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1 Net Noodlings with Nathan logo 2 3 [1] Net Noodlings with Nathan 4 5 [3] 6 Archives 7 Search 8 [5] 9 Subscribe 10 December 22, 2025 11 12 Food Comas and Some Bests 13 14 In which I slip into a two-week food coma and reflect on some of my favorite 15 things from 2025. 16 17 Hey friends, 18 19 2025 is coming to a close, and I'm about to embark on a holiday food coma until 20 the New Year. If you're traveling, stay safe, and I'll see you all in 2026! 21 22 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 23 24 A Year In Review 🔭 25 26 Some Random Stats 📈 27 28 Last year, I tracked some random stats. Let's see how I did this year: 29 30 • 12 projects contributed to 31 • 1 personal project launched (it was a stealth launch, I'll talk more about 32 it in 2026) 33 • 6 articles written 34 • 51 newsletters sent 35 • 1,001 GitHub contributions 36 • 1 [6]conference talk 37 • 1 [7]LabShare 38 • 1 experiment published 39 • 32 fiction books read 40 • 2 non-fiction books read 41 42 Best Book of the Year 📖 43 44 So many good books this year, but [8]Will of the Many took the trophy with its 45 whole "Harry Potter but he's a former pit-fighter-turned-student in a magic 46 Roman Empire analog that's corrupt, and everyone's trying to kill each other" 47 vibes. Good times. 48 49 Movie I Actually Remember 🎥 50 51 Maybe "Best Movie" to too big of a title for this year and we'll settle for 52 "Movie I Actually Remember" which was [9]Thunderbolts* for focusing just a 53 LITTLE more on the emotional aspect of the characters and the traumas they've 54 faced than just the action. 55 56 Best Video Game of the Year 🎮 57 58 [10]Dredge is a Lovecraftian horror fishing game that I found engaging. I loved 59 exploring the different islands and having NOPENOPENOPE moments as I dug deeper 60 into what was going on. It doesn't ask too much of you either—I finished the 61 base game in about 16 hours. 62 63 Best Board Game of the Year 🎮 64 65 [11]Tag Team was released in late 2025 and immediately caught my interest with 66 how much fun it was to set up this little auto-battler. The drama of the reveal 67 in whether you correctly moved your block to the right sequence or whether you 68 managed to land that combo made it my personal biggest board game hit of 2025! 69 70 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 71 72 Interesting Web Bits 🍜 73 74 Web Stuff 75 76 • Cassidy shows us how to [12]pause CSS animations with getAnimations() 77 • Dan Abramov has built [13]an explorer for RSC to help show folks how React 78 Server Components work under the hood. 79 • Chris Feijoo has a wonderful post on [14]achieving the liquid glass effect 80 with SVG. 81 82 Other Stuff 83 84 • Jim talks about sitting with the [15]"I don't know...". (Of which I have 85 become increasingly convinced I know hardly anything at all!) 86 • But we often even [16]forget what we know, especially when it moves outside 87 'our' area 88 • Marcin Wichary talks about {nostalgia of a childhood in Poland and clocks] 89 (https://aresluna.org/the-clock/). What is it for you that transports you 90 back to simpler times? 91 • Taylor shows us [17]how to title. 92 93 Weird, Watch, and Play 94 95 • 📺 I'm a sucker for both slomo AND factory videos. Watch this Japanese 96 factory [18]make wooden pencils. 97 • 📺 Or if you're feeling like you need to up your Christmas wrapping game, 98 watch these [19]japanese speed wrapping demonstrations. 99 100 Don't miss what's next. 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