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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...

166 hours

Last year I wrote about hitting 130 hours of working out. I ended that note with a line I repeated three times: “I’m going to keep making progress.” I didn’t know if I’d actually do it. Part of me ...

What I Look Forward to in 2026

2025 is coming to an end. I do not typically plan new year resolutions, because the older I got, the more aware I am of how unpredictable the future can be, and unexpected things that can disrupt o...

Lessons learned from making art

My resolution for 2025 was to make more art, and I had fun keeping it. I took acrylic painting lessons, got into watercolours, printed stickers, and made hundreds of drawings. I went to sketching s...

The Holy Bible - Revelation

The Holy Bible is a collection of books. So I have split them up. I will read it in 1 year, every day ~15 minutes of reading. Why read it? The Book of Revelation is the last book of the Bible, writ...

ssh-agent broken in tmux? I've got you!

A little over two years ago, I wrote an article titled SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right. In it, I described how SSH agent forwarding works—a feature that lets a remote machine use the crede...

A New Career In A New Town, Part 5: Finale (for now)

2025_wrapped_work

Quantifying my work life using khal and dayplot

2025_wrapped_work

Quantifying my work life using khal and dayplot

Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call

My Journey from XFCE4 to the IceWM Window Manager

Owning a Domain Increases Digital Self-Reliance

Other than looking cool to your friends, owning your own domain increases your digital self-reliance. It's kind of like having your own phone number. Just like switching cell phone carriers if you ...

Bits of Open-Source in 2025

My open-source interactions in the past year.