[{"content":"","date":"16 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/ai/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"AI","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"16 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/","section":"Articles","summary":"","title":"Articles","type":"posts"},{"content":"The idea of starting a personal blog had been shelved for years. Between family commitments and work deadlines, the energy required to launch a project from scratch felt entirely depleted.\nTwo factors changed that. The first is technological: my first encounter with ChatGPT back in March 2023, and more recently, experimenting with Google AI Pro and Antigravity. These tools effectively removed the technical friction, bringing fluidity back to my personal projects.\nThe second factor is human: the content and insights shared by Salvatore Sanfilippo (Antirez). He is someone I have followed and deeply respected for a long time, and his approach gave me the drive to get back in the game and start sharing again.\nThis blog is the direct result of that rediscovered urge to build and engage. It will be a space dedicated to exploring software development, artificial intelligence, and distributed systems. I hope it proves useful to anyone walking a similar path.\n","date":"16 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/2026-06-16-how-ai-and-antirez-reignited-my-passion-for-software/","section":"Articles","summary":"","title":"Back in the game: How AI and Antirez reignited my passion for software","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"16 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/distributed-systems/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Distributed Systems","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"16 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Orazio Scicolone","summary":"","title":"Orazio Scicolone","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"16 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/software-development/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Software Development","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"16 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 December 2018","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/alexa-sdk/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Alexa SDK","type":"tags"},{"content":"Alexa voice skill to discover what to visit and do in a selected Italian city. Built with Python and the Alexa Developer Kit.\n","date":"1 December 2018","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/cosavisitare/","section":"Projects","summary":"Alexa voice skill to discover what to visit and do in a selected Italian city.","title":"CosaVisitare","type":"projects"},{"content":"Here are some of the open source projects, tools, and apps I have developed over the years.\n","date":"1 December 2018","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"Projects","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"1 December 2018","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/python/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Python","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 May 2018","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/android/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Android","type":"tags"},{"content":"Unofficial, ad-free and open-source Android app for the Antibes Envibus public transport company. Includes real-time schedules and route planning.\nGitHub Repository\n","date":"1 May 2018","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/envimove/","section":"Projects","summary":"Unofficial, ad-free and open-source Android app for the Antibes Envibus public transport company.","title":"EnviMove","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"1 December 2017","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/bioinformatics/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Bioinformatics","type":"tags"},{"content":"High-performance tool to collapse redundant reads in NGS datasets. Published in Bioinformatics (Oxford). Written in C++.\nPubMed Publication\n","date":"1 December 2017","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/bioseqzip/","section":"Projects","summary":"High-performance tool to collapse redundant reads in NGS datasets.","title":"BioSeqZip","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"1 December 2017","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/c++/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"C++","type":"tags"},{"content":"Differential expression analysis tool for RNA-seq data, presented at SCITEPRESS conference. Written in R.\nResearchGate Publication\n","date":"1 October 2017","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/geneex/","section":"Projects","summary":"Differential expression analysis tool for RNA-seq data, presented at SCITEPRESS conference.","title":"GeneEx","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"1 October 2017","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/r/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"R","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 December 2016","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/bash/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Bash","type":"tags"},{"content":"Testbench to analyze the quality of pairwise alignments. Includes tools to visualize scoring matrices and evaluate different scoring schemes.\n","date":"1 December 2016","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/bioinformatics-testbench/","section":"Projects","summary":"Testbench to analyze the quality of pairwise alignments.","title":"Bioinformatics Testbench","type":"projects"},{"content":"Suite of Android apps for university students: Lecture TimeTable, JobPlacement, IntectiveMap, and StudentLife (marketplace + aggregator).\n","date":"1 January 2015","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/student-mobile-apps/","section":"Projects","summary":"Suite of Android apps for university students: Lecture TimeTable, JobPlacement, IntectiveMap, and StudentLife.","title":"Mobile Apps for Students","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2015","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/parse.com/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Parse.com","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/css/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"CSS","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/html/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"HTML","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/php/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"PHP","type":"tags"},{"content":"First university web portal for Università degli Studi di Palermo. Built from scratch as a cooperation agreement project.