Davide Bucci home site

In this moment, my website is composed by several areas (electronics, physics, maths, retrocomputing and varie), containing several articles. You can read them by clicking on the themes in the menu present at the page top.

All the articles have been written in a period spanning several years (the first version of this web page went online in 1998). The level and the style of the articles may thus be diverse.

I am a teacher and I do some scientific research. I began to be interested in integrated optics several years ago, in particular concerning the design and fabrication of active and passive devices with the ion-exchange on glass technology. In this moment, I am quite interested in optofluidic microsystems, electromagnetic modeling (RCWA and AFMM) and sensors.

I also love music: I play the piano a little bit and I sing in a choir choir.

I also composed some pieces of music.

I begun playing with Linux distributions in 1999, but now I mainly use the wonderful MacOSX. This is why I made sort that software project on which I spent several years of my spare time is completely multiplatform: FidoCadJ.
I also own several "vintage" computers, such as some Apple Macintoshes (and in particular a SE/30), some Commodores and an Olivetti M20. I dedicated a website to this last machine. I am the proud owner of a 1972 Lancia Fulvia sedan. I also wrote a few games for 8 and 16 bit< computers/a> as well as some music.

I generally put a lot of care about correcting errors, but feedback is always welcome:
davbucciAVOIDSPAM@tiscali.it
(remove the capital letters in the address and take into account that my anti-spam system tends to remove all the messages containing attachments).

This site went first online on August 1998 as a set of static HTML pages published on Geocities (SiliconValley/Hills/3824, I still remember the address by heart). At first, there were only the articles on fractals in talian. Then, I opened the Physics, Analysis and Mathematics sections (also in Italian). The Internet Wayback Machine contains a version of the site dating from 2002. Starting in 2006, for a few months, I even hosted the site myself on my home computer (I had a fixed IP back then). Finally, I was able to get some free hosting through my Internet provider. This solution continues to work to this day.

I think that technical simplicity is important for reasons of digital sobriety. Consequently, the current structure of this site is based on a very simple system that I wrote a PHP+CSS and which allows pages to be built without using any database. The whole thing requires less than 300 lines of hand-written PHP code. The result should be similar to a static site, with a limited number of software layers.

When I can, I try to translate the pages into the three languages I speak (Italian, French and English). As of 2018, I happened to use machine translation to provide me with a first version of the pages during translations. In an earlier version of the site, I had included links to automatic translation. I removed them in 2024: we all know how to use these tools and do not want to promote one tool in particular.

Finally, the pages in this site do not contain texts generated with AI tools such as ChatGPT.