These review posts have proven useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition.
(2022/2021/2020/2019/2018/2017/2016/2015/2014/2013)
Non-Board Games I've played/bought
- World of Warcraft
- EVE Online
- Diablo IV
Books I've read
- Debugging by David J. Agans
- Gamma Draconis by Eldo Yoshimizu/Benoist Simmat
Movies I've (re-)watched
TV Series I've (re-)watched
- Witcher: Blood Origin not as bad as the reviews say
- Dash & Lily unexpectedly fun
- The Rookie I like it
- was sick for a week and binged all five seasons - guess this was my favourite show of the last few years
Podcasts and other media
- I spent quite a bit on YouTube this year:
- Itchy Boots
- c90adventures
- Cycling to Argentina
- some miniature painting channels
CDs I bought
- The haul from late December 2023 I hinted at last year:
- Therion - Leviathan II DIGIPAK
- The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost
- Soilwork - Övergivenheten DIGIPAK
- In Flames - Whoracle
- In Flames - Used And Abused
- In Flames - Lunar Strain + Subterranean
- In Flames - The Jester Race + Black-Ash Inheritance
- In Flames - The Tokyo Showdown (Live in Japan 2000)
- Sabaton - The War To End All Wars
- Hypocrisy - Worship
- Fear Factory - Recoded
- Dropkick Murphys - This Machine Still Kills Fascists
- In Flames - Foregone
- Electric Callboy - Tekkno
I need to double-check, but I should now own the complete In Flames discography. The Halo Effect is also great.
Other stuff I bought
- a new (used) bike. ~8 year old ROSE gravel bike for 200 EUR
- a new mobile phone, Google Pixel 6a for 340 EUR
- Teufel Airy Sports wireless headphones, 60 EUR
- a fancy case that still ended up only costing 10 EUR
- some bags for bikepacking, including an Ortlieb "Seat-Pack", used and in perfect condition
- a couple straps and replacement pads for two different sets of headphones
- a dedicated work bag/travel pouch that will always stay in the bag
- some cables and chargers
- a small knife (another Gerber Paraframe Mini)
- LED flashlight: OLight I3E Mini
- an electric guitar!
- Squier Stratocaster in black for ~320 EUR
- Boss Katana Mini ~100 EUR
- Fender shoulder strap and some misc equip
Social networks
- Fediverse - this is my main platform now
- Facebook - logged in like three times
- Twitter - deleted all remaining accounts
Messaging
- IRC - mostly every day
- Matrix - several times per week
- Email - no change, but I feel it's getting less
- Slack - work and 2 other communities
- Signal - yes
- WhatsApp - yes
Trips
- other countries: London/UK for a few days in summer
- five day cycling trip and staying at a rental house after that
- Austria, but that was not a vacation
(Online) Services
- Subscribed to Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime
- some MMO subscriptions
- No change for VPS: Strato, Hetzner Cloud, Scaleway
- switched mobile plan to fraenk, now 10 EUR per month
Still thinking about consolidating a few things with hosting, but no concrete plans.
Programming languages, sorted by usage
- Java - work
- TypeScript - work, at least it's better than JS
- Elixir - work
- Clojure - some personal projects
Not a lot of personal coding this year, also skipped Advent of Code due to lack of time.
Stuff that kinda worked out
- Eläkeläiset concert in April
- Free & Easy "festival" in July/August
- cycle more. I think I broke the 1500km mark on the new bike between June and September
- redoing the living room and entry hall of the apartment
- more pen & paper evenings, monthly Shadowrun has resumed
Happy this category is back. Concerts are back on the menu.
Stuff I planned to do this year but didn't
- no big vacation trip, the London thing was more of saving a thing that had gone wrong
- visiting a bike park
Stuff that would be nice next year
- keep on cycling a lot, but do more mountain biking
- bringing back board game night