Entertainment in times of Covid-19

Just wanted to throw together some things that help me and may help you enjoy the physical distancing a little more.

TV and Movies

• Apple TV+All Apple Originals
  Apple TV+ offers Apple's original shows without a subscription
• Stream Free Episodes of HBO Series Online
  HBO has offered a bunch of free episodes and documentaries
• Quibi - Quick bites
  Quibi offers a 90-day free trial. (UPDATE: In October 2020, Quibi shut down.)

Scrubs

My all-time favorite show. It resonates, even more, these days.

Stream on Hulu

World War Z

A really cool movie about Codid-19 zombie outbreak.

Rent or buy anywhere

Outbreak

A little naive and fairly old movie about an outbreak of a virus in a particular city.

Stream on Netflix

Contagion

If you ever wondered if anyone ever predicted Covid-19 outbreak, wonder no more. This movie is strikingly accurate when it comes to what we are experiencing today. Pretty fascinating!

Rent anywhere

Games

If you're a gamer, definitely try Ori and the Will of the Wisps. It's a fantastic game, but I couldn't play it — it got too complex for my non-gamer taste. But you will enjoy it, I promise!

Sayonara Wild Hearts

Fantastic, dynamic, beautiful, and quick. Challenging enough to keep you entertained, but casual enough to be played, well, casually.

Podcasts and such

Going for a walk? Quick workout? Cooking something? Put on a podcast and get twice the fun!

• ‎Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald
• Staying In with Emily & Kumail
• ‎Office Ladies
• SomeGoodNews
• ‎Darknet Diaries

Conferences & Meetups

It's interesting how conferences adapt to this new reality. And I must say, most are doing a fantastic job transitioning to 100% online. Some still charge quite a lot, some are very flexible (pay-per-track, pay for VOD, or only pay for workshops, for example), and some gone completely free. Well, my conference budget just got waaaay more flexible as well. I think, I'm going to attend them all BECAUSE I CAN 😂

• JS VidCon May 7 — $10+
• Avocado Labs Regular Meetups — Free
• Byteconf React 2020 May 1 — Free
• Jamstack Conf 2020 May 27-28 — Free
• react-europe May 12-16th — Free (?)
• JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13-15 — $75

Tutorials (and other learning)

There are hundreds upon hundreds of fantastic tutorials and resources to keep you sharp and leave isolation with a bunch of new skills and projects!

• How to Create a Summer Road Trip Mapping App with Gatsby and Leaflet
• Developing a Serverless Twitter Streamer and Performing Sentiment Analysis
• JWTs 101
• A list of sample Web App Ideas
• Take your React skills to the next level by building a Todoist clone
• Learn to Code with Interactive Tutorials
• Introduction to Identity

Books

Books are awesome. Fight me! Here's a list of books I am reading, will be reading soon, or have read in the past and highly recommend.

• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
• Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg
• American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
• Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried
• User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant
• Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn
• No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried

Bonus: Home improvement projects

Nah, I'm not the kind of person who's into DIY. But I've got a pretty serious urge to make our back room into a proper office and lounge space.

My remote office in spring 2020