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A friend convinced me to attend SPIEL Essen this year, the largest board game fair in the world that …| Brain Baking
A friend convinced me to attend SPIEL Essen this year, the largest board game fair in the world that …| Brain Baking
Yes but it depends on how you define the verb “to optimize”. For any image conversion …| Brain Baking
Emberheart’s recent Wizordum rekindled my interest in retro-inspired First Person Shooters …| Brain Baking
One of the very first games my father actually bought were the DOS games Raptor and Hocus Pocus. It …| Brain Baking
A lot has happened since the desk setup post from March 2024—that being I got kicked out of my …| Brain Baking
Those of you who know me also know that I love writing with a fountain pen. My late father-in-law …| Brain Baking
Never meant to make your reader cry, I apologize a trillion times. My baby a drama Hugo don’t like me; she be doin’ things like duplicatin’ them RSS entries. Come from her release page to my server tryna fight me, bringing her breaking changes along; messing up index.xml quite wrong. That’s as far as I can take that Outkast song. I upgraded to Hugo v0.150.1 and thought I fixed all the breaking changes but I was wrong and noticed the biggest one too late. Some dangling atom file once u...| Brain Baking
Hi again autumn, how have you been? Not well? Well me neither but I’ve been told that’s …| Brain Baking
I couldn’t resist creating a third quiz to complete the trilogy. Did you manage to identify …| Brain Baking
Given the extensive history behind a simple pack of standard playing cards, it should not surprise …| Brain Baking
Did you manage to identify all the card from quiz one? Congratulations—in that case you …| Brain Baking
If you’re not in the mood for a traditional trick taking session, don’t worry: card and …| Brain Baking
That’s a lot of games in one sentence. Tell me, what is better than a card game or a video …| Brain Baking
Akin to many (retro) (partial) screenshot guessing quizzes out there, here’s my own. The photo …| Brain Baking
Traditionally, the magical realm of trick taking and card gaming in general could only be …| Brain Baking
In 1989, Sierra On-Line released Volume 1 of their Hoyle: Official Book of Games on MS-DOS, a card …| Brain Baking
Did you know that card games are part of the official intangible heritage list of Flanders ( …| Brain Baking
August 2025 was one of those big life-altering and quite stressful months. We welcomed a second baby …| Brain Baking
My friend Joel finally published his GOAT list. Finally! I’ve only been pushing him for nearly …| Brain Baking
When I turned thirty-nine, I was exhausted because daycare closed all summer and the house …| Brain Baking
Summer music festivals can be a great way to blow off some much needed steam. Unfortunately, sweat …| Brain Baking
It’s been too long since this blog published a meaningless click-bait list article so here you …| Brain Baking
This year, the folks from the Into the Aether video gaming podcast put all their eggs in an older …| Brain Baking
A test drive from a drawing perspective| Brain Baking
I recently came across https://theyseeyourphotos.com/, a hidden ad landing page acting as a small …| Brain Baking
My wife is a big fan of Australia’s biggest export product—no wait, she’d rather …| Brain Baking
Not finding what you're looking for? Browse the archives. 2025 August On Being …| Brain Baking
Sometimes I write blog posts about being ashamed to be a software developer. This is one of them. …| Brain Baking
Having kids means experiencing the flea market season on an entirely different level. Last Saturday …| Brain Baking
It’s August and the weather is getting pretty weird! In the previous monthly overview post, I …| Brain Baking
In academia, a number called the h-index is often used to measure a researcher’s publication …| Brain Baking
A couple of months ago, we welcomed a new virtual pet. It took a while for our not so virtual pets …| Brain Baking
For a very long time I’ve held off consulting Large Language Models besides the odd query out …| Brain Baking
Here’s a keen observation: each year, more new stuff gets put out. Bigger, better, bolder! …| Brain Baking
Keith Cirkel has no time to learn React. He asks whether it’s worth it to learn a web …| Brain Baking
Someone at Mastodon recommended Derek Sarno’s YouTube cooking channel as a fun way to learn …| Brain Baking
A Classic ISA sound card, including MIDI daughter board!| Brain Baking
Something wonderful and weird happens when I write about x. For example, consider x to be the video …| Brain Baking
This is something that I realized this week after leaving for work but having to turn back because I …| Brain Baking
Gaming from Quake to Quake III: Arena!| Brain Baking
Successfully combining writing and LaTeX skills| Brain Baking
Beyond webmention.io and static site integration| Brain Baking
Thoughts about the (d)evolution of blog interactions| Brain Baking
Is a physical collection really worth it?| Brain Baking
2025 will become my personal year of philosophy. I turn forty this year, which, if all goes well, …| Brain Baking
As I will be switching clients next year, I will also be switching programming languages, from Go …| Brain Baking
This week, Rock Paper Shotgun presented their best games to play on the PC today list or the RPS 100 …| Brain Baking
Remember when I said that if you muddle with vintage hardware mixtures, one thing gets fixed but the …| Brain Baking
