dale lane

Backloggd is a site for tracking video game playing. My end-of-year recap is at backloggd.com/u/dalelane/recap which is the best place to look at it, but I’ve made a copy here.

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Google Maps don’t produce a Year In Review email any more, since they moved location history data to be stored on-device instead of in the cloud. That’s a shame, so I asked Claude to make me one of my own using the data from Google Maps on my iPhone.

It came up with: dalelane.github.io/googlemaps-year-in-review

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I got out of the habit of logging what I read, but this year I got back into Goodreads after wanting a way to share what I read on holiday.

Goodreads have two flavours of “year in review” reports:

• an infographic-heavy report that they send you by email which is generated with data up to mid-December (so excluding everything I read over Christmas)
• a much-simpler web-based one that they keep up to date

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I’ve long used podcasts as a way to distract me while travelling for business trips, doing housework at the weekends, shopping, and much more…

This year, I listened to even more podcasts than usual – the increased time I’ve spent walking this year gave me an extra couple of hours a day.

I use the (brilliant) Overcast podcast player, which generates a report of how much time I’ve spent listening to each podcast this year.

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I wrote last year about my efforts to get my health back on track in 2024, and a big part of this was to exercise more. Walk more. Run a bit. Sit less. Move more.

Even then, I knew that the only thing harder than starting to exercise more would be to maintain that when it wasn’t a new thing. So… what happened in 2025?

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I still miss Twitter, despite it being over two years since I left. My main replacements have been Bluesky and Mastodon, even though I don’t use them as much as I used to use Twitter.

Continuing my effort to save the end-of-year reports from my various homes across the web, here is what I get from Bluesky and Mastodon.

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A gaming end of year recap – from True Achievements.

What does True Achievements think I’ve played on my Xbox this year?

(Spoiler… not very much, it seems. The TLDR is that I paid for a month of Game Pass in January so I could play Indiana Jones, and in May/June so I could play the new DOOM game… and mostly ignored Xbox the rest of the year. So these stats are a little thin.)

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