joelchrono's blog
joelchrono's blog
joelchrono
Hello! I am Joel, I am just a guy who likes tech, FOSS and many other things. I was born in Mexico, where I still live. I am a hobby collector, fake fan of many things, foss enthusiast, videogame enjoyer, and a mechatronics engineer, working as a system admin for some company somewhere.
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Overscan is a book that I read last year, but didn’t review, even though it is quite important to me in a few ways. First, it’s a book written by fediverse creators, even featuring a story by Amin, who is quite the prolific in the...
This week went by quick again, I even forgot some things mentioned until the last second right when I was about to hit publish. In any case. I hope you enjoy! Quite a lot of links scattered around this time, and lots of new media making...
The fourth book of The Murderbot Diaries, which continues to be a pretty fun series over all! After all his travels and misadventures. Murderbot has decided to help out the friends he ran away from after all. Murderbot has found some...
Well, as January came and went, I’ve barely done any progress on the recaps I should have done for the year! There’s a lot on my schedule lately and I can’t quite write as much as I hoped. Last year was pretty good when it comes to...
A few days ago my family went to the supermarket, and I saw someone that had been an intern with me, in that same big company in my small town that I now work on. He was working as a cashier now. As an introvert in real life—hard to...
For the past few months, my friend Dave has been working on his own TTRPG, documenting his misadventures on his personal blog. Time and time again, a game mentioned as inspiration has been Land of Eem, a whimsical and family friendly...
When writing this I accidentally typed 2025 instead of 2026, it still doesn’t feel quite right to me, can’t really say why, it’s been a month already! 🏰 Because of Dave, I ended up buying Land of Eem, a whimsical and more colorful take...
Well, January is already over and the year is alreadh a twelfth of the way there, incredible, simply mindboggling. Podcasts I think I didn’t listen to as many podcasts as other months, but it’s actually just fine, I listened to about 56...
This week was a rather cold one, it rained on the weekend and the days have been much chiller since then. It’s winter so it’s to be expected, but the region where I live isn’t often this cold! In any case not a lot of things happened...
We went to the mall during the weekend, and if there’s one thing that malls have, is phone case kiosks. Small shops selling peripherals and cases for popular Apple and Samsung devices,and not much else—at least that’s what I always...
Lately I’ve been on a bit of a writing slump, pretty much just filling up the things that I am kind of committed to writing, however, this is not because I dislike it now, I’ve been simply too busy with other things, one of which is...
The second week of the year was filled with many disasters and fun moments, nothing to worry about. 🩺 My dog needed to get his wound cleaned up daily and at first I couldn’t do it, so I had to take him to the vet, except that I was home...
I read manga quite a lot this year, it remains one of my favorite forms of entertainment, so much so I’m even considering to get a tablet just to read it and enjoy it on a bigger screen (No, I will never turn into one of those maniacs...
Well here we are once again, starting over another year! The first set of weeknotes is coming out at last. Here’s how things went! 🎉 Happy New Year you all! 2025 is over already and we must pave the way to a new tomorrow, one day after...
When it comes to gaming, this year was pretty wild. I went through lots of different phases which can be seen throughout the year, a look at the cadence of videogame reviews on this blog will give you an idea. Earlier in the year I...