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Final day of the year, final weeknote of 2025.

The sticker shop is live as of a couple of weeks ago with a handful of stickers I think you'll like.

I'm into a new journal for tomorrow and this time I'm using a Leuchtturm1917 Bullet Journal I got for a…

I'm glad to see the back of 2025, so let's focus on 2026.

As I write this, it’s 18:49 on New Year’s Eve. I’m sat in the lounge, with the fire going, annoyed that our NYE plans have been ruined by me having the flu.

I feels like an appropriately…

[Spencer Ackerman at Forever Wars]

Spencer Ackerman has had a 60 Minutes piece spiked and has withstood White House demands to stop a story. And he has some thoughts about Bari Weiss spiking the 60 Minutes story about CECOT.

“That's where my mind goes when I read…

I'm not sure I believe in New Year's resolutions as such: too easy to break. But there's something powerful about a checklist, so I've been thinking about what it might look like to build one for every single day next year.

Here's what I have.

Every day

Close my Apple…

Go’s arithmetic operations on standard integer types are silent by default, meaning overflows “wrap around” without panicking. This behavior has hidden an entire class of security vulnerabilities from fuzzing campaigns. Today we’re changing that by releasing go-panikint, a modified Go compiler that turns silent integer overflows into explicit panics.…

After last week’s downer of a global year in review, I decided I’d like to go back and do a more personal review, as well as share a few hopes for the new year.

Highlights from 2025

Working

While I don’t intend to share the internal workings of ProPublica

A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative.

Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt

Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a…