It’s that time of the year when the coffee gets stronger, commits get messier, and everyone agrees to finally refactor that script in January. And let’s be honest, most of us won’t. But while it lasts let’s celebrate the season of enjoying laid back family time and exchanging gifts.
And to make gifting a little easier, we asked the Zyte team and community to share what they would love to receive. So if you’ve got a developer, a web scraper, or someone who just really enjoys arguing with APIs in your life… Here's your cheat sheet.
Grab a hot drink, settle into your favourite debugging position, and let’s dive in.
Disclaimer : It's not sponsored. All the recommendations are from community and author's personal experience using these products, hence no URL is provided but you should be able find these easily.
1. Book: Soul of a New Machine
For the dev who loves origin stories. It’s a classic engineering tale that reminds us why we fell in love with building things in the first place.
2. Logitech MX Master mouse
Smooth scrolling. Perfect ergonomics. Side buttons that feel like cheat codes for productivity. This is the mouse equivalent of finally finding that one undocumented API endpoint you needed all year.
3. AeroPress + Coffee Subscription
If coffee is the real runtime powering your favourite developer, this combo is basically a performance upgrade. AeroPress means fast, clean brews; fresh beans mean they might actually fix that bug before lunch.
4. Spider Plush Toy
For every web scraper who proudly identifies as “part human, part spider.” it sits silently on your desk reminding you to obey robots.txt (…most of the time).
5. Git Merch Based on Their Commit History
A mug that says “I survived the merge conflict of 2025.”
A T-shirt celebrating their 3,000-day streak.
Or maybe a gentle reminder that “WIP” is not a personality.
Funny, personal, and guaranteed to make them smile during standup.
Link : https://gitmerch.com/ (not-sponsored), just enter their github username
6. Nothing Headphones
Sleek, transparent, and great for tuning out noisy offices or noisy families. Perfect for deep work, debugging, or pretending you can’t hear someone asking, “Can you take a quick look at this?”
7. Mechanical Keyboard (NuPhy / Keychron)
Developers don’t just type on these; they perform.
Clicky keys, gorgeous layouts, RGB that could guide aircraft, what’s not to love? Warning: once they switch, they’ll never stop talking about actuation force.
8. Bambu Lab A1 Mini 3D Printer
For the dev who already has too many hobbies.
They’ll print brackets, cable holders, figurines, