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Metro Chronicles IV

I Read a Couple of Books in 2025

You should read books too. Turns out they are actually pretty good. In 2025 I covered a lot of ground: Cal Newport, Triathlon training material, Cory Doctorow and a book on solar power.

Fucking Approachable Swift Concurrency

Swift Concurrency can feel like a lot of concepts: async/await, Task, actors, MainActor, Sendable, isolation domains. But there's really just one idea at the center of it all: isolation is inherite...

20 public health wins in 2025

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Marvel Cosmic Invasion

Trying to sneak in one last game review before the year ends! I usually only enjoy beat-em-up games when playing multiplayer/coop, so I was not initially planning to get into Marvel Cosmic Invasion...

2025 in Review

Reflecting on the past and looking ahead to the next.

7 Ways to Master the Balance Between Discipline vs Motivation for Lifelong Success

In the personal development world, one debate never fades: discipline vs motivation. Which one drives real progress? Should we chase bursts of inspiration or rely on the quiet, steady power of habi...

Ignorance is Bliss

"Ignorance is bliss" usually has a negative connotation, a way to refer to someone who is ignorant on some topic that someone else has deemed very important (sometimes meant as an insult). In my vi...

“What Has Happened To the Magic of Doctor Who?” – A Ranking of the Heart

Too Long To Wait, Long Enough To List There was no Doctor Who Christmas special this year – in fact, there’s no new Doctor Who on television (not counting Doctor-less spin-offs) until Christmas 202...

Selective mutism? Situational mutism? No. I am a virtual mute.

Every now and then, whenever I share my experiences with selective mutism online, I’d get DMs on Instagram like “Just a gentle reminder that ‘situational mutism’ is the preferred term in our commun...

Metro Chronicles III

KNX with HTTP API

After a few years of experimenting, I moved forward with a full electrical system rewiring in my house earlier this year, opting for a KNX-based design. One of the aspects I really like about KNX i...

Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025

From sublime spheres to hungry cats, a rundown of the ten most read of what we published this year.

2025W51

How uv got so fast — This one hit different because everyone’s been saying “uv is fast because Rust” but the real story is way more interesting. It’s fast because of what it doesn’t do—no legacy .e...

Weeknotes 2025-12-28

These are the last weeknotes of the year! I hope the holidays have been good for you and yours. Here's to hoping we all get to 2026 safely! My Week The week went by quickly and was very busy, prett...

Gap Week: December Holidays, 2025

Hey folks! Apologies for this coming out late – alas the pedant household has been struck by a nasty cold that has made keeping up with work this week quite challenging.  No post this week, on acco...

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLX 〜 The Gingerbread Letter

Welcome to the 260th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

Starving the Attention Economy

And that was 2025

It is likely that this is how traditions start, by repetition. This is the third year in a row! See last year’s post. Like I said then, I’m going to miss a lot of things that happened during the ye...

The Holy Bible

Why read the book? The Holy Bible is the word of God given to men over many centuries. It holds the Old Testament with stories from creation, the laws given to Moses, the poems of David, and the wo...