I am thinking about 2025 as a year of data points, whereas 2026 will be a year of data edges.

2025 began, iirc, with live interviews with Larry Masinter (Grump in lambda), and Corwin Brust, many more live guests including yduJ, everyone around https://lambda.moo.mud.org , Olum (Tuft's Astrophysics modern common lisp Supercomputing), someodd, LambdaCalculus, Karl Voit, Kasper Galkowski, vidak, Karsten Johansson, Vassil Nikolov, Shizamura, jns, catK, Aral Balkan, Dave Lane, jeremy_list, lots of people, increasing involvement from https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/ and https://nhplace.com/kent/ .

In particular for the last two months we have had a sequence of live audio and video presentations / discussions with Kent Pitman especially around the common lisp condition system, and Kent's Cross Referenced Editing Facility as well as his release of his essay, Whither Original Thought? on the show.

Aside from speaking guests, we had the live MOOers including https://mdhughes.tech , Slak, Perry, jlamothe (proprieter of paradise sushi), spidercat, yib was around a few times (possibly incidentally), brontargkh, jasmaz of sdf's vintage computalk, ratxue always, Doug Merritt, gothpony, g0th, catk, ggxx, schroeder (not to be confused with Alex Schroeder who is more itinerantly around) and too many more to name.

Mastodons as well, Sacha, Amen Zwa Esq., HairyLarry, Damaru, Busta_Bells, Fugue State Audio, Chimera, "programming channel", MBstream, curtosis, Pat, Prahou, 1A, jackdaniel, notptr, remilia, Paolo Amoroso, ams, lispm, weekend_editor, awkravchuk, and many too many more to mention.

gophers: if you know, you know.

My own programming features of the year were getting my fork of Erik Sandewall's Leonardo System running robustly on clisp current, as seen in my running of his decision trees (IDA masters course labs c. 2010), and having slime + emacs-server replace Sandewall's allegroserve based server for the software individuals at both the software-individual and multiple agents inside each software-individual levels. Towards the end of 2025 I also started working with Aral's Kitten more deeply.

As I said, 2025 is a huge point cloud of primary lisp knowledge which is otherwise lost or missing except for our show. Though perhaps the real knowledge was the friendships we made along the way.