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Year Wrap-up: English Danmei in 2025

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.danmeinews.com/2026/01/25/year-wrap-up-english-danmei-in-2025/

TL;DR

I fell for a strange pattern of techy computer users to describe / brag about reducing their dependance of IT services owned by US-based tech giants and other companies that embraced enshittification principles.

I didn’t invented nothing new, I just made some small steps towards better control of my data and IT equipment.

IT usage is very political imho. With the recent imperialistic developments and sharp drop in human rights in US, I feel uneasy about using their platforms (Microsoft, Google, social media). This is one of the reasons I’m trying to move away from them and towards FOSS & non-enshittified companies. The other reason is curiosity for exploring new things.

But even selecting FOSS/sustainable IT alternatives is not trivial. They usually lack polished UI, and … ugh, … sometimes there is quite some drama associated with them (e. g. main developer adopts techbro mentality).

OS

As I wrote extensively, I transitioned from Windows to Linux Mint as a daily driver in March 2025.

It’s pretty boring – Mint works, it didn’t crash beyond repair (yet), I don’t think about it anymore.

Now is Dec. and I still haven’t booted to Windows partition. It’s time to delete it and dedicate space for something else.

Browser

Firefox, but looking for alternatives. Mozilla is not my favourite company anymore because of their efforts to stick genAI into the browser and dismissing the community. Yes, I still wear their t-shirt from 2004 and probably will until it disintegrates.

Office

I cancelled to M356 subscriptions for my company and left only 1 license for special cases (spreadsheets with macros for reporting to EU and similar).

Firstly I used OpenOffice in 2003-2006 when I wrote my dissertation and MsWord started to crash after 100 pages. At that time, OpenOffice saved a lot of time, because it handled formulas and references really well. Then I stopped using it until last year. Now it’s my daily driver (Libre Office) again alongside Google Docs (yeah, I know).

I made a promise that all documents that I send out to other people will be in .odt format. In last several months I received in total 0 complaints. Even people with MSOffice can open it and probably they don’t even notice the change of the format.

I especially like (not so well known): Libre Draw for editing PDFs, Libre Write for creating ePUBs.

I also installed NextCloud and it’s NextCloud Office on my selfhosted Yuno, but I haven’t used it much yet. It looks promising, but more complex in comparison with Google Docs.

Email

I bought Tuta subscription and connected it with my domain. I’m using Linux desktop app, mobile app alongside Gmail.

I haven’t transitioned from GMail yet. I gave my new email address only to some specific people and I’m trying to keep it away from various online subsctiptions. I still use GMail, where all the junk goes.

Probably I will keep using GMail as a throw away email account and Tuta for things I care about – such as communication with state institutions, health institutions, friends.

I’m still trying to get used to Tuta UI.

I could even recreate my workflow from GMail to Tuta: Starred emails. In GMail, I star emails that need my further attention. In Tuta, I use labels for the same purpose. I created a new label ‘todo’ which I can apply to the email. It needs some more clicks than starring emails in GMail, which is not optimal, but it’s good enough.

Calendar

I still don’t know how to transfer my calendar from Google Calendar to something else, e. g. Tuta Calendar. I use Google Calendar with 10+ calendars, intervowen with my family’s calendars. Will try to figure it out in 2026.

Cloud storage

This one is the most difficult one.

But I started to ween off Google Drive, which I use from its beginnings. Until now I haven’t found a good replacement, especially for Google Docs.

Lately I bought a lifetime Koofr subscription for 1 TB. I’m using it as a (3rd) backup for all of my family’s photos and videos. It backups my NAS via WebDAV and my desktop via rclone. I also sync my media from the phone to Koofr. Maybe I’ll even use it instead Google Photos. Will see – but at the first glance it doesn’t miss much – maybe albums and search by photo description.

Koofr looks promising and most importantly, it’s based in EU.

A #wish for the #newyear

#newyearseve #2026 #2026Goals #Year2026 #yearReview #NewYear2026 #newyears #democracy

I think this has been the year of global #enshittification https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-year-of-global-enshittification.html
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As is traditional, I'm ending the year with a look back at my garden in 2025. There have been a few triumphs and some disasters. Read about it here: https://bit.ly/3KKvpqD

Happy New Year and here's to a great gardening year in 2026. The rose is the aptly named 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
#BlogPost #YearReview #gardens #gardening #plants #flowers #photography #roses #BloomScrolling

#GitHub #YearReview #GItHubUnwrapped #GitHubWrapped #GitWrapped #opensource

2025 year review:
- 2 blog publications
- 7 projects I contributed to
- 11 accepted and merged pull requests on GitHub
- 181 OpenStreetMap contributions
- at the April stand with comrades at @capitoledulibre

Good :blobnomcookie:

