Opus vs r/AskElectronics: 1-0 for the humans
I spent a day taking orders from a frontier LLM to debug a thermal problem on my eNSPanel PCB. Then a stranger on Reddit fixed it with one question.
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Andrea Baccega
Building software that matters.
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20+
years coding
40+
android apps shipped
1.7k
github stars
600k
community members run
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I'm a senior backend developer at D-EDGE and an entrepreneur. I specialize in TypeScript and Node.js, building efficient, scalable solutions with a rational approach to problem-solving.
My journey started at 15 with C, moved to PHP at 17, and in 2008 I co-founded Androidiani.com with Sebastiano Montino — Italy's leading Android community with 600k+ registered users, which we ran until its closure in December 2025.
Beyond software, I'm passionate about bridging the digital and physical worlds. I spend my free time 3D printing, designing PCBs, and building hardware projects that bring code to life.
open source — gh.repos()
Things I've built
android-edittext-validator
Android form edit text is an extension of EditText that brings data validation facilities to the edittext.
comfoair-esp32
Zehnder Comfoair integration for ESP32 devices
mysqldumpsplit
MySQL dump file splitter optimized for speed and memory efficiency
nodes2-ts
A TypeScript porting of the great S2 Geometry library from Google
lpc_voltage_glitch_test
Voltage-glitching experiments on the LPC1768 Cortex-M3, a hardware fault-injection test bed.
bigint-swissknife
Node.JS bigint swissknife with math utils, buffer conversion, and more
writing — ls -la blog/
Recent posts
May 4 · 2026
Apr 27 · 2026
Text is the New Binary
Software increasingly ships as prose meant to be interpreted by someone else's LLM. From Karpathy's wiki gist to gh skill install, even installation is now a paragraph. The same critique that pushes Karpathy beyond RAG hints at where the dust will eventually settle.
Jan 29 · 2026
Why I Switched to a Split Keyboard (and Why You Should Too)
From QWERTY's historical accident to the Temper split keyboard — my journey into ergonomic typing, the surprising history of keyboard layouts, and a practical guide to making the switch.
ls -la blog/ --sort=time -r | tail -n +4 | head -8 17 entries total
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