I can hardly tell what my New Year's Resolutions will be, or for that matter, if one particularly needs resolutions to start the new year.
I suppose one would be to me more authentic to myself, as there have been days were I haven't felt like me in a while, and I start to miss myself a little more.
2025 was a very strange and turbulent year for many of us. For obvious reasons, I like to call it the "year of fear", as one would often view it on various news platforms across the internet and social media.
Nevertheless, one can only hope that 2026 turns out to be a better year than this one.
"Year of fear" is a good description for 2025. I don't want to watch the news anymore, because it ruins my mood for the day. Let's hope that 2026 will bring some peace, but I have my doubts.
Anyway: Happy new year! Even if it must sound like pure sarcasm to the ukrainian soliders.
Howdy ~fab!
I stopped "watching" the news after the towers of the World Trade Center fell. And I can confirm, it gives me a lot more peace of mind. It does not help the world a whee bit, if I'm not alive myself. And it is still better to teach someone how to use Linux or bash or microcontrollers rather than sitting in some dark corner hoping for rescue --- whatever that would be.
Assuming it's you, I really liked that bit about "emailing post to your blog is creative", "but what's the problem with lazyvim/git/shell?" :-) I do use emacs/git/magit/shell/make to "make" it all happen :) --- "make" was the first real tool I learned way back in 1991 or so. According to my ~/.emacs.d/init.el I started using emacs 1993-02-01. :-) And I'm still using it daily.
Cheers!
Your decision to *not* "watch" the news, is very wise the more I think about it. Especially for me, because I'm blackpilled very fast, and I think i fall for the TV news in that regard. They want me/us to feel blackpilled and then show some ads, and keep me waiting for the next catastrophy - I don't know why the world is the way it is, maybe they want to make us feel helpless, but why? (That reminds me of Winston in 1984 when he says "I know the 'how' but I don't know the 'why'"). I'm not sure if I should think about that too much. In the end it's surely just to make more and more money for some people.
And yes, I wrote an answer to Gary Moore's article about his way to post on his gemlog via email. Nice to hear you liked it! Thanks! :)