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2025: A Big Year

13 min read

The craziest year of my life.

“Special Interests” and Negativity

2 min read

Finding a community that loves something is getting increasingly harder.

2024 In The Rearview Mirror

15 min read

What was good and what wasn't in 2024.

JOMO is a Beautiful Thing

4 min read

JOMO is the opposite of FOMO. It's the Joy of Missing Out on stuff that's bad for you.

Roleplaying in Orgrimmar

2 min read

Who would have thought that interacting with people on a multiplayer game could be fun?

Best longterm goal? Not having one

5 min read

I consider myself a pretty happy person. I do think a lot of it comes from me never really expecting much from myself. That's not as bad as it sounds.

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 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.

Owning your stuff is pretty cool, actually

6 min read

Let's talk a bit about Obsidian, VC-funded apps, the appocalypse and how awesome Markdown life can be.

2023 In Retrospective

16 min read

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

Belonging Somewhere

7 min read

I could always see parts of myself belonging to some groups or places, but never really felt like I was truly a part of anything.

From Twitter to Mastodon

2 min read

Turns out the elephant network feels much lighter than the bird one.

2022 In Hindsight

11 min read

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

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.

Looking Back at 2020

6 min read

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