New Year

Another trip around the sun and honestly compared to 2024, I feel 2025 was more memorable. I didn’t travel as much as I did in 2024. But it was an interesting year.

Things I made:

1. ball-park. It is an app to train mental math, especially big number math. The idea is to get an approximate answer quickly. It is local first, no registration, private.
2. Back of The Napkin. It is a webapp to do guesstimations (sizing an opportunity). The key was to make it sharable and editable without having to create an account. And assure privacy based on deniability.
3. Wiki. Sometimes, I would get deeply interested in some topic and go down the rabbit hole. I figured having my obsidian published to my website would help me access these deep research. This is also part of keeping my Digital Garden growing.
4. Korean Language Learning App. It combines audio and anki cards.
5. Many random tiny tools, like a tool to get interesting hacker news articles and their comment threads, a tool to train GTO poker, a tool to train chess openings, a tool to write like a human on a whiteboard and many other such silly things.

I got really good at cooking Indian food. I was always a pretty good cook. But I mostly ate out or cooked simple western dishes. In 2025 I went full south indian. Sambhar, Rasam, dosai, fish curry, poriyal, kootu etc.

I also ran a race after 5-6 years. I got pretty fit and got my resting heart rate to be around 41-43. Made a lot of new friends and reconnected with some very old friends.