joelchrono's blog
joelchrono's blog
joelchrono
Hello! I am Joel, I am just a guy who likes tech, FOSS and many other things. I was born in Mexico, where I still live. I am a hobby collector, fake fan of many things, foss enthusiast, videogame enjoyer, and a mechatronics engineer, working as a system admin for some company somewhere.
Latest Posts
Welcome, to my week notes! Can you believe that we are almost done with April already? There have been a lot of things going on lately, but hey, at the very least I keep reading on my XTEINK X4 and nudging other people to buy it too,...
Well, it’s been about a year since my last round of confessions as a FOSS enthusiast and I do have a few more things that I thought I’d share! This was in part tangentially inspired by a post by Adrian Perales on controversies around...
Welcome to another installment of “things that interested me today but aren’t enough to warrant a blogpost by themselves so I bundled them all together here”—I hope you find something that catches your eye! Again I don’t really plan to...
Ages ago at this point, I watched a YouTube video about short science fiction books! Back then I ended up reading and eventually reviewing The Undefeated by Una McCormack. That very same video is what first brought this novella to my...
This weekend was packed with quite a bit of stuff, I wonder if things will calm down a bit now that the Easter vacation period is over. 🎨 Modified my website design, just a bit! I created a new background wallpaper pattern featuring...
A game originally released in 1996, the first to ever use the term “survival horror” to refer to itself. This is was the entryway for a whole generation into a genre that has seen a resurgence in recent years, thanks to the franchise’s...
I am currently working on my review for Resident Evil, but I need to take some pictures and finish it up a little more! So far I tend to separate everything into the basics, art, gameplay, story, music and stuff; but I ended up turning...
A couple of weeks ago I acquired a tiny ereading device, the XTEINK X4. It all started with a YouTube video reviewing the device that I first shared in one of my weeknotes. A day later I saw that James had been using one already, and...
Happy Easter to all of you! The week has come and gone in a flash, and a lot of things happened this time around, thanks to the few days off I got. We are even going to the Moon again. and honestly it feels amazing to do so. Here’s a...
I’ve decided to implement the human.json protocol on my website as well. Basically, this file is a way for websites to vouch for the human authorship of others. It comes with a web extension you can install that will let you know if a...
The year continues to move at an incredible pace, and I continue to engage with so many forms of media, keeping track is starting to get a bit confusing! Nothing impossible to manage of course, it’s fun to have so many more things going...
Do you want to know how I know what I did during the week? I don’t really write bits of this day after day, I simply scroll through my gallery and see what pictures I took. Most of the time there are photos of games or devices. Every...
“On This Week” section I wanted to add an “On This Day” kind of thing to my website for a while, but even though I have made almost 600 posts as of the time of writing, I still have plenty of empty days where I’ve not made a post. A In...
A while back Calibre—a book management program which I have been using for years—integrated AI features, in an option that showed up in the context menu, when selecting a book and clicking on View, titled Discuss selected book with AI....
Originally published in 1958, this was Brian W. Aldiss’ first novel. The story follows primitive men trying to understand and find out the truth about their world, a dangerous place overtaken by nature. However, there are clues and hints...