Another year, another 121 books completed, or about 1 every 3 days. My 2025 reading list has a very brief review/summary of each one.
Highlights were The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball and Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin.
While I strive not to be, I can be pretty inconsistent in my reading pace. More books take 1 day to read than any other length of time, with 72% in 3 days or less and 93% within a week. The longest took a full 23 days (because I was on a vacation where I didn't read much).
I read much less on vacation than when I'm at home, and I read the most when I get really dug into a series I love - October was 13 books from Mick Herron's Slough House.
With ~20 years of my reading history tracked, my biggest take away is that there are still so many great books to find :)
Jan 5th: I haven't given it a try yet, but Inkarnate looks amazing for making D&D maps
Dec 22nd: Jeff & Sanjay recently published a bunch of performance hints, many (most? all?) of which are universally useful approaches for software engineering in general
Dec 22nd: Text editing is just much more complex than you might imagine.
Dec 9th: An interesting (hour long) video about the walk/pathing system from The Witness (and generally how difficult collision and pathing is in 3D games)
Level Devil a great little 'frustrating platformer'. I love this genre, mostly to watch, as playing is pretty frustrating [via Myles]
Nov 26th: It's not a long read, but How to not get away with murder is a fun read of extreme incompetence. I figure I would be a much better criminal
I love this project - a rack-mounted keyboard device that lets you input any Unicode codepoint (character) using toggle switches, complete with a visual preview. Works for Emoji too and looks beautiful.
Nov 7th: I don't think I'll ever actually get around to doing it, but I would love to set up an MILS-based Lego modular diorama.
I've reads it a few times and it's fascinating - why flight booking is so complex, from one of the co-founders of the company that became Google Flights. Fare components, priceable units, open jaws, etc
