New personal project: Pretty Lyrical Francium

content/projects/francium.md

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+title = "Pretty Lyrical Francium"
+date = 2021-01-27
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["projects", "personal", "last.fm", "music", "scrobble"]
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+
+Personal Last.Fm.
+
+Service that runs on the user machine to collect information about music
+played, using the Libre.Fm/Last.Fm API.
+
+I'm more interested in all the graphs than anything else.

content/projects/francium.pt.md

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+title = "Pretty Lyrical Francium"
+date = 2021-01-27
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["projeto", "pessoal", "last.fm", "música", "scrobbles"]
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+
+Last.fm Pessoal (Personal Last.Fm)
+
+Serviço que roda na máquina do usuário para coletar informações sobre as
+músicas tocadas, usando a API do Libre.Fm/Last.Fm.
+
+Eu estou mais interessado nos gráficos do que qualquer outra coisa.
+
+
+<!-- 
+vim:spelllang=pt:
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content/reviews/books/central-station.md

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+title = "Central Station - Lavie Tidhar"
+date = 2021-01-20
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["books", "reviews", "fantasy", "scifi", "books:2021", "1 star",
+"lavie tidhar"]
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+
+[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25986774-central-station):
+When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s
+ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream
+of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a
+robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His
+father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted
+data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+{{ stars(stars=1) }}
+
+There is something incredibly satisfying in reading a book in which the
+characters are not some sort of American-centered or -inspired story -- heck,
+even [All You Need Is Kill](@/reviews/books/all-you-need-is-kill.md) feels a
+lot like an American story than a Japanese one. But here? No. Names are
+"alien", 'cause you're not used to see them, like mixing Chinese and Russian
+names. And Hebrew names. And the location doesn't look like the general things
+we usually read.
+
+But while the ambience feels nice, the plot doesn't. I mean, sure, there are
+some incredible elements that could be explored in future novels, but here they
+are thrown and forgotten and never really explored properly. You have children
+with weird abilities that are never explained; you have a diseased women whose
+sickness grants some powers, but something mythical happens with her (and the
+children) and then she suddenly disappears. Was she cured? Does she lives a
+normal life now? Does the mythical thing killed her?
+
+And you have some mythical gods walking around, something that people take as
+annoyance, but they appear only after the middle of the book, out of the blue.
+I mean, sure, by the description, they are annoying -- 'cause they are gods,
+after all, and can do whatever, whenever they want -- and people doesn't seem
+to really like them, but how the heck we spent this whole time without knowing
+anything about them? And then, this god appears, do some crazy things, and
+disappear and never mentioned again.
+
+This kind of "starting a thread and never putting a connection in them" happens
+over and over again, just ruining the feeling from the book.
+
+And the ending... It feels like the author simply decided "Ok, I had enough; I
+need an ending" and just put something there to mark it as ended and gone.
+
+There is a lot of points that could be explored in the future from here, but
+here... not much is.