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My first weeks at Acer Europe

This is a post for my future self when I will be asking myself: “How were my first days at Acer like?”. Note: I’m working at Acer EMEA HQ, so when I mention “Acer”, for simplicity, I mean “Acer Europe”. 💭 My expectations My previous experience was in a small company and …

Personal Notes about The Definitive Guide to DAX

Disclaimer: this will be a long, long post, written in my own way. It’s essentially a dump of my personal notes, taken when reading “The Definitive Guide to DAX” written by Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo. At my new workplace I’m going to use PowerBI and DAX a lot, thus my boss suggested me to read …

My surreal experience with COBOL

I was feeling curious… So, I decided to challenge myself and try to learn a bit more about COmmon Business-Oriented Language aka COBOL, invented in 1959 by IBM. It’s not the most popular among programmers, being extremely old and with huge limitations compared to today’s modern …

First time with Tailwind CSS: showing off my books!

I’m back with another post, this time exploring a new CSS framework, Tailwind CSS! In the previous months I started using Angular and Typescript for some small web apps and dashboards, but I always found CSS management cumbersome. I could spend hours tweaking font-size and align-items …

My Personal Airflow - How I'm monitoring my scripts with Python, Appsmith and SQL Server

Here’s the story of how I created my first full-stack project for monitoring my daily activities, using Python and SQL Server in backend and Appsmith for the GUI. I have a lot to learn and process yet, but hey, it’s a start. 😟 The Problem There are scripts I’m using that are …

Using a Neural Network for sending memes to my girlfriend

Well, my GF’s tastes in memes are simple: she loves wholesome memes and, most importantly, she loves animals. That’s why I created a fun little project that: Surfs the subreddit r/wholesomemes using the reddit API Downloads a few of the hottest memes in the contents folder Initializes a …