ALESSIO IERVOLINO
Developer, Creative, Writer, History enthusiast.
About
Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate
I started my work as a Web Developer with Olawur.com in 2016. Olawur.com is a project born from my passion for Scandinavian culture, mixed with the knowledge of every piece that forms the professional figure of a Full Stack Web Developer. The name of the project - Olawur - comes from the Scandinavian name Olavur, where the "V" has been switched to "W" to tie the Nordic culture with the World Wide Web. My aim as a Web Developer is to develop websites suitable for everyone: from small business to larger projects. My ultimate goal is to use my web development knowledge to innovate the way people and business interact with others.
Creativity and Development
And though I oft have passed them by, a day will come at last when I
As an independent writer and someone with a degree in Literature and Linguistics, my approach to creativity in web development is rather peculiar. I am used to, and I like to, think outside the box, I like to innovate, to question rules and ideas, and I strive to give new answers to old and new problems. What made me realize that I wanted to have a career in web development is, on one hand, all the great things you can achieve with technology and, on the other hand, the impact that technology had in contemporary society.
I have studied anthropology and sociology during my university days, and being in the tech world has really helped me understand what a powerful tool technology is. Like all the powerful tools, though, technology needs to be used in an intelligent way: I want to use it to connect people, I want to be part of a positive change in people lives, maybe not by developing something that will bring the world to a utopia, but if I can just only bring a business closer to its customers or help someone spreads their message, I will be more than happy to have used technology positively.
Being a Web Developer for me doesn't mean being a genius of a programmer, but it means being able to create intelligent projects that are innovative, secure and accessible; because we shouldn't leave anyone behind.
Reading and Studying
Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
To be a writer, one has to be an avid reader first. Reading has accompanied me during my life since I was five years old and I would say that is a big part of who I am. I love reading fictions, historical books, books about technology and even books in Latin, when I feel crazy enough to try to remember the meaning of Latin words. With reading comes studying, and I have always being torn by humanities studies on one side and tech studies on the other.
Studying for me is a pleasure, and it has always been. In a fast paced world, it is often forgotten how important is to sit for a moment and think, or how is important to understand all the pieces that have brought us here where we are. I see the innovations of web development as the "here and now", and my humanities interests as the "how and why" of contemporary times. Both are really important, and knowing both makes my approach to work quite atypical.
As the verses of Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red quoted above, starting my career in web development has been like taking the hidden path that I've never had the courage to take, and that has then changed my life.
Projects
History Fact
Thor and the origins of all flint
In the Skáldskaparmál - Old Norse pronounciation [ˈskaldskaparˌmɒːl] - Snorri Sturluson tells the story of a giant named Hrungnir, meaning brawler, that was defeated by Thor in a duel.
One day, Odin went to Jotunheim, the homeland of the giants, and it was quickly noticed by Hrungnir, who didn't know that he had cast his eyes on a god. Hrungnir was surprised to see a stranger able to ride his horse through air and water, and so decided to approach Odin.
After having seen the giant, Odin decided to bet his head that his horse Sleipnir could outrun even the best horse in Jotunheim. Hrungnir was greatly insulted by Odin's provocation, and so he accepted the bet without even thinking about it and mounted his golden mane horse named Gullfaxi.
The two raced for a long time, through mud and hills but before the giant could reach Odin, he had passed the walls of Asgard and indeed entered the home of the gods. And so Odin decided to invite Hrungnir into his hall, Valhalla, to enjoy the hospitality of the gods.
Hrungnir, who was ill-tempered, quickly became drunk and started boasting that he would kill all the gods except for Freya and Siff and that he would drink all the gods' ale. He started angering the gods, who decided to call Thor to take care of the giant.
When Thor arrived, he swiftly lifted his hammer to slay the giant on the spot but Hrungnir said that Thor would have been a coward to kill an unarmed giant, and so he challenged the god to a duel, that Thor quickly accepted.
And so Thor and his servant Þjálfi arrived to Jotunheim where the duel was to take place. Hrungnir was there too, completely covered with a stone armour and armed with a whetstone and a stone shield. The giant was indeed a fearsome enemy, but he got tricked by Þjálfi, who warned Hrungnir of a coming attack from below, and so the belligerent giant put his shield on the ground and stood on it, and at that precise moment Thor hurled his hammer at the giant, who tried to stop it by launching his whetstone against it.
The hammer caught the giant in the forehead, slaying it, while the whetstone did indeed hit Thor in the face, but it got shattered by Thor's head, generating all flint on Earth. A piece of Hrungnir's whetstone lodged itself on Thor's forehead, and there remained until the god's death.
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