Hello! I'm

Riccardo Battiato

I'm a software developer based in Catania, Italy, where I work for IdeaSolutions . Previously, I've been a founding engineer at mono .

This is my personal website, where you will find writings about the challenges of web development, building digital products, growing as a generalist and anything technology-related.

Recent Posts

• How to make mix-blend-mode only black or white

  Published:Jan 30, 2025 |  at 07:56 PM

  The CSS property mix-blend-mode is a classic visual effect for logos, making them contrast nicely with the background of a web page...

• Design Patterns for Vue.js Book Review

  Published:May 4, 2024 |  at 09:27 AM

  Design Patterns for Vue.js is a book about first principles, separation of concerns and quality frontend written by the author of Vue Test Utils, Lachlan Miller.

• "Hire the right people"

  Published:Mar 19, 2024 |  at 08:03 PM

  It's easy to say that in order to have a well-functioning team that produces quality results, you have to "hire the right people". But what does that actually mean?

• Implementing Date type in GraphQL

  Published:Mar 3, 2024 |  at 05:55 PM

  By default, GraphQL doesn't come with a way to work with dates and time. What you can do, however, is to define a custom type representing a ISO DateTime value.