End of year 2024 wrapup

Just a quick one; not a great deal of personal development or great strides forward this year, but we can always live in hope for next year. This marks *25 years* of being a professional software developer. I've gone from writing C in `vim` on a [100MHz 128Mb HP-UX workstation](https://blog.themillhousegroup.com/2021/12/computers-i-have-known-part-4.html) to letting ChatGPT help me write TypeScript in VSCode on an 11-core M3 16Gb MacBook Pro at umpteen GHz. I've Created, Read, Updated and Deleted (see what I did there?) a *lot* of code, and I still love it. I have rejected any offers to move into the "people management" side of things, and hope to continue to be "on the tools" for my entire career. How much longer will that last? Dunno - but certainly not another 25 years!