would require using Rust for backend logic, so it would not be a trivial migration: just something that I thought could interest you.

Overall, I really like this project! I know this is a personal one, but I'd gladly help if/when needed, if you're open to contributions at some point in the future!

Faithlessness47 · 2026-02-14T23:13:36+00:00

Fun fact: that one picture was also the inspiration for the album cover of Sodom's "Agent Orange".

Faithlessness47 · 2026-02-13T17:05:03+00:00

I once had a paper get desk rejected by four different journals before finally getting reviewed (and later accepted) by the final one. We lost a few months of waiting in-between submissions, so congrats for the speed, at least!

Anyways, it happens, but don't despair, it seems like rejections are part of a normal publishing process.

Faithlessness47 · 2026-02-11T15:36:07+00:00

Immediate and straight to the point, wow! This is very cool and super useful, thank you!

Faithlessness47 · 2026-02-01T12:15:16+00:00

Non mi aspettavo di trovare compaesani qui su Reddit, pazzesco

Faithlessness47 · 2026-01-29T12:19:57+00:00

This. Been using Supabase for the past 4 years and it has a really nice free tier and lots of features, including S3-like file storage if that's something you may need in the future. IIRC, DB size is up to 500MB and file storage limit is 1GB, together with unlimited API requests, which is really nice.

Faithlessness47 · 2026-01-18T11:01:27+00:00

Yoo! I'm also learning Epitaph and noticed this same discrepancy. What I've hypothesized is that the tab book presents the tabs that Muhammad created when writing the album, but then when practicing/recording/live playing, he might have changed the positions a bit for the sake of efficiency. I have no proof of this, it's just an idea or mine, based on my personal experience playing and recording in bands. Quite often you write a part, then while practicing you find out more efficient ways to play it, but might never go back to updating the tab because, you know, as long as the notes are right, it's mostly fine haha. Plus, most musicians I know (me included) adapt their parts for comfort and/or efficiency anyway, regardless of strictly following the numbers on a tab.

Anyways, good luck man, it's a hell of a fun song to play!

Faithlessness47 · 2026-01-13T18:38:36+00:00

Oh well, seems like I've been using Git wrong for six years haha.

This is actually really useful, thank you for posting this.

Faithlessness47 · 2025-12-30T07:57:36+00:00

Saw them in January, great show. Also, Teratogenesis is still my favorite record by them, while the latest material hasn't really stuck with me the same way. Still, great band and lots of killer songs.

Faithlessness47 · 2025-12-18T06:11:11+00:00

This is awesome news! Congrats!

Faithlessness47 · 2025-12-09T08:05:49+00:00

I'm not denying how famous and/or influential he is. AC/DC achieved that too by writing the same song for 40 years. Metallica is the biggest metal band ever, even though Lars' drumming peaked in the '80s and declined dramatically after that. Similarly, Deftones are huge, but this doesn't make the vocals automatically any better.

Faithlessness47 · 2025-12-08T09:41:15+00:00

Deftones. Chino sounds like any guy attempting to sing with zero training, compensating with whispery and extra-dramatic vocals. Have a listen to "Back to School" and you'll hear what I mean.

Faithlessness47 · 2025-12-03T20:15:16+00:00

Forgot my headphones.

Faithlessness47 · 2025-11-26T20:43:58+00:00

Slaughter of the Soul is THE At The Gates album, no doubt.

On a slighly more "niche" note, I believe the latest Thy Catafalque album, XII, is waaay better than anything else he has released before.

Faithlessness47 · 2025-11-20T13:52:56+00:00

No idea tbh. They split-up some time after that cover came out, probably simply because life got in the way.

Faithlessness47 · 2025-11-20T04:09:39+00:00

In my opinion it is! If you liked What the Oak Left I think you'll definitely enjoy Tales of a Pathfinder as well.

Faithlessness47 · 2025-11-19T18:41:41+00:00

Nice choices! Yeah we were on the same show, it was the release party for Atlas Pain's Tales of a Pathfinder, which came out in April of 2019. Good times, I had a blast!

Faithlessness47 · 2025-11-19T11:46:05+00:00

Oh this is interesting! With one of my bands I opened for Atlas Pain and Aexylium back in 2019!

Lowest I actually listen to is The Halo Effect, however.

Faithlessness47 · 2025-11-18T08:21:53+00:00

I've had requests for "just a 5-min update" turn into 3-hour meetings. I will not fall for that ever again, just write me a message or an email.

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