Hi!

I'm JonLuca DeCaro. I'm the co-founder of Weights. I grew up in north east Italy, and moved to the United States in 2014 to study in Los Angeles.

Previously I was a founder at Alta, and before that I worked at Citadel, Pinterest, Google, and Apple. I am a full stack engineer, and have worked in growth, security, and product.

San Diego, 2020

New here?

I recommend starting with the following three posts. They all focus on tech and explorations of topics I find interesting.

1. Illegal streams, decrypting m3u8's, and building a better stream experience - An article on exploring illegal sports streams online, building a client to watch them, and seeing how the streamers are piggybacking real services.

2. Obfuscated javascript, scam emails, and American Express - An article on reversing and decompiling obfuscated javascript, tracking spam emails, and finding the root command and control server for a scam campaign.

3. Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights - An article on how I routed my European vacation, writing an NP hard problem solver, and releasing a tool to help you do the same.

I also write for HackerNoon and freeCodeCamp on Medium.

You can get an RSS feed of the blog.

What am I reading?

Here are a few blogs or places on the internet that I enjoy reading. I don't agree with everything on all of them, so don't take it as an endorsement of the site as a whole.

• http://danluu.com/

• http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

• Money Stuff by Matt Levine

• https://astralcodexten.substack.com/

• https://www.lesswrong.com/

Photos

Few things are as personally identifiable as photos, and as the old adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here's a bit about me.

Probably my only time ever going rock climbing

Christmas dinner in a castle

On a peak in Denali

Our igloo in fairbanks