The Stars of 2025
I thought it’d be fun to post a summary of everything I starred (aka favorited/liked) in my feed reader each year. I’m currently using Feedbin which makes it easy to export that data as JSON. Going forward I’ll probably post this each January, but I was motivated to build the data processing and the UI now (hence the 2025 data being posted in April). Shout out to Astro’s content collections for making this fairly easy to implement.
January (3)
February (9)
- How War Torn Serbia Became a Tennis Powerhouse
- Dropped Phone
- How Air Conditioners & Heat Pumps Work | Installing a Mini Split in Our Office
- Software Pliability
- Debating the Merits of LLMs
- Copy Code Button
- https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-02-15T07:01Z/
- NUT on my Pi, so my servers don't die
- Excusing Yourself
March (5)
- Building Websites With LLMS
- A Gun
- I Turned this Forgotten Chimney into a Beautiful Tiny House
- Omniroll
- Canal Locks
April (6)
- 170 Hours of 3D Printing For This
- American Revolution Part 2 - The Battle of Concord
- Tariffs
- BASE Jumping — Building, Antenna, Span, Earth
- How to write error messages that actually help users rather than frustrate them
- You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point
May (6)
- How to Get Famous
- Reservoir Sampling
- The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession
- Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible?
- Modern
- Drafting
June (9)
- ULTRA - WW2's Greatest Secret: Cracking Enigma
- The Future of the Web
- Is It JavaScript?
- Printing the web: making webpages look good on paper
- Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog
- Alert Sound
- To Scale, First Do Things That Don't Scale
- Laser Danger
- Dehumidifier
July (5)
- Give footnotes the boot
- Building a Fire
- Measurement and Numbers
- Looking Back in Time: The Speed of Light and the Night Sky
- Replication Crisis
August (5)
- Lie to Me
- The Weirdest Tool in Underwater Construction
- Big O
- https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-08-01T13:25Z/
- Canon
September (5)
- Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure
- Science and Engineering: What’s the Difference?
- https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-15T12:09Z/
- The Repeated Word Illusion
- Hiking
October (8)
- It's literally a clock made of tiny clocks
- Doing It Manually
- Ping
- Window Screen
- Hot Water Balloon
- Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure
- Importing vs fetching JSON
- Don’t Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect
November (9)
- We grew a forest WITHOUT planting a single tree
- Hurricane vs. Tiny House
- How I Replaced My Son’s PC With an £88 iMac
- Anatomy of a yak-shave
- Reimagine the Date Picker
- Big and Little Spoons
- Car Size
- Service Outage
- Fifteen Years
December (14)
- Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog
- Website Task Flowchart
- Grow, Like a Tree Not a Cancer
- The Fisherman and The Businessman
- That time Steve Silberman wrote me a nice email…
- Perfect Off Grid Cabin Foundation....cheap and easy
- How scientists radically reduced violence in America (no gun ban)
- Under Pressure
- Corvette ZR1 vs Mustang GTD vs 911 GT3 RS: Record-Breaking Lap Battle —Cammisa’s Ultimate Lap Battle
- Semantics beyond the tag name
- Diagonal Billing (or Staggered Billing)
- I Turned this Tiny Abandoned Warehouse into a Secret Light-filled Home
- Dude Perfect vs Savannah Bananas in Every Sport | Squad Games
- The navigate event