Year 2025 in Review

It's another year again, and I look back on what I did. This is mainly for myself, as I didn't write one of these in 2022, and now I can't remember what I spent all my time doing for the whole year.Year 2024 in ReviewYear 2023 in ReviewYear 2021 in ReviewAway from DatabasesI had started the year by cutting my losses, and moving away from doing database work. A couple years back, there weren't any databases that were immutable, local-first, open-source, reactive, and any other number of properties that I wanted. I spent a good amount of time getting up to speed, but I never got to a point where I had remotely the output necessary to make it a reality. I reminded myself that databases were never the point, so I'd cut my losses and work on the reactive collaborative notebook with effects. I had to reload my brain with the research I did on reactive systems and algebraic effects around January, and started coding up an algebraic effects system through March.Lab note #058 Free Monad…