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I’m Paolo Riccardi and this is my online resume.

This website was born mainly to share my experiences in IT and my interests related to Computer Science.

Over the years I’ve realized that the process to translate a new concept to others is very helpful in consolidating my own understanding of that concept, so I’m trying to include this process into my study routine. Writing technical articles is a (very) time consuming activity, but hopefully over time I’ll be able to add some post to the Linenoise section.

The ultimate test of your knowledge is your ability to convey it to another. (Richard Feynman)

Shortcuts and contacts

If you need more details about me and my contacts, just visit the About section;
If you just want to check my (very) synthetic curriculum vitae you can visit the Resume page on this website;
If you want to reach out or get more details, feel free to check my Linkedin profile and drop a message there;
If you’re interested in some of my opensource projects, you can browse my Github;
If you enjoy reading technical articles and/or book reviews hopefully there are going to be some into the Linenoise page on this website.

Where does the name come from?

“It was hot the night we burned Chrome”. That’s how Burning Chrome, a short ~~science fict~~ CyberPunk novel by William Gibson started. The novel gave the title to a whole volume which collected other remarkable short stories from the same author (Johnny Mnemonic, just to mention one of them).

I first read the novel in my teen years and somehow it managed to stay stuck into my mind so far, so I decided it was a good name after all.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. (Phil Karlton)