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Yearly Thing 2025

A book of every link I commented on in the 2025 Weekly Thing, subtitled Agents, Attention, Artifacts, in print and as an eBook.

Status
Archived Complete and preserved as it is.
Dates
Started Dec 2025. Ended Jan 20, 2026
Where
www.thingelstad.com/2026/01/20/i-made-a-book-yearly.html
Topics
Archives Reading POAP

For a few years I had wondered about a book version of the Weekly Thing, something like an almanac. I started it over Christmas 2025 and published it on January 20, 2026, as Yearly Thing 2025: Agents, Attention, Artifacts. It gathers all 324 links I commented on across 31 issues in 2025 into ten topic chapters, from The AI Revolution to Tools, Productivity and Delights, with an Introduction, a Weekly Thing Index, and an Afterword. The eBook keeps every hyperlink. The paperback lists the issue each item came from, with QR codes that lead to the Weekly Thing Index.

“I made the Yearly Thing with Claude Code,” I wrote in Weekly Thing 339, and I laid out the book in Vellum. The paperback is $30 on Lulu, and the first print copies arrived on January 27. The eBook is $20 on Gumroad. Anyone who bought it in the first two months got a Yearly Thing 2025 POAP. All proceeds go to the Weekly Thing Supporting Membership program, and the book’s sales were part of the $1,164.92 given to the Electronic Frontier Foundation in May 2026.

Sources and evidence

Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.

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Connections

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  • Yearly Thing 2025 collects a year of Weekly Thing

    All 324 links I commented on across 31 issues of the Weekly Thing in 2025, reorganized into ten topic chapters, in print and eBook form. Proceeds support the Weekly Thing Supporting Membership program. Source

History

  1. launch Yearly Thing 2025 is published

    A year of the Weekly Thing becomes a book, in print from Lulu and as an eBook, organized into ten topic chapters. Source