John Q Developer's Blog

Year In Review: 2025

Did I meet my goals for 2025?

Not really. I've been dealing with a few things in RL that were major changes but ultimately, I feel I was thinking about things wrong when I posted my 5 year plan.

Deploy my personal infrastructure with a semi-automated way to deploy/maintain that infrastructure

This isn't really needed in practice. I worked with ansible and other automation tooling and the truth is, for the scale I'm at, manual deployments with bash scripts is just faster/more efficient uses of my time. So I'm just using docker containers as a deployment/installation tool and putting caddy in front.

Document things that are normally considered personal publicly

I did this, particularly with my health/financial plans.

I probably should add I shifted to an international/US domestic mix of about 40%/60% simply because I don't think US outperformance during the Trump presidency is likely and so far I've been correct by about 3%. It sounds small but when you are a mid-career professional with a saver's mentality its an entire paycheck.

Start on my projects.

I did this but I kept killing them off, honestly.

So not really a start worth mentioning.

Discuss life as a neurodivergent

Discuss life as a neurodivergent is something I just kinda moved on from I guess. I just don't feel like it?

Go on two 4 day vacations outside of visiting my parents/family.

Went on the vacations.

Life quality check in and annual tasks in DECEMBER/2025

Did this I suppose? But still, just not much to report lol.