2025 - a year in review at Sava.Rocks
📆 2025-12-07 09:01
As 2025 draws to a close, I like to pause for a moment and reflect on what this year has meant for Sava.Rocks: the experiments, the little wins, the unexpected detours, and those times when a small piece of tech brought a bit of joy or calm.
2025 was a fairly busy year with 20 blog posts, a lot of updates to my docker swarm, some new simple CGI scripts.
🔧 Home lab projects, automation & power under control
This year saw a lot of work behind the scenes - setting up tools, scripting away, and building a reliable foundation. From configuring UPS shutdowns on multiple machines to automatically updating Git repos with shell scripts, I tried to make things smoother, more predictable, more set it and forget it.
Posts like the 3 below reflect that drive.
🔌 Installing and configuring NUT (Network UPS Tools) for your home lab
🛠️ Automating Git Repo Updates and Navigation with a POSIX Shell Script
There's a quiet satisfaction in knowing your servers shut down cleanly during power outages.
🧰 Linux, Debian, Ubuntu and a commitment to hands-on learning
For anyone who loves tinkering, 2025 was a pretty good year. The blog covered topics from running a headless Ubuntu server on a compact machine, to tempting the switch to Debian 13, enabling Wake-On-LAN with ethtool and wakeonlan, and many small but educational tweaks.
The satisfaction from making something just work, especially using open tools and a Linux mindset - is hard to beat.
🌱 Sentiment & reflection: balancing hustle with calm
What stands out the most, looking back, is the balance between activity and calm. 2025 wasn't about chasing "shiny new tools" or "maximum performance." Instead it was about:
- building reliability and self-sufficiency (UPS, automation, servers)
- rediscovering analog and low-distraction tools (thermal typewriter, minimal printing)
- learning and tinkering - often for fun, often for curiosity
To me, that's more sustainable than chasing buzz - and closer to what I think Sava.Rocks should be about.
🎉 Looking Ahead
As 2026 begins to unfold, I'm hoping to carry forward the best parts of this past year: curiosity, simplicity, and a commitment to building things that make life calmer rather than louder.