A while back I wrote about how I was moving all my reviews to this blog and to several online review platforms that fit the type of content I was trying to review. It has been a while since then (the start of 2025), but now all the reviews are complete. I went through my back catalog of all the movies and TV shows I had watched, games I had played, and books I read, creating a review for each of them.
I did have a little bit of help, using locally running AI models through Ollama when my reviews were coming up short – looking at you IMDb.
I also made a breaking change to the way the reviews are distributed on my blog! In an attempt to create a kind of digital garden for my public “notes on reading, watching, coding, and more”, I started organizing all my reviews, public task lists, kanban boards, and notes in Obsidian, and have them published to williamvdg.me/notes using Quartz. While I am still getting the hang of using a lot of the features, it really has been a more useful way to organize and share my reviews.
Check out the review categories here!
- App Reviews
- Book Reviews
- Game Reviews
- Hotel Reviews
- Movie Reviews
- Harry Potter
- Indiana Jones
- Jurassic Park
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Star Wars
- Transformers
- Podcast Reviews
- Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions
- freeCodeCamp
- Go Time
- JS Party
- Practical AI
- Ship It
- Stack Overflow
- Talk Python to Me
- The Changelog
- The Colin and Samir Show
- The Real Python Podcast
- Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates
- Recipes
- TV Reviews
At the time of writing, it is over 630 individual pages!
Going forward, I will continue to update my reviews every time I watch, listen to, read, or learn something, but it will be at a slower pace… The note taking style of Obsidian + Quartz is more appealing however, and hopefully that encourages me to take down more notes.
You can also see the reviews on the online review platforms I have accounts with:
- Books
- Games
- HowLongToBeat
- ProtonDb - for Linux/Steam Deck games only
- Movies
- TV
