Having set out to work on a range of mostly Psion-related ideas and tasks during my 2025 December Adventure, I’m incredibly pleased with what I accomplished: I moved a collection of things forwards, started some new projects, and had quite a bit of fun doing it.

Some of my highlights:

  • began my Organiser journey (2, 4, 19)
  • nudged Psion emulation forwards (15, 16, 30)
  • maintained various retro devices (26, 27)
  • continued to slowly back away from Big Tech (17, 18, 22, 23)
  • designed and printed things for our home (9, 13, 24)
  • helped keep OPL alive (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12)
  • made it just that little bit little easier to daily-drive Psions in the 2026 (2, 28, 29, 31)

I’ve really enjoyed this December Adventure. It’s encouraged me to be more deliberate about the ideas I explore each day, and I’ve found the practice of daily write-ups to be incredibly positive.

The regular cadence has forced me to metaphorically put down what I’m working on, pause, and reflect on what I’ve done and where it’s going. This has helped me significantly in planning and prioritizing when working on increasingly interdependent projects. It’s also been incredibly rewarding to share more frequently what I create and receive realtime feedback, while also gaining the sense of external accountability (real or imagined) that comes from setting my approach down in a public forum.

With that in mind, I’m keen to continue a more regular practice of writing going into the new year. I’m not sure quite what that needs to look like yet, so I imagine you’ll see a few experiments over the coming weeks and months—I don’t want to overwhelm folks (or myself) with daily updates, but I think whatever I do needs to be regular to ensure that I don’t end up with a backlog.

To start with, I’d like to focus on specific projects to help move them forwards a little more intentionally, so I’m planning to have a theme for each week. I’ll write brief daily journal or devlog (that I may or may not publish), and edit it into weeknotes.

Next Steps

I’d love to keep working on many of my December Adventure themes in the coming year. For the established projects, I plan to track the new tasks that have emerged during the month as issues in their respective repositories. This will allow others to engage with them in a public forum, and ensure I don’t feel so overwhelmed (or forget anything):

  • OpoLua
    • Automated OpoLua Qt builds (#614)
    • OpoLua Qt macOS builds don’t correctly embed Qt (#615)
    • Move common resources into core directory (#617)
    • Add documentation to the website (#618)
    • Define and support EPOC16 SIS files (#619)
  • PsiEmu
    • Automatically download ROMs (#1)
    • MAME creates cfg and nvram directories in the current working directory (#2)
    • Support serial port configuration (#3)
    • Package for various platforms (#4)
    • Support browsing and mounting SSDs (#5)
  • Reconnect
    • Support incremental backups for EPOC16 and EPOC32 devices (#126)
    • Support converting EPOC16 PIC files (#350)
    • Per file-type conversion options (#352)
    • Support converting EPOC16 Word files to Markdown (#354)
    • Creating folders fails on EPOC16 devices (#351)
    • Adopt Glitter update library (#353)
    • Add Word2Text license to the website (#355)
    • Don’t install stub SIS files on EPOC16 devices (#356)
    • Use the Word2Text package (#357)
    • Automatically expand the ‘My Psion’ sidebar item when a device connects (#358)
    • Reconnect sometimes hangs when quitting the main browser app (#359)
    • Add a wallpaper manager (#360)
  • plptools
    • Support server mode (#63)
  • Folders
    • Show filenames (#231)
    • Crash when changing sidebar selection or sort order during initial load (#232)
    • Improve the sort drop-down menu (#233)
  • Thoughts
    • Support image attachments (#185)
  • Psion Community Website
    • Show a sidebar with the site structure (#1)

If you’re excited to help work on some of these—or any other—projects, please don’t hesitate to get in touch; I’m always looking for collaborators.

There are also a few smaller projects I’d still love to write up, or otherwise publish:

  • RMRSoft preservation
  • MiSTer x PVM
  • My minimalist read later strategy
  • Nezumi
  • PsiBoard
  • OPL support for Highlight.js
  • Little Luggable assembly

This just leaves the ideas and explorations that will have to wait for next year’s adventure (or a lazy Sunday):

  • Keyboard support for the LZ64
  • Psion webring
  • Software Index additions (UID listing, CLI for plptools/Linux)
  • Revisit and ship Thoughts for EPOC32
  • Design a minimal Psion USB-C cable
  • Archive Palmtop magazine scans
  • Web-based Psion emulation
  • Thoughts for iOS
  • Print feet for Anytime x Nixie
  • Try out GlobalTalk
  • Time zone logger
  • Write about model-viewer
  • Write about my 3D printed brackets
  • Series 7 emulation
  • Try out Plan9

Finally, Thank You

I’d like to take the time to thank everyone who followed along this month, and to thank the couple of folks who donated this month (you know who you are) 🙇‍♂️. Waking up to your emails and messages really gave me a huge boost. If you have the time I strongly encourage you to give a little love to the creators and open source developers who make a difference to your life—the emotional support and encouragement goes immeasurably far.