\nYouTube Demo / Video\n","date":"1 January 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/university-portal/","section":"Projects","summary":"First university web portal for Università degli Studi di Palermo.","title":"University Portal — Unipablog","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2012","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/gmaps-api/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"GMaps API","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2012","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/java/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Java","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2012","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/jquery/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"JQuery","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2012","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/jsp/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"JSP","type":"tags"},{"content":"Frontend interface for a geo-located image web system with Google Maps integration.\n","date":"1 January 2012","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/worldtour/","section":"Projects","summary":"Frontend interface for a geo-located image web system with Google Maps integration.","title":"WorldTour Interface","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2011","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/mysql/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"MySQL","type":"tags"},{"content":"Development and implementation of a fully functional online auction web site.\n","date":"1 January 2011","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/online-auctions/","section":"Projects","summary":"Development and implementation of a fully functional online auction web site.","title":"Online Auctions","type":"projects"},{"content":"Client/Server application for the management of flights and airport operations, using web services.\n","date":"1 January 2010","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/airport-management/","section":"Projects","summary":"Client/Server application for the management of flights and airport operations, using web services.","title":"Airport Management","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2010","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/wsdl-1.1/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"WSDL 1.1","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2010","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/xml/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"XML","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2008","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/mshell/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"MShell","type":"tags"},{"content":"Apps developed in mShell (Symbian OS) to visualize SMS conversations and manage incoming/outgoing messages.\n","date":"1 January 2008","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/smsviewer/","section":"Projects","summary":"Apps developed in mShell (Symbian OS) to visualize SMS conversations and manage incoming/outgoing messages.","title":"SmsViewer \u0026 oCellManager","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"1 January 2008","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/symbian-os/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Symbian OS","type":"tags"},{"content":"System to share and manage external links of hosting sites, built in 2007 as one of the first web projects.\n","date":"1 January 2007","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/php-download-system/","section":"Projects","summary":"System to share and manage external links of hosting sites, built in 2007 as one of the first web projects.","title":"PHP Download System","type":"projects"},{"content":"I enjoy building things to make the world a better place. Also, I like making pizza.\nBackground # Experience SRE Engineer @ Backlight Feb 2021 - Present SRE Engineer on the WildMoka Platform.\nMicrosoft Azure Kubernetes Helm Prometheus Pulumi Fullstack Developer @ WildMoka Feb 2020 - Present Fullstack developer on the WildMoka Platform for automated video production and live streaming.\nBackend services with Python and Node.js Frontend features in JavaScript Platform integrations and API development Android Developer @ Telemaque Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 Developed Android applications for an enterprise mobile product.\nNative Android development (Java/Kotlin) Integration with REST APIs Software Developer @ Amadeus IT Group Jan 2018 - Aug 2019 Development of the Rail ticketing platform.\nC++ backend development for high-performance reservation systems Python scripting and tooling Collaborative Agile environment with international teams Bioinformatics Research Fellow Feb - Dec 2017 Conducted research in bioinformatics at Politecnico di Torino, producing two published tools:\nGeneEx — Differential expression analysis tool — R BioSeqZip — NGS redundant reads collapser — C++ Coursera Machine Learning Certificate (2017) Participated in Droidcon Hackathon 2017 Education Master\u0026#39;s Degree in Computer Engineering 2013 - 2016 Politecnico di Torino\nGraduated with a focus on software systems and algorithms. Thesis in Bioinformatics: pairwise alignment scoring analysis.\nBachelor\u0026#39;s Degree in Computer Engineering 2009 - 2013 Università degli Studi di Palermo\nFoundation in computer science, algorithms, databases, and software engineering. Early web and mobile application experiments during studies.\nFeel free to browse my Projects, take a look at my code on GitHub, or reach out on LinkedIn.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/about/","section":"Orazio Scicolone","summary":"","title":"About","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/authors/","section":"Authors","summary":"","title":"Authors","type":"authors"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"}]