About

Hello, my name is Luca and this is my blog, where I post about the things that interest me.

I have a Master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and I specialize in Bioinformatics. I live in Turin, Italy. I’m currently working as a PHD candidate at Prof. Munaron Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Ruffinatti at the University of Turin. The goal of my PhD is to profile the gene expression in tumor cells to detect deregulations at a whole-transportome level.

I mostly code in R and Python, although I’ve recently taken a liking for the Rust programming language.

Contact me with my email: luca.visentin (at) unito.it

In my spare time I’m a PC gamer, and I play a ton of board games and (occasionally) Dungeons and Dragons.

You can find my linktree here. This website also hosts my curriculum vitae in italian and in English. You can find my OrcID here.

My tools

Some of my favourite day-to-day tools include:

• Arch Linux

  Just to boast that I use Arch. There is a post somewhere here that details what I use on my personal laptop. Arch is just leagues better than other flavours of Linux thanks to pacman and the official and unofficial repositories. Being a rolling release is also a must for me. I think my old Ubuntu systems broke at every release update.

• NeoVim

  I’ve been using NeoVim for a long time now, and I think I won’t ever go back. It excels at both speed and convenience.

• RStudio

  To edit R source there is little better than RStudio. RStudio server can also be installed on a remote machine to let you work remotely from the desktop. It is not the best IDE, but the best when it comes to R.

• The Corne keyboard

  After I bought this keyboard I cannot go back to anything else. It is expensive, looks amazing, a hell to put together, can be configured to your liking and grabs everyone’s attention when they walk in the lab. The keys are Cherry Whites with blank white keycaps (to force me to touch type). It is programmed with via, so it sends the canonical en-US keycodes but with the Hands Down Reference layout.

  I like to think of myself as a keyboard goblin.

• An Ipad Pro

  I got an ipad as a gift from me (and my SO) for the start of my PhD course at the university of Turin.

  I have access to an intel NUC at the lab, and my PC at home, so the ipad is what gets carried back and forth from home to the lab, daily. Its capabilities to markup text and take notes are unsurpassed, and is a hub for all of my documents and things to read.

About this blog

I try to post about things that I like, or concepts that are not well explained on the internet. Many posts here are mainly my notes on some topic or other, for my future reference. But I guess someone may find them interesting or useful, so here they are.

If any links are dead, please send me an email or open a pull request on github.

This website is static, generated with HUGO, and the theme hello, friend! by Panr. Its source is hosted on GitHub and the generated content is hosted on GitHub Pages (from the same repository, look at the gh_pages branch). The live site builds itself on every push with a GitHub Action.

If you are curious to make your own website hosted on GitHub pages, I followed the HUGO quickstart guide and this guide by HUGO to host the site on GitHub and set up the auto-build.