Hi, I'm Edoardo

I was born in 1990, in Italy, where I lived until 2015. I moved to Switzerland to pursue my PhD, and I have lived here since then (now in Zürich).

If you’re looking for an extended bio, I’ve built a personal timeline of my life.

About this website

This is my digital notebook—a public journal collecting the thoughts of a curious mind.

Here, you’ll find my musings about a variety of topics: from programming and side projects to fiction writing and travel notes—mostly about walking or in a mountain-like setting. My goal is to teach my future self (and remind my older self of what I’ve learned), but if you discover something that resonates, inspires, or sparks curiosity, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

If you want to get in touch, just email me.

Behind the scenes

I’m not going to write down the whole history of my attempts of keeping a personal website or blog. Same thing goes for all the platforms and frameworks I tried. I’m a tech enthusiast and tinkerer, and naturally attracted to anything that somewhat challenges my knowledge about something.

But if you really want to know, as of now, this website runs on Kirby, the hardware is a very basic virtual private server deployed by Hetzner (2 arm64 Ampere vCPUs and 4 GB of RAM), the domain is registered with Porkbun, and DNS are managed by Cloudflare. I’m deeply thankful to Matthew Butterick, who taught me a ton about web typography. Right now, I’m using two typefaces by Klim Type Foundry: Martina Plantijn (serif) and Geograph (sans). The monospace font is Berkeley Mono.

This website is using a minimal and privacy-friendly analytics service called Tinylytics mainly to monitor the uptime. I try my best to keep its web footprint as small as possible by being cautious with JavaScript stuff and the like.

If you are into this stuff, I’m keeping a changelog where I document the notable technical (and not) changes to the website.