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December 22, 2025
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Food Comas and Some Bests
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In which I slip into a two-week food coma and reflect on some of my favorite
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things from 2025.
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Hey friends,
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2025 is coming to a close, and I'm about to embark on a holiday food coma until
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the New Year. If you're traveling, stay safe, and I'll see you all in 2026!
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A Year In Review 🔭
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Some Random Stats 📈
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Last year, I tracked some random stats. Let's see how I did this year:
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• 12 projects contributed to
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• 1 personal project launched (it was a stealth launch, I'll talk more about
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it in 2026)
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• 6 articles written
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• 51 newsletters sent
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• 1,001 GitHub contributions
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• 1 [6]conference talk
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• 1 [7]LabShare
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• 1 experiment published
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• 32 fiction books read
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• 2 non-fiction books read
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Best Book of the Year 📖
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So many good books this year, but [8]Will of the Many took the trophy with its
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whole "Harry Potter but he's a former pit-fighter-turned-student in a magic
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Roman Empire analog that's corrupt, and everyone's trying to kill each other"
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vibes. Good times.
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Movie I Actually Remember 🎥
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Maybe "Best Movie" to too big of a title for this year and we'll settle for
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"Movie I Actually Remember" which was [9]Thunderbolts* for focusing just a
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LITTLE more on the emotional aspect of the characters and the traumas they've
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faced than just the action.
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Best Video Game of the Year 🎮
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[10]Dredge is a Lovecraftian horror fishing game that I found engaging. I loved
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exploring the different islands and having NOPENOPENOPE moments as I dug deeper
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into what was going on. It doesn't ask too much of you either—I finished the
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base game in about 16 hours.
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Best Board Game of the Year 🎮
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[11]Tag Team was released in late 2025 and immediately caught my interest with
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how much fun it was to set up this little auto-battler. The drama of the reveal
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in whether you correctly moved your block to the right sequence or whether you
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managed to land that combo made it my personal biggest board game hit of 2025!
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Interesting Web Bits 🍜
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Web Stuff
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• Cassidy shows us how to [12]pause CSS animations with getAnimations()
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• Dan Abramov has built [13]an explorer for RSC to help show folks how React
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Server Components work under the hood.
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• Chris Feijoo has a wonderful post on [14]achieving the liquid glass effect
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with SVG.
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Other Stuff
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• Jim talks about sitting with the [15]"I don't know...". (Of which I have
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become increasingly convinced I know hardly anything at all!)
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• But we often even [16]forget what we know, especially when it moves outside
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'our' area
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• Marcin Wichary talks about {nostalgia of a childhood in Poland and clocks]
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(https://aresluna.org/the-clock/). What is it for you that transports you
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back to simpler times?
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• Taylor shows us [17]how to title.
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Weird, Watch, and Play
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• 📺 I'm a sucker for both slomo AND factory videos. Watch this Japanese
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factory [18]make wooden pencils.
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• 📺 Or if you're feeling like you need to up your Christmas wrapping game,
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watch these [19]japanese speed wrapping demonstrations.
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