Hello, I am Nicola Papale, I am a freelance developer.

I like reading, websites operated outside of the big plateforms (like this one!) (if you do too, try out https://search.marginalia.nu/!) (I also like to use weird typography instead of commas) and learning about stuff in general.

Currently active in Ag!ssons, reading up on Commons and other ways of procrastinating on my immediate need of finding a paying job.

I have a Computer Science degree and am generally good at wrangling computers. I like Rust as a programming language. My phone runs GraphenOS without Google services. My computers are on Archlinux. This site runs on a cheap American managed host provider called nearlyfreespeech.net, it’s built with the zola static site generator.

Go read “The Enigma of Reason” by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber.

I strongly value computer autonomy. People feel powerless and hustled by a faceless entity with motivations completely opposite their own. Centralized and closed (as in not interoperable) software is antithesis to our democracies that value self-determination and cooperation. We must build software that carry our values and collude for democracy rather than against it.

You might like to see what I did in the past. You should look at it, it’s neatly presented (and degrades gracefully even with javascript disabled) (btw you should really disable javascript, it’s a very bad idea to run arbitrary code from other people indiscriminately on your computer (btw I I now am in possession of your credit card number and encrypting your hard drive (just joking, got you!)))

If you need someone like me to work on a project, talk about old computers, programming language design, how to succesfully launch a revolution, or just to rant about life in general (biologists welcome), let’s get in touch!

To contact me, send me an email. Anything followed by the “at” sign, followed by the domain name of this website should get your email to me.

I’m currently active on mastodon at @[email protected]. I also get notifications from messages I get on Signal and Threema (though I only share my handles on request). I used to be on LinkedIn, but it appears my account is now suspended, no idea why. No loss.