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
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:
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.
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?
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.
Another YouTube end of year recap – but while the last one was about what I’ve watched this year, this one is about what I’ve uploaded to YouTube.
I don’t really use YouTube as a platform in it’s own right – it’s just a free place to host videos I want to use to illustrate something in a blog post or show someone a screen-recording of how to do something.
I don’t upload regularly. Most of my videos don’t make sense without the context of the blog post or ML for Kids worksheet I created it to be embedded in.
All of this is to say that it’s hard to understand why I have any YouTube subscribers at all. But let’s see what YouTube has to say about them.
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.)
I’ve received another end-of-year recap – this time from YouTube.
What does YouTube think I’ve watched this year?