Luciano Battagliero

A Non-Exhaustive List of Facts About Me

  • Some of my code is stored 250 meters deep inside a mountain in the Arctic. It’s called the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, and it’s designed to last at least 1,000 years. The vault is about a mile away from the Global Seed Vault.
  • My name is on a chip aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover. It’s been on Mars since 2012.
  • I’m a top contributor to normalize.css. You’ve probably used it. Over a million downloads every month.
  • I’m a proud owner of a Casio CA-53W, my childhood dream watch.
  • I discovered HTML in 2003 and built my first website, the same year MySpace launched.
  • My favorites: The Matrix (movie, I know, cliché), Bestiario by Julio Cortázar (short stories), the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, The Secret of Monkey Island (computer game), and Carcassonne (board game, 13 expansions and counting).
  • I have over 500 physical books (519 the last time I counted), mostly comic books and poetry. An eclectic mix, I know!
  • I drink ~1.5 liters of mate daily.
  • I’m a bit of a coffee nerd. I have an espresso machine at home and I’m always dialing in grind size, tweaking pull times, and trying different beans.
  • Not everything I write is code. I also write poetry, and sometimes put it to paper on my 1960s Olivetti Studio 45.
  • I’ve driven across the Andes 8 times through Paso Los Libertadores, at 3,200m above sea level.
  • My website is part of a webring. Remember those?

Incomplete and Somewhat Accurate Compendium of Places I’ve Been

Contemporary Art Museums I’ve Visited So Far

15 museums in 10 cities across 7 countries.

A List of Lists I’ve Made