Engineers write release notes so nobody has to guess what changed. These are mine for 2025.
Shipped: a degree. The final semester ran with one foot already out the door. I was leading API work at Tegrand and answering client emails between lectures. My professors thought I was taking notes. Mostly I was writing API documentation.
Two years of pretending Bio Science was my calling, four of computer science making up for it, and then it was done. My parents were proud, and I was mostly relieved.
New: Nayrix. In October I started it from home in Kerala. My best friends, Hashim and Sinan, believed in it before there was anything to believe in, and a few laptops were the whole office.
The plan was the obvious one. Freelance clients kept asking for someone who would think about the product as well as write the code, so we set out to be that. Nobody stood in the way. The permission I thought I needed was never anyone's to give.
Moved: me, to the UAE. Nayrix was already running, so later in the year I brought it with me and kept building from here. Roshan works from the UAE too, and we build it together now.
New country, same work: the same laptop and the same kind of problems.
Known issues: I didn't feel ready for any of it. That turned out not to matter.