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