Favourites of December 2024

It seemed a good idea to start the year with a fresh and lively sourdough starter. Mine has been lingering in the fridge for the last few weeks, generating vinegar and slowly killing itself. A few days of throwing almost everything out and replacing it with new flour + water luckily does wonders. For those who don’t know the meaning of Brain...

This post is the board game counterpart of the recent 2024 In Video Games end of year note. It’s been half a year since the 2024 Board Game Shelf Analysis that also included play stats, along with a promise to myself to record plays on GoardGameGEek via the BGG Catalog App. I kept that end of the bargain but lost sight of board gaming this last...

There’s no denying that online content disappears. Depending on the type and thoroughness of the study, reports claim that 38% to 66.5% of webpages that existed a decade ago are dead. Sometimes we’re treated with a 3xx redirect code but more often than not they’re simply gone forever if it wasn’t for the Internet Archive. That got me wondering...

It’s that time of the year—the time to publish the yearly notes summarizing playtime statistics and providing a personal opinion on recent and vintage Game Of The Year (GOTY) contestants. In 2023, Pizza Tower and Tactics Ogre: Reborn were examples of superb recent games that even made it to the Top 100 List, while DUSK and Plants vs. Zombies...

As I will be switching clients next year, I will also be switching programming languages, from Go back to Java. Truth to be told, I’m relieved because of it. The biggest challenges faced were most definitely not related to the choice of programming languages, but after cursing and fighting with Go’s mechanics and philosophy for years, I’m ready...