2025 Retrospective

Let me kick this off with the obligatory GitHub contributions chart.

Why are there two charts? Because, I’ve been using two separate accounts. This is one of the weakest aspects of GitHub. One should really have a single account, and then one or more profiles, similar to how one account can house multiple channels on YouTube. Oh well!

Archive

Here is an archive of all the posts that I published this year.

I might attempt to do something crazy, and try to publish at least one post per week in 2026. It does sound a bit aggressive, I have to admit, but there’s only one way to find out.

Stronghold Crusader: DE

In last year’s retrospective, I was talking about how Stronghold Cursader: DE was still nothing more than a good old fashioned conspiracy theory, but it turned out to be true in the end; just like all conspiracy theories in this day and age.

You’ll be pleased to know, that this is the last time you’ll hear me mention it this year. Cough, cough.

2001

Playing an era appropriate instrumental version of a hit song in the background, for each segment was a very nice touch in my humble opinion. Can you name them all? Without resorting to any of the so called song recognition tools out there of course!

Lua 5.5.0

Lua 5.5.0 got released on December 22nd. No significant changes have been introduced since the beta that I checked out a few months back; a fact which really shouldn’t be too surprising to anybody, but I still thought that I’d mention the release, considering that it has been a while since 5.4.0.

Advent of Slop

The people have spoken, and seem to have designated “slop” as the word of the year. This is primarily due to so called AI slop, of course; but I’ve seen it applied to all sort of things over the course of the year, so it’s fair to say that it has not been exclusively limited to it.

Personally, I do not feel like there has been any increase in random crap-ware and creepy-pasta being spread through the great information super-highway. Sure, AI, it definitely makes things easier, but people were already creating “meme generators” and such, a long way before the current so called cycle of AI reared its head.

My personal word of the year on the other hand is learing. A little bit of a late call, but what can we do?

The Future

On a slightly more serious note, 2025 was an absolute cluster-fuck of a year in every imaginable way, and I am afraid to break it to you, 2026 is going to be even more brutal.

People will always look around and try to find a scape-goat or a recipe that has been prepared just for them, so that they do not have to do any thinking on their own. The reason why everything is deteriorating at a rapid pace, has nothing to do with video games, guns, AI, climate change or the fact that little Andy watched one too many shorts on TikTok or some place.

What is it then? It’s pure socialist brainrot that has been working its way all our lives, but only now it’s starting to reach critical mass, and it taints everything it touches.

As someone who happened to be born in the 80s in a country that has been ruled by a third-rate brainless illiterate shoemaker, and his retarded illiterate (read: savant) wife, believe you me, when I tell you that if you think that things are bad right now, then you haven’t a faintest clue as how much worse they can get.

All that is to say, I feel like 2026 will force my hand to step on the gas, and make some major changes, because retiring early, no longer seems feasible at this point, mostly due to the rate at which I am able to fill up my war-chest at is simply not being meaningful enough anymore.

I mentioned before the fact how I never jumped on any of the proverbial gold-rush trains in the past (and there have been a couple!), mostly because, I never seen any meaningful reasons to do so, but I feel like it’s high time to buckle up, and buy some shovels in 2026.

At any rate, until next year, as server said: END OF LINE!