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Ramblings and thoughts about tech, free software, and hobbies of my life, shared bit by bit.

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Hey! I'm Joel (a.k.a joelchrono). A random guy from México lindo y querido! I am a hobby collector, fake fan of many things, foss enthusiast, gamer, mechatronics engineer, and of course, a blogger

You are visiting my personal website. Here you can see some of my thoughts and ramblings about tech, gaming and other hobbies, my favorite of which is origami. I hope you enjoy your visit! Take your time and explore as much as you want, there’s plenty of sections to dive into!

I'm really into music, this text will be overwritten by the latest song I listened to if you enable Javascript, maybe something by Miki Matsubara or Daft Punk.

Latest blogs

Posts I did not write in one go

Posts that I started to write but ended up leaving them for later, aand because of that, they have been stuck as a draft for days, weeks, and even months.

A couple of bike commutes

Today was a bit of a fun day to use my bicycle as an actual transportation tool. It was a very interesting experience, featuring: rain!

Strange Dogs 📖

My review for a novella from the Expanse that takes place after the end of the second trilogy of novels. A great read nonetheless, spoilers ahead

This week in other years

I used to take notes

Note-taking is something I haven't really done in a while, and a blog post I read reminded me about it

The Big Time 📖

A book that was not what I expected, a Hugo award winner in the public domain about a war across time? Sure, I guess? but very different.

Week Notes W24

Here are my notes and media consumed from June 10 to 16, 2025! Family visits continue, video gaming esssays, progress on the same games, and some work shenanigans.

New logo and other changes

I was really bored, so I made a new logo for my website, inspired, as always, by other people's blogs.

Change URLs without breaking old links in Jekyll

Using Jekyll and static site generators comes with its own set of problems, one of them is changing URL formats without breaking the previously used links. Thankfully, the solution is fairly simple.

A troublesome Raspberry Pi install

I offered to help a friend who wanted to use a Raspberry Pi as a file server. But I got into a lot more trouble than I expected.

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I don’t use crypto personally, but if you want to give me some, there is the option too. My domain provider actually lets me renew it with that! So it doesn’t go to waste :P

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