#opensource #GitHub #OpenStreetMap #capitoledulibre #YearReview

@zechy

Ty hashtagy máš špatně, jsou to #zprávobot #yearreview #2025 …d8-D

It's the time of year for looking back and I've been reviewing my garden in 2024. There were a few disasters - and some successes. You can read about it on my blog: https://bit.ly/4gmQOAU

Thank you for your company over 2024. Here's to another great year of plants and gardens.
#YearReview #BlogPost #gardens #gardening #plants #flowers #cotswolds

https://thi.ng/umbrella 2024 summary

Next month #ThingUmbrella will be already 7 years old (in its current monorepo form) and thi.ng itself turn 14 — a true teenager! 😱

2024 has been a year of a lot of maintenance and the first year in a while, in which I got to put so many of these tools & libraries to work on the development of several other new (and ongoing) projects (incl. some still unannounced ones). Considering the vastly different usage contexts, each time this is also a demonstration (to myself) of just how powerful, adaptable and _composable_ many of these libraries are, and I wish I'd be able to better communicate these aspects to other people...

My deepest thanks and gratitude to my amazing supporters/sponsors, who've been enabling me to continue this work, to expand on it and actively maintain it! Some of you already for years! Love you, people — Your support means the world to these projects (and to me)! And even though I'm still a far way from being able to work fulltime on all these projects, and also had to take on some consulting work this year, I too have been trying my best to work on thi.ng projects every day this year (and almost succeeded)...

Super special thanks go out to: @avi @made @Yura @robertoranon @jeffpalmer @alesroubicek @slowdownitsfine @latrokles @rc101 and others... (Sorry if I missed any other people/supporters/users here — please ping me (again) if I don't follow you already!) 🙏😍

Some juicy/boring statistics (#ThingUmbrella only!):

In 2024 there were 1,639 commits (incl. today's release), of which:

- 467 features (29%)
- 389 documentation related (24%)
- 340 refactor & performance (21%)
- 198 build, CI, testing, restructuring (12%)
- 112 releases (7%)
- 87 bug fixes (5%)

Scope:

- 200 packages/libraries/tools
- 180 standalone example projects/tools
- 520 code snippets/examples in docs (extractable via tooling)

Source code:

- 4,095 source files
- 223k SLOC total, of which:
- 159k lines of code
- 64k comment lines (mostly for API docs)

Readme's:

- 33% of packages with 1,000+ words
- 20% of packages with 1,500+ words
- Min: 215, max: 9,519, avg: 1,075 words

3,445 Github ⭐️ (+12% in 2024)

200,675,881 NPM total downloads to date (🤯)

There're many valuable ways to support these projects: Share your usage/experience reports, tips & tricks, ask/answer questions, submit issues/PRs, create small examples, documentation/tutorials, word-of-mouth etc.

If you see value in these projects and want to support a large & mature body of open source work financially, I'm accepting contributions via: Github, Liberapay & Patreon — thank you very much for your consideration!

https://github.com/postspectacular
https://liberapay.com/thi.ng/
https://patreon.com/thing_umbrella

Ps. I'm on a small single-user instance only here - any boosts are highly appreciated to increase visibility! Thank you! 🙏

#OpenSource #ReleaseFriday #SoftwareCraft #YearReview #Statistics #TypeScript #JavaScript #WebAssembly

A year in review, I usually don't bothering doing these because I'll have a few months where I perish, but the only month for that is with nali's death. I'm not sure I "progressed" at all, but I did do very many things this year!

#PixelArt #MastoArt #DigitalArt #YearReview

Dopo veramente tanto tempo ho scritto di nuovo.
Volevo scrivere un post dove analizzavo i miei viaggi per dare un senso all'esame di data science, ma poi mi sono perso nei ricordi.
È venuto fuori qualcosa di diverso, pieno di note e divagazioni. E va bene così.

https://norangebit.me/it/posts/2024/how-i-traveled-in-2024/

#travel #viaggi #blog #yearReview

Never Waste a Good Crisis to Undermine Democracy

➡️ https://theplanet.substack.com/p/never-waste-a-good-crisis-to-undermine

#history #news #year2024 #yearreview

Simon reviews his 2023 and lists a few of the more special experiences meeting winemakers and tasting natural wines

https://themorningclaret.com/2023/2023-my-year-in-wine/

As is the tradition, Thanksgiving is the time for the Turkey Trot, and reflect on the past year.
Join me for a deep dive into my new experience as a mentor, board member, and advisor and the successes and challenges as an executive and dad.
https://www.korte.co/2023/11/23/you-only-have-to-beat-your-own-time/
#Thanksgiving #yearreview #boardmember #anniversary

This year I've listened/read 31 books, mostly fantasy & science fiction. I replaced a number of podcasts that didn't interest me anymore with audiobooks while doing chores around the house and I'm happy with the amount of stories I consumed while vacuuming, dishes and cleaning.

I think next year I'll dial it back though, this year I set a lot of high goals both to challenge myself and as a vain attempt to make myself look busy for no good reason.

https://drisc.io/wiki/library

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