2025 in review

Not much has changed since 2024, the path of continuous learning never ends. Time continues to accelerate, and I'm aging faster than I'd like. At the very least, I kept monitoring the situation.

The year was dominated by migrations, upgrades, and the usual assortment of technical rabbit holes.

I became a team leader and handled more responsibility at work than ever before. My home infrastructure grew into a small personal cloud.

GitHub activity

At work

General

• Became a team leader
• As an SME, I helped review applications for internal certifications
• Survived some "resource actions"
• Read Modern Angular on O'Reilly for free (before IBM ended the enterprise plan¹), highly recommend the book

Technical achievements

• Angular app development and maintenance

  • migration of a massive legacy app from Angular 14 to 19
  • developed a bunch of features and fixed ~274 issues
  • adopted Signals and new template control flow
  • integrated some Web Components
  • cleaned up legacy modal implementation (routable modals on top of modals, anyone?)
    • combining two separate modal implementations (legacy and IBM Carbon Components)
  • modernized some parts of the app by migrating to IBM Carbon Components (completely new designs)

  Notes:

  • app is going to be 8 years old in 2026, and it is still going strong, which is a testament to the power of Angular and the dedication of the team maintaining it
  • received early access to IBM Bob on the 30th of December (better late than never)

• CKEditor 5 custom plugin development and maintenance

  • Developed file uploader/manager/viewer plugin, which also supports switching between embed and inline view in the document
  • Upgraded our custom builds to v46 (a couple of breaking changes here and there)

Stats

• 144 hours of chatting on Slack
• 189 hours of MS Teams meetings
• 382 hours in IDE + terminal (still trad-coding majority of the time)

Home improvements

• New plants (multiple snake plants and a single ZZ plant)
• Heated desk mat (such a life hack)
• SwitchBot Meter Pro CO2 air quality monitor and a regular CO detector
• Another used car

NAS & infrastructure

TrueNAS proved itself after more than 3 years of use, I'm really happy with it.

• Added more HDDs for redundancy and migrated apps (dropped TrueCharts)
• Set up my first Tailscale network + nginx
• Started using Immich
• Continued running a small fleet of archiving and automation tools

Personal workstation

My ASUS VivoBook keeps working fine, but I think I finally decided to switch to macOS since I became such an Apple fanboy. Also, it took ~20 hours to update Windows to 24H2, after multiple failed attempts.

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Update attempt #11 to Windows 24H2 was successful (from ISO). Believe it or not, it took nearly 21 hours.

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Parts of my daily workflow

• Continued daily note-taking and time tracking
• Cross-posting experiments with Fedica
• Completed LeetCode challenges for 365 days

Random achievements

• Read 1798 Medium articles (mostly about programming)
• Carried ~740 kg of groceries in 2-3 shopping bags (less than last year since I started using cars more)
• Notable abbreviation of the year: NOBUS - nobody but us

What's next

• Switching from Windows to macOS (final step in completing my Apple ecosystem)
• More learning
• More AI automation in daily life (I feel so inspired thanks to OpenClaw)
• New side projects (obviously)
• House renovation (finally, hopefully, maybe)