Hi, I'm Giacomo. I write software you use. Working @Prima.https://giacomocerquone.com/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/scriberrtg/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/scriberrtg/I just finished a self-hosted telegram bot to transcribe audios backed by a Scriberr instance.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/the-job-market-i-used-to-know/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/the-job-market-i-used-to-know/I've got news to share alongside a personal vent at the current state of things for devs like me trying to move up with their career.Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/keep-input-cursor-still/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/keep-input-cursor-still/We will analyze all the root causes for cursor jumps when handling inputs. Since the responsibility of this problem is mixed between the browsers and React, I've showcased examples in vanilla JS, React, and mentioned other frameworks too. Warning, there will be a deep dive into React's internals.Mon, 09 Oct 2023 08:40:02 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/unconventional-meet/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/unconventional-meet/I took some time to develop and publish a very small Google Chrome extension to improve Google Meet's experience and solve some pain points I've always had.Sun, 04 Jun 2023 16:18:06 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/why-does-console-log-hates-me/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/why-does-console-log-hates-me/Have you ever felt like console.log hates you? If yes or you just want to know a bit more about its quirks, have a quick read!Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:00:15 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/debug-website-on-ios-devices/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/debug-website-on-ios-devices/Sometimes bugs can only be reproduced in the specific environment they are discovered. What if they're found on an Android or iOS device?Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:23:20 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/sharing-yt-video-to-pwa-for-background-listening/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/sharing-yt-video-to-pwa-for-background-listening/How do you define the act of sharing something towards an application? We'll discover it in the process of creating a YouTube background audio listener PWA.Fri, 25 Feb 2022 22:38:41 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/whats-an-object-identity-in-javascript/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/whats-an-object-identity-in-javascript/What's an object's identity? and what does "stable identity" mean in React? Let's dive a bit into it together!Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:12:08 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/importance-of-monorepos-and-component-libraries/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/importance-of-monorepos-and-component-libraries/Are you working on a huge untested "legacy" JS codebase? I might have some tips for youMon, 29 Nov 2021 01:34:13 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/handling-modals-in-react/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/handling-modals-in-react/I want to show you a new solution for handling modals in large React applications as a result of a big refactor in my work in Musixmatch.Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/accessibility-on-mobile-build-uis-that-dont-break/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/accessibility-on-mobile-build-uis-that-dont-break/You should be aware of the accessibility settings on mobile devices which might break your app's UI. Let's see what we can do in React NativeMon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/life-death-useprevious-hook/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/life-death-useprevious-hook/We will understand the usePrevious hook's common implementation and then we will see some issues it might bring and how to solve them.Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/my-new-custom-keyboard/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/my-new-custom-keyboard/During the pandemic, I got attached to a "new" peculiar hobby of building keyboards.Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/start-with-react-native/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/start-with-react-native/There are many ways of booting up a React Native application. Which one should you use?Sat, 06 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/the-appstore-certificates-jungle/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/the-appstore-certificates-jungle/To all the mobile native devs... I feel your pain. Only we know what does it mean to manage the certificates of an iOS applicationThu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/rethinking-env-vars-in-react-native/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/rethinking-env-vars-in-react-native/If there is one thing I hate about react native it's the inexistent way of using environment variablesSun, 29 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/microsoft-codepush-integration-react-native/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/microsoft-codepush-integration-react-native/Microsoft CodePush is a powerful tool but can be very exhausting to configure. Let's cycle over the necessary detailsMon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/why-i-dropped-expo-and-embraced-react-native/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/why-i-dropped-expo-and-embraced-react-native/What are the main problems with Expo at this time? And what can be the advantages of using a pure React Native workflow?Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/fetch-wrapper/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/fetch-wrapper/A handy thin fetch wrapper in less than 100 lines featuring abortion (with polyfill for non-supporting envs), token setter, etc.Sun, 11 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/aborting-fetch-react-native/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/aborting-fetch-react-native/How can we close an active connection initiated with Fetch? And most important, what do we mean by "closing a connection"?Sun, 14 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/path-follower-maze-solving-car-arduino/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/path-follower-maze-solving-car-arduino/We've created a path follower and maze solver robot car with, arduino, raspberry, ROS, Vrep and a bunch of other stuffThu, 22 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/how-we-built-our-university-s-bot/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/how-we-built-our-university-s-bot/Sharing this little story of how I created a Telegram bot for our universityThu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/jingle-bell-with-an-arduino-and-a-buzzer/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/jingle-bell-with-an-arduino-and-a-buzzer/How to make your Arduino play Jingle Bells with a little buzzer and a 220ohm resistor.Sun, 06 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/look-up-movie-ratings-with-nodejs/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/look-up-movie-ratings-with-nodejs/Movies Lookup is a little node.js project to lookup ratings of many movies all together on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes.Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/loading-animation-with-pure-css/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/loading-animation-with-pure-css/A little and simple pure CSS loading animation took directly from my new project.Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/back-up-a-tumblr-blog/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/back-up-a-tumblr-blog/Let’s use Tumblr’s API to save every text post from a specified blog.Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/how-the-popcorn-times-api-works/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/how-the-popcorn-times-api-works/I developed this little library to let developers create their own remote controller for PopcornTime.Sun, 20 Sep 2015 23:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/blog/welcome-to-my-fresh-new-blog/https://giacomocerquone.com/blog/welcome-to-my-fresh-new-blog/How could I start everything without first welcoming you?Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/notes/taking-notes/https://giacomocerquone.com/notes/taking-notes/There is something that recently changed my life and that has helped me tremendously in my day-to-day life.Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/notes/monaco-playwright/https://giacomocerquone.com/notes/monaco-playwright/Writing e2e tests with Playwright for code editors like Monaco can be tricky. Learn two ways to do it and choose the best approach for your needs.Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/notes/find-jsx-elements-using-prop-x/https://giacomocerquone.com/notes/find-jsx-elements-using-prop-x/Find components with specific props in a large codebase. A regex-based solution is presented, with a caveat for complex JSX props.Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://giacomocerquone.com/notes/first-note/https://giacomocerquone.com/notes/first-note/A fresh start with Astro! A new "notes" section for quick thoughts and scraps. A promising beginning for future posts.Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT