diff --git a/content/blog/2020-09-01-august/contents.lr b/content/blog/2020-09-01-august/contents.lr new file mode 100644 index 0000000..057df62 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2020-09-01-august/contents.lr @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +title: August 2020 +--- +pub_date: 2020-09-02 +--- +_template: blog/post.html +--- +body: + +Slowly going back to routine, this month has been well spent going out when possible and spending +time with friends and family, a thing that we couldn't do properly for some time now. Not much +"progress" on anything else for that matter. + +[![A picture of the beach](./image-1024.jpg)](./image-1024.jpg) + + + +## Projects + +Didn't have much time to play around with projects this time, but in simple terms I've managed to +release the code for [butterrobot](https://github.com/fmartingr/butterrobot) for anyone to see +and shame my code and prepared the slack application for my team to use. I'll admit that is a bit +of a pain to play with several repositories at the same time, and github doesn't make this easy on +itself requiring authentication for the container registry... but well, so far it's working and +it's good to have room for improvement. + +I've also received my [Firewalla Gold](https://firewalla.com/) and finally finished tidying up +my network infrastructure a bit, though it will require a bit more tuning but at least I can now +focus on what I've been eager to do: setup my home assistant for all the devices and automations +on my home, yay! + +## Books + +- Started reading [**The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51901147-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes). + + Prequel to the Hunger Games, seems like a short enough book to get back with my reading habits again. + +## Games + +- [**Assemble with care**](https://www.assemblegame.com): Played this on my phone and it was a short but + wonderful playthrough. It's a story-driven puzzle game, though puzzles are very easy since they are + secondary. Full voice acting makes this a calm and relaxing experience to do while on the move (or at + the beach!) + +- Some more [**Reventure**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/900270/Reventure/) + +## Articles + +Mostly videos this time around, since I'm used to put something off-screen while I'm working. Some interesing stuff in +there, mostly videogame related. + +- [The lightning digital AV adapter surprise](https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surprise/) +- [Snormal: a wonderfully normal social network](https://tinyprojects.dev/projects/snormal) +- [How Stardew Valley Was Made by Only One Person](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-k6j9g5Hzk) +- [New York's 1040 Street View](https://1940s.nyc/) +- [Cuba's Underground Gaming Network](https://youtu.be/lEplzHraw3c) +- [NYC IS DEAD FOREVER. HERE'S WHY](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nyc-dead-forever-heres-why-james-altucher/) +- I think I watched **all** videos from [The Gaming Historian Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/user/mcfrosticles) +- [The NODE nano server V2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLfLEYs7N3Y) +- [How the Sony PS1 Security was defeated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOBQ7HifLE) +- Deciphering Japan series + - [Why is Japan's gender gap so wide?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dsD6FWfZHE) + - [What's the cost of being the hardest workers in the world?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ajH2Id5FY4) + - [Coping With A Super-Ageing Nation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQU-NeP_spU) + - [What does it means to be Japanese?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdDjmc8QbVg) + diff --git a/content/blog/2020-09-01-august/image.jpg b/content/blog/2020-09-01-august/image.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..755d75c Binary files /dev/null and b/content/blog/2020-09-01-august/image.jpg differ