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Claudio Ortolina

@claudio-ortolina.org

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Did a bit of everything from development to management. Now writing Elixir. See claudio-ortolina.org

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 11/04/2026

For a glamorous Saturday night laundry, giving this super cheesy classic a spin.

My hand holding a vinyl copy of Bad English

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 21/02/2026

Crazy good service, as you can see I keep my word.

Photo of me holding the two remasters of the Arena albums mentioned in the original post

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 20/02/2026

Thanks!

Classic meme of Fry from Futurama saying “Shut up and take my money”

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 14/12/2025

This year in music has been really in line with my general taste, with very few excursions to other genres - suppose it's a form of comfort!

Screenshot of my top albums by number of tracks listened in 2025. They are:

Porcupine Tree - CLOSURE / CONTINUATION. LIVE. AMSTERDAM 07/11/22
IQ - Dominion
Arena - Breakfast in Biarritz
The Flower Kings - LOVE
Opeth - The Last Will And Testament
Arena - Lifian Tour MMXXII
Arena - Immortal?
Steven Wilson - The Overview
Tim Bowness - Stupid Things That Mean The World
Meer - Playing House

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 12/11/2025

Half of the hair population needs to die.

A shampoo bottle shaped like Thanos from the Marvel universe

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 09/11/2025

Another good find in a charity store for a mere 3 pounds.

Photo of a vinyl copy of “Skyscraper” by David Lee Roth

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 29/10/2025

@burningshed.com thank you for the early delivery! Really looked forward to Lunatic Soul’s latest effort.

Me holding a CD of “The World Under Unsun” by Lunatic Soul’s.

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 18/10/2025

Charity shop find of the day - have never listened to it but I’ve never been disappointed by Peter Gabriel.

Photo of Peter Gabriel vinyl (Melt, 1980).

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 09/08/2025

Got a delivery for a certain Daywalker, first name Blade?

An open with a few hundred kilos of garlic for sale.

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 24/07/2025

Screenshot of the albums back in stock, showing Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing on vinyl.

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 27/05/2025

I think @sainsburys.bsky.social didn’t really nail the quote-on-the-package thing here.

Photo of Sainsbury’s decaf tea. On top it shows (in single quotes) the sentence: “pop it in your food waste bin”.

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 02/01/2025

I find myself refactoring my own code in the exact same way - I think because I remember reduce as a staple in more languages, so I reach out for it first.

Screenshot of a git commit diff showing a deleted line using Enum.reduce/3. The line is replaced by equivalent logic using Enum.sum_by/2.

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 13/12/2024

For example, see screenshot. These two menus seem almost identical but: - Edit points to different URLs - The "Refresh <x>" links are identical - The "Populate genres" link is identical - The Purchase button is not present in one version - The Delete link is identical

Screenshot of two different versions of a component with subtle differences between each versions.

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 10/12/2024

I’ve been building an application to manage my physical music collection, and I’ve just added a small integration with ChatGPT to magically populate genres. #ElixirLang and #LiveView made this very fast to prototype, and I know that refactoring it into better shape won’t take long either.

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Claudio Ortolina @claudio-ortolina.org · 09/12/2024

In more complex cases, I prefer to use a list, so that you have one set of classes common to all states, and other lists for different conditions. E.g. this snippet from core components. This way you might need to explicitly write the opposite of though.

A code screenshot showing the usage of class attribute with multiple conditional clauses.

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