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title: April 2020
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pub_date: 2020-05-01
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Weird month. It seems that quarantine finally caught up with me (and my
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sleep schedule!). Since I cannot go to sleep when I want, I'm trying a
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different approach... reading something at bed and waking up later. So
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far so good.
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This month I didn't read many articles/books (in fact, any book) but in
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return I came back to reading some Manwha I had in my backlog. And I
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have also invested some time in a few projects I'm currently
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_incubating_.
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I'm also on my way to self-host my own stuff, trying out software and
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servers architectures so I can _dog-food_ some of the stuff I use at
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work, hopefully.
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[](./image-1024.jpg)
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## TVShows/Movies
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- **Money Heist** (up to date)
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This last season way less interesting than the others for my taste,
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and they are extending this heist too much. It should had already
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ended. But oh well...
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- **Mandalorian** (ongoing)
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Started watching this on Disney+, of course I had to! I'm just a few
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episodes in and so far I'm loving it. Star Wars universe for the win.
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- **Gravity Falls** (finished)
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I only watched this because a friend told me that it would diverge
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into some Rick-and-Morty-like _shirt_. And it didn't. I'm dissapointed
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at my friends now.
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- **Dragon Ball** (ongoing)
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I'm slowly going through this one since I only watch it while I cook.
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- **The Lion King (2019)**
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Same old, same old. Why not? Environments are amazing.
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## Books & Manwha
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- **The Magicians' Guild** (_Trudi Canavan_)
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Put on hold. Even though the book was interesting enough I didn't
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bring myself to continue reading it. In exchange...
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- [**DICE**](https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/dice/list?title_no=64&page=1) (ongoing)
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I started _DICE_ a long time ago, and it has been on my backlog for
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the same period. Since I have a bit of IQ left at night, I gave it a
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shot, and oh man, this one is **good**.
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- [**The Gamer**](https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/the-gamer/list?title_no=88) (ongoing)
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This is esentially the **exact same** comment as above.
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## Projects
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There's no repository for this projects at the moment, I'm trying to
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make projects public once I have something somewhat usable first,
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so my accounts are not poluted with unfinished stuff. I will have my own
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server for that soon:tm:.
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- **Butter Robot**
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On my current employeer we had the need of having some information
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automatically posted in our channel reacting to different events. At
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the beginning this was a simple python script reacting to a webhook
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but as everything it has evolved. I'm making a simple bot framework
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(Slack app & telegram) to generate bots, trying to make it easily
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extensible via plugins which are just python classes than can be
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exposed to the main package using entry points.
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- **Jeeves**
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I started this some months ago, is an automated task manager via
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configuration files. You define tasks on a pipeline and can execute
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it via CLI/Server. There's few code and it does near to nothing (can
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execute scripts and call docker containers), but I have plans to have
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a server so triggers can be set, flows to execute several pipelines,
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etc. This has been on my head for years, so glad it's finally taking
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shape.
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- **Unnamed photo collection viewer**
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I have been thinking about this for a while. There's no photo/video
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management software that suit my needs right now, and even if there's
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free/cheap alternatives out there I always have a copy of all my
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collection just in case (you never know what could happen). So making
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a viewer for all my collection should be the way to go, it wouldn't
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have nice features (like automatic videos and all that stuff everyone
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do nowadays) but I want a simple viewer, with a timeline, groups, that
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*do not edit* my files without my explicit permissio (because
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somtimes a wrong timezone or DST flag _fork_ up a timeline).
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## Videogames
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- [**Animal Crossing: New Horizons**](https://animal-crossing.com/new-horizons)
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My daily fix. I'm just doing some daily stuff, events and all little
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by little. The 3DS version made me a hardcore player, so I'm taking
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this one with more _zen_. It's really impressive how have they
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improved this game.
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- [**Valorant**](https://beta.playvalorant.com) and **[Tabletop Simulator](https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator/) ([Zombicide DLC](https://store.steampowered.com/app/468726/Tabletop_Simulator__Zombicide/))**
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These two has been my social distancing vaccine for the month. We
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continued with the Zombiecide campaigns and my friends and I managed
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to get a Valorant beta from Twitch drops so I'm fragging like the
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newbie I am.
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- [**Final Fantasy VII: Remake**](https://store.playstation.com/es-es/product/EP0082-CUSA07187_00-FFVIIREMAKE00000)
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Ow yes... How couldn't I see this coming. With this _#StayAtHome_
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thingy my hype for this came back until I finally bought it. With
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the system and all. I'm just a few days in and so far is awesome!
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Just keep in mind that there are DLC blocking some summons and all
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that, but going through the story again, with new graphics, 2020
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cutscenes and characters have way more deep than in the vanilla
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version... Right now I recommend it, but let's see what happens when
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I finish it (or at least one third on the entire story...? Since this
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is **not** the entire vanilla story)
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## Articles
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- [Why PlayStation 1 Graphics Warped and Wobbled so much](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8TO-nrUtSI) **(video)**
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- [How Raft consenssus works](http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/)
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- [Open Source cloud gaming with WebRTC](https://webrtchacks.com/open-source-cloud-gaming-with-webrtc/)
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- [How Nintendo killed the best version of Tetris](http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/04/feature_how_nintendo_killed_the_best_version_of_tetris)
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- [You need to stop using HTML email](https://jrswab.com/blog/you-need-to-stop-using-html-email)
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