title: October 2020
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And another month went by.

[![](./image-1024.jpg)](./image-1024.jpg)

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## Projects

I have started my slow journey into Golang and spend an skill boost day at work doing some stuff with it. Ended up
with a lot of tabs open but it was the most fun I have had for a while! If you're curious the result is on my 
[gurl repository](https://github.com/fmartingr/gurl), it's not complete (or useful) by any means, but I want to
expand it with new _features_ while I learn some more.

In my spare time I've been working on a simple program to manage my game's screenshots, I've a lot over several
computers/operating systems and I want to organize them better to publish them on an online gallery. I'm starting
to enjoy Go quite a bit the more I do with it, even if it's only minor stuff.

## Books

- [**The Magicians' Guild**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28249.The_Magicians_Guild) (_Trudi Canavan_)

  Started again from the beginning, I just need to fit the reading habit into my schedule.

## TVShows and Movies

- [**The social dilemma**](https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224)

  An interesting movie/documental about how social networks are not our friends. They didn't provide me with
  anything I didn't know, but should be interesting for less _techy_ people to watch and understand they are
  the product.

- [**Star Wars: The Phantom Menace**](https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/star-wars-the-phantom-menace-episode-i/2ezYynkgW1AH)
- [**Star Wars: Attack of the clones**](https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/star-wars-attack-of-the-clones-episode-ii/mgpYHGnzZW6N)
- [**Star Wars: The Clone Wars (animated movie)**](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/star-wars-the-clone-wars/1wYXzjabXGVZ)
- [**Star Wars: The Clone Wars (animated series)**](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/star-wars-the-clone-wars/1wYXzjabXGVZ)
- [**Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith**](https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/star-wars-revenge-of-the-sith-episode-iii/4WvbqLFumNvi)
- [**Solo: A Star Wars story**](https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/solo-a-star-wars-story/7ks3IYr1eU2P)
- [**Star wars: Rebels**](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/star-wars-rebels/64MCZgAzY0Zw)

  Star Wars Marathon!

- [**Bones**](https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0HBVL22LMA40B0XBY30RUOC9EH/)

  Our new show for lunch/dinner/offtime. My Player 2 totally loves this and was very happy to know we could watch
  it in order, since on the TV Channels they emit this one here episodes seems to be randomized for some reason,
  so you could watch an episode of the second season followed by another from the last one.

## Games

- [**Final Fantasy VII: Remake**](https://store.playstation.com/es-es/product/EP0082-CUSA07187_00-FFVIIREMAKE00000)

   I finally put an end to it. [My review in a separate post](/blog/2020/10/15/final-fantasy-vii-remake-my-review/)

- [**A Short Hike**](https://www.nintendo.es/Juegos/Programas-descargables-Nintendo-Switch/A-Short-Hike-1821799.html)

  A short (as the name implies) adventure of the path to hike a mountain and all the people you met in between. Love the art style and the simplicity of the game.
  Liked the idea of having the achievements directly on the switch too, in-game, miss that from Steam when playing
  on the go.
  I'm a fan of this kind of games you can enjoy and put an end to them in a few hours.

- [**Terraria**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/Terraria/)

  ![My terraria state](./terraria.jpg)
  
  We managed to **complete it**. Which in our case meant getting al achievements for the game. It was a really fun 
  ride! This game is easily one of my favourites and for the price you can get it is completely a must, you get
  an incredible amount of content and entertainment, better played with friends!
  
- [**Starbound**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/211820/Starbound/)

  Terraria, but in **space**! And I have a MECH!

  ![My mech in Starbound](./starbound.jpg)

- [**Graveyard Keeper**](https://www.nintendo.es/Juegos/Programas-descargables-Nintendo-Switch/Graveyard-Keeper-1579157.html)

  Got this for the Switch because it was supposed to be more linear and light than Stardew Valley, but upon 
  starting I got tons of things to do so it got a bit overwhelming for me right now, wanted something more
  lightweight to play at the moment. I will put this on hold for now.

- [**10 mg :)**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1425380)

  This is a really small game (10mg stands for 10 minute games) as a tribute to the arcade classic with some kind of twist.
  I got near 20 minutes of gameplay from this and it was fun to go through it :)

## [Articles](https://t.me/fmartingr_articles)

- [Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India](https://pulkitsharma07.github.io/2020/10/02/hacktoberfest-india/)
- [PinePhone Camera pt4](https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-pt4/)
- [The Reason Some Say New York City Is Dead Forever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMs07SPo5rk)
- [How does Base64 works](https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1457585550-How-does-Base64-work)
- [How I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p](https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-how-i-built-an-ipfs-crawler)
- [How DAT works](https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/)