As 2025 comes to a close, I thought it would be useful to revisit what I have written and the goals I set in the beginning of the year. First I wanted to write a post a month¹ then I also wanted to try different writing styles to see what would suit me best. Here’s a quick glimpse on everything I put on paper online and some quick follow-ups on each article.

Experimentation

When I envisioned this series I kind of thought I’d be able to embark on a multi-month intensive testing of everything, which is what you see on both the Browser and the Microlearning series. That did limit how many experiments I could run in parallel aside from also having a job and normal life, but it was good to do so, hence I intend to continue it for years to come.

• 2025-08-24 The Year of Experimentation - Microlearning: I didn’t return to my Italian course on Duolingo nor to Brilliant.
• 2025-02-23 The Year of Experimentation - Browsers: Brave continues to be my main browser²!
• 2025-01-19 The Year of Experimentation: I did test some board game apps, but felt it was too niche to write about.

Chronicles

By far the easiest to write texts, because they kind of come up from a situation I experienced and as such are mostly ready.

• 2025-11-23 An ode to our small basketball: We didn’t attend another basketball game, but due to agenda conflicts!
• 2025-10-17 Nerdy tales from a day off: The reimaged cellphone has been in the drawer ever since.
• 2025-06-30 The pharmacist and the binary search: I still have some free samples from that day.
• 2025-03-16 Ultra-Processed Food: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: I kinda stopped drinking whey, not sure if due to this.

Politics/Climate

Climate and politics intertwine in the two posts I wrote, but then it was difficult not to, as they involved urban planning decisions.

• 2025-07-07 Belo Horizonte, where’s my tree?: according to the city hall, 2025 was the year with most trees planted, still they’re mostly on a single of the city’s regions.
• 2025-04-29 Have you felt the climate crisis yet?: after writing this I kind stopped visiting the reservoir website³

Open Source

Just relayed into the blog posts I wrote trying to cover a bit more in-depth what we were doing in OpenRCT2.

• 2025-08-29 OpenRCT2’s v0.4.26 behind the scenes
• 2025-05-31 OpenRCT2’s v0.4.23 behind the scenes

That’s a wrap, is anyone there reading on the other side? What do you enjoy reading the most? Hopefully I will write a lot more stuff in 2026 😊