Блоги: заметки с тегом Sanremo

Cash is freedom. Change my mind

Robert — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 11:08:46 +0500

Robert:

My poster was present at a pro-freedom demonstration in Sanremo, Italy:

Tech of freedom and of slavery

Robert — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 19:15:27 +0500

Robert:

I will be giving a talk about the state of modern technology at Villa La Brise in Sanremo.

Saturday 9 September, 17:30.

The real climate change

Robert — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 23:18:01 +0500

Robert:

Chemtrails:

1984: health pass required at McDonald’s

Robert — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:26:34 +0500

Robert:

I know of no better way to declare sheepdom than to show a “health pass” to enter McDonald’s:

August 13, 2021. Sadly, in Sanremo

1984: “be normal”

Robert — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:30:45 +0500

Robert:

Endless discounts? Very normal.

And you too: be normal. Okay? JUST BE NORMaL OK???

Celio clothing store in Sanremo, Italy

My Telegram posts on 2020’s week 28

Robert — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:27:59 +0500

Robert:

Week 26 ←→ Weeks 30 & 31

Tuesday, July 7

When reading boustrophedon, eyes don’t have to jump from one side to the other after each line.

Thursday, July 9

2020: the year when the word “positive” gained a negative connotation.

Sunday, July 12

A speed bump for motorcycles in Sanremo, Italy:

John Stossel on good causes and cults:

Some people are offended by the hilarious term “kung flu”. John Stossel:

Robert’s summer days in Italy, 2019

Robert — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 17:07:49 +0500

Robert:

I’m going to be in Genoa from June 27 to June 28, and perhaps a couple of other days in July.

The rest of the time I will be in-between Sanremo, France, Turin, and Bologna.

If you wanna meet, send me an email.

Website for Pigna Library

Robert — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:41:15 +0500

Robert:

I started talking with the library’s director, Freddy Colt, in July. In August we agreed that I’d be a volunteer and help the library with some stuff. We agreed on what I would work on, but the necessary information and files were never sent due to ~~shareholders~~ other library administrators not agreeing.

One of those things was an online book catalogue. When I was in Sanremo, I went to the library and nudged Freddy to give me the book catalogue. Once I received it, I talked to a friend of mine, Ilya Sidorchik, a master of library catalogue and database projects. It became his term paper (project).

Work started immediately. Ilya became the art director.

This was my first sketch:

Then I improved it a bit:

Ilya started talking to me philosophically about “building a castle” and the Italians that built the Kremlin. Food, wine, and the sun are also part of the conversation, because they are things that excite Italians.

He brings up an idea on how to make the website’s esthetics look more captivating:

Favorites chooser in iOS 7 Apple Music

I did this:

Ilya responded: “Robert, I think you’re still restricting yourself. There’s no need for that.”

Fixed:

Since I was making six different versions, I saw that the 2560 px version could also use an upgrade:

Another idea came up:

We started talking about the details and how putting actual book covers on the home page is close to impossible: the library has rare books the covers of which are not readily available. He also tells me the five steps I should follow to make the website better.

Working on this project also reminded me about how long Italian words usually are.

I started from scratch.

I added support for adding the library’s events in the top-right corner:

I fine-tuned the details with nine intermediate mockups. My final mockup:

I was in parallel studying code, which meant I solved the first & last name crisis we had:

Name = 'Calvino Italo'
print(Name.split(' ')[1], Name.split(' ')[0])

The book adding page looks like this. It is meant to be identical to book editing, because editing is the same thing as adding but with info already filled in.

Ilya then worked hard to make the website come to life.

I came to Italy, met Freddy and gave him the keys.

Pigna.pro

P. S. Ilya’s post (in Russian)

It’s not San Remo, but Sanremo

Robert — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:39:39 +0500

Robert:

The city where I live during the summer is called Sanremo. The name originated from the local dialect, where the name of the area’s patron, saint Romulus (Italian: san Romolo), was shortened to become Sanromu. Centuries later, locals who weren’t interested in history started believing that there has been a saint Remus, leaving a plethora of misspelling and misinterpretation behind.