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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 December 2023 16 17 [11] 1 January 2024 18 19 Happy New Year! Hopefully 2024 will bring the needed peace and solace to 20 everyone. 2023 was a very difficult year for us, with lots of what you might 21 call “low lows” and a few “high highs”. We usually make fun of that saying, but 22 this seems like the first time it’s appropriate to use it. 23 24 As far as blogging goes, 2023 was a great year. See the Brain Baking [12]blog 25 post archive for 2023: with 90 posts last year, that’s on average 7.5 a month 26 or 1.875 a week. The best part about 2023 in blogging was the feedback I got, 27 and the new friends and e-mail pen pals I made. As frequently mentioned before, 28 [13]blogging keeps on giving. If there’s one thing I never ever intend to give 29 up, it’s blogging. 30 31 The following posts turned out to be the most popular of 2023: 32 33 1. [14]FPGAs And The Renaissance of Retro Hardware 34 2. [15]Overlooked Reasons To Still Buy Physical Media 35 3. [16]Goodbye, ProtonMail 36 4. [17]Phomemo Thermal Printing On MacOS 37 5. [18]DOOM Turned Thirty 38 39 As for Jefklak’s Codex, the most popular article was the one on [19]Freaky Trip 40 , a bizarre (and very buggy) single-screen adventure/puzzle game. That one got 41 a few hits simply because I couldn’t find any reviews online myself! As far as 42 visitor counts go, the Codex gets almost none, but I still have a lot of fun 43 filling it. It’s my own thing, and I’ve pondered on that subject recently in 44 [20]On Writing For Yourself In Public. 45 46 Previous month: [21]October 2023. 47 48 Books I’ve read 49 50 Not much this month. Read my [22]2023 in books overview post to find out about 51 the 22 books I managed to finish last year. 52 53 The Malloreon chronicles by [23]David Eddings continues to be my go-to bed-time 54 material. Books 1 and 2 are done and although the tension doesn’t exactly build 55 up, I don’t mind to keep on reading as it’s a light read and entertaining 56 enough. 57 58 Games I’ve played 59 60 After finishing Super Mario Bros. Wonder, I continued with the 2D Mario strike 61 with the Mario Land Game Boy series that evolved into Wario Land and Wario Land 62 II. The best is yet to come, though, as Wario Land 3 is on my [24]25 Best Games 63 of All Time list! I know them all by heart but still breeze through these 64 platformers once every few years. 65 66 My wife discovered a cheap Switch eShop code for Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom 67 Battle and since I love tactical turn-based games, I eagerly dove in. It’s okay 68 so far: the core gameplay is very solid, but everything slathered on top is not 69 my cup of tea. I’m nearing the end and will have a review up shortly. 70 Meanwhile, Kristien insists on playing [25]Railbound, a cosy railway puzzle 71 game with sometimes devilishly difficult levels! Most of the time, I just don’t 72 “see it”, but we’re having fun together nonetheless. 73 74 Selected (blog) posts 75 76 • Gibru writes several interesting articles on AI and LLM generation, 77 including [26]Contextualizing the Artistic Process. 78 • Jonas Downey is convinced that having [27]side projects is essential for 79 creatives, and I agree. This could grow into a powerful manifesto. 80 • Cory Zue provides an overview on his side projects and why [28]building 81 publicly in private works for him. 82 • Keith McNulty explains why [29]the MBTI tests are corporate astrology 83 (Medum link). 84 • Michael Klamerus explains his process on [30]finding small indie games. 85 • This sobering article at Eurogamer reminds us that in the video game 86 industry, 2023 was also the year of low lows and high highs: [31]You Can’t 87 Talk About Games Without Talking About The Layoffs. 88 • Glyph explains how to set up the best possible [32]Phython development 89 environment for MacOS. Don’t use brew install like I did. 90 • Speaking of Python, [33]why is Python so slow? Jake VanderPlas deciphers 91 the Python internals to figure out why. 92 • Vlad-Stefan Harbuz’s blog is great: it’s a combination between computing 93 and philosophical work. Here’s his [34]overview on resources on the 94 philosophy of work I still have to dig into. 95 • Here’s an interesting piece on [35]Mickey Mouse and the Public Domain. As 96 of today, one of the earliest versions of Mickey hits public domain in USA. 97 • [36]You Don’t Need Statistics On Your Blog says William Woodruff. Perhaps I 98 should take on the challenge and ditch GoatCounter in favor of a few grep 99 scripts in access logs, if that? 100 101 Other random links 102 103 • [37]Déjà Dup Backups is a Gnome-powered UI-friendly backup tool for Unix. 104 • Did you know you can [38]Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser? wait what 105 now? The Spritely Institute also has cool info on Lisp hackatons if that’s 106 your jam. 107 • If you want to follow physical video game releases, look no further than 108 [39]https://www.physicalreleases.com/ 109 • The [40]Into The Aether Podcast released a six-hour long episode on the 110 2023 Game of the Year. It’s great, but I have been slogging through it on 111 and off all week and I’m still just over 03:21:00 hours/minutes in! Who 112 decided that three-plus hours of jabbering about video games is a good 113 thing? Because it totally is! 114 115 I hope to keep up the blogging rhythm in 2024. That’s everything I wish for in 116 2024 besides the obvious ones. 117 118 [41]metapost 119 120 [42] You Might Also Like... 121 122 • [43]2023 In Books 28 Dec 2023 123 • [44]DOOM Turned Thirty 11 Dec 2023 124 • [45]FPGAs And The Renaissance Of Retro Hardware 27 Nov 2023 125 • [46]On Writing For Yourself In Public 06 Nov 2023 126 • [47]Favorites of October 2023 02 Nov 2023 127 • [48]Top 25 Best Games Of All Time (GOAT) 08 Oct 2023 128 • [49]Overlooked Reasons To Still Buy Physical Media 25 Sep 2023 129 130 [50] Bio and Support 131 132 [51] A photo of Me! 133 134 I'm [52]Wouter Groeneveld, a Brain Baker, and I love the smell of freshly baked 135 thoughts (and bread) in the morning. 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