That's All Folks!
TL;DR
This blog is shutting down. I will repurpose it as an interactive résumé where I will showcase my projects and my skills. For a limited time you can find old articles from the following link.
Longer version
After a lot of thinking about it, I’ve decided it’s time to shut down this blog. I’m aware this isn’t something people typically do, that I could have simply walked away from it, or uploaded the content to a free static host like GitHub Pages. I’m also aware that some of my posts are cited on places like other websites, papers and even on a book(!) and by doing so I’m disrupting a whole set of references. But the truth is, I really don’t see the point anymore. I started this blog in 2016 and even back then, blogs were an antiquate platform. Most IT creators were already using either YouTube(for long/serious content) or Twitter(for memes, jokes and similar); still, it was perfectly possible to start a new blog from scratch and reach a decent number of people without having to pay a dime for page ranking or to fill your posts with SEO boilerplate. Since then, this website allowed me to meet many new people from all over the world and to keep alive an idea of the World Wide Web that has progressively faded away year after year.
Nowadays the web is filled with clickbait articles and AI-generated walls of text written with the sole intent of reaching the first few results of Google. Interactions are also fake: they mostly come from scrapers or bots. On this website, for example, out of a total of 70000 requests(since last log rotate), 65430 of them contain the word “bot” on it. If you do the math, this means that ~93.47% of the whole site traffic comes from a crawler, a bot or something similar! That’s just too much to tolerate, what’s the point of publishing a blog when it’s only read by bots?
I’m honestly just jaded about how the web and technology in general have turned out. Modern technology feels boring, dull and hollow. I don’t care about it anymore, and I care even less about maintaining a web presence like a blog, especially when the statistics show this kind of “user base”. Maybe I’ve outgrown it or maybe I’m just stuck in an outdated idea of what technology used to be. Either way, trying to fit into something that feels so rotten at its core just seems pointless.
Starting from today, I will archive all posts available on this website. I will then proceed to delete them after about two or three weeks from the publishing date of this last post. I will also submit a request to exclude this website from archive.org and to delete past snapshots. I want it completely gone from the internet. If you’d like to keep a copy of a certain article, you are free to do so either by downloading the page by yourself or by getting in touch with me.
After that, I’ll turn this website into a sort of “interactive résumé” where I will showcase my projects and give a brief overview of who I am and what I do.