title: August 2021
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pub_date: 2021-09-12
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[![My birthday cake!](./image-360.jpg)](./image.jpg)

<div class="text-center">Imagine waking up to this every day... sadly it only happens on vacation.</div>

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Really quick update since I've been either on vacation, visiting or being visited by family. Slowly going back to normal now.

## Books

- [**DICE**](https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/dice/list?title_no=64)

- [**One Piece**](https://www.goodreads.com/series/57193-one-piece): Volume 41 and beyond!

- Struggling to finish [**Ruin and Rising**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14061957-ruin-and-rising)

- Finished [**Death Note: Another Note**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6612476-death-note---another-note)

  All I can say is do not bother with it. I just want to read the original saga to compensate...

## TVShows and Movies

- For lunch and dinner time [**One Piece**](https://www.crunchyroll.com/es-es/one-piece)

- Finished [**Star Wars: The Bad Batch**](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/the-bad-batch/4gMliqFxxqXC)

  What a finale! It was really sad to see <span class="spoiler">all that destruction on Kamino</span> directly on a show, but we all knew that happened... It didn't have me hooking (or even paying attetion sometimes) but I want to know what's in store for the next season.

## Games

- On hold with [**The legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD**](https://www.nintendo.es/Juegos/Nintendo-Switch/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Skyward-Sword-HD-1923575.html)

  The controls are just awful... It's a shame because it has some interesting things in there but I just can't get on with it :(

- Started [**The legend of Zelda: The Minish Cup**](https://www.nintendo.es/Juegos/Game-Boy-Advance/The-Legend-of-Zelda-The-Minish-Cap-267486.html)

  Got my geared up GameBoy Advance SP loaded for the travel, and despite the RNG regarding the luck stones this game has aged really well in my oppinion.

- Still around with [**Baba is you**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/)

## [Articles](https://t.me/fmartingr_articles)

- **Art**:
  - [The Art of GameBoy games](https://medium.com/@gameboynerd/the-art-of-game-boy-games-67cb8bb31d98)

- **Videogames**
  - [twitter thread] [Skyrim oral history - treasure fox](https://twitter.com/JoelBurgess/status/1428008041887281157?s=20)
  - [twitter thread] [StarFighters76 map contributions on GameFaqs](https://twitter.com/The_Opponent/status/1430204227067027458?s=20)

- **Engineering**:
  - [Data exfiltration in Keepa Price Tracker](https://palant.info/2021/08/02/data-exfiltration-in-keepa-price-tracker/)
  - [twitter thread] [NES Development in 1988](https://twitter.com/KevEdwardsRetro/status/1424457994553765891)
  - [Why nil == nil be true in GoLang](https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1628407126-Will-nil-==-nil-be-true-in-GoLang)
  - [It's just emulation! The challenge of selling old games](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWY7fCXUwE)
  - [What domain name to use for your home network](https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/homenet-domain-name.html)
  - [HTML over DNS](https://jacobkiers.net/hod/)

- **Other**
  - [Wealth, shown to scale](https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/)
  - [video] [Can dogs tell the time?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftr9yY-YuYU)
  - [twitter thread] [Scooter stolen with an Airtag inside it](https://twitter.com/dguido/status/1424921645483966466)
  - [video] [Are video games a global pandemic?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVvF_Qyq5F0)