London based software engineer, born in Italy and raised amongst computers. Passionate Gopher since 2015, eager attendee of meet-ups and conferences, London Gophers co-organiser. When not coding I sleep; when not sleeping, I think about how I can describe myself in a few lines blurb.

DotGo 2019 - Paris

 Posted on March 27, 2019  |  11 minutes  |  Antonio Troina

“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.” — Bertrand Russell Eurostar 🚅🇪🇺⭐️ The adventure begins at St. Pancras train station, where I randomly bump into Kat: what a nice coincidence to start! After some deep conversations that could have led us to designing a decision tree for ranking pastries (almond vs. choc/hazelnut croissant vs. pain au chocolat), the platform was announced and Kat and myself boarded, respectively, carriage 4 - seat 4, and carriage 5 - seat 67. [Read More]
dev  go  conferences 

The art of coding

 Posted on December 3, 2016  |  2 minutes  |  Antonio Troina

I was reading “Agile has failed: a peek at the future of programming.", and one sentence stood out to me from the rest, and led me to write this brief post with my thoughts on this matter. I’m sure you’re wondering what the sentence was, so before we go further, here you go: Coding is a form of art and a passion that allows developers to create anything. I assume we all agree on the passion bit (and if you don’t, read this book), but what about the art? [Read More]
dev  agile  engineering  philosophy 

Hacker News London meetup, October 2016

 Posted on October 6, 2016  |  4 minutes  |  Antonio Troina

In the London meetup scene, I couldn’t have missed the HNLondon meetup event yesterday evening. Hacker News London aims to attract “hackers”, geeks and similar human beings - usually about 450 people! The talks remind me somewhat of TEDx events, but primarily focussed on technology. My friend Laura recommended this meetup to me. She’s been there once or twice already, and this edition took place 10 months after the previous one: high expectations in the air! [Read More]
london  tech  dev  engineering  meetups 

java.net.InetAddress: getLocalHost() slow after MacOS Sierra upgrade?

 Posted on September 26, 2016  |  2 minutes  |  Antonio Troina

So, I don’t write often mainly because I don’t have much to say, but I hope that this, if not interesting, at least will be useful and save you a lot of time in troubleshooting. I made few hypothesis, like MacOS Sierra introduced a new filesystem and it f*cked up my logging library or csrutil is locking something for unknown security reasons or let’s read all the issues that people had with Sierra so far… [Read More]
java  macos  sierra  dev 

SoCraTes UK 2016: the passion awakens

 Posted on June 5, 2016  |  3 minutes  |  Antonio Troina

// TODO: refactor this later! Time passes by, and you get used to a daily routine made of commit, push, release, fix, clean, build, install. A developer, this is what they call you, and you start believing that this is who you are… or not? Few days ago I watched a documentary titled “The Watchmaker’s Apprentice”, and I found the story of George Daniels very fascinating. [Read More]
software craftsmanship  engineering  london  dev  conferences