Hola, amigos:

It’s here: the final newsletter of 2025! Thanks so much for joining me on this journey of dev rants, experiments, blog posts, accessibility explorations, game dev, and the occasional CSS pun. It’s been a ride!

Year-End Recap 🎉

• 📜 Recap 2025: This article sums up what I worked on, learned, shipped, and broke this year. Game dev, freelancing, content, and a few experiments.

Latest Blog Posts

• Godot: From Singletons to Service Architecture: Lessons from building The Runic Edda and improving the structure with more scalable service architecture.
• Part 1: Raspberry Pi Server Setup: Setting up a tiny but mighty home server with Tailscale and Raspberry Pi.
• My Take on Tailwind: I like it, but I’ve got some caveats.

Asking for Your Help 🙋‍♂️

I’m exploring screen recording tools and would love to know what you use. I’ve seen:

• Screen Studio
• Flowy
• ScreenCharm

Have you used any of these? Or something else you swear by? Hit reply and let me know!

Tools and Links Worth Checking Out 🛠️

• TailFrames: Copy-paste Tailwind blocks that just work
• Laws of UX: Bite-sized UX wisdom with solid examples
• WAI A Day: A daily link about A11Y
• Emojipedia: Understand the meaning of the emojis and how they are read with screen readers. Please, let's try to avoid using them as bullet points!
• Max Design about using Alternative Text with CSS: why we should not 100% rely on this!
• Nice Checkbox-mas Tree by Alvaro Montoro: very much inspired by Lia Tsernant's
• Theme Toggle Effect using View Transitions: it is amazing the amount of things we can do here!

Watch Video of the Theme Toggle Effects

Thanks again for being here all year long. Whether you’re building indie games, coding CSS layouts, or automating your home network with a Raspberry Pi — I’m glad we’re in this weird creative loop together.

Take care, enjoy the holidays, and see you in 2026!

Manuel