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title = "January 2020"
date = 2020-01-31
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![Munich in January](munich.jpg)

I didn't have much time for anything on January since I have spent more
time traveling than anything else: Being on my homecity for christmas,
traveling for work two times and then another conference just because.

At least the planes gave me some time to read and finish some pending
things, though I hope next month is more relaxed.

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## Conferences
- DevConf, Brno [^link devconf.cz]

  Not much to comment apart from feeling a complete newbie about
  everything, but more on that on another post in the near future.

## TV Shows/Movies

- Watched The Witcher S01 [^link the witcher]

  I'm not sure if coming to the TV Show without having read the books
  or played the games was good or bad, but I enjoyed it. Not sure why
  some of the hate out there. It may be a bit difficult to put
  everything together if you're not focusing on it (as it happened to
  me), but it's a good fantasy show and I'm glad they renewed for a
  second season.

## Books

- Stopped reading Prince of Thorns[^link prince of thorns]

  I didn't get involved with the story, the characters and so on. Only
  read a few chapters but there are tons of books to read to stop on
  one I wasn't enjoying. I may try again in the future.

- Started reading The last wish[^link the last wish]

  This was obvious, having watched the series it seems like an awesome
  fanstasy world to explore and so far so good. Looking forward to the
  game too.

## Games

- I started and dropped Pokemon Shield[^link pokemon] on record time.
  Got some hype from a friend and from a recent announcement but it's
  just the same as always and it bored me going through. Made to the
  second or third gym and I just didn't want to turn on the Switch to
  play, so...

## Articles

Some stuff I've read over the month. Since I don't store a proper
history this is just what came to mind, but I'm going to try keeping a
record for the coming months. Also I'm going to use this as a pressure
point to read some more pending articles, at least to the point that
I read more than I add to my pocket account.

- There's No Such Thing as Knowing Your Computer 'All the Way to the
  Bottom' [^article1]
- You should have a personal website [^article2]
- The boring technology behind a one person internet company [^article3]
- From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tale of
  tech debt [^article4]
- What happens when you push to git.sr.ht, and why was it so slow?
  [^article5]
- How SSH port became 22 [^article6]


[^article1]: https://codefol.io/posts/no-such-thing-as-knowing-coding-all-the-way-to-the-bottom/
[^article2]: https://writing.markchristian.org/2019/04/29/personal-web-sites/?c=1
[^article3]: https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b
[^article4]: https://blog.digitalocean.com/from-15-000-database-connections-to-under-100-digitaloceans-tale-of-tech-debt/
[^article5]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-11-22-what-happens-on-git-push/
[^article6]: https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port#how-ssh-port-became-22
[^link devconf.cz]: https://www.devconf.info/cz/
[^link the witcher]: https://www.tvtime.com/en/show/362696
[^link prince of thorns]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9579634-prince-of-thorns
[^link the last wish]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40603587-the-last-wish
[^link pokemon]: https://www.nintendo.es/Juegos/Nintendo-Switch/Pokemon-Escudo-1522110.html
