Cinema, code and other detours

Welcome to Mastorna

An imaginary city where I collect things I study, build and want to remember.

Mastorna is imagined as a sad and beautiful city made of dreams, dust, paper and madness: a useless place where no one lives, loves, works, hates or dies.

The original Italian text is taken from this video on YouTube.

Where does Mastorna come from?


About me

Mastorna is the username I have always used online. It comes from my love of cinema, magical realism and sliding doors: Il viaggio di G. Mastorna detto Fernet is one of the most famous films never made. It was meant to be a journey through a confusing, surreal afterlife.

Since adolescence I had also known that something about me was different. After many years and a long personal journey, I understood that I am transgender. I began hormone therapy on July 7, 2026.


What I do

I work in web development and have made small games and experimental digital artworks.

Alien Smash
Sym
Taurus and Andromeda
Fantaconclave 2025
Nonsensio & Molestio


Things

Alien Smash: where it all began Sym: an indie game postmortem Taurus and Andromeda: postmortem Fantaconclave 2025: five cardinals and a white smoke Nonsensio & Molestio: from Flash to generative theatre Mathematical symbols reference Greek alphabet Powers and logarithms Polynomials Probability Random variables and distributions Probability distributions in practice Functions Asymptotic notation Recursion and the call stack Binary search trees and rotations Red-black trees and balancing Dynamic programming and Matrix Chain Order Recurrence relations and the Master Theorem Sorting algorithms and visualizers Greek alphabet quiz Greek transliteration exercises Video recipes Links for getting pleasantly lost online Site updates and RSS feed