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[10]
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Favorites of December 2023
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[11] 1 January 2024
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Happy New Year! Hopefully 2024 will bring the needed peace and solace to
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everyone. 2023 was a very difficult year for us, with lots of what you might
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call “low lows” and a few “high highs”. We usually make fun of that saying, but
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this seems like the first time it’s appropriate to use it.
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As far as blogging goes, 2023 was a great year. See the Brain Baking [12]blog
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post archive for 2023: with 90 posts last year, that’s on average 7.5 a month
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or 1.875 a week. The best part about 2023 in blogging was the feedback I got,
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and the new friends and e-mail pen pals I made. As frequently mentioned before,
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[13]blogging keeps on giving. If there’s one thing I never ever intend to give
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up, it’s blogging.
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The following posts turned out to be the most popular of 2023:
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1. [14]FPGAs And The Renaissance of Retro Hardware
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2. [15]Overlooked Reasons To Still Buy Physical Media
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3. [16]Goodbye, ProtonMail
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4. [17]Phomemo Thermal Printing On MacOS
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5. [18]DOOM Turned Thirty
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As for Jefklak’s Codex, the most popular article was the one on [19]Freaky Trip
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, a bizarre (and very buggy) single-screen adventure/puzzle game. That one got
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a few hits simply because I couldn’t find any reviews online myself! As far as
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visitor counts go, the Codex gets almost none, but I still have a lot of fun
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filling it. It’s my own thing, and I’ve pondered on that subject recently in
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[20]On Writing For Yourself In Public.
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Previous month: [21]October 2023.
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Books I’ve read
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Not much this month. Read my [22]2023 in books overview post to find out about
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the 22 books I managed to finish last year.
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The Malloreon chronicles by [23]David Eddings continues to be my go-to bed-time
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material. Books 1 and 2 are done and although the tension doesn’t exactly build
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up, I don’t mind to keep on reading as it’s a light read and entertaining
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enough.
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Games I’ve played
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After finishing Super Mario Bros. Wonder, I continued with the 2D Mario strike
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with the Mario Land Game Boy series that evolved into Wario Land and Wario Land
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II. The best is yet to come, though, as Wario Land 3 is on my [24]25 Best Games
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of All Time list! I know them all by heart but still breeze through these
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platformers once every few years.
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My wife discovered a cheap Switch eShop code for Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom
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Battle and since I love tactical turn-based games, I eagerly dove in. It’s okay
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so far: the core gameplay is very solid, but everything slathered on top is not
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my cup of tea. I’m nearing the end and will have a review up shortly.
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Meanwhile, Kristien insists on playing [25]Railbound, a cosy railway puzzle
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game with sometimes devilishly difficult levels! Most of the time, I just don’t
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“see it”, but we’re having fun together nonetheless.
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Selected (blog) posts
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• Gibru writes several interesting articles on AI and LLM generation,
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including [26]Contextualizing the Artistic Process.
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• Jonas Downey is convinced that having [27]side projects is essential for
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creatives, and I agree. This could grow into a powerful manifesto.
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• Cory Zue provides an overview on his side projects and why [28]building
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publicly in private works for him.
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• Keith McNulty explains why [29]the MBTI tests are corporate astrology
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(Medum link).
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• Michael Klamerus explains his process on [30]finding small indie games.
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• This sobering article at Eurogamer reminds us that in the video game
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industry, 2023 was also the year of low lows and high highs: [31]You Can’t
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Talk About Games Without Talking About The Layoffs.
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• Glyph explains how to set up the best possible [32]Phython development
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environment for MacOS. Don’t use brew install like I did.
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• Speaking of Python, [33]why is Python so slow? Jake VanderPlas deciphers
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the Python internals to figure out why.
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• Vlad-Stefan Harbuz’s blog is great: it’s a combination between computing
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and philosophical work. Here’s his [34]overview on resources on the
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philosophy of work I still have to dig into.
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• Here’s an interesting piece on [35]Mickey Mouse and the Public Domain. As
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of today, one of the earliest versions of Mickey hits public domain in USA.
