In 2025, I published 112 posts. Here’s what was on my mind.

My biggest accomplishment in 2025 was publishing my book, Swimming in Tech Debt. Here are some posts about the process:

• My Content Strategy for Selling a Book
• Applying My Book Selling Content Strategy on Sites I Control
• Applying My Book Selling Content Strategy in My Communities
• Applying My Book Selling Content Strategy to Social Media
• Sweep Edits for My Book
• Marketing First When Writing a Book
• My “Show HN” Follow-Up for “Swimming in Tech Debt”
• Teaching Your Book Before You Write It

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I wrote a lot about code reviews.

• How to use Code Reviews to Prevent Bugs from Getting Into Production
• How to Find Bugs in a Code Review
• A Good Pull Request Convinces You That it is Correct
• Question on r/ExperiencedDevs: Getting Code Reviewed Faster

I completely changed my dev stack from Node/React to Django/HTMX

• Changing my Dev Stack (2025), Part I: Simplify, Simplify
• Dev Stack 2025: Part II – Linux
• Dev Stack 2025: Part III, Django
• Dev Stack 2025, Part IV: HTMX
• Dev Stack 2025, Part V: VSCode and Copilot
• Dev Stack 2025, Part VI: Bulma
• Dev Stack 2025, Part VII: Sqlite
• Dev Stack 2025, Part VIII: uv
• Dev Stack 2025, Part IX: tooling
• Dev Stack 2025, Part X: networking

These were some of my favorites

• Thoughts on Tool Making
• Using Fuzzy Logic for Decision Making
• Interleaved Reading
• Tech Debt is Caused by Correct Behavior
• My Antilibrary
• Recognize the Catalysts
• Some Behaviors of a Catalyst
• One Time I Recognized a Junior Catalyst

The most popular post from this year (mostly because of search hits) is Supernote Manta: Review at Eight Weeks. I updated it with my current thinking in How Digital Journaling is Better Than Paper.