Update now/then/upcoming pages for December 2025

- /now: Add games (Outer Worlds 2, AC Valhalla, Gloomhaven), writing updates,
  Random Recipe Project resumption, upcoming events (Inuhele, CONpossible)
- /then: Add LocallyGrown migration, Random Recipe Project (50+ episodes),
  Kestrel's Nest federation, recent books from BookWyrm, events attended
- /upcoming: Add Inuhele and CONpossible with dates/venues, Loops for YunoHost,
  tiny apps, creative projects, n8n/Claude Code exploration

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 title: Eric in the Past
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-This page is all about what I have done. As things roll off the [now page](/now), they'll show up here. It was last updated on January 7, 2023.
+This page is all about what I have done. As things roll off the [now page](/now), they'll show up here. It was last updated on December 25, 2025.
+
+## What I finished building
+
+- **LocallyGrown.net Migration** (2025) — A massive six-month project migrating a farmers market platform from dying Rails 3 infrastructure to modern SvelteKit. 70+ farmers markets, $1.3 million in annual sales, and a complete rewrite that touched every part of the system. [The whole story is in my blog series](/posts/locallygrown-origin-story/).
+- **[Random Recipe Project](https://www.youtube.com/@RandomRecipeProject)** — A YouTube cooking series with 50+ episodes exploring recipes from everywhere: video game tie-in cookbooks (Skyrim, Dragon Age, Fallout, Star Trek), vintage classics (Betty Crocker, Julia Child, Galloping Gourmet), modern favorites (Kenji Lopez-Alt, Moosewood), and even 600-year-old medieval recipes.
+- **Kestrel's Nest Federation** — Built out my self-hosted social media presence on YunoHost: Mastodon, Pixelfed, BookWyrm, Castopod, Gitea, and this blog. All running on a DigitalOcean droplet I've upgraded twice since 2021.
+- **BookWyrm for YunoHost** — Contributed the BookWyrm integration package now used by other YunoHost deployments.
 
 ## What I finished reading
 
-- The first six stories (three novels and three shorts) of [Dan Moren's](https://dmoren.com/) [Galactic Cold War](https://dmoren.com/writing/galactic-cold-war/) series. These are spy thrillers set across multiple star systems colonized by humans. Both aspects are very well done and each story has been better than the last.
-- [Paper Girls](https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/paper-girls). I had the final two installments sitting on my nightstand for months and finally sat down to read them. My inaction is not reflective of the quality, as I really did like the whole series. It's a time travel adventure that fits in almost all of the standard time travel tropes, but it blends them together in really weird ways that tread new ground. And the artwoek is top-notch, and that really helped. The images of kaiju tardigrades battling it out over the city will stick with me for a long time.
-- All of Martha Wells' [Murderbot Diaries](https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm). These are all told in the first person by a sentient security robot who has hacked himself to be free of harsh programmed restrictions and has to live in human society. I can't stress enough how much I loved these, perhaps aided by how my own coming to terms with being an undiagnosed autistic adult makes me [relate to the main character](https://www.tor.com/2022/06/21/murderbot-an-autistic-coded-robot-done-right/).
+Recent reads (see my full [BookWyrm shelf](https://books.kestrelsnest.social/user/eric/books/read) for the complete list):
+
+- *I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom* by Jason Pargin (2024)
+- *The Armageddon Protocol* by Dan Moren (2024) — completing the Galactic Cold War series
+- *All Souls Lost* by Dan Moren (2023)
+- *Bookshops & Bonedust* by Travis Baldree (2023)
+- *Antimatter Blues* by Edward Ashton (2023)
+- *Mickey7* by Edward Ashton (2022)
+- *The Kaiju Preservation Society* by John Scalzi (2022)
+- *Sea of Tranquility* by Emily St. John Mandel (2022)
+- The complete [Galactic Cold War](https://dmoren.com/writing/galactic-cold-war/) series by Dan Moren — spy thrillers across multiple star systems. Each story better than the last.
+- [Paper Girls](https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/paper-girls) — time travel adventure with kaiju tardigrades. The artwork will stick with me.
+- All of Martha Wells' [Murderbot Diaries](https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm) — a sentient security robot navigating human society. [Deeply relatable](https://www.tor.com/2022/06/21/murderbot-an-autistic-coded-robot-done-right/) as an autistic adult.
 
 ## What I finished playing
 
-- [The Outer Worlds][outer worlds] from Obsidian. Decididly anti-corporate darkly humorous science fiction from some of the same people who created the [Fallout games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(series)). Short gameplay, but I loved every minute of it.
-- [The Dragon Age series](https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki) from BioWare. I played them all as they originally came out, but recently did a replay straight through. In terms of world building and story telling, this is my favorite game series (*perhaps* tied with the Elder Scroll and Fallout games)
-- [Elder Scrolls Online](https://www.elderscrollsonline.com). New content comes out all the time so I'll be back, but for now I'm caught up. I did find a good guild to socialize with, but I've played everything I could by myself. Surprisingly, that was most of the content and 100% of the story.
+- [The Outer Worlds][outer worlds] from Obsidian — darkly humorous anti-corporate science fiction. Short but loved every minute. (Now playing the sequel!)
+- [The Dragon Age series](https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki) from BioWare — replayed the entire series straight through. My favorite game series for world building and storytelling.
+- [Elder Scrolls Online](https://www.elderscrollsonline.com) — caught up on all solo content. Found a good guild to socialize with.
 
 ## What I finished watching
 
-- Season Three of [Jack Ryan](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B8KWN7N2/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s3) on Amazon. I was a big fan of the original books (to the point where I considered applying to the CIA in my late 20s) and I liked the first two seasons of the show well enough. This one? Not so much. I mean, I watched the whole thing to see it out, but I wasn't happy about it. The character works when he's placed in a realistic world and the events could plausibly happen. This season might have well been set in an alternate history earth, where the geopolitics are similar yet very different from our own in key ways, the technology borders on fantastical, and things like travel time and logistics coordination is miraculous. In this fantasy setting, Jack Ryan became a comic book character in a superhero story. And I don't want or enjoy that version of Ryan.
-- All the espisodes of [Taskmaster][taskmaster] [on YouTube][taskmaster youtube] (and some that fell off the back of a truck). Nothing I've watched recently has lifted my spirits and made me giggle like this show.
+- All episodes of [Taskmaster][taskmaster] [on YouTube][taskmaster youtube]. Nothing has lifted my spirits quite like this show.
 
-[taskmaster]:https://taskmaster.fandom.com/wiki/Taskmaster_Wiki
+## Events attended
+
+- **Wild Rumpus 2025** — Athens' big outdoor Halloween parade festival
+- **Inuhele** and **CONpossible** — annual Atlanta conventions where I'm on staff
+- **The B-52's Farewell Concert** (January 2023) — in Athens, where it all started
+
+[taskmaster]: https://taskmaster.fandom.com/wiki/Taskmaster_Wiki
 [taskmaster youtube]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5C7yaO3RVuOgwP8JVAujQ
-[outer worlds]: https://outerworlds.obsidian.net/en/enter
+[outer worlds]: https://outerworlds.obsidian.net/en/enter