Maker Journal November & December 2025

Just a quick summary to close out my Maker Journal for the last two months of 2025.

November and December went by faster than I expected. November was overwhelming with work, and December was supposed to be a recovery month. In the end, I didn’t manage to write anything here at all—so this is me catching up.

November

November was heavy, but productive.

I rebuilt the VisionGPT extension with a lot of improvements and managed to ship version 1.1 just before Black Friday. Sales weren’t great, but honestly, hitting that release felt like a personal milestone. I also refreshed the landing page to better explain what the extension actually does, which felt long overdue. Next up, I’m planning to add Gemini support in a future release.

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On the ClipSend side, I completed a backend rebuild, but I ran out of time to get the extension fully ready. Because of that, the paid version didn’t make it out before Black Friday. I’ve decided to put it aside for now and come back to it when I have more breathing room. Not ideal, but that’s how it goes sometimes.

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December

December was about slowing down.

I took a proper break and went on my first short cruise trip, and I spent more time with the kids since it was their long school holiday. That alone made the month feel different—in a good way.

I still couldn’t completely stay away from building though. One thing I did enjoy was experimenting with NativePHP and building a small mobile app sample. It’s honestly exciting to finally build a mobile app using PHP, and I’m looking forward to seeing how this could fit into my other products down the road.

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Before wrapping up 2025, I also migrated all my servers and consolidated my services. That was a big one. It should save me a significant amount of cost while giving me better infrastructure moving forward—less noise, fewer servers to worry about.

And that’s pretty much it for November and December 2025.

A messy end, a slower pace, but still moving forward. Time to rest a bit and reset for what’s next.