2024 in review

2024 in review

These review posts have proven useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition.

(2023/2022/2021/2020/2019/2018/2017/2016/2015/2014/2013)

Non-Board Games I've played/bought

  • World of Warcraft - The War Within
  • EVE Online
  • Diablo IV
  • Final Fantasy XIV - Dawntrail

Movies I've (re-)watched

TV Series I've (re-)watched

Podcasts and other media

Again, mostly YouTube.

CDs I bought

  • KMFDM - Hyena
  • HANS LAZER ALIEN SLAM - ACTION METAL

Other stuff I bought

  • a new bike: KTM X-Strada LFC 2022 in June, 1560 EUR incl pedals
  • a smart/fitness watch: Suunto 5 Peak in April, 190 EUR
  • a gamepad - EasySMX PS3 GamePad (USB) in March, 15 EUR
  • a new mouse: Roccat Kone Aimo Remastered in April, 42 EUR
  • a new mousepad. Worth mentioning because my old one had Doom3 on it (2004), 10 EUR
  • a tiny wireless mouse for my office backpack in October - Logitech M185, 10 EUR
  • two small USB-C docks, one for my home desk and one for travel: 12 + 20 EUR
  • M.2 USB-C enclosure + 1 TB M.2 WDBlack SN770 because it was cheaper than an external disk, 70 EUR
  • an AeroPress with a metal filter in November: 31+17 EUR
  • several bike bags and accessories, separate post to follow
  • not technically mine, but we got a new car after 12 years

Social networks

  • Fediverse - this is my main platform now
  • Facebook - logged in like three times

Messaging

  • IRC - mostly every day
  • Matrix - several times per week
  • Email - no change, but it's definitely getting less used
  • Slack - old work, new work and 2 other communities
  • Discord - yes
  • Signal - yes
  • WhatsApp - yes

Trips

  • summer vacation in Hungary in July
  • a stop in Bratislava on the way back
  • three day cycling trip, continuing the route

(Online) Services

  • Subscribed to Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime
  • some MMO subscriptions
  • VPS: Mostly Hetzner Cloud, 1x Strato, 1x Netcup
  • fraenk for mobile

Started consolidating a few things with hosting.

Programming languages, sorted by usage

  • Java - work (no more as of winter 2024/2025)
  • Kotlin - work (current daily driver)
  • TypeScript - work, at least it's better than JS
  • Clojure - some personal projects

Spent quite a bit of time on personal projects this year, and I'm also back for Advent of Code.

Stuff that kinda worked out

  • cycle more
  • summer vacation was great

Stuff I planned to do this year but didn't

  • visiting a bike park
  • pen & paper stopped again for the second half of the year
  • concerts (except free & easy)

Stuff that would be nice next year

  • keep on cycling a lot, but do more mountain biking
  • monthly board game night is at least planned already