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• [36]You Don’t Need Statistics On Your Blog says William Woodruff. Perhaps I
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should take on the challenge and ditch GoatCounter in favor of a few grep
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scripts in access logs, if that?
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Other random links
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• [37]Déjà Dup Backups is a Gnome-powered UI-friendly backup tool for Unix.
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• Did you know you can [38]Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser? wait what
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now? The Spritely Institute also has cool info on Lisp hackatons if that’s
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your jam.
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• If you want to follow physical video game releases, look no further than
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[39]https://www.physicalreleases.com/
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• The [40]Into The Aether Podcast released a six-hour long episode on the
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2023 Game of the Year. It’s great, but I have been slogging through it on
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and off all week and I’m still just over 03:21:00 hours/minutes in! Who
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decided that three-plus hours of jabbering about video games is a good
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thing? Because it totally is!
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I hope to keep up the blogging rhythm in 2024. That’s everything I wish for in
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2024 besides the obvious ones.
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[41]metapost
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[42] You Might Also Like...
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• [43]2023 In Books 28 Dec 2023
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• [44]DOOM Turned Thirty 11 Dec 2023
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• [45]FPGAs And The Renaissance Of Retro Hardware 27 Nov 2023
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• [46]On Writing For Yourself In Public 06 Nov 2023
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• [47]Favorites of October 2023 02 Nov 2023
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• [48]Top 25 Best Games Of All Time (GOAT) 08 Oct 2023
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• [49]Overlooked Reasons To Still Buy Physical Media 25 Sep 2023
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[50] Bio and Support
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[51] A photo of Me!
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I'm [52]Wouter Groeneveld, a Brain Baker, and I love the smell of freshly baked
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thoughts (and bread) in the morning. I sometimes convince others to bake their
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brain (and bread) too.
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[11] https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/01/december-2023/
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[12] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/
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[13] https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/10/a-triumph-for-blogging/
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[14] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/11/fpgas-and-the-renaissance-of-retro-hardware/
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[15] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/09/overlooked-reasons-to-still-buy-physical-media/
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[16] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/01/goodbye-protonmail/
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[17] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/02/phomemo-thermal-printing-on-macos/
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[18] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/12/doom-turned-thirty/
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[19] https://jefklakscodex.com/games/switch/freaky-trip/
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[20] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/11/on-writing-for-yourself-in-public/
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[21] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/11/october-2023
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[22] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/12/2023-in-books
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[23] https://www.eddingschronicles.com/index.html
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[24] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/10/top-25-best-games-of-all-time
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[25] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1967510/Railbound/
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[26] https://elusivewordsmith.com/posts/Playground/contextualizing/
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[27] https://jonas.do/writing/2023-10-05-side-projects/
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[28] https://www.coryzue.com/writing/building-in-private/
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[29] https://medium.com/swlh/the-mbti-is-corporate-astrology-c132d93e684f
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[30] https://virtualmoose.org/2023/12/13/finding-indie-games/
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[31] https://www.eurogamer.net/you-cant-talk-about-2023-in-games-without-talking-about-layoffs
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[32] https://blog.glyph.im/2023/08/get-your-mac-python-from-python-dot-org.html
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[33] http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/
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[34] https://vladh.net/wage-labour-resources/
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[35] https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/
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[36] https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/12/24/You-dont-need-analytics-on-your-blog
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[37] https://apps.gnome.org/en-GB/DejaDup/
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[38] https://spritely.institute/news/scheme-in-scheme-on-wasm-in-the-browser.html
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[39] https://www.physicalreleases.com/
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[40] https://intothecast.online/
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[41] https://brainbaking.com/tags/metapost
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[43] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/12/2023-in-books/
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[44] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/12/doom-turned-thirty/
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[45] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/11/fpgas-and-the-renaissance-of-retro-hardware/
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[46] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/11/on-writing-for-yourself-in-public/
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[47] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/11/october-2023/
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[48] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/10/top-25-best-games-of-all-time/
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[49] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/09/overlooked-reasons-to-still-buy-physical-media/
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