Nice to meet you, the name's Marco Rondelli.
People do often call me something else like ronde or maruko.
I'm an Italian self proclaimed computer scientist.
Not because I don't have the title yet, I do have it,
but I believe there are some big differences between good computer scientists and bad computer scientists.
I'm the latter of those, honestly, it's not even self-deprecation at this point, I'm just bad. But I'm really
good at masquerading it and making people believe I'm the good computer scientist. It has become a staple
of who I am and also a skill of mine. That's called "Imposter syndrome".
I was born the 4th of August 2000 in a city called Mantova, at Carlo Poma's hospital.
That's where the downward spiral began. Since that day, I took many bad decisions and struggled a lot with
everything, especially school and making friends: I've never been a good student, as I've never learned how
to study my way; I was an extremely extrovert and hyperreactive child and I had an extremely unusual haircut.
Looking back, those were probably the main reasons I never had a chance with the children my age.
I frequented highschool at Palidano's "Istituto Agrario Strozzi".
To this day, I consider that the worst decision of my entire life. In 5 years I studied Agricultural Sciences
and in less than 2 months, luckily forgot everything. Apart from Math and History, there was almost no instance
of me enjoying any subject, about any topic. Getting up in the morning, everyday, to get into that damned overcrowded
bus, looked down by my classmates and the such, really felt like an agony. Getting out of that hellhole felt like being alive again.
I do have to rule out the positives though, as me saying that nothing good came out from it would be a lie. In that
school I learned English and how to use it, I learned lots of Maths and got passionate of Computers
and Computer Science.
The decision to frequent University as a CS student really came in as a surprise to me too. What really pushed me to take that step was the incredible urge to get back those wasted years and learn lots of things, the kind of things I enjoy, because there's nothing as attractive in a guy as him being passionate about a topic, right?
My years as an undergraduate I consider to be the best ones so far.
Yes, I still struggled to study and keep up wih the program and I'm not even going to find any excuse like the
course being extreme or the subjects being harsh on body and mind, bacause I felt like being an adult, waking up at
5:30AM, getting ready for my 1h30min commute, made me feel the pressure on the shoulders: that thing called
responsibility, that I kind of love. I met with so many people and made so many dear friends in University,
I learned to open up and also learned to filter out the bad. I became an adult.
Of the things I'm passionate about, they mostly have to do with Computers.
Automating tasks that are tedious or nuinsance is my field of expertise, so things like scripting I'm best at.
I'm a big FOSS advocate and big Linux NERD but unfortunately don't fit any stereotype that gets associated with it.
The languages I use regularly are C/C++, Python, bash and Powershell with a sprinkle of Perl and Ruby. I know very
little about web development or hardware, and that's why I wouldn't call my skills the ones of an IT Admin. My knowledge
is quite narrowed but goes deep and has lots of opportunity to expand.
"Listen up, pal. A poem my Great-Great grandfather wrote to me:
Arch on the desktop, Debian on the server, Windows on the wall, and Apple in my tummy.
Words to live by."
by u/Poolboy-Caramelo on r/archlinux
I'm curious since birth, a perfectionist by design.
When there's is something that I love or get invested a lot into, be a topic or a game for example, nothing stops my
insatiable thirst of understanding and deep dive of its rabbit holes. It's fun and amusing, to me. I might have ADHD.
Positive adjectives that best suits me are:
adventurous, considerate, absolutely selfless, generous, loyal, most empathic, authentic
and reliable. I might be charming and affable, but those really shouldn't be qualities that I should attribute myself.
I'm a good listener and as an extrovert fellow, love talking in public. I'm a big attention seeker, in a good sense.
Talking about games, I do game a lot.
My most played titles are the Monster Hunter series, Minecraft, Terraria and Genshin Impact (I guarantee you
that I shower daily). In my childhood I played lots of Final Fantasy on my NintendoDS and PlayStation3. Lots of
Super Mario and Metroid too with my Wii. I had a PSVITA which I adored. I played lots of WipEout 2048 on it.
My favorite game ever is Gravity Rush.
I listen to music daily.
I'm a failed musicist. Instruments that make me feel things are the Saxophone, Piano and Violin. My favorite music genres
are: trance, electronic and house. You can listen to some of the songs I like on my public playlists on
YouTube Music.
I'm an "artist".
You can find all of my works on my Deviantart account. Most of it involves tracing.
I get asked a lot what software do I use and what are my secret techniques for getting such results and to that I always
answer that there is no such secrets. The softwares are: InkScape, Adobe Illustrator (cracked), Adobe Photoshop (cracked). Just grab
your pen tool, find the curves of any object and try to reproduce its general figure. That's it. For the most part. The rest
is solely your imagination and creativity.
And that's it, for now.
This small introduction should suffice you to understand what kind of person I am. I never listed my ambitions or
goals because they tend to be elusive. I'm currently going in autopilot mode for reasons that I'm not
going to bother you with, but I'm certain things will get better. They always do. You've got to keep at it, right? Otherwise the risk
of not getting up becomes a reality and that would suck big time. Fortunately, I'm surrounded by amazing people that
I know would come to my rescue if needed. To them I say "thank you".
"I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced over wether or not I have bread."
by Mitch Hedberg
Last updated: 01/09/2024