Two years ago, I initiated a yearly recurring thing called The Board Game Shelf Analysis that …| Brain Baking
Did you know that if you write a lengthy blog post of say a thousand words twice a week for fifty …| Brain Baking
I miss BSD/Linux. Or was that GNU/Unix, I’m not sure? Silly jokes to get a statistical …| Brain Baking
Or should that be invasiveness? Persuasiveness? It’s no longer a distraction, it’s an …| Brain Baking
A few years ago, I encountered Marcus Huderle’s Reverse Engineering Carrot Crazy - Part 1 - …| Brain Baking
It’s been three years since the first desk setup post from 2021, and while a couple of things …| Brain Baking
I came across a weird function in our Go codebase the other day. It was supposed to do just one …| Brain Baking
My first month back in the software engineering industry as an independent software architect is …| Brain Baking
First, I really wanted to leave. Afterwards, I didn’t want to. Then, I was paralyzed and …| Brain Baking
We’ve been keeping track of our household expenses on and off over the past decade—more …| Brain Baking
In one of the buildings at our university campus, a big TV screen next to the staircase tried (in …| Brain Baking
Here’s my 2023 In Books end-of-year list, published on the cusp of the end of something old …| Brain Baking
My email pen pal Jw over at https://so1o.xyz/ asked me how I record screenshots for my vintage …| Brain Baking
Justin Searls over at Test Double gave a talk at RailsConf 2019 that really struck a chord here. I …| Brain Baking
I gave up after yesterday’s quirky A* assignment. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar for …| Brain Baking
It’s that time of the year—the time to publish the yearly notes summarizing playtime …| Brain Baking
Yesterday, the video game DOOM turned thirty. On 10 December 1993, John Carmack, John Romero, Sandy …| Brain Baking
December marks the beginning of the countdown to Christmas, traditionally via Advent calendars. For …| Brain Baking
After Inktober and November’s National Novel Writing Month, this time it’s DOSember, a …| Brain Baking
As I once again find myself staring at local software dev job ads, I can’t help but wonder: …| Brain Baking
Almost every few weeks, a new and exciting retro hardware project is announced. These are truly …| Brain Baking
As I was writing my Evercade gaming device review, I noticed that the battery life of the new …| Brain Baking
A follow-up on the insanity of collecting retro games| Brain Baking
The articles here at Brain Baking end with a footer that contains the author bio and ways to contact …| Brain Baking
Four Podcasts is my upper limit—that’s the remark of a friend while discussing the …| Brain Baking
Everyone’s doing these app defaults lists lately. Since they’re lists and I happen to …| Brain Baking
Something scary dawned to me recently after having peeked into several source code repositories of …| Brain Baking
I’ve had an interesting conversation with Mr Creosote on Mastodon a few months ago that …| Brain Baking
It’s spooky season! Wait, no, again. Spooky season is over! Or are we still in it? For just …| Brain Baking
For decades, I’ve been trained to optimize my thinking in terms of numbers. I’ve been …| Brain Baking
After compiling my top 25 best games of all time list, I started drafting a list of my 25 best …| Brain Baking
A recurring trend among bloggers is meta-blogging: blogging about blogging. My pristine AI …| Brain Baking
After a lengthy regulatory review, Microsoft now officially closes its $69 billion acquisition of …| Brain Baking
That’s a good question! CS1 courses, or Computer Science 1, are typically the first computing …| Brain Baking
My general conclusion after a day of digging through and studying a semi-random pile of academic …| Brain Baking
I know I am. Allow me to explain myself. I’ll be brief: the ratio of weekly new posts in my …| Brain Baking
Edge Magazine put out another ranking, this time the 100 greatest video games of the past 30 years, …| Brain Baking
Our first-year engineering students have been exposed to higher education for a good two weeks now, …| Brain Baking
Ehhh… What’s up, September? Strange, and just like that, Summer is preparing to pack …| Brain Baking
Dear dr. Groeneveld, when are you finally going to properly start preparing for your next big thing? …| Brain Baking
With Microsoft’s reportedly digital only plans for Xbox’s future now leaked, Xbox boss …| Brain Baking
Speaking of Mary Karr (see On Revisiting Media), my eyes semi-automatically zoomed in on her author …| Brain Baking
The MIT Technology Review headline on artificial intelligence reads: AI just beat a human test for …| Brain Baking
I’ve been reading Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir lately—thanks, Austin—which, …| Brain Baking
Denken mit der Hand—Leuchtturm’s slogan for their 1917 notebook series—is, perhaps …| Brain Baking
June has passed, and with it, the first bulk of the exams, meaning it’s officially summer in …| Brain Baking
Goodbye, July 2023—hello, August, and with it, complete radio silence from my academic peers. …| Brain Baking
I’m replaying Quake—or rather, finally giving it a proper playthrough since I was a Duke …| Brain Baking
I turned thirty-eight today. That’s the sum of the squares of the first three primes (thank …| Brain Baking
It seems ages ago (11 years to be exact) that I spent too many hours trying to get to work by train …| Brain Baking
A quick one today: something I noticed in the margins while reading Jonathan Schindler’s Shelf …| Brain Baking
