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I have three titles on my big text file for all my drafts.

Since I am done with The Left Hand of Darkness and with The House on the Borderland—both with a pending review coming soon—I decided I would give Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah a shot at last.

I have known of Final Fantasy for ages now.

I was reading a blogpost by AetherAnne where she spent some time manually turning a YAML file into a Jekyll collection.

This week I wrote a bunch of blogposts!

I saw Wouter going mad for stickers to put on his laptop and I decided I would do the same!

I have come to the realization that I could keep going with life as it is right now and be just fine.

As a somewhat popular blogger, plenty of random stuff is sent to me via email from people that want me to try stuff out.

And somehow, if I get to trying it, I am often able to enjoy it.

After the masterpiece that is Outer Wilds, I wanted to chill for a moment, and what a better way to do so than by going through a detective story!

Another week of October is gone, just like that.

I find myself in a very interesting predicament where as my two favorite hobbies often compete for the same periods of free time.

This was a very crazy week I have to say, full of unexpected surprises and the like, as such, the things that happened kind of have to be more than listicles this time around, we will resume the usual style for future weeknotes, probably, or not!

At last, another month we say good bye to, and all of a sudden, the year is on its final stretch, the days go by faster and faster, and I am getting old with everyone around me!

Here is my late entry for the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival for September!

Once again I am happy to share with you all the secret that I mentioned a couple weeknotes ago!

I have been participating with the #3GoodThings hashtag for quite a little while now!

I was halfway through writing a pretty interesting blogpost today.

The weather was comfy this week, not a lot of rain, but the chill is starting to be noticeable.

I don’t usually check analytics on my website, but the hosting I use on Vercel does provide the ability to check referrals, and I have to admit, every once in a while I enjoy to see those!

A couple weeks ago I got an email from a guy named Oleh, mentioning that they added me to a new website/project called Pixel Area, it is a 100x100 field of pixels, each of which can link to the blog or personal website of whoever claims it first.

When was the last time you were standing somewhere public, took the phone out of your pocket, scrolled on some app for a while, and then left it, and moved on?

As my blog has developed over time, somehow I ended up writing about reading, videogames and technology above all, but the J in my logo is themed after folded paper for a reason.

Scrolling through the timeline, these are only a few of the things I’ve seen today, people on different perspectives and paths, perhaps someone… That finally managed to fix their printer after a system update Talking about seeing someone else make a funny…

Back in May I decided to participate in the challenge mentioned in the title.

This week was full of rainy days, but somehow I managed to go back from work unscathed, even though I forgot my umbrella a bunch of times.

Make sure to read the first adventure of this journey!.

It’s been a whole year now since Hollow Knight: Silksong finally released, and it has been a delightful journey.

This was one of those weeks where I kind of expanded upon most of the main topics on their own blogposts already, so all I can do is summarize and share the links here!

For a little while I have been using YouTube way more, and even paid for the Lite subscription model, simply to test it out.

Don’t worry, I can connect to Wi-Fi networks, I just lost mobile data access and phone calls with my current SIM chip.

My parents are great, but they are also of a different generation, and despite the amount of people around their age that I’ve met online that somehow align with many of my hobbies, everyone is different, and well, that’s the case for them.

You have probably heard of this one, it is an award winning title that came out around 2019 and has been making the rounds as one of the best videogames of all time.

August was a very interesting month, given the arrival of Blaugust, the summer vacation and a lot of my gaming progression done during all of it.

Well, the month is over, and with that, Blaugust is gone as well!

I will write a separate post sharing some thoughts about Blaugust, but here are some of my notes for this week between August 25 to 31, 2026. 📺 After beating Outer Wilds I have watched all sorts of playthroughs, supercuts, essays, reviews, interviews, and…

For many years one of my favorite videogame sounds has been In Your Hands—even mentioned it on a post about music that’s always in my head—a soothing and melancholic score that comes from Gris, an indie game developed by Nomada Studio, released in 2018.

Today I was on vacation and I have been watching YouTube videos all day long for some reason.

Sometimes you have such a great idea, a post that you need to write and share with everybody and you just keep meaning to get to it.

A lot of things have happened this week, the rain has been calming down again, the plumber finally fixed the issues that caused my shower to floor, so rain is no longer annoying.

There is a huge list of people participating for Blaugust and you can go to Andreas’ website if you want a full OPML file to simply import to your RSS Reader.

I saw this post by Gabz a while back titled Iconic moments in gaming and I wanted to share my own!

I have been subscribed to Clarkesworld for more than two years now—I blame Amin—but it took me this long to finally finish one of their issues.

So, The Expanse is over, at last, and I will probably write a different post talking about the whole series and my thoughts overall.

I usually take the bus to work, this is provided for free by my workplace.

With Blaugust running wild, and me posting almost daily, I don’t know what to mention here on this intro that is super interesting.

No introduction, no filler, just some facts.