AOTY 2025
In this post extremely belated post, I’ll look back on the music I’ve listened to in 2025 and what ended up on my list of top fifty albums. I’ll be counting down to my favourite album of the year, and listing my three favourite tracks from each album, though these tracks aren’t in ranked order.
Usually, I write a little about each album, but due to ongoing fatigue, I’ve decided it’s better to at least get the list out rather than be bogged down with this barrier. I do feel bad about it, as I’d love to explain why certain albums are where they are, and what it was I liked and disliked in an album, maybe I’ll be able to return and expand at a later date, but for now, this is the list.
And yes, these are my favourite albums of the year, not necessarily the best, but the ones I have enjoyed the most. Not every album here is amazing, but nonetheless had at least three songs I liked - though the list is strong this year and I can easily say I liked every album, in one way or another, that landed up here!
There is also a full list of all the albums listed at the end.
Now
A now page displays what is going on in someone’s life at this moment. You can read more about them here.
openSUSE Leap 16
I’ve recently made a change in the operating system running on my laptop, and I thought I’d explain what happened there in this short post.
Audio Setup - 2026
Last year, I wrote about reorganising the hardware side of my music setup, along with a few software changes. However, shortly after that post, I started to experience some issues and decided an overhaul was already needed. So! In this post, I’ll go into what went wrong, the various ideas I explored, what I landed up with, and why this is now titled Audio Setup and not Music Setup.
Manifesto 2026
I last wrote my website’s manifesto in 2023, and due to the recent revamp, I thought I ought to provide an updated version noted changes made since. I don’t believe there are too many changes, so the vast majority of text here is repeated from before, but enough change has happened to warrant an update.
For those who have not read the first manifesto, this post elaborates on my thinking, and stating more explicitly the theory and principles which influenced my decisions in how the website should function and why. As such, it is a post less on the technical side of things, and more on the philosophy.