The Best Things and Stuff of 2025 Fogus
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2025. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
also: see the lists from 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010
Great posts | articles | vids read/watched
Most viewed posts/videos with/by me
While I’ve posted a few technical post on my personal blog, I’ve taken a lot of time to guest-post on the Wormwoodania blog about weird, macabre, and sardonic fiction and other related, non-technical topics. I hope to continue this trend into next year. Also, my most assiduous readers will have noticed that I’ve written more about games. I’ve decided to keep those posts on this blog since my intent for the site has always been about systems and systems-thinking and games are a great way to study and model systems.
Favorite technical books discovered (and read)
Mouse, a Language for Microcomputers by Peter Grogono - Mouse is basically an esolang with barely any abstraction facilities, but the book was well-written and the language compelling enough to explore further.
by Peter Grogono - Mouse is basically an esolang with barely any abstraction facilities, but the book was well-written and the language compelling enough to explore further. Notes on Distance Dialing (pdf) by AT&T - Described the telephone systems of the USA and Canada in the mid-1950s. The reading is a dry as it gets, but it was a fascinating dive into a vastly complex system solving extremely hard problems. This is a must-read for folks interested in systems-thinking. That said, I am actively looking for recommendations for books about the process of designing and building the unbelievably complex telephony system over the rudiments of the earlier systems. Recommendations welcomed!
Favorite non-technical books read
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