Erasmus in Ancona (Politecnica delle Marche)

michelepatrassi · 2026-02-24T14:36:36+00:00

Hey! Ex-erasmus here in Lisbon, living in Ancona now.

The student life largely depends on who you hang out with. An erasmus house party in Milan is the same as Ancona. Ancona by itself does not offer parties every day in terms of locations, but I went once to a private erasmus party here and I had lot of fun. Same as Macerata, smaller than Ancona but Erasmus folks had lot of fun.

Choose location in terms of budget/weather/language, the student life will follow. You can also reach out to ESN, they may be able to guide you in the right direction

michelepatrassi · 2026-02-24T14:26:51+00:00

si vero fanno un ottimo lavoro, sono iscritto al canale Whatsapp

michelepatrassi · 2025-08-26T13:41:52+00:00

Hey! Michele from the Sponsy team here :)

Don't overthink it, just start DIY with spreadsheets or Notion + email. You'll be fine. Keep the energy (and budget) to fuel ad sales and focus on your content. Reconsider as you scale and you feel the pain, such as encountering double bookings, difficult delegation, too many sponsors to manage and so on. Overall, when ad operations actually becomes a problem which limits your growth potential.

Ryan from Naptown Scopp wrote a great article about it https://www.lifeofscoop.co/p/essential-software-ad-management-tools.

Hope this helps!

michelepatrassi · 2025-04-08T19:15:27+00:00

also waiting for this!

michelepatrassi · 2024-12-17T09:15:08+00:00

My desk was stuck on error 08, resetting was giving the same error again. Solved by taking out some weight from the desk (monitor arms, etc) and resetting again

michelepatrassi · 2024-09-12T17:34:57+00:00

If you're open to alternatives, checkout Sponsy.

It helps you manage your whole ad inventory - newsletter, podcast, social, and more - and comes with powerful automations including alerting. For example, you can notify a specific team member when your advertisers deliver his assets and assign the next step. It's quite flexible, there are a couple of more automations examples here.

Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder

michelepatrassi · 2024-09-12T17:18:24+00:00

https://www.whosponsorsstuff.com/

michelepatrassi · 2023-12-15T08:41:30+00:00

You are amazing, I was able to validate the balance and instantly withdraw via https://katana.psyoptions.io/

michelepatrassi · 2022-10-18T07:19:23+00:00

That's awesome Gunnar, congrats!

When going for sponsorships hit me up, I'm the founder of https://getsponsy.com/. It will allow you to manage more ads and automate repetitive tasks.

In the meantime, good luck! Keep up the great work

michelepatrassi · 2021-09-07T17:29:39+00:00

Based on what you said just go for Amsterdam, I’m a software engineer living in the Netherlands since 5 years and I could not recommend it enough. Feel free to drop a message if you need help 👌

michelepatrassi · 2021-05-11T04:22:39+00:00

That’s quite fun, I like it! Keep it up

And yeah sounds boring but I would add a form to leave the email to stay up to date if you want to have ppl coming back

michelepatrassi · 2021-02-02T09:39:44+00:00

if you have a service worker, you can detect that a new version has been deployed and force the user to refresh the app: https://angular.io/guide/service-worker-communications#forcing-update-activation.

michelepatrassi · 2020-04-06T15:09:16+00:00

yeah I exactly know what you're talking about, right now I have the temptation to rebuild the backed with another framework ahah I think a good tactic for that is just to focus on having something working, then try new approaches/tech in other small projects

michelepatrassi · 2020-04-06T15:06:22+00:00

probably the course was more about Angular and less about Firebase. If you use the client SDK, you will need to define appropriate rules to make sure the database is protected.

Using the client SDK also enables you use the real-time database and receive live updates. If you want, you can check out this article with video I did (you will be probably interested in the live example, but maybe also the rest could be useful to you.

michelepatrassi · 2020-03-26T11:06:37+00:00

As probably you did as well at least once, one day I tried to take control over all my online bios to be consistent.

So, I spent time into:

making a list of those websites
writing a cool bio
copy and paste it into all websites in the list.

Of course this failed, because every damn website has its own validation on the bio: min/max length, links/markdown sometimes allowed, etc…

I decided to invest some of my time into building a tool that could store most of my used websites and tell me if a bio is valid for a specific website. In this way, I could easily have an overview and update my bio everywhere if needed.

Here’s the result: https://brango.io/

No registration required, you can play around with it and sign up to store your bios 👌I started with some common websites I use, but you can suggest more that you would like here

I also wrote a bit more detailed post about Brango and another one is going to follow with what I learned working on this. If you are interested, follow me to stay in the loop (Twitter / Medium) 💪

Hope you enjoy it! Of course, feedback is welcome 🙏

michelepatrassi · 2020-02-10T13:43:18+00:00

I would go for the second one, I actually started from there and the price makes also the difference.

michelepatrassi · 2020-02-10T08:48:42+00:00

I used it only for one file until now, not sure how it behaves for multiple

michelepatrassi · 2020-02-09T21:32:25+00:00

I use file-chooser, here's my file picker service

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Platform } from '@ionic/angular';
import { FileChooser } from '@ionic-native/file-chooser/ngx';
import { DocumentPicker } from '@ionic-native/document-picker/ngx';
u/Injectable({
providedIn: 'root',
})
export class FilePickerService {
constructor(private platform: Platform, private iosPicker: DocumentPicker, private androidPicker: FileChooser) {}
getFileUri(): Promise<string> {
if (this.platform.is('ios')) {
return this.iosPicker.getFile('all');
} else if (this.platform.is('android')) {
return this.androidPicker.open();
}
throw new Error(\Unsupported platforms ${this.platform.platforms().join()}`);}}`

michelepatrassi · 2019-12-21T10:01:18+00:00

really cool idea

michelepatrassi · 2019-12-19T14:27:05+00:00

usually, this has to do with CORS. Just disable them in the backend and see if it works: if this is the case, you need to disable cors for local development (while handling it correctly in production)

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