2025 was awful so... I would say I am happy and proud to still be alive.

I’ve created some absolutely amazing photography in ‘25 and will continue to make even more!

It took two years but I finally achieved a 1000lb powerlifting total. It's not a huge number but I do feel proud of myself, and physically I have never felt better. Outgrew my wardrobe twice, and can't find jeans that fit but otherwise 10/10 would recommend lifting to anyone

Literal zero usage of Windows or any Microsoft software or hardware. Also 99% no Google.

Went vegan.

Started my masters.

Didn't kill myself that week when I was fired a day after getting into a lot of credit card debt to treat the newly found cancer in my cat.

Said cat is alive and well, which is already a few months more than what the first vet said he would have.

Stopped smoking.

I'm usually a bit excessively modest, but if I'm reflecting on it... I left my precious job in the US & pulled off a successful cross-continental move with little to no outside help (even though there was a lot of stuff involved). Had a ton of fun traveling during the past year too as a result of that. I guess that would be the thing I'm most proud of

I started my handyman business 2 years ago. This past year i've been at full employment with zero advertising. I think that's pretty good for a new business with no existing customer base.

Ironically, at the end of last year as things were slowing down a bit I ordered like 3000 new flyers and I only managed to distribute around 500 of them untill the phone started ringing again and that still continues.

I moved out from my dysfunctional family, which has helped me heal or come to terms with a lot of childhood trauma. I definitely feel I've grown a lot more, and become much more social and confident in myself.

I asked someone out for the first time, and while I was turned down, that was still a huge step for me.

Stopped being an unemployed bum and got a solid union job that pays more than I ever really expected to make

Hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Finally got off my butt and started volunteering at my local wildlife rehab clinic. It's been a tough year for me mentally, so having something regular where I'm surrounded by kind people doing something positive itself was great, and then getting to work with a ton of unique wildlife was the icing on the cake.

I even got to release a few squirrel patients at my house, and a beautiful young Screech Owl on my wife's birthday.

I've learned a bunch about all kinds of animals and found out about some animals I didn't even know we had in our state. I also attended a conference and got to meet people from other clinics across the country and see some of the special projects they're working on.

I owe it to the community here for pushing me to get more hands on with this, and I hope to continue to give back with some great stories, facts, and photos. It's been a truly amazing experience that I wish to continue.

I stepped up my nerd game to start trying to land an IT job of some kind. I learned computer networking to set up my own website on recycled hardware and began writing about it. I started developing on a game engine making modules and making art assets to maybe one day make a commercial product. I released like a dozen open source projects under open source licenses.

It all kind of culminated with Christmas. The kids in my life have been begging for multiplayer Minecraft server but Microsoft destroyed the he so hard with money grabbing we refused to pay for realms or make a bunch of Microsoft accounts or whatever.

So, I rolled up my sleeves and got to work on creating a mineclonia server built on luanti/minetest engine, patching in all the Minecraft assets like textures, sounds, music that I legally own with python tools I built myself and released,

I really wanted an in game fullscreen map and nobody had ever figured out how to make one on luanti engine so I so spent a few weeks developing one from the ground up. I released the map mod two days ago and people quickly noticed saying I had changed the game forever, congratulating me on my technological achievement or whatever.

Its just a little frustrating because it feels like I'm somewhat competent at the nerd professions but I have no idea how to advertise my talents or if what I'm doing even translates to real Dev work. How Does creating universal map colorizer + generator for proceeduraly generated voxel worlds or designing a full model animation interpolation system for an engine from scratch or hosting public services on my own network built from scratch powered by solar turn into resume stuffs? That'd what I guess new years focus needs to be

Having a photo I took accepted into a public gallery exhibit for the first time.

I helped successfully form a union at my job. Things remain very difficult, but I am so gleefully proud.

Held a job for more than 6 months because after 23 years in the workforce I finally found one where the pay is equal for the level of work I do, which is next to nothing on both fronts. ($20/hr)

So while I still can't afford groceries, at least I'm not busting my ass while being poor at the same time anymore. All I do at my job is sit in front of a computer, take screenshots and then upload them, so now I'm just poor.

I wrote a one man play! I am not a professional writer, even though i have tried, and not at all an actor, and the play touches some things in me, i get both angry and sad for real while playing -- 13.1 is the date, and i'm both super stoked and super anxious. but proud! a real achievement in my world.

One of the projects I worked on won several major awards from a major professional organization. Part of the reason it won those awards was because of my work.

I got my A+ and Network+ certs. So far they've been wastes of money lmao

After 5ish years of semi-regular practice, I don't completely suck at chess anymore. This year saw my most dramatic improvement since I started learning how to play in earnest.

Yesterday I hit a new personal best rating at chess puzzles: 2013 Elo. Pretty proud of that

Finally moving into my own apartment (away from my dad)

I made more money in one month than I did in any one of the first three years I started in my field.

It finally feels like the work and dedication paid off.

Didn't give in to my demons. So far so good...

