Hey there, I’m Matt Fantinel

Welcome to my little corner of the web!

I am a web developer from Brazil, currently living in Italy. My favorite things are videogames, football (⚽), chimarrão (🧉), coding and listening to sad music. I built my first website when I was 9, and been in love with computers ever since.

This is the special place where I collect thoughts, photos, links and whatever else I feel like putting here. I guess you can say it‘s my digital garden. Outside of here, you can find me doing my best work at Useful Group.

About me Projects

The Blog

What started in 2019 as a place to document things I was learning as a web developer has since grown into a journal of sorts. It is, after all, a personal blog.

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Me in 2019

Cool Links

I regularly gather the coolest links I come across on the web and post them here. If you like cool things, you’ll like Cool Links.

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Illustration of Cool Links in a laptop screen, with a hand pointing at them in a cool way.

Quick Reviews

Since June 2024, I started writing quick reviews of movies, TV shows and games I’ve watched or played.

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A stack of quick reviews I‘ve written in the past. They‘re colorful cards with the movie or show‘s poster and some words.

Photography

I'm no professional, but sometimes I like to capture the world around me. Sometimes, the photos turn out pretty nice.

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Lecco, IT

Nova Petrópolis, BR

Lake Como, IT

Digital Garden

Things I've posted or written but that are not necessarily finished (or never will be).

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Pixel art of a cozy indoor garden (actually a Stardew Valley screenshot)

The Latest ✨

Just want to see everything I've posted? There's an archive page just for that. Otherwise you can catch up below.

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Matt posted a Quick Review

Baldur's Gate 3

2023, Larian Studios

Reviewed on Jun 19, 2026

Didn't like it

Decent

I like it

Loved it!

Hard to review this one. On one hand, it’s one of the best (if not the best) stories and set of characters I’ve ever seen in a video game. Not only that, it’s something only a game can offer: it was my story, I always felt like my choices mattered and saw them affecting the world and characters in some way.

On the other hand, I didn’t enjoy much of the rest. My playthrough lasted 99h, and by hour 30 I was already tired of combat and exploration and couldn’t wait for it to end. I ended up lowering the difficulty so I could just get combat over ASAP and get back to the story bits which was the only thing I cared about.

Game

Matt published a Blog Post

A tri

A cluster of terracotta-roofed houses with chimneys and antennas in Feltre's old town, set against a large green mountain under a cloudy sky.

A trip through Veneto (and history)

9 min read

We didn't have a tight plan, just a list of towns and surnames, but that was more than enough for a good time.

Trip

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Matt shared a Cool Link

This is so good! Overworld is a gaming news aggregator that is actually usable. It groups together all news for a single topic under a single headline, and also curates gaming-related stuff (that’s not necessarily news) in a “worth your time” section. And it looks great too!

Open

Matt published a Blog Post

Cool

Cool Links Vol. 23: May, 2026

4 min read

Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of May, 2026

Cool Links

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Matt shared a Cool Link

Yesss! I’ve waited for this for so long! One of the worst parts of my job is trying to implement those kind of separators (really common in designs) without this functionality being an actual thing yet. So many hacks, complex calculations, for something so visually trivial.

And even if it takes a while to get to other browsers, it’s mostly a visual drawback if not supported; so I can already start thinking about using it.