# Franco Battaglia

> Personal site of Franco Battaglia, a software engineer in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A bitácora (logbook) of entries on tech, film, art, politics and watches; a curated file of other people's work; and a front page with his work, his interests and an errata of changed minds. The site is bilingual, English and Spanish: its interface is translated, and each entry is in the language it was written in, some in both.

Every page is prerendered static HTML and readable without JavaScript. Each bitácora entry also has a raw-markdown twin at its URL plus `.md` (for example https://francobatta.com/bitacora/<slug>.md); those are the links below. https://francobatta.com/llms-full.txt is this file with every entry inlined in full.

The visual design and the garden's aesthetics carry no information that is not in the text.

## About

- Based: Buenos Aires, Argentina (America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires, UTC−3)
- Contact: [francobatta@outlook.com](mailto:francobatta@outlook.com)
- Elsewhere: [X](https://x.com/francobatta11), [GitHub](https://github.com/francobatta), [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/francobatta)

Software engineer with six years of experience building web services and distributed systems, and shipping features end to end. Ownership and business impact are paramount.

Interests:
- Curiosity: markets; politics; tech; the news
- Hobbies: basketball; cinema; lurking; mechanical watches; strength training

Errata — what he believed, and what he believes now:
- Craft: Software is art → Tools
- Craft: The interface is the contract → Everything you ship
- Craft: Code is an asset → Tech, product, AI, impact
- Taste: Content → Grain, light, time
- Taste: Mind over body → Body and mind
- Taste: Min-maxing, deep focus → Lifemaxxing, holistic
- World: Laissez faire → State capitalism
- World: Progress → Governance
- World: Statements and status → Revealed preference

## Bitácora

logbook, noun: (also log) an official record of events during a particular period of time, especially a journey on a ship or plane (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

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## Curation

curation, noun: the act or process of selecting and organizing (something, such as articles or images) for distribution or publication (Merriam-Webster)

- [Come On, Obviously The Purpose Of A System Is Not What It Does](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpose-of): The case against POSIWID: outcomes are not intent. (astralcodexten.com, Politics, filed 2026-11-12)
- [Hyrum's Law](https://www.hyrumslaw.com/): Every observable behavior becomes someone's contract. (hyrumslaw.com, Tech, filed 2026-11-12)
- [U.S. Graphics Company](https://usgraphics.com/): A heavy, opinionated influence on this site's aesthetics, and on mine. (usgraphics.com, Art, filed 2026-07-04)
- [vgpu — WebGPU, composable](https://vgpu.sh/): The WebGPU library, designed for agents. (vgpu.sh, Tech, filed 2026-06-05)
- [Easy Rider (1969)](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/easy_rider): A piece of Americana and a portrait of its time — more relevant now than on release. (rottentomatoes.com, Film, filed 2026-05-22)

## Optional

- [Garden](https://francobatta.com/garden): where the site tries on other visual aesthetics. Nothing to read.
- [Void](https://francobatta.com/void): a strobing title sequence behind a warning. Nothing to read.
- [RSS](https://francobatta.com/bitacora/feed.xml): the bitácora as a feed.
- [Sitemap](https://francobatta.com/sitemap.xml): every indexable URL.