Ruth Schäfer

Sr. Research Software Engineer, Ph.D. in Particle Physics

Links

This page contains assorted lists of links and media recommendations and other things I didn’t think warranted a blog post of their own.

Blogs

Blogs on Tech
Ongoing Web-Fiction I follow
Ongoing Webcomics I follow

Books/Reading

Favourite books I read in 2025
  • Luis Sepúlveda’s Story of a Snail Discovering the Importance of Slowness
  • Brandon Sanderson’s Tress of the Emerald Sea
  • David Graeber’s The Dawn of Everything
  • Elias Vorpahl’s The Word Trove
  • Berthold Brecht’s poems
Favourite Books I read in 2024
  • Walter Moers’ Island of 1000 Lighthouses
  • Martha Wells’ Murderbot series
  • Terry Pratchett’s Moist van Lipwig books
  • Tony DiTerlizzi’s Spiderwick Chronicles
  • Erin Hunter’s Warriors
Favourite Books I read in 2023
  • Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series
  • Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series
  • Natalie Haynes’ Pandora’s Jar
  • Stephen Fry’s Greek Myth Retellings
  • Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation
Finished Web-Fiction

Video Games

Favourite Video Games I played in 2025
  • Creatures of Ava
  • Slime Rancher
  • Fields of Mistria
  • Firewatch
  • RagnaRock
Favourite Video Games I played in 2024
  • word factori
  • Wytchwood
  • inBento
  • Urbo
  • Dave the Diver
Favourite Video Games I played in 2023
  • Pathfinder Kingmaker
  • Stray
  • Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
  • Mario Wonder
  • Ynglet
Favourite Video Games I played in 2022
  • Spiritfarer
  • Sokobond
  • 7 Billion Humans and Human Resource Machine
  • Islanders
  • Dorfromantik