December 2023 Summary

December was packed with a lot of things I managed to do, Christmas happened, a New Year is upon us, and here is what I did in the mean time. Thankfully, I got some vacation time, which allowed me to do do quite a lot, from listening to more podcasts while cleaning up my room, to … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

200 Days to Offload Later

I am happy to say that I have managed to write a total of 100 posts during the year of 2023. Compared to the last time I did the challenge, I wanted to be more consistent with my writing, not leaving a single month go without a couple posts at least. However, this did not turn ou … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Feeling like doing Gamedev again

Because of how many indie games I’ve cared and videos I’ve watched on the matter, I started to feel the itch to not just play indie games, but start working on my own again. I’ve actually done a couple of games already for many Game Jams during the pandemic. However, I kind of lo … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Short games and roguelikes

Today I’ve spent the whole day on my computer, having video essays as background while surfing the net and doing things. I have watched dozens of videos about indie games of all kinds, from roguelikes to platformers and JRPGs. I am feeling the urge to buy like 20 different indie … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Couch gaming

There have been quite a bunch of games that have interested me during the Nintendo Switch Holiday Sale, and one of the main factors in my buying decisions, is if a game has a multiplayer option, something that is a necessity, since I have sibling, as well as friends coming during … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Building my gaming backlog

A week or so ago, I listened to the video “How I Finished my Gaming Backlog (One Year Later)”, while I was cleaning up my bedroom and tidying things up. It was a really entertaining background noise that has really inspired me to just sit and list down every single game I want to … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Citizen Sleeper

I first heard of this game in the Into The Aether’s 2022 Games of The Year Bonus episode. I would have completely missed this game otherwise, so I am glad I went through the 5+ hours podcast just for this—and the many other games and rambling, of course. Regardless, I decided to … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

An overview of my watch collection

So, I got quite a pretty small but good collection of watches. If you use Mastodon you might have seen most of them already. Someone in a Discord server asked me to share the story of each of them and I wrote this as a response. It was edited to for the purposes of this blog and … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Declutering my room

I want to keep up writing a post per day, so I’ll continue with the aftermath that follows from building my new cabinet. Basically, I still have a full drawer of notebooks and paper that go all the way back to middle school, even one that contains drawings I did since primary sch … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

I like building stuff

You know what speedcubing, origami, piano, gaming and typing have in common? I have to use my hands to do it! I really like making my hands work and do stuff and I am very much someone who can’t really stay put for long at all. That’s the reason I have a lot of hobbies and I keep … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Please stop AI generated articles

I was not looking forward to ever mention AI again in this blog, but I just wanted to update a little bit on my views on this topic. Last time I ever made use of this stuff was to help me with some code I had already done, and also to generate a blogpost for me, after I typed out … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 4 months ago

Good start, unsteady steps, final sprint

As the year comes to an end, I have to rush on these posts! So I hope you don’t mind having some shorter reads. Today, I just wanted to point out what a weird year this has been for me when it comes to writing posts constantly throughout the year. Just take a look at the numbers: … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 5 months ago

The Paradox of Choice

Now that I actually have money to buy stuff for my parents and siblings, its gotten a lot harder to actually buy something for them. Before, I didn’t even have to get anything because it wasn’t really expected from me. An origami or some other craft could do, maybe some candy and … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 5 months ago

My Favorite Books of 2023

This year I had a fairly realistic goal of reading 15 books in a year, and I utterly failed to fulfill it once again. Honestly I didn’t expect to read only like 6 books. Although taking into account the amount of manga I read, it does explain why I lacked the time to read proper … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 5 months ago

My Favorite Manga of 2023

This year I read quite a bit of manga, but it wasn’t as much as last year, simply because I didn’t read any long series at all, compared to the juggernaut that was reading 500+ chapters of Kingdom in a matter of weeks. Sadly, Anilist, which I use to keep track of the manga I read … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 5 months ago

My Favorite Podcasts of 2023

Maybe this year I will actually follow up on my promise of doing a “My favorite blank of 2023” series, unlike in 2022, so here we go! I decided to write a couple different lists instead of what I did last year where I just shared 5 podcasts and called it a day. Most played podcas … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 5 months ago

A Friday without a lot of work

I have been at my job for a couple weeks now, and I have to say, I don’t dislike it at all, I kind of enjoy learning so many things at the moment, but it is also a bit of a daunting task. I basically handle a bunch of different databases in multiple formats. Those databases are i … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 5 months ago

AMA Responses 1

Alright, here are some answers to your questions. If your question is not here, there were some more answers in a previous post @Doctor_Derp asks: Do you like waffles/pancakes/french toast? Yes, I like them all, I eat them all, I enjoy them all, good food. Konstantin a … | Continue reading


@joelchrono.xyz | 7 months ago