2025 in review

Nerdy things I enjoyed

• I read a few books this year.

  The whole Dungeon Crawler Carl series was absolutely amazing and it quickly jumped up to one of my favorite series of all time.

  I can’t be held accountable for everything I’ve ever said to a stripper.

• Board games are great.

  I still don’t play nearly as much as I’d like to but my kids are quickly growing up and to my eternal joy they’re all interested in board games! Isidor (8) has been loving Radlands, Loke (5) likes Chronicles of Avel, and Freja (3) loves Dragon’s Breath. My personal favorite is Luthier and I think it might be my absolute favorite game right now.

• Computer games have made a small comeback.

  As my kids have been gaming more I’ve regained a little bit of interest in gaming too. I’ve been playing a little Core Keeper and Beyond All Reason with Isidor and it felt really fun.

• Migrated my Neovim config to Fennel.

  Eh, it was fun to play with a new language.

Things I accomplished

• I wrote 12 blog posts, not great, not terrible.

• I managed to push back my fantasy writing ambitions to the future.

  It’s important as I tend to get stuck on things, preventing me from making progress in other parts. I really don’t have the time or energy to try to write a fantasy book right now, but making my brain see that wasn’t easy.

• 2025 was the first full year running my company.

  I’m still consulting for the same company I started out with and I enjoy it. It feels good to say that I haven’t blown it completely just yet.

• Switched to GrapheneOS.

  I took a big step forward in de-Googling and to increase my personal security by moving to GrapheneOS. I’m super happy about it.

• Built my second 3D-printer, a VORON 0.

  

  It’s good! It’s fun! And I’m already planning my next printer…

• We migrated away from Sonos in our Kitchen.

  We got tired of buggy vendor lock-in and now we use my own Music Assistant based setup. If things break we can now blame me instead of Sonos.

• I built my server first rack to host a new homelab server.

  

  I still need to cleanup the cables and write a blog post about it.

Tentative plans/goals/wishes for 2026

1. Go on some roller coasters with the family.

   We’re planning to go to Liseberg in Göteborg and I know the kids will love it.

2. Lose weight and build muscle.

   I’ve been having a rough year training and health wise. Not being able to get a consistent strength training routine, inconsistent sleep, and spouts of depression has made me gain too much weight again.

   Getting it sorted should (must) be a high priority this year.

3. Get our own training space for our martial arts club.

   I’ve been wanting to get our own place for quite a while and I feel that we need to make it happen sooner rather than later.

4. Develop a company product MVP.

   While I enjoy the consulting work I do at the moment my goal is to one day have a project of my own that can earn me money. I have a couple of ideas I want to pursue and I was going to do it in 2025 but I didn’t get far enough for that.

5. Migrate my homelab to the recently built server and expand on it.

   I have this newly built server that’s just sitting idle. I need to migrate my old services to it and I’ve got ideas for lots of stuff I want to put there.