Started reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 📚
Year in books for 2025
Here are the books I finished reading in 2025. I didn’t read as much as 2024, but I’m still happy with it.
These were the podcasts I listened to the most in 2025. Clocked.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, 1984
Watched on Thursday January 1, 2026.
Watched: Chernobyl. Fantastic as it is devastating. I learned a lot. 🍿
Started reading: The Dark Tower III by Stephen King 📚
Finished reading: The Dark Tower II by Stephen King 📚
🙋♂️ I’m interested in learning #AppKit (yes, not SwiftUI). I found Resources for learning Objective-C and AppKit by Jeff Johnson, which seems great. Does anyone have any other recommendations? 💽
I saw LCD Soundsystem over the weekend. What a great show. First time seeing them. They’re a band I’ve had on my list to dig into, and never did. This is that push. 🎵
I’ve been using the Helium browser for about a week, and I really like it. Fast, minimal, open source, and no ads/spyware/bloat. Honestly, the worst thing about it is the icon. 💽
Currently reading: The Dark Tower II by Stephen King 📚
Finished reading: Dave Barry Slept Here by Dave Barry 📚
The Return of Godzilla, 1984
The models, destruction, and monster suit look amazing. The ending is a wet noodle. The product is pretty fun.
Currently reading: Scholarly Pursuits by Robin S. Blackwood 📚
An interesting explanation for why preppers prep from Cory Doctorow.
Someone on Bluesky said to read the synopsis for the Disney TV movie The Luck of the Irish (2001). I did, and I encourage you to as well. 🍿
In science class, a magnet attaches to his coin and he realizes that his lucky gold coin was stolen. He rushes home to tell his parents and walks in to see that his mother has shrunk to one foot tall.
This is so cool: an old school print magazine full of cool HTML programs you can type in and run. Bought a copy immediately. 💽
Mothra vs. Godzilla, 1964 (contains spoilers)
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Really nice cinematography, doing wide shots and camera moves that you don’t always see in the human scenes. Also, two caterpillars kick Godzilla's ass with webbing.
King Kong vs. Godzilla, 1962 (contains spoilers)
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In this one, it’s pretty racist.
Godzilla vs. Biollante, 1989 (contains spoilers)
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In this one, the psychic gets turned into a flower monster, and a man in a hard hat gets bonked with a big bonk sound.
When you’re trying to grep but you keep typing gerp. 💽
abbr --add gerp 'grep'
I just received my digital copy of Scholarly Pursuits collected by Robin S. Blackwood. I’ll probably wait to read it until I receive my physical copy in the mail. Very excited! 📚
A fun romp through the history of art theft at the metropolitan museum of art. 🎨
When the sculpture was taken from the museum, it had a small heart-shaped mark above its left eye. When it was returned, it had a new matching heart-shaped mark above its right eye.