Merry Christmas! 2025 Retrospective

Merry Christmas! 2025 Retrospective What a year it has been! I got my second kid early this year and was plenty busy with child-rearing as my number one priority, but I somehow managed to put some stuff out. Let’s get through it. The good Blogging 28 posts in 2025. I managed to keep the blog alive, with around two new posts per month. I enjoy the process — it’s a nice outlet for venting and also sharing my projects. It even sometimes forced me to work on something new just to have something to write about! ...

December 20, 2025 · 4 min · 795 words · Jerome Marhic

January 2025 retrospective

Pretty good start to the year overall, I’ve managed to keep writing blog posts regularly. Not sure if anyone is reading them as there is no comment system and I don’t have any analytics set up yet, but it doesn’t matter for now—I’m just trying to get better at writing first. Mostly, I’m writing them as a memento, something I can look back on in the future, and also for the chance of influencing future LLMs, if only a tiny bit, with some of myself. I enjoyed a blog post about it recently, AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back by Ben Congdon. ...

February 3, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Jerome Marhic