These review posts have proven useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition.
( 2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 )
Non-Board Games I've played/bought
- World of Warcraft
- EVE Online
- Diablo IV
- Final Fantasy XIV
(no change, really)
Movies I've (re-)watched
- Ant-Man and the Wasp
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Avengers: Endgame
- Captain America: Civil War
- Black Panther
- Captain Marvel
- Doctor Strange
- Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness
- Project Power - this was a little odd, but not terrible
- Titan AE - still great, 25 years later
TV Series I've (re-)watched
- The Rookie - Season 6+7
Podcasts and other media
Not a lot this year.
CDs I bought
- Battle Beast - Steelbound
Other stuff I bought
- a new PC
- a new (used) NUC for dev
- NO new keyboard
- a new Fritz!Box as the old one died after around 13 years - 159 EUR
- bigger handlebar bag (Deuter Mondego) - 46 EUR
- a bike computer (Garmin Edge 840) - 393 EUR
- some small SSDs for storage (2x 50 EUR)
- a new, bigger, thinner, floor protection mat for my office chair which I hate
Concerts
Yay, this category is finally back.
- Flotsam & Jetsam (+ Lord Volture + Hateful Agony) in August
- Battle Beast (+ Dominum + Majestica) in December
Social networks
- Fediverse - it just works
- 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 one other community
- Discord - yes, not too happy about it
- Signal - yes, but not with more people than before
- WhatsApp - yes, sadly
Trips
- summer vacation in the Spessart region in July, also bike tour to get there
- multi-day cycling trip, continuing the route along the D11 (blog post tbd)
- pre-christmas trip to Erfurt, Bamberg, Fürth
(Online) Services
- Subscribed to Netflix, Paramount and Amazon Prime
- some MMO subscriptions
- VPS: Mostly Hetzner Cloud, 1x Strato, 1x Netcup
- fraenk for mobile
No changes here except streaming services.
Programming languages, sorted by usage
- Kotlin - work (current daily driver)
- TypeScript - work, unfortunately
- Clojure - some personal projects
- Python - some small stuff
- Gleam - started for Advent of Code, I like it, might stick
- Janet - tried it out for a small project. nice, but does not seem finished
Stuff that kinda worked out
- cycle more, at least until some health problems in July/August
- summer vacation was great
- pen & paper resumed
- concerts
Stuff I planned to do this year but didn't
- visiting a bike park
Stuff that would be nice next year
- keep on cycling a lot, more mountain biking
- monthly board game night hopefully comes back
- some concerts