I started going to therapy which has done insane wonders for my anxiety and ability to make progress in life.

2025 has been a roller coaster. I'm a DJ, and played a festival for the first time and got booked for a gig on my favourite label - amazing, rewarding achievements for me!

I also got evicted, developed panic disorder and have had to navigate our healthcare and benefits system for my partner who has a disability and hasn't been able to advocate for himself.

I kind of feel like; we made it. And that's an achievement on its own.

I got invited to a furry convention, but still had to pay my own way and only had a month to make up the money so I took all the extra hours I could just to be able to go and barely have food the whole 5 days.

But it was worth it. BLFC was awesome. 😃

I've got ADHD and my organisation skills have improved quite a lot.

I'm still a scatterbrain with 5 zillion unfinished projects, but at least I'm writing them down. Sometimes.

Wrote two erotic fiction short stories, both of which will be audio books soon!

I'm very proud of my partner getting a new job and starting her career in earnest. I'm super proud of myself for having been able to support that endeavor. This isn't something that I did last year obviously, this was a process over multiple years. I'm just very happy to see the results of my life decisions from the previous 5 years culminating in actual tangible outcomes this year. Not just for me, but for the people close to me as well. I have my path for the next 5 years visualized as well, and this type of stuff gives me the confidence to pursue things that i would have previously considered out of reach.

Finished the year with $3 in my bank account.

Thanks, Trump.

Went back to school for electrical engineering. Took a hard class with a hard professor and got a B+ while working almost full-time. Now I know how computer memory works.

I got my highest semester GPA ever and started reading significantly more books

I got a lot better at guitar and even recorded a song.

It's been a goal of mine for a while to keep up with practicing and get good at fingerpicking. Just for myself, more of a therapy than anything. I did pretty good with it this year.

I failed at everything I set out to do and hoped for in 2025.

Happy New Year! I'll try again or die trying.

Got to Norwegian A2 level in about two months and some change. My small farm business had its first sales.

I have started to figure out my art style when I paint. It's objectively way uglier than anything I have ever painted (not the style itself but the execution), but at least I like it.

• New job
• big progress in my drawing (went digital)
• started climbing (a lot)
• started building community in the new city
• joined a hiking club
• paid off the last of my high interest debts

Pretty good later half of the year!

I'm looking forward to building more of a core social group, traveling a bit, and climbing outdoors.

Happy new years!

Quit my job and decided to take a gap year. But it wasnt hard...so cant really say im proud of it since it wasnt difficult. I will however say that its really nice to not work (doh).

Refurbished an electric guitar on my own. I found a Washburn (decent make) for next to nothing in a junk store and got a kit from Temu for the electronics which were totally shot.

Total cost was 1/4 of the price of the same guitar second hand in working order. YouTube tutorials sorted me out - only one of the pickups actually works well but it's the humbucker which is the only one I like anyway.

Context: 12 years ago I used to play professionally but sold my equipment when I had a kid (musician job does not pay well).

I actually like my new home made electric guitar better than my old one. Also, I now play for fun which is nicer than rehearsing repertoire all the time

I'm not in Jail for killing a MF. Win

Relaunched Travel to fix the name and reached 100 subs in a week(took half a year the first time).

Making these 3 video games: https://lemmy.world/post/39584705

1.Went very very VERY low contact with my nparent, which is something I would have never imagined doing when 2025 started and I feel so proud of myself for having this boundary. Being a people pleaser in recovery, feels like I can exhale again. 2.Got my very own atelier where I create and keep busca just on my art. It took me thirty years! And I love having this New space.

TLDR: Distro hopping

The thing I am proud I achieved last year (2025) is distro hopping from a Arco/ArchLinux bloated mess of an install to EndeavourOS.

Prior to it, I had files from all kinds of installs: Manjaro, ArcoLinux #1, Arco #2, then Arch after Arco went EOL. It was a mess, and a lot of bloat eating up disk space.

So, I took some time to backup everything, install EndeavourOS, then over the course of a few days, restore the essentials. I only copied over the data I knew I would use. Additionally, while I copied my documents, pictures, etc, I left my downloads folder empty so I can have a fresh start.

This method allowed me to cut a lot of fat from my system, and now my drive is only 2/3 as full now, and it boots way faster.

Setting up a fresh install is always the most fun and most painful part of Linux for me. It was fun as I had a clean slate to work with, and even changed up my desktop layout this time around. The pain arose from having to reinstall all the software I needed, setting them up (some configs I couldn't copy over), setting up servers again, SSH, firewall, etc. The sheer amount of stuff to do was daunting to say the least.

Overall, though, I did enjoy this transition I made and it allowed me to tidy up my computer.

Edit: grammar

I learned the importance of money

Another year and I practiced restraint in sending mind body crippling pain towards the oppressors. I’m gonna let Jesus do his job in the new year or Ima need to go get back at it with visualizations of destroying the goons telepathically. Either way, staying focused on this through the deep of winter until springtime provides the lift to let the ass kicking continue. Next thing you know, it’s summer time.