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1 [test-img] 2 [1]skip to main content 3 [2]Brain Baking navigation toggle 4 5 • [4] Brain Baking 6 • [5] Archives 7 • [6] Subscribe 8 9 • [7] Works 10 • [8] About 11 • [9] Links 12 13 [10] 14 15 Favorites of February 2024 16 17 [11] 2 March 2024 18 19 My first month back in the software engineering industry as an independent 20 software architect is behind me. I’m still adjusting to the big change of pace. 21 The paper work involved to set up a company (besloten venootschap or bv) in 22 Belgium took longer than I anticipated and there’s still administration to do, 23 but at least my first invoice left my hard drive, so that’s worth celebrating! 24 25 I also finally managed to get my [12]Advice for Engineering Managers: Enabling 26 Developers To Become (More) Creative article published on InfoQ to hopefully 27 help drive sales of [13]The Creative Programmer. Yesterday’s talk at the [14] 28 Creativity Expert Exchange conference was also part of that campaign—the video 29 will be put out free of charge shortly (edit: [15]the concurrent session videos 30 are online!). I’m not sure whether or not it’s worth the trouble, but it was a 31 fun conference to attend with lots of talented academics researching the topic. 32 33 Previous month: [16]January 2024. 34 35 Books I’ve read 36 37 I blame the change in work pace. Again, besides the continuation of the 38 Mallorea series by [17]David Eddings, nothing much. I’m currently at Book Five; 39 the last one in the series. On non-fiction front, I still have Schopenhauer’s 40 work to finish that deserves more attention. 41 42 Games I’ve played 43 44 Same problem. I did finally slog through [18]Triangle Strategy, a pixelated 45 turn-based strategy game reminiscent of the classic Final Fantasy Tactics with 46 way too much cut-scenes for its own good. The game felt like an interactive 47 novel instead of a proper game, and although the alternative pathways make for 48 interesting replays, I never want to touch it again. 49 50 I bought [19]Balatro, a poker-like roguelike (a who-what now?) made by a small 51 team that came out of nowhere. It’s the perfect game to play in handheld mode 52 on the Switch in short bursts—exactly the kind of gameplay time I have 53 available. Considering I’m generally not a fan of roguelikes and taking the 54 randomness inherent to poker into account, I’m sure I’ll lose interest soon, 55 but it’s a lot of fun while it lasts. I’ll try to have a review up this month. 56 57 As for the board games played this month, I’ve dutifully kept track: 58 59 [20] [bggplays_f] My BGG Play Stats for Feburary 2024. 60 61 18 plays of which quite a few new ones, not bad! Three Sisters quickly became 62 one of our favorite “roll & write”-style games, and it includes dice drafting! 63 I’m using the [21]BGG Catalog Android app to keep track of things and hope to 64 continue to do so for the rest of the year. 65 66 Selected (blog) posts 67 68 • Ruben Schade’s [22]retrocomputer page of retrocomputers is nothing short of 69 awesome! 70 • Lee Holmes invites us to think about the [23]security risks of Postman. 71 We’re not quite there to eliminate the tool, but it’s good to know. 72 • In case you want to upgrade your board game tokens to glass ones, [24]you 73 can Do It Yourself using a special resin coating. If you don’t want to 74 bother, there’s [25]Burger Tokens for you. 75 • More troubling AI news: Adobe AI scrapes your personal PDFs and info from 76 your documents? See [26]this Mastodon post at Infosec. 77 • As [27]already posted before, Natalia Waniczek talked at FFConf 2022 about 78 [28]Working towards a greener world from behind the keyboard. 79 • Trevor Taubitz [29]offers three interesting pathways to embed your VueJS 80 frontend into your Go backend and compile it as one big binary. 81 • UCI summarized [30]new findings on CAPTCHAs that attract world-wide 82 attention, suggesting that these systems to separate bots from humans are 83 no longer effective. Who would have thought. 84 • Stijn played [31]a solo game of For Northwood! and urges us to go buy the 85 tiny trick-tacking game. 86 • Federico Viticci used [32]a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime video calls—and it 87 was glorious! 88 • Azura26 analyzed all the expansions for the BGG Top 1000 Board games and 89 [33]provided an interesting summary on Reddit. 90 • Mandy Brown tells us [34]not to give a fuck about our work—after all, it’s 91 just work. 92 • Brian Bankler [35]visualized his Board Game Geek play log using a [36] 93 lovely online tool. 94 • Ruben Schade asks himself: [37]is it worth it collecting cassettes in 2024? 95 Spoiler: the answer is yes and no. 96 97 Other random links 98 99 • The browser plugin [38]StreetPass allows you to discover people on Mastodon 100 based on the sites you visit; pretty neat. 101 • I should have installed [39]ZorinOS on my mother-in-law’s laptop. Yet 102 another friendly Linux flavor? 103 • [40]Slime Mori Mori Dragon Quest 3 received a full fan translation so I 104 went ahead and pressed the Buy Now button on eBay. Oops. 105 • I didn’t know about the [41]IndieWeb Carnival, and now that I do, I might 106 join in. 107 • For the small sum of $38.000, Wordpress will make sure your online legacy 108 [42]lives on for a hundred years. You’re still paying $31 a month then… 109 110 [43]metapost 111 112 [44] You Might Also Like... 113 114 • [45]The Environmental Impact of Cloud Computing 25 Feb 2024 115 • [46]Favorites of January 2024 03 Feb 2024 116 • [47]Favorites of December 2023 01 Jan 2024 117 • [48]Favorites of November 2023 05 Dec 2023 118 • [49]Favorites of October 2023 02 Nov 2023 119 • [50]Favorites of September 2023 02 Oct 2023 120 121 [51] Bio and Support 122 123 [52] A photo of Me! 124 125 I'm [53]Wouter Groeneveld, a Brain Baker, and I love the smell of freshly baked 126 thoughts (and bread) in the morning. 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