Making custom videogame covers

I have spent the past couple of days making my own game covers for PS1 and SNES games to display on my Miyoo Mini Plus, so I wrote about it. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

You should use SSHFS

Just a short post appreciating the usefulness of SSHFS | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

Transferring PSP PS1 save files to Miyoo Mini Plus

How to turn the PS1 savefiles of games played on PSP, to a regular savefile usable in PS1 emulators and retro emulation devices like the Miyoo Mini Plus | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

Transferring PS1 save files to Miyoo Mini Plus

How to turn the PS1 savefiles of games played on PSP, to a regular savefile usable in PS1 emulators and retro emulation devices like the Miyoo Mini Plus | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

Fix Activity Tracker duplicates in Miyoo Mini Plus (Onion OS

So if you ever edit the name of your ROM files you might run into some problems in your Miyoo Mini's Activity Tracker App, here's how I fixed it! | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

First Contact with Emulation

This is a treasured memory of mine and I decided to write it here, my first experience with emulation. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

Not a long post

I am writing a fairly long blogpost and I feel weird about it, so here is another post to compensate | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

Miyoo Mini Plus first impressions

I got my Miyoo Mini Plus and here are my quick thoughts on it. TL;DR: I love it | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

Old blogposts people find

Yes, I do have analytics, and I was curious as to which posts from this blog where found most often by people on the internet, here are the results! | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

What Interested Me Today 4

Just another edition of this series. Random stuff I that stole more attention from me than usual. | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 6 months ago

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 | 6 months 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 | 6 months 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 | 6 months 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 | 6 months 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 | 6 months 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 | 7 months 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 | 7 months 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 | 7 months 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 | 7 months 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 | 7 months ago

Dune

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


@joelchrono.xyz | 7 months 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 | 7 months 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 | 7 months ago

The Undefeated

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


@joelchrono.xyz | 7 months 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 | 8 months 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 | 8 months 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 | 8 months 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 | 8 months ago

Apple vs Android on Security and Features

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@joelchrono.xyz | 8 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 months ago