May 2020

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+I can go out now. In those rare days with good weather here I can
+take pictures like this.
+
+![A picture from the beach](./image.jpg)
+
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+
+# TVSHows/Movies
+
+- **Mandalorian** (ongoing)
+
+  I say ongoing, but I think I have not watched it this month... the thing
+is that I still have to finish it.
+
+- **Rick and Morty** (ongoing)
+
+  Of course I'm up to date, don't be _rickdiculous_.
+
+- **Once upon a time** (ongoing)
+
+  To kill time during lunch/dinner because my Player 2 likes it. Pretty
+boring though. Only the first season is "good" in some way because the
+premise is interesting, after that it all goes to _shirt_.
+
+# Manwha
+
+Same as [last month](/blog/2020/05/01/april/).
+
+- [**DICE**](https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/dice/list?title_no=64&page=1) (ongoing)
+
+- [**The Gamer**](https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/the-gamer/list?title_no=88) (ongoing)
+
+And I have the urge to read _One Piece_ but don't know from where
+(legally) withouth investing a lot in physical copies...
+
+# Projects
+
+Little progress on code this month, just making some tests and
+concepts (because _Memories_ required front-end work and I forgot
+almost everything I knew about CSS).
+
+Spent some time reworking my local infra from scratch. All the
+services I had running were done with poorly manual labor and now I'm
+working on provisioning everything using Ansible. I have to do the same
+for my computers since I'm planning the new dotfiles from scratch too.
+
+- **Jeeves**
+
+  Very little progress, just added a few tasks and so, the example here
+is not working because docker is broken on my machine at the time of
+writing, but it should work. Promise.
+
+  My problem with this is that until it has a proper server to trigger
+tasks via webhooks, crons or other methods is just a lightweight
+(and worst) Ansible _wannabe_.
+
+    ``` text
+    $ jeeves execute Jeevesfile.yaml
+    (i) Running flow from Jeevesfile.yaml
+    === Running flow: Create synology-drive package
+    ok! Running step [1/8]: Download x86_64 deb
+    ok! Running step [2/8]: Calculate md5sum for x86_64 deb file
+    ok! Running step [3/8]: Download i686 deb
+    ok! Running step [4/8]: Calculate md5sum for i686 deb file
+    ok! Running step [5/8]: Create build directory
+    ok! Running step [6/8]: Parse PKGBUILD
+    ok! Running step [7/8]: Create SRCINFO file
+    Image 'archlinux:latest' does not exist container
+    err Executing step [8/8]: Test install in container
+    ```
+
+- **Butterrobot**
+
+  Spent some time refactoring code and thinking on what to use for
+a simple admin interface to setup new features for the bots, enable or
+disable plugins and all that.
+
+  ![Butterrobot !dice plugin](./butterrobot.png)
+
+- **Memories** (previously _Unnamed photo viewer_)
+
+  Worked on reading the files from the filesystem and extracting the
+mininmum required metadata for me to save on the database (to have
+some search/filters going on). Also got some ideas depending on how the
+files are stored (use folder names as "tags" to search for example).
+
+  Also played around with thumbnails, which are tricky to do depending on
+the file, and I have a lot of variety (from standard JPEG to HEIC going
+through 360 videos, etc.). I also noticed that I have a lot of files
+with wrong metadata, which does **not** help at all with my testing.
+
+  Well, I have a simple frontend now, but everything is a very work in
+progress (and those menu links are just dummy navigation).
+
+  I need to focus on implement a proper backend and decide on the main
+  features to implement in the first release, which should come with a
+  simple frontend and API for people to create their own.
+
+  ![Memories screenshot](./memories.png)
+
+# Videogames
+- [**Animal Crossing: New Horizons**](https://animal-crossing.com/new-horizons)
+
+  Just a daily routine trying to complete the monthly _citteropedia_.
+
+- [**Final Fantasy VII: Remake**](https://store.playstation.com/es-es/product/EP0082-CUSA07187_00-FFVIIREMAKE00000)
+
+  I think I'm almost through the end, just finishing up some side quests
+  prior to the final chapters. I'm having lots of fun, probably
+  because the slow pace so I don't finish it in just a few days.
+
+  I can't describe how awesome the soundtrack is, specially with the
+  nostalgia effect from the original.
+
+- [**Terraria**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/Terraria/)
+
+  The last update for Terraria came out this month and I'm going through
+  the content with a friend trying to go though all the content. Well,
+  not _all_ content, since there is **a lot**. This game is a piece of
+  art, one of those rare gems that I wish I had more time to properly
+  enjoy it.
+
+- [**Northgard**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/)
+
+  This has been on my Steam library for quite some time, and since the
+  Valhalla announcement I had the urge to play something Viking related.
+  Didn't play much (two scenarios I think). Is a fairly nice strategy
+  game but it has enough elements to make it enjoyable for a player like
+  me (because I'm not very good at them).
+
+- [**Minecraft Dungeons**](https://www.nintendo.es/Juegos/Programas-descargables-Nintendo-Switch/Minecraft-Dungeons-1749059.html):
+
+  Got this for the switch because I wanted to have something to spend a
+few minutes in and kill some time and couldn't I be more worng.
+
+  My surprise has been the awful load times (2m+ to start playing from
+  the Switch main menu), sub-30 framerates and the awesome chance of the
+  game crashing when putting the console in sleep mode. The game is
+  _fun_ to play from time to time (and I'm sure is way more fun in
+  multiplayer) but the Switch version is just so bad that no one should
+  buy it.
+
+- Some [**Sea of Thieves**](https://www.seaofthieves.com/) and [**Valorant**](https://beta.playvalorant.com) with friends to keep me close while social distancing, though I'm not sure I would keep playing since rebooting to Windows just to play some games is itching me a lot lately, rather buy what I can play on Linux and purchasing the rest on Switch or PS4 if needed.
+
+# Articles
+
+- [Take care editing bash scripts](https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2019/11/09/take-care-editing-bash-scripts.html)
+- [Bye, Amazon](https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon)
+- [Sprite Analysis: Top-Down RPG Pixel Art (Pokémon)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwF0L55kIgg)
+- [Experiences with email-based login](https://www.arp242.net/email-auth.html)
+- [Should I block ads?](https://shouldiblockads.com/)
+- [The day AppGet died](https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22)
+- [How our 99th percentile response time went from 4000 ms to sub 10 ms](https://nrkbeta.no/2020/05/26/how-our-99th-percentile-response-time-went-from-4000-ms-to-sub-10-ms/)
+- [Linus Torvalds Re: A wide monitor is for looking at lots of files.](https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038)
+- [Do you know how much your computer can do in a second?](https://computers-are-fast.github.io/)
+- [Making game engines is a waste of time. I probably won't stop making them](https://benwiser.com/blog/Making-game-engines-is-a-waste-of-time---I-probably-won%E2%80%99t-stop-making-them.html)
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+pub_date: 2020-06-01
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