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I'm an Italian computer engineer dreaming of living a hobbit life. Until that happens, I keep myself entertained with music, novels, video essays, and shell scripting.
Random but super important facts about me:
I'm a fan of minimalism in design and technology; my comfort movies are mostly spaghetti westerns, Christmassy rom-coms, and Studio Ghibli films; there's nothing I find more pleasant than going to bed with clean sheets after an evening shower.

If that is not enough, I have prepared a description through memes, because... why not. Also, take a look at what I'm doing now.

Contacts and profiles

Feel free to email me at earendelmir@proton.me for a chat, argument, or any questions you might have (please, use the plaintext format).
You can also subscribe to the blog's RSS feed to stay updated on my writing.
That's it! No socials, no other profiles or accounts anywhere else — except for GitHub, but that's solely for hosting the code for this site.

Current favourites

See the full list in the favourites page.

Why earendelmir?

My real name is Marco. I adopted this pseudonym just to prevent those who know me in real life from easily discovering this space.
From a fusion of Old-English and Elvish, it means "Jewel of the Morning Star". This is a nod to Tolkien's work, which has played, and continues to play, a significant role in shaping my imagination, philosophy, and emotional intelligence.

This website

It's my own little corner of the internet, and I love it! I'll tend to it as if it was my garden; it will grow as I grow, and die as I die.

What?

I could give a heartfelt description of how much I've come to love small blogs and the intimate connection that exists between the writer and the reader, the bond of trust, even love! that I feel when reading of other people's thoughts, and the desire I felt to create something equally special... but I'll spare you all of that.
In the end, this is just a comfortable side project to waste time on.

Why?

I started working on this for two reasons: to be master of style, form and content of my space here on the web, enabling me to customize it however I want and to express myself freely — the exact opposite of what social media offer. Secondly, to store all my thoughts and writings in a single place, overcoming the dependency on countless journals, pieces of paper, and note taking apps.

How?

The entire website is written in plain HTML/CSS, with as little Javascript as possible.
While being a perpetual work in progress, this site is designed to last.

Privacy

There are no trackers, analytics, nor cookies. I don't care who you are, where you are or why you've come here.
Also, I don't really want to know the number of readers: it would either be 0 or >0 and I'd obsess over nothing in both scenarios.