Miyoo Mini Plus Hype

A Miyoo Mini Plus is shipping my way and ever since then I can't stop myself from seeing it everywhere. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 12 hours ago

Kobo Clara 2E Review

I got my first electronic reader ever and here are some of my thoughts on it with KOReader installed on it. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 days ago

The Machine Stops

A short story I read on a whim, about a society where the Machine provides for all of Humanity's needs. Sounds familiar? | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 3 days ago

A Mysterious Affair at Styles

I hadn't read any non sci-fi and I decided to go for something different. Here are my thoughts on this classic detective story! | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 3 days ago

April 2024 Summary

Let's go through what I did during the month of April, some gaming, some movies, some anime, podcasts and more stuff! | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 days ago

Too many reviews?

These past few months, the amount of posts in this website reviewing books or videogames and things has risen quite a bit, so I just wrote a bit about that. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 10 days ago

A Short Hike

A neat little open world game with a simple goal and a lot of stuff to do in between | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 14 days ago

The Palace of Eternity

An interesting piece of science fiction that does a lot of things well, making it enjoyable for me despite some flaws | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 16 days ago

My Home Screen (Early 2024)

I decided to write about what's on my phone's home screen, apps, shortcuts and things | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 20 days ago

Work and friends

My worklife has been quite alright, but trying to make proper friendships in the workplace is difficult sometimes. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 20 days ago

Dune

My thoughts on Dune, by Frank Herbert. Spoilers ahead. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 25 days ago

Inside

My thoughts about Inside, the spiritual successor of Limbo which I played earlier this year. Here are my thoughts! | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 29 days ago

March 2024 Summary

Here's what I read, watched and spent my time on during March! Tons of stuff this time, with good variety. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 month ago

The Undefeated

Another short read I did because I felt like it, randomly picked from a YouTube video | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 month ago

Tender is The Flesh

This book was randomly picked on a book club I'm on, and we were all a kind of shocked by it, discretion is advised. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 month ago

What Interested Me Today 3

I had a free day today and I was free to do whatever I pleased. So, yeah. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 month ago

Website changes, Flexbox and stuff

If you are reading this from an RSS feed you may not notice the amount of changes my website has gone through in the past couple of weeks. A series of events happened that somehow made me think I really should dedicate a bunch of time to modifiying my website structure once again … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 month ago

February 2024 Summary

Oops, sorry for the delay this time, anyway, here are the things of note that I consumed this month! Had a bunch of things going on and I also did a bit of commisions and things, I am actually behind schedule so, oof. Books Out Of The Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis. I finished th … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

Apple vs Android on Security and Features

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@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

University's Over

School is over, I just had my graduation event, completing my studies as a Mechatronics Engineer. It was quite the accomplishment for me. I have previously written about some of my thoughts during my last semester as a student and as an intern. The challenges I went through in th … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

Out of The Silent Planet

A good book that explores the adventures of a man who finds himself on a trip to another planet, and discovers the wonders of Space and life—beyond Earth and humanity. This is a work of fiction that doesn’t quite fit into what many consider Science Fiction to be today. I was intr … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

The hobby I never mastered

Among the dozens of hobbies under my belt, I think my weakest one, the one were I felt like I wasn’t actually good at it, and in fact, I kinda sucked. That would be Cardistry. Cardistry is born out of card flourishes, common pirouettes and fancy moves used by card magicians to de … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

Finally finding the song

So a few days ago I was kind of inspired to revisit an old video from a channel I quite liked back in the day. By The River - Cardistry w/ Sergio Roca, from Julio Ribera’s YouTube channel. To this day I think it is a great video, showcasing some great Cardistry flourishes, a hobb … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

Improving my RSS feed

Playing around with Jekyll is great, or with any static site generator in general! But there can also be many ways to do things wrong! And while this is not really a problem most of the time, you could end up making a mess for your future self, like I’ve done this time. However, … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

How I found out my Casio watch was fake

So, I bought a fake Casio watch, or at the very least, not a new one. Here’s how I found out. tl;dr: I bought the same watch from a different source and compared them to each other. Months ago, I bought a fake Casio watch, a replica of the classic A-168, which I had wanted for … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

Giving context to my blogroll

Simone Silvestroni inspired me to improve my blogroll with this post months ago, but things got in the way, and I promptly forgot about it, until now! A thread by Molly White, ended up being the nail in the head where I decided to update my blogroll and make it better, adding con … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

Checking off boxes (on paper)

Ever since I was a kid, the idea of journals and agendas was something that attracted me quite a lot. Most of the time it was just the calendars and the contact lists and such things that kind of made everything feel like a paper phone or some sort of gadget. Who would’ve thought … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

Inbox Zero But RSS

So last Tuesday I commited an atrocity, that annoyed me to no end, at least for an hour or so until I thought about it. If you didn’t open that link, that’s quite sad, but basically I marked all of the feeds in my FreshRSS instance as read, something that was done by accident and … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 2 months ago

January 2024 Summary

The year is off to a good start, consuming a lot of good content and things like that. My new job is pretty alright too and I don’t have a lot to complain. Books, games, movies, anything and everything except for Manga because Tachiyomi is dead. Anyway, here’s what I did during … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 3 months ago

My Favorite Videogames of 2023

Picking my favorite games is a lot easier than movies. So yeah. Gaming for me changed quite a lot this year, since I got my Nintendo Switch, and it made me change a lot of my gaming habits, opening the door a whole new world of games that I thought I would not try, at least for a … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 3 months ago

Childhood’s End

Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke, is a book about the fate of humanity after they make contact with a benevolent alien race, that helps them reach a Golden Age of progress and peace. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What if aliens invaded the planet, but they actually helped us build a utopia? … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 3 months ago

Ori And The Blind Forest

Today I finished Ori and The Blind Forest and it was a fantastic experience! The game is about Ori, quite a weird fellow that falls from the sky and lands on a beautiful forest, under the care of Nabu, another creature that lived there. However, a terrible fate fell upon the Nibe … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 3 months ago

Looking back at 2023

Well, there were many things happening during 2023. A lot of new cycles starting to turn, the end of going to University and taking courses. My internship, writing 100 posts in a year, getting my first proper job, acquiring a Nintendo Switch, there were wins, there were losses, b … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 3 months ago

Blogging consistently

I’ve been meaning to write more often across the whole year, unlike last time. This is why I am going to willingly not post more than 4 blogposts per week, and I’ll try to make around 2 most of the time. Of course some weeks will have to contain 3 just to stay within the timefram … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 3 months ago

Ender’s Game

If you had told me Ender’s Game and Limbo would be the first book and videogame I would have completed in 2024, I don’t think I’d believe you, but here we are. And I am happy that it happened. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Compared to my previous two books, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, felt … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Limbo

Limbo is one of those games that I have been aware of for ages. One of the first games I kind of wanted to have on my phone in an age where I wasn’t really allowed to pay money for mobile games. So, I did what I had to do. Honestly though, I never really managed to go past the fi … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

December 2023 Summary

December was packed with a lot of things I managed to do, Christmas happened, a New Year is upon us, and here is what I did in the mean time. Thankfully, I got some vacation time, which allowed me to do do quite a lot, from listening to more podcasts while cleaning up my room, to … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

200 Days to Offload Later

I am happy to say that I have managed to write a total of 100 posts during the year of 2023. Compared to the last time I did the challenge, I wanted to be more consistent with my writing, not leaving a single month go without a couple posts at least. However, this did not turn ou … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Feeling like doing Gamedev again

Because of how many indie games I’ve cared and videos I’ve watched on the matter, I started to feel the itch to not just play indie games, but start working on my own again. I’ve actually done a couple of games already for many Game Jams during the pandemic. However, I kind of lo … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Short games and roguelikes

Today I’ve spent the whole day on my computer, having video essays as background while surfing the net and doing things. I have watched dozens of videos about indie games of all kinds, from roguelikes to platformers and JRPGs. I am feeling the urge to buy like 20 different indie … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Couch gaming

There have been quite a bunch of games that have interested me during the Nintendo Switch Holiday Sale, and one of the main factors in my buying decisions, is if a game has a multiplayer option, something that is a necessity, since I have sibling, as well as friends coming during … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Building my gaming backlog

A week or so ago, I listened to the video “How I Finished my Gaming Backlog (One Year Later)”, while I was cleaning up my bedroom and tidying things up. It was a really entertaining background noise that has really inspired me to just sit and list down every single game I want to … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Citizen Sleeper

I first heard of this game in the Into The Aether’s 2022 Games of The Year Bonus episode. I would have completely missed this game otherwise, so I am glad I went through the 5+ hours podcast just for this—and the many other games and rambling, of course. Regardless, I decided to … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

An overview of my watch collection

So, I got quite a pretty small but good collection of watches. If you use Mastodon you might have seen most of them already. Someone in a Discord server asked me to share the story of each of them and I wrote this as a response. It was edited to for the purposes of this blog and … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Declutering my room

I want to keep up writing a post per day, so I’ll continue with the aftermath that follows from building my new cabinet. Basically, I still have a full drawer of notebooks and paper that go all the way back to middle school, even one that contains drawings I did since primary sch … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

I like building stuff

You know what speedcubing, origami, piano, gaming and typing have in common? I have to use my hands to do it! I really like making my hands work and do stuff and I am very much someone who can’t really stay put for long at all. That’s the reason I have a lot of hobbies and I keep … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Please stop AI generated articles

I was not looking forward to ever mention AI again in this blog, but I just wanted to update a little bit on my views on this topic. Last time I ever made use of this stuff was to help me with some code I had already done, and also to generate a blogpost for me, after I typed out … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Good start, unsteady steps, final sprint

As the year comes to an end, I have to rush on these posts! So I hope you don’t mind having some shorter reads. Today, I just wanted to point out what a weird year this has been for me when it comes to writing posts constantly throughout the year. Just take a look at the numbers: … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago