I wish you all a happy New Year! May 2026 be a better one, because 2025, worldwide speaking, wasn't really good, if you ask me.

The year 2025 is coming to a close. When I look back at all my accomplishments, I think I can be proud of myself. ☺️

If someone told me I would "build" Next.js apps one day, I would have laughed my head off. Well, apparently, I do now. Thanks to Claude AI, Vercel, and an infinite appetite for exploring new things. We live in exciting times.

This is my first try at building an app on Vercel. The first app idea is about creating a simple form for posting to my Scribbles.page account. The Vercel app was built using Claude AI with a rather long prompt. This post won't probably make it because nothing works on the first try.

Well, apparently it worked on the first try, except the blog post category wasn't set correctly. Now, it's time to work on a fix.

It was a nice ride, Mailbrew, but sadly, it's clear that you are a dead man walking.

https://changelog.mailbrew.com

The iPhone Air is set to follow the same product journey as the original MacBook Air. Remember that the latter received similar reactions: underpowered, too niche. Apple has the luxury of taking its time perfecting a product, even if it means five years of investment. Look at the MacBook Air line today: it's their most successful portable Mac.

As the web, the open web in particular, seems to be slowly becoming a relic, I have this vague feeling that apps as we know them are probably heading the same way. I'm not sure what comes after them, but AI is undoubtedly one of the enablers for what comes next.

I didn't even know that travel routers were a thing. What Ubiquity is showing here looks really cool. My understanding is that while abroad, I could connect to my home network without too many configuration hassles. It could mean that if I'm abroad, I can still connect to my n8n instance and retain admin access by using my home network's external IP instead of the hotel's (only my home network's external IP is whitelisted). That's my understanding.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-wifi/products/utr

Are PC prices still falling, or are prices stable but more powerful tech continues to flow inside a fixed bracket? I wonder if this marks the end of the ever-dropping prices in personal tech due to the RAM drought and GPU shortages?

https://www.theverge.com/news/848199/ram-shortage-pc-phone-price-increases

Too important not to pass. I don't know exactly when this started, but I'm also experiencing display flicker on my M4 Mac mini with Apple Studio Display, as well as my M2 MacBook Air. At first, I thought it was a physical issue, but having this occur on two devices made this nearly impossible—the only possible cause: macOS 26 and Liquid Glass. Rebooting the Mac temporarily fixes the issue, but eventually it returns.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/12/19/tahoe-display-flickr/