I’ve tried to read productivity books for a while, started with note-taking, time management, and goal-setting… but never managed to finish any of them. This is the first book that not only I finished, but also I found it enjoyable, insightful, and provides practical tips for improving productivity. And not only that, is the first one that I have used a marker on to highlight important passages.
I’ve decided to revive Butterrobot after a long hiatus.
The project was originally written in Python and it was designed to be a simple way to have quality of life in Slack and Telegram channels. After I made the initial implementation I started going deeper into Golang and mostly abandoned it with a promise to come back and rewrite it in the future.
That day is here.
The first time I played Storyteller two years ago I really liked it, I thought it was a very original game and the ability to create scenes beyond just solving puzzles was quite interesting. Player 2 and I got competitive to see who would finish it first. There comes a point wherek, if you get stuck, instead of thinking about the story being presented you start thinking about all the permutations you can do with the available options; but that’s not necessarily a bad thing since -after all- it is a puzzle game.
It felt fresh and they gave you achievements when you managed to recreate certain scenes beyond just completing the main story solutions.
Lately I brought back to life an old Android device of mine that I wanted to use to try out some unrelated stuff. When it came to open the store and install applications it happened: it asked for an account to install applications. Turns out putting my password on this device was going to take a while so I wondered which option do we had if we wanted a capable Android device without requiring the Play Store. I know there are forks of Android around that removed all Google services so there has to be something.
Disclaimer: I started reading this after watching the first two seasons of the Apple TV+ series, which—coincidentally—cover exactly what this first book includes.
The last dystopian novel I read might have been Divergent, a long time ago. I really missed getting hooked on a world like this, and even more so now after not only watching Silo but also the Fallout TV series.
I’m publishing this in 2025 but the reality is that this has been my second playthrough as I already finished (almost completed) this game in my Nintendo Switch back in 2019!. Yes, I love it that much.
Small update!
From the huge backlog of tasks I have in store for the site: I’ve added a new sections for the project I’m currently maintaining.
This will not only give them a bit of visibility, but also help me keep track of the projects I’m currently working on and consider active.
You can find the new section at /projects.