I’m running late while writing this. Obviously.
Not because I didn’t have the time, but because I spent twenty minutes fixing three lines of CSS nobody will ever notice, except me. That’s my trademark: late everywhere, except on the details that matter to no one but me. I made peace with it a while ago. Actually, no, I’m still working on it. Let’s call it a tentative truce with myself.
By day I’m a Pre-Sales Engineer. I talk about access control, badges, flows that need to be linear, predictable, no surprises. In the evening I open Ableton and do exactly the opposite: I go looking for the surprise, the imperfection that sounds right, the noise that turns into groove. Two jobs, two vocabularies, the exact same ingredient underneath: an attention to detail nobody else will ever see.
For years I thought I had to choose. That an engineer who makes music was a distracted engineer, and a musician with a day job in tech was only half a musician. It took me a while to understand I’m not two limping halves: I’m two speeds on the same engine.
Yes, I’m precise, but messy. Yes, I’m on time for the things that matter, and chronically late for everything else.
Yes, I listen to other people for a living, all day. Then in the evening I need two hours of absolute quiet just to hear my own voice again.
That’s where this blog comes from. It’s not a showcase of one tidied-up Matteo: it’s the place where the two speeds live side by side without having to justify each other. One day you’ll find a piece on how to pitch a use case to an enterprise client, the next a piece on how a track starts from a noise that was wrong until, somehow, it wasn’t.
Same attention to detail. Two different languages. One place to speak both.
Welcome, or welcome back. Get comfortable. I’ll just be over here, fixing two more pixels.