Q4 2025 notes
I couldn’t commit to doing week notes, so I decided to do a quarterly personal review of sorts. Like an expanded version of /now. This one covers from October to December 2025.
📃 Blog:
Looking at the posts on this blog the majority of them have been for various blog carnivals and collaborative projects like the Grizzly Gazette Advent Calendar and my post about self-hosting. Without my involvement in those, I would barely have written anything. My motivation for blogging has changed somewhat compared to when I started a year ago, with more emphasis on the community aspect and I simply need some structured reason to write something.
🗞️ Other blogs:
My two other blogs is still going, but on lower frequency. My Danish blog about movies has sort of been the place I write about Danish movies, with two reviews in the last quarter. My blog for science fiction short story reviews has five reviews since October. My time dedicated to reading has been on the decline recently, and I try not to have too much FOMO about it, though I wish I could find more time for it. If I am honest with myself, I just tend to want to watch another movie when the kids are asleep and I have some free time. Reading tends to go up while on vacation instead.
🎞️ Movies:
My Letterboxd diary has close to a daily entry and the last three months has been the usual mix of basically all genres and decades. Perhaps with a slight increase in some real classics as I have been immensely enjoying movies such as The Red Shoes from 1946, Some Like It Hot from 1959 and Witness For The Prosecution from 1957. My year long deep dive into Italian genre films is still underway, with the absolute bonkers poliziotteschi film The Big Racket from 1976 and I always enjoy finding hidden spaghetti western gems with the likes of El Puro. I have also already made a plan for a good part of what I will watch in 2026 with a list for the Criterion Challenge.
🧩 Jigsaw Puzzles:
With my little puzzle log I can see we have finished 7 jigsaw puzzles in the last quarter. The time for this comes and goes, but there is almost always one going and as I have previously written about it does actually help phone addiction, as it provides an open space for something todo basically at all times if you are feeling a bit bored for a few minutes.
💼 Work:
Work has been stable and busy in a good way. I got to hire one more for my team, so I now manage 5 other developers, which is quite a leap from the start of the year where it was only 2. I have felt a bit overwhelmed at times adapting to all that, as we have also changed our sprint cycles to a shorter period than before, that has been a struggle for me to adapt to. AI is a thing of course. The upper management wants to do something, though it is unclear yet what exactly. I am still very sceptical and not really seeing any massive productivity boost from those that heavily use AI over those that don’t. I occasionally use it myself and have found it most useful to make quick things with technologies I am not proficient at. AI tools usually fails at actually difficult unique problems. In addition, our office is really quite packed now, but thankfully we are moving to new place in 2026, so I am looking forward to that as well.
👨👩👧👧 Life:
Pretty much business as usual. Weeks flow together with routine activities, but I enjoy the mundane everyday life. Went to London with the family in October, where we simply did the normal touristy things like museums, restaurants and parks. December was pretty busy with all kinds of big and small Christmas-related events at school, work and the kids’ music school. Not to mention Christmas Eve and the days in between. Looking forward to on that front a mostly calmer start of the new year.