
A list of some things I consumed in the month of December 2025.

Reading:

* [Zig project leaves GitHub due to excessive AI](https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/136914/zig-project-leaves-github-due-to-excessive-ai/)
* [Everyone in Seattle Hates AI](https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html)
* [Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript](https://javascript.tm/letter)
* [Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership](https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership)
* [Betty Rogers Alexander](https://www.smithfuneralchapels.com/obituaries/Betty-Rogers-Alexander?obId=45537436)
* [Why We Need to Die](https://willllliam.com/blog/why-we-need-to-die/)
* [Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help](https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/)
* [Grow, Like a Tree Not a Cancer](https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/grow-like-a-tree-not-a-cancer/)
* [How I block all online ads](https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/)
* [The appropriate amount of effort is zero](https://expandingawareness.org/blog/the-appropriate-amount-of-effort-is-zero/)
* [Military Standard on Software Control Levels](https://entropicthoughts.com/mil-std-882e-software-control)
* [My private information is worth $30](https://blog.melashri.net/micro/privacy-price/)
* [Just Fucking Use Tailwind](https://justfuckingusetailwind.com)
* [Prepare for That Stupid World](https://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.html)
* [Brute-Forceable Airline Reservation API Left Millions of Passenger Records Vulnerable](http://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/11/20/avelo-airline-reservation-api-vulnerability)
* [Get an AI code review in 10 seconds](https://oldmanrahul.com/2025/12/19/ai-code-review-trick/)
* [Just Fucking Use Postgres](https://www.justfuckingusepostgres.com)
* [Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/)
* [A computer can never be held accountable](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/)
* [The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better](https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-bet-on-juniors-just-got-better)
* [If You Don’t Design Your Career, Someone Else Will](https://gregmckeown.com/if-you-dont-design-your-career-someone-else-will/)
* [Google is dead. Where do we go now?](https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/)
* [On privacy and control](https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/)

Movies/TV Shows:

* [Train Dreams (2025)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29768334/)
* [Death by Lightning (2025)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31121364/)
* [Jay Kelly (2025)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30446847/)
* [F1 (2025)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16311594/)
* [Pluribus - Season 1 (2025)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22202452/)
* [Shōgun - Season 1 (2024)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788316/)

Consumption: December 2025