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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ I'm Gianmarco Gargiulo (pronounced `/dʒanmarko ɡardʒulo/`), a shy nerd that l
![Myself](/me.png)
I've registered my first Google account on **September 1st, 2012**, pretty much marking my very first registered presence on the internet apart from my old Facebook account, on my old **HP 550** laptop with Windows XP (it originally ran Windows Vista Home Basic). I used to have a little YouTube channel full of crappy videos made with Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Paint, I don't even remember making most of these, I only remember of recording a bunch of VB.NET related tutorials with Camtasia, but I never uploaded them since exporting the Camtasia Studio videos was pretty much impossible.
I've registered my first Google account on **September 1st, 2012**, pretty much marking my very first registered presence on the internet apart from my old Facebook account, on my old **HP 550** laptop with Windows XP (it originally ran Windows Vista Home Basic). I used to have a little YouTube channel full of crappy videos made with Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Paint, I don't even remember making most of these, I only remember of recording a bunch of VB.NET related tutorials with Camtasia, but I never uploaded them since properly exporting videos with Camtasia Studio was quite frustrating.
Talking about VB.NET, that was **my very first exposure to programming**, so I used to make crappy little programs in Visual Basic 2010, especially those that are generally referred to as **VB OSes**, which are little fake operating systems with their own apps and features, kinda like a simulator. My series of VB OSes was called **"My mini OS"** (or "My Mini OS", "MMOS" for short). VB OSes would eventually become more popular among VB.NET coders in the following years (watch [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW4V4vXm-ZI) for an in-depth history).
@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ On **March 3rd, 2017**, I opened my fourth and last Google account, calling it o
In late 2018 I was tired of all of the bloatware that Windows 10 had to offer so I tried to **hackintosh** my PC with macOS High Sierra (I later upgraded to Mojave), since I had already hackintoshed my laptop with macOS Sierra, which turned out to be a pretty pleasing change.
Between 2017 and 2018 I started to get interested in **art and photography**; on May 24th, 2018, I opened **my Instagram account** where I posted my drawings and photos of landscapes and such, including some photos that I took all the way back in 2016. I got **my first drawing tablet** for my birthday, the Huion H420 which is a small tablet with no screen, then two years later I got the Huion Kamvas 13 2020 which this time had an actual screen to look at while drawing on it. I used to make drawings and small animations on a software called FireAlpaca, but at some point I eventually decided to move to another software called **Krita** since it was generally better in terms of features and reliability.
Between 2017 and 2018 I started to get interested in **art and photography**; on May 24th, 2018, I opened **my Instagram account** where I posted my drawings and photos of landscapes and such, including some photos that I took all the way back in 2016. I also opened a DeviantArt and a Dribbble account the year after. I got **my first drawing tablet** for my birthday, the Huion H420 which is a small tablet with no screen, then two years later I got the Huion Kamvas 13 2020 which this time had an actual screen to look at while drawing on it. I used to make drawings and small animations on a software called FireAlpaca, but at some point I eventually decided to move to another software called **Krita** since it was generally better in terms of features and reliability.
This is when I approached the world of **GNU/Linux and free and open source software** (Krita was developed by **KDE** which makes a lot of FOSS) and in late 2019 I made the switch to Kubuntu, a variant of Ubuntu which ships with the KDE Plasma desktop environment, and later switched to Arch Linux.
This is when I approached the world of **GNU/Linux and free and open source software** (Krita was developed by **KDE** which makes a lot of FOSS) and in late 2019 I made the switch to Kubuntu, a variant of Ubuntu which ships with the KDE Plasma desktop environment, and later switched to Arch Linux. This was also the year I started **self hosting my website** among trying to host other things with the old HP laptop, firstly on Windows and then on a bunch of Linux distros.
In early 2020 I closed my old G Softwares website and made a new one with the **Gianmarco Gargiulo branding**, its purpose was to be a portfolio of my works, I eventually decided to remake the website using a static site generator called Hugo on August 9th, 2021, since it was more optimized and less of a pain to manage. During the Coronavirus lockdown of 2020 I decided to **start making YouTube videos again** about kinda obscure hardware and software, speedpaints of my drawings and also videos about my opinions on tech with a (unoriginal) format that I like to call "dvlog" (drawn vlog).
In early 2020 I closed my old G Softwares website and made a new one with the **Gianmarco Gargiulo branding**, its purpose was to be a portfolio of my works, I eventually decided to remake the website using a static site generator called [Hugo](https://gohugo.io) on August 9th, 2021, since it was more optimized and less of a pain to manage. During the Coronavirus lockdown of 2020 I decided to **start making YouTube videos again** about kinda obscure hardware and software, speedpaints of my drawings and also videos about my opinions on tech with a (unoriginal) format that I like to call "dvlog" (drawn vlog) and later on by more casually recording my screen and just talking.
![My 2020 website](2020site.png)
In late 2022 I participated in the Apple Developer Academy in Naples after passing a selection, I also became member of the [NaLUG (Napoli GNU/Linux User Group)](https://www.nalug.tech/).
In late 2022 I participated in the Apple Developer Academy in Naples after passing a selection, I also became member of the [NaLUG (Napoli GNU/Linux User Group)](https://www.nalug.tech/) at which I also started doing public speeches in late 2023 about free software, self hosting, etc.
*This page is always updating! Don't forget to check out my [CV](/cv.pdf).*
*This page is always updating! Don't forget to check out my CV ([english](/cv.pdf), [italian](/cv-ita.pdf)).*