Happy 11111101001! Join our New Year Writing Challenge 🔮

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Happy New Year, everyone!

Running through February 02, the New Year Writing Challenge offers an opportunity to reflect on 2024’s lessons and surprises, plan your 2025 roadmap, and envision the trends that will shape our industry in the coming year.

There will be at least one winner per prompt, and each winner will receive a 6-month DEV++ membership, a gift from the DEV shop, and more!! All valid submissions will earn a completion badge.

We hope this challenge helps you feel grounded and ready to tackle whatever’s ahead. Read on for the prompts!

Our Prompts

Retro’ing and Debugging 2024

Reflect on your journey through 2024. What lessons did you learn, what challenges did you face, and what achievements made the year memorable? Share your retrospective on how the past year shaped your growth.

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Retro'ing and Debugging Submission Template

Compiling 2025

What does your personal roadmap for 2025 look like? Share your goals, aspirations, and plans for the new year. Whether it's learning a new skill, tackling that side project you can’t stop thinking about, or embracing growth opportunities, tell us how you're compiling a successful 2025.

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Compiling Submission Template

Predicting 2025

Tell us what you think 2025 has in store. Predict the trends, technologies, and/or tools that will dominate our industry headlines. Will AI continue to lead the charge? What other innovations might disrupt the field? Share your vision for the future of tech.

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Predicting Submission Template

How To Participate

In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt.

Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such eligibility requirements.

Important Dates

January 01: New Year Writing challenge begins!
February 02: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
February 13: Winners Announced

We hope you enjoy this moment of reflection and looking ahead. Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.

Good luck and happy writing!

Top comments (38)

Best Codes • Jan 1 • Edited

Happy 45 squared!

I like the post title 🤪
For those who don't know, 11111101001 is 2025 in binary.
Fun fact: 2025 would be the Device Control 1 character in ASCII encoding, which a non-printable character.