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I recently found out about this French sweet pastry and I want to try it:

Kouign-Amann

I just don’t know if I can find it anywhere close to me in Portugal.

Later edit: well, maybe here?

This is an old video we watched in the early years of MavenHut to understand how to improve our games.

A lot of it is obsolete on the actual tactics and tools, but the thought process behind analyzing and improving the First Time User Experience for any player is what you need to know.

I looked for it for about 2 hours for a friend, because I forgot the name of the game that was the subject of the case study: Pretty Simple’ Criminal Case.

My search keywords, in case I need to remember it again: retention, virality, GDC, Casual Connect, game, case study, ftue, onboarding.

I recently went to a Candlelight concert. If you don’t know what it is: a string quartet playing tributes of popular music.

I’ve been to a Coldplay/Imagine Dragons mash-up concert and it was one of, if not the best, concert I’ve ever been to.

Here’s an idea of what you can see:

After the Candle Light concert I’ve been to, I came back home and searched for the music the artists played.

Well, that’s how I found out that there’s a string quartet that has played these convers/tributes for a long time called Vitamin String Quartet.

You can find them on Spotify and soon they’ll launch an LP based on Taylor Swift’s songs.

You might enjoy them.

I’m trying not to use the phone before going to sleep, so I decided to get an alarm clock to know what time it is during the night. I looked for one cheap enough on Amazon and tonight’s the night!!

I haven’t owned an alarm clock for the last 20 years or more, since college, probably (when we didn’t have smart enough phones, initially).

So, here I am, using this kind of clock:

Not me, don’t worry about it!

But there is someone blogging from the South Pole base where they stayed over the long winter.

Here’s the first post in a series about actually leaving the South Pole.

During the winter, many departments, IT included, are subject to a more casual daily task schedule. Our goal over the winter is to stay on top of day-to-day upkeep, to execute on long-running projects, to respond to incidents, and to tackle any larger maintenance items that can’t be done when the station is “full” over the summer.

There’s more to read there, so stop by and say hi!

Kuno Lechner; cropped by H Debussy-Jones (talk) 08:31, 14 November 2009 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I wanted to order an Apple Vision Pro today. And it was sold out! I mean, I can still order it, but it will come in 5-6 weeks, at least.

Yeah, I know, first world problems, but still. I expected the device to sell at the most 100,000 devices this year, see how expensive it is. What do you know, though, 180,000 Vision Pros might have been pre-ordered!

This is really good news for the Mixed Reality/Augmented Reality space, after Meta Quest 3 selling more than 1 million devices for the holiday season of 2023.

Not me, unfortunately. I would’ve loved to test it and buy it, but, you know… 6 weeks of wait time.

Anyway, Joanna Stern from the Wall Street Journal spent (almost) 24 hours testing it. I would’ve loved to see some games in there, as well, but nevertheless, the video is worth watching.

I’ve recently got into Mixed Reality gaming, when I bought a Meta Quest 3. Once I did that, I noticed there aren’t any good newsletters for the people that play these kind of games, so I made one! :D

If you want to subscribe, the newsletter’s name is XR Gamer Digest and you can find it here. Where you can find the previous (5 by now) editions.

We publish it every Friday, so hop on!

I think I use Apple’s Notes app more than any other app on my devices. And I didn’t know most of these things:

Write This Down: 17 Things You Didn’t Realize Apple’s Notes App Could Do