I'm Christian Visintin. I live in Udine, Italy. I'm a freelance software engineer. I'm also an open-source developer. On this blog I write about my dev misadventures and give unneeded opinions on many topics involving technology and development
Latest Posts
Harakat Lens, an iOS app to scan, transliterate and translate Arabic, for learners and Quran readers
iOS app that scans, transliterates and translates Arabic, with Quran verse recognition and audio recitation
PreambleA few months ago I shipped BiangBiang Hanzi, an iOS and Android app that points your camera at Chinese characters and gives you back the Pinyin (or Jyutping) plus a translation. The motivation
Published on May 09, 2026 - 8 min read
Btw, I'm working on Mastic
A Mastodon instance built in Rust, running on Internet Computer
PreambleIn June 2025, I attended the World Computer Conference in Zurich, the main conference on the Internet Computer.The Internet Computer is a distributed cloud computing platfo
Published on April 29, 2026 - 8 min read
Is RustRover Worth It? My 3-Month Review
After 3 months of using RustRover, I share my thoughts on whether it's worth the investment for Rust developers.
TL;DR: Great Rust support, but frustrating editor UX and weak Git experience. Worth trying if you're already in the JetBrains ecosystem.Over the last year, I’ve heard many people talking about
Published on March 27, 2026 - 6 min read
From ic-dbms to wasm-dbms
Untangling a database engine from the Internet Computer
This is an article about how I restructured a monolithic IC canister framework into a runtime-agnostic WASM database engine.A few months ago I announced ic-dbms, a Rust framework for building database
Published on March 02, 2026 - 8 min read