How was your 2025?

Soo... 2025 is basically over. How'd it go for you?

Here are two of my own DEV-centric highlights that come to mind:

• I'm proud to share we launched 30 DEV Challenges this past year. I'm hoping to bring that number up to 50+ in 2026 so that DEV becomes more and more of a hackathon destination for developers everywhere.
• I've also been very happy to see more people sharing their weekly wins in my #weeklyretro post. It's very fun seeing what everyone has been up to!

#weeklyretro Follow

Posts for reflecting on your past week.

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We're not doing a New Year Writing Challenge this year (we have something else in store to be announced on Jan 1!) so I wanted to start a discussion for anyone who'd like to take a moment to reflect on the last twelve months!

And if you don't have anything in particular to share, perhaps you'd like to try @dev_kiran's community app - DEV Wrapped - to see your personalized year-in-review DEV activity:

🎉 DEV Wrapped 2025 – See Your Year in Code!

Kiran Naragund ・ Dec 15

#devwrapped #programming #discuss #showdev

Here's mine:

It's always so cool when the community builds things around DEV!

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Finally, I'd be remiss not to plug our final challenge of the year:

DEV's Worldwide Show and Tell Challenge Presented by Mux: Pitch Your Projects! $3,000 in Prizes. 🎥

Jess Lee for The DEV Team ・ Dec 3

#showdev #devchallenge #muxchallenge #webdev

This is an opportunity to pitch any project you're proud of! It could be a dev tool, full blown app, previous challenge submission, or anything in between! The new video cover image feature works like a charm and will really make your submission pop.

Okay that's it from me! Tell me how 2025 was for you!

Comments

[Ben Halpern The DEV Team]

A lot of necessary evolution — exhilarating at times and overwhelming at others.

[Luis Faria]

Looking forward for the 1st of Jan announcement!!

And I think it is fair to share that three of the most cool additions to my 2025 edition were:

• learn in public: it has helped me tremendously to understand concepts, reflect and evolve as a developer and person
• started a masters' degree course, open-sourcing the course's content, assessments and apps
• MERN stack: was able to launch +3 projects to deepen my knowledge on the stack

[Web Developer Hyper]

I started using DEV Community about a year ago. I kept learning new IT skills and sharing them with the DEV Community. I wouldn’t have been able to keep learning without the DEV Community, so thank you very much for such a great developer community!😊

[Petry DeChamp Richardson]

Broke into Nanosecond performance ;) Worlds fastest tech is what I seek.

[Erica]

A year of extremes. Started college for CS, found work I love, made new friends, got married on Hallow's Eve -- and also lost my grandmother in March and my dad today. Learning that progress and grief can exist at the same time, life keeps moving.

[Sylwia Laskowska]

It was objectively a terrible year for me. Fortunately, toward the end I rediscovered myself through writing and creativity - including here on dev.to 🙂 I think I can finally look to 2026 with hope 🌟