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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

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

May 2026 Summary

Another month goes by, another summary follows. The podcast, videogames and other media I enjoyed during May of 2026!

My Home Screen (2026)

Decided to write and share the current home screen setup on my phone! Featuring KISS Launcher, Arcticons and a few more cool apps

This week in other years

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow 🕹

I finally played one of the coolest games on the Game Boy Advance, one of the best games on the Castlevania series!

Week Notes W22

Another week goes by, another month goes by. These are the notes from May 27 to June 2, 2025

My browser history finally learned

It took until a couple days ago for my browser suggestions to finally prefer my .xyz domain over my previous one. Finally!

Graphical settings that break things

Linux still has some work to do with the Desktop experience for the average user, trying to change some Region settings in my KDE desktop broke my whole workflow. But it really isn't hard to fix

Leaving Google Photos (part 1)

Photo management and search is one of Google Photos' best features, but I don't like to have all my stuff in one basket. So I decided to look for a different way to backup my memories and protect them from outsiders.

Learning Inkscape is fun

I decided to get started and learn how to use Inkscape, after a few days messing around with it, I am loving it so far

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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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