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bitcoin

Webinar: Through the looking glass (of the blockchain)

Blockchain and crypto values conference Free Webinar, Milan 29/05/2018 Everybody nowadays talks about the blockchain and how it could empower a new and incredible range of applications. But what it's stored

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
1 min read
ipfs

Talk: Learn how to build decentralized and serverless html5 applications with EmbarkJS, Ethereum, Dat and IPFS

Codemotion, Amsterdam 09/05/2018 Do you have an idea for a startup and don't want to pay for scaling it up? Forget about bandwidth problems, servers to install and pay for, with

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
1 min read
blockchain

Talk: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies

A Resilient City - Designing services for the future of Milan, Politecnico of Milan, 26/04/2018 What is a blockchain from a designer's point of view? What kind of services could be

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
1 min read
ipfs

Talk: Learn how to build decentralized and serverless html5 applications with EmbarkJS, Ethereum, Dat and IPFS

Codemotion, Rome 13/04/2018 Do you have an idea for a startup and don't want to pay for scaling it up? Forget about bandwidth problems, servers to install and pay for, with

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
1 min read
distributed-web

Talk: Learn how to build decentralized and serverless HTML5 applications with Embarkjs, Ethereum, and IPFS

Codemotion, Milan 11/11/2017 Do you have an idea for a startup and don't want to pay for scaling it up? Forget about bandwidth problems, servers to install and pay for, with

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
1 min read
quantified-self

quantified-self is passé, let me introduce the brand new linked-self

When I think about all the quantified-self stuff, I can't help but recall this xkcd strip. Quantified self, lifelogging, IoT, are all "blockier" samples of the real world as well. But

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
4 min read
digital identity

Talk: The pandora security model

Data Driven Innovation Conference, Rome 24/02/2017 This talk is about the relationships and problems between digital identities and the data silos where we are storing all our digital life. I will

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
1 min read
digital identity

what Pirandello, Rifkin and Pandora have to do with digital identity

In his 1926 novel one, no one and one hundred thousand, Pirandello talks about the struggle between our perceived identity and the masks that society force us to wear every day. It's a

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
6 min read
digital

are we building a new kind of tradition?

Since our days at school, we have all been taught about oral traditions and how they were marginalized by the advent of the written ones. A great portion of our cultures just faded

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
4 min read
MacOS

it's cold and dark outside your beloved ssh servers after MacOS Sierra upgrade

If like me you own very old ssh keys, chances are that are a weak dsa ones. Unfortunately for us lazy admins, the latest release of MacOS seems to be compliant with the

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
1 min read
ruby

backup vmware esxi with a rake (script)

Recently we built a small VMware ESXi cluster (3 nodes) for testing and developing purpose. After playing with it for a while (and spinning up a few dozen vms), we started looking around

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
3 min read
qlikview

... a little rspec(t) for Qlikview

In the past I've been asked to test a complex Qlikview Project with lots of variables, events and macros. Manual testing was becoming too complex and boring, so I helped adding a bit

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
2 min read
agile

Talk: Agile vs ??

Appsterdam Milan meetup 15/10/2015 How to become a happy Agile developers... and never feel lost

  • Alessandro Confetti
    Alessandro Confetti
1 min read
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