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+                           Favorites of December 2023
+
+   [9]1 January 2024
+
+   Happy New Year! Hopefully 2024 will bring the needed peace and solace
+   to everyone. 2023 was a very difficult year for us, with lots of what
+   you might call “low lows” and a few “high highs”. We usually make fun
+   of that saying, but this seems like the first time it’s appropriate to
+   use it.
+
+   As far as blogging goes, 2023 was a great year. See the Brain Baking
+   [10]blog post archive for 2023: with 90 posts last year, that’s on
+   average 7.5 a month or 1.875 a week. The best part about 2023 in
+   blogging was the feedback I got, and the new friends and e-mail pen
+   pals I made. As frequently mentioned before, [11]blogging keeps on
+   giving. If there’s one thing I never ever intend to give up, it’s
+   blogging.
+
+   The following posts turned out to be the most popular of 2023:
+    1. [12]FPGAs And The Renaissance of Retro Hardware
+    2. [13]Overlooked Reasons To Still Buy Physical Media
+    3. [14]Goodbye, ProtonMail
+    4. [15]Phomemo Thermal Printing On MacOS
+    5. [16]DOOM Turned Thirty
+
+   As for Jefklak’s Codex, the most popular article was the one on
+   [17]Freaky Trip, a bizarre (and very buggy) single-screen
+   adventure/puzzle game. That one got a few hits simply because I
+   couldn’t find any reviews online myself! As far as visitor counts go,
+   the Codex gets almost none, but I still have a lot of fun filling it.
+   It’s my own thing, and I’ve pondered on that subject recently in [18]On
+   Writing For Yourself In Public.
+
+   Previous month: [19]October 2023.
+
+Books I’ve read
+
+   Not much this month. Read my [20]2023 in books overview post to find
+   out about the 22 books I managed to finish last year.
+
+   The Malloreon chronicles by [21]David Eddings continues to be my go-to
+   bed-time material. Books 1 and 2 are done and although the tension
+   doesn’t exactly build up, I don’t mind to keep on reading as it’s a
+   light read and entertaining enough.
+
+Games I’ve played
+
+   After finishing Super Mario Bros. Wonder, I continued with the 2D Mario
+   strike with the Mario Land Game Boy series that evolved into Wario Land
+   and Wario Land II. The best is yet to come, though, as Wario Land 3 is
+   on my [22]25 Best Games of All Time list! I know them all by heart but
+   still breeze through these platformers once every few years.
+
+   My wife discovered a cheap Switch eShop code for Mario + Rabbids:
+   Kingdom Battle and since I love tactical turn-based games, I eagerly
+   dove in. It’s okay so far: the core gameplay is very solid, but
+   everything slathered on top is not my cup of tea. I’m nearing the end
+   and will have a review up shortly. Meanwhile, Kristien insists on
+   playing [23]Railbound, a cosy railway puzzle game with sometimes
+   devilishly difficult levels! Most of the time, I just don’t “see it”,
+   but we’re having fun together nonetheless.
+
+Selected (blog) posts
+
+     * Gibru writes several interesting articles on AI and LLM generation,
+       including [24]Contextualizing the Artistic Process.
+     * Jonas Downey is convinced that having [25]side projects is
+       essential for creatives, and I agree. This could grow into a
+       powerful manifesto.
+     * Cory Zue provides an overview on his side projects and why
+       [26]building publicly in private works for him.
+     * Keith McNulty explains why [27]the MBTI tests are corporate
+       astrology (Medum link).
+     * Michael Klamerus explains his process on [28]finding small indie
+       games.
+     * This sobering article at Eurogamer reminds us that in the video
+       game industry, 2023 was also the year of low lows and high highs:
+       [29]You Can’t Talk About Games Without Talking About The Layoffs.
+     * Glyph explains how to set up the best possible [30]Phython
+       development environment for MacOS. Don’t use brew install like I
+       did.
+     * Speaking of Python, [31]why is Python so slow? Jake VanderPlas
+       deciphers the Python internals to figure out why.
+     * Vlad-Stefan Harbuz’s blog is great: it’s a combination between
+       computing and philosophical work. Here’s his [32]overview on
+       resources on the philosophy of work I still have to dig into.
+     * Here’s an interesting piece on [33]Mickey Mouse and the Public
+       Domain. As of today, one of the earliest versions of Mickey hits
+       public domain in USA.
+     * [34]You Don’t Need Statistics On Your Blog says William Woodruff.
+       Perhaps I should take on the challenge and ditch GoatCounter in
+       favor of a few grep scripts in access logs, if that?
+
+Other random links
+
+     * [35]Déjà Dup Backups is a Gnome-powered UI-friendly backup tool for
+       Unix.
+     * Did you know you can [36]Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser?
+       wait what now? The Spritely Institute also has cool info on Lisp
+       hackatons if that’s your jam.
+     * If you want to follow physical video game releases, look no further
+       than [37]https://www.physicalreleases.com/
+     * The [38]Into The Aether Podcast released a six-hour long episode on
+       the 2023 Game of the Year. It’s great, but I have been slogging
+       through it on and off all week and I’m still just over 03:21:00
+       hours/minutes in! Who decided that three-plus hours of jabbering
+       about video games is a good thing? Because it totally is!
+
+   I hope to keep up the blogging rhythm in 2024. That’s everything I wish
+   for in 2024 besides the obvious ones.
+
+   [39]metapost
+
+You Might Also Like...
+
+     * [40]2023 In Books 28 Dec 2023
+     * [41]DOOM Turned Thirty 11 Dec 2023
+     * [42]FPGAs And The Renaissance Of Retro Hardware 27 Nov 2023
+     * [43]On Writing For Yourself In Public 06 Nov 2023
+     * [44]Favorites of October 2023 02 Nov 2023
+     * [45]Top 25 Best Games Of All Time (GOAT) 08 Oct 2023
+     * [46]Overlooked Reasons To Still Buy Physical Media 25 Sep 2023
+
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+   I'm [48]Wouter Groeneveld, a Brain Baker, and I love the smell of
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+  23. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1967510/Railbound/
+  24. https://elusivewordsmith.com/posts/Playground/contextualizing/
+  25. https://jonas.do/writing/2023-10-05-side-projects/
+  26. https://www.coryzue.com/writing/building-in-private/
+  27. https://medium.com/swlh/the-mbti-is-corporate-astrology-c132d93e684f
+  28. https://virtualmoose.org/2023/12/13/finding-indie-games/
+  29. https://www.eurogamer.net/you-cant-talk-about-2023-in-games-without-talking-about-layoffs
+  30. https://blog.glyph.im/2023/08/get-your-mac-python-from-python-dot-org.html
+  31. http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/
+  32. https://vladh.net/wage-labour-resources/
+  33. https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/
+  34. https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/12/24/You-dont-need-analytics-on-your-blog
+  35. https://apps.gnome.org/en-GB/DejaDup/
+  36. https://spritely.institute/news/scheme-in-scheme-on-wasm-in-the-browser.html
+  37. https://www.physicalreleases.com/
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