PinnedPublished inJavaScript in Plain EnglishReact vs Vue.js from a Developer Friendliness PerspectiveI frequently get on my feed articles from people claiming that some library heavily used (usually React or Angular) is the source of all…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
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PinnedCSS, the wrong turn the Web has takenCSS was conceptualised in 1994, at a time when JavaScript still didn’t exist, which is important to understand its context…Jul 16, 20215Jul 16, 20215
PinnedAll the issues with HTML, the Frontend land where time stood stillHTML was an outstanding idea. An accessible markup created for displaying academic papers with the revolutionary addition of links…Jul 14, 20212Jul 14, 20212
About AI, con artists and hysteriaI remember watching one episode of an American show, about a supposed medium that, being surrounded by people in an audience, chooses one…Oct 11, 2023Oct 11, 2023
An Attempt to fix the Truly Awful Standard Italian Keyboard based on the ANSI standardHow keyboard standards work, the types we have and why the Italian one is bad, with proposals on new keyboards for typing in Italian.Aug 24, 20231Aug 24, 20231
Published inCodeXThe impact of AI tools to front-end codeI wrote an article yesterday on text generated by AI tools. Now in this short text I wanted to go deeper into AI tools and their impact for…Apr 28, 20231Apr 28, 20231
AI-generated texts and the progress of languageHow AI language tools can mimic outdated language protocols, generating texts that can slow down further progress of languageApr 27, 202314Apr 27, 202314
AI: what it is, what it can and what it can’t do (or shouldn’t do)We’ve all been hearing a lot lately about Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is a field of computing where programs or machines can perform…Mar 23, 2023Mar 23, 2023