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2025:

Picturesque medieval-like italian village on the shore of a huge blue lake. The houses are very colorful and there's a lot of pine trees on the slope. A small boat floats on the lake, and in the background sit the snow-capped Alps.

2025: A Big Year

13 min read

The craziest year of my life.

A new

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A new home for Cool Links

2 min read

Or more of a new room in the same home, I guess

New W

New Website Section: Quick Reviews!

5 min read

A special place to dump my unsolicited opinions of pieces of media!

Fanti

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Fantinel.dev v5 is here!

10 min read

Out with the green waves, in with the rainbow of pastel colors!

2024

2024 In The Rearview Mirror

15 min read

What was good and what wasn't in 2024.

Separ

Separating my website's content from its code

4 min read

Having an open source website is great, but having the content stored in the same spot as the code has some issues. On this post I walk through what I did to keep them separated.

Think

Thinking of a redesign

2 min read

I want my personal website to reflect a bit of who I am. Am I the same person I was 3-4 years ago?

5 Yea

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5 Years of Fantinel.dev!

7 min read

My website has existed for half of my professional life now. In this post I look back at some snapshots of its history and talk about what's next.

2023

2023 In Retrospective

16 min read

A quiet year, but still with lots to talk about.

2022

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2022 In Hindsight

11 min read

A year of big changes, both to me and to the world.

2021

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2021 In Review

11 min read

Another year, another yearly review post. 2021 felt like pretty much 2020 part II for a lot of people, me included.

Looki

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Looking Back at 2020

6 min read

2020 definitely wasn't our best year... but let's remember what was good about it.

Cool

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Cool things I did and learned in 2019

7 min read

A quick look back at 2019 and what I learned during this year.

The p

The purpose of this blog

1 min read

Why does it exist?