About me

I'm a computer scientist from Italy. Ex Londoner, now working as a Software Consultant.
I like finding the right tool for the job, and I've worked with several technologies over these years.
I love hackatons, music gigs and prog rock/metal. I also host 20+ people Lan Parties with maniacal preparation since 2005.
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Side Projects

EFT Reference and Builders

NoFoodAfterMidnight's Ammo and Armor Charts for Escape from Tarkov. Data is automatically pulled from a Google spreadsheet

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Launched on 17/12/2021. ~120k users/1M pageviews per month

multistream.gg

Watch multiple Twitch streams on your screen.

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Launched on 10/03/2021. ~5000 users/mo (01/11/2021)

ezyou.shop

A simple ecommerce solution to bootstrap your online shop in a minute.

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Launched on 04/03/2021

nicolagenesin.com

Built with GatsbyJS, each page served is server side rendered. Running in a docker container, this instance is hosted on a 1core/1GB machine alongside a few other websites, all exposing port 80 on a dedicated docker network. Nginx acts as reverse proxy to map each request to the correct docker container.

Rosetta@Home

I've been a BOINC contributor since 2009, with a network of up to 15 machines. As a recent example, the promising results against COVID-19 (https://bit.ly/2TM82OR) proved once again how this is worth being part of. Want to help? you can use this https://github.com/NicolaGenesin/Dockerized-Boinc-Runner to join us in minutes!

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Dealoo

A bot that periodically grabs the latest deals from Amazon and posts them to Telegram, Facebook, Wordpress and Discord pages/channels.

~1000 users

route66.rocks

I'll do the Route 66 in 2020. This is a simple map made in ~4 hours to show a few points of interest I want to visit! All data is sourced from Github.

(Bluetooth) Music player

Android app communicating through BT to a dockerized flask app running on a rpi2. Used to play the music I have on my local network without the need of internet access.

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FlightScanner

Android app and a high performane Express & Redis backend to track airplanes in realtime thanks to an open ADS-B network. Shut down by Google for unknown reasons. Rebuilt in React Native, but never published.

~300000 downloads

Temp Monitor

A DHT-22 sensor coupled with a raspberry, Grafana + InfluxDB and a little python script that helps me monitor my home temperature.

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Procedural city

An attempt to procedurally generate a city in Unity3D, with mono. Taking inspiration from the demoscene, see "Farbrausch - fr-041: debris".

Ethereum Miner (Proxy)

A WPF form program that enables you to run an ETC/ETH gpu miner with minimal configuration.

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Leap Motion DJ

Prototype built with Unity, C# and a Leap Motion. Choose your virtual vinyl and scratch it! Turntable and vinyl models created by Nicola Berti.

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SimpleBitcoin

An android app that tracks the bitcoin performances (thanks to blockchain.info's api) and plots them on a graph.

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Jamendo Client

Android app that lets you download (royalty-free) music and listen to it on your phone. Shut down by Google for unknown reasons.

~75000 downloads

Squelch

Android music player and Flask backend to enrich local songs with metadata taken from several open source databases. Shut down by Google for unknown reasons.

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~180000 downloads

Mobile CD

Made in a few hours, this simple tool deploys your apk (android) or zip (ios) artifacts to Appetize.io (mobile web emulator). Simple helper to any CI pipeline. After an artifact has been built, a file watcher will notice the change and push an update request to the web emulator.

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AirWalls

Android app and a Express backend to search imgur images, using imugur APIs. Shut down by Google for unknown reasons.

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~12000 downloads

GlyphChat

Whatsapp clone prototype that uses glyphs instead of latin characters.

Not published

Heavy Rain

A single button app that plays a rain sound I've recorded at home. Built in React Native.

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Camera Toy

Before instagram was mainstream, I made this android app to add cartoonish features (e.g. glasses) on top of facial features, in real-time, through your phone camera. Built thanks to Android NDK/SDK and the HAAR-like classifier provided by OpenCV.

~20000 downloads

3D Modeler

A 3D modeler built in C++/OpenGL thanks to Qt Libraries and Blender. You can import .3ds, .xml and .obj models, transform them (scale, rotate, translate), apply lights of different nature and change textures.

University Project