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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year ago

The Paradox of Choice

Now that I actually have money to buy stuff for my parents and siblings, its gotten a lot harder to actually buy something for them. Before, I didn’t even have to get anything because it wasn’t really expected from me. An origami or some other craft could do, maybe some candy and … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 year ago

My Favorite Books of 2023

This year I had a fairly realistic goal of reading 15 books in a year, and I utterly failed to fulfill it once again. Honestly I didn’t expect to read only like 6 books. Although taking into account the amount of manga I read, it does explain why I lacked the time to read proper … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 year ago

My Favorite Manga of 2023

This year I read quite a bit of manga, but it wasn’t as much as last year, simply because I didn’t read any long series at all, compared to the juggernaut that was reading 500+ chapters of Kingdom in a matter of weeks. Sadly, Anilist, which I use to keep track of the manga I read … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 year ago

My Favorite Podcasts of 2023

Maybe this year I will actually follow up on my promise of doing a “My favorite blank of 2023” series, unlike in 2022, so here we go! I decided to write a couple different lists instead of what I did last year where I just shared 5 podcasts and called it a day. Most played podcas … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 year ago

A Friday without a lot of work

I have been at my job for a couple weeks now, and I have to say, I don’t dislike it at all, I kind of enjoy learning so many things at the moment, but it is also a bit of a daunting task. I basically handle a bunch of different databases in multiple formats. Those databases are i … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 year ago

AMA Responses 1

Alright, here are some answers to your questions. If your question is not here, there were some more answers in a previous post @Doctor_Derp asks: Do you like waffles/pancakes/french toast? Yes, I like them all, I eat them all, I enjoy them all, good food. Konstantin a … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 1 year ago