About

This page tells you a little bit about the human who did this, and some extra info about this site.

👤 About the author

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Hello! I am Joel, I am just a guy who likes tech, FOSS and many other things. I was born in Mexico, where I still live. I am a hobby collector, fake fan of many things, foss enthusiast, videogame enjoyer, and a mechatronics engineer, working as a system admin for some company somewhere.

I write whatever comes to my mind, whenever I feel like it. It’s often enough I have written 100 posts in a year 3 times since this blog started. Some common topics would be videogames, technology, ramblings about my life and whatever other hobbies I get into. I also write week notes and monthy summaries. Why not one or the other? well, I can do both.

My username comes from Chrono, the main character of Chrono Trigger, a JRPG released in 1995 for the SNES, it is my favorite videogame of all time. I actually played it on my PSP, which I got as a gift in 2012, quite a year, also, 12 is the day of my birthday.

Of course, as I am very original, I just added my name to my favorite videogame’s protagonist, and we end up with… you guessed it: joelchrono. I changed it from joeligj12, which used to be my user in some places, but in 2020 I got into game development, participated in multiple game jams, and then cringed because people streaming game jam games on twitch struggled to pronounce it in English, igj are the first letters of my full name, then I thought Chrono was cool enough. I originally kept the 12 at the end, but I got rid of it just to shorten it, so it’s cooler.

Btw, if you mention me somewhere in the internet, please don’t separate the name into “Joel Chrono”, It’s joelchrono, all together in lowercase, or just Joel is fine too. Thanks!

I use Linux on my computer, and my distro of choice is Arch Linux. I built my graphical environment using dwm, instead of a full desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE. I still use Windows at work though, RIP.

My current smartphone is (a Xiaomi 12T Pro), I used to switch roms a lot with previous phones, but I haven’t messed around as much in later years. If I ever get a Pixel phone, I might resume this trend again. Instead of the default launcher, I currently prefer KISS Launcher

I can solve a Rubik’s cube in less than 20 seconds, my record is of 9.81 seconds.

I have made some videogames using the Godot engine, but I never did anything super advanced in my opinion. I participated in around 4 game jams, some of which were successful. You can play them on my itch.io profile, I should probably update them some day.

Make sure to visit my contact page to view all the ways to communicate with me.

🍿 Hobbies & Interests

  • 🃏 Card Magic
  • 📖 Reading
  • 📃 Origami
  • 🎮 Gaming
  • 💻 Linux
  • 📱 Android Customization
  • 🌐 Web development
  • 🕹️ Game development
  • 🎹 Piano & guitar
  • ⌚ Speedcubing

📰 About this page

This website is generated with Jekyll, during its infancy I used simple.css to style it, but I use my own stylesheet now.

The source code is hosted on GitHub and deployed with Vercel.

This blog is the result of going into Mastodon and getting inspired by the Fosstodon community to begin writing and building my own site, without being locked down by proprietary platforms like Substack or Medium.