I am Michele (/miˈkɛːle/), nice to meet you all!

I am an Italian computer scientist, prevalently interested in multimedia topics, but not only, indeed I really love embarking in any kind of cultural conversation. Some themes? Arts, literature, religion, psychology, table games and many others. As you will notice browsing my blog, a certain amount of posts would surely tackle some of them.

I want to point out that I am not going to write posts one after the other, but only when I have time or I feel the necessity to share my thoughts and knowledge with a public audience.

Sometimes, I might also treat sensitive topics such as politic and religion, if by any chance, you deem my way of writing not polite, please send me an email to tell me what is the part you are not convinced of and we can talk together about that. Though, keep in mind that I will not change the content, just its form to make it more objective. Indeed I think it is always right to express who you are without offending the others, especially on Internet.

I have decided to build this site as static because I do not have time to answer to possible, let’s say improbable , replies in a serious way. This virtual space has been conceived as a container for my thoughts.

Dear readers, sorry in advance for my linguistic mistakes which will be surely present within my posts. If you want to notify me where errors are, helping me to improve my writing skills, feel free to open pull requests here. I would really appreciate your effort, thank you!

About me

Luna means Moon in Italian language. This word lead to the birth of my nickname.

It all happened on a summer evening at my friend’s house. Full moon in the sky and sparkling stars above our heads. We were writing some HTML/CSS files for a forum near by an opened window. Out of the blue, someone from a chat started a call. We did not want to use our names, so my friend proposed to use our nicknames. Unfortunately, I did not have one in that period, so I went in thinking hat mode. Without even realizing, I raised my eyes towards the sky and seen that beautiful full moon in front of me. And in that precise moment, I chose my nickname: Luni-4.

Luni is a non-sense masculine plural noun for the word Luna. I have not adopted the masculine singular noun, Luno, for a phonetic reason, it seemed too unmelodic to my ears.
The number 4 has always been my favorite number, I do not know why, perhaps for its shape, or maybe because it is the first multiple of two.
The hyphen was the most appealing way I found at that time to join together the two parts.

This is how Luni-4 was born.

For what concerns my interests in the programming world, I really love writing code for multimedia software, especially the ones which process videos. Below you can find a list of arguments I am interested in:

• Audio and video format parsers
• Video compression codecs
• Inpainting algorithms
• AI neural networks to process audio and video
• GUI widgets, such as players, audio viewers, and subtitle table viewer

Some of the items described above are done, while others are still working in progress, but I am sure one day I will be able to develop all of them in Rust language.