To avoid taking a year again to (fail to) put my notes together, I decide to do it quickly and stick to a few thoughts and highlights. The 2024 edition of ShipItCon happened today. This year's theme was "Flow." Many speakers mentioned ownership when talking about ways to reach flow …
With ShipItCon 2024 fast approaching (in 2 days!!), it's time for me to admit I will never finish writing up my notes from last year's and just post what I do have. Perhaps this year my note-taking skills will improve? ShipItCon is a small non-profit conference in Dublin that focuses …
In early 2020, it became really difficult to read books. I'm slowly starting to get past that at last, but while Goodreads was super fun for a few years, right now tracking and counting and rating just makes reading feel like a chore and Not Fun as a hobby. I …
Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy, #1) by Emily Skrutskie An easy-to-read space romance. The mutual pining starts strong from the start and it was just fun to read. The worldbuilding is super interesting and I really, really enjoyed how the politics and moral dilemmas are slowly introduced and explored …
The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, #2) by Hannu Rajaniemi I look at my review for the first book and see delight and enthusiasm. Reading the Quantum Thief was hard work but getting to understand the world and the characters that inhabit it was such a reward, brought such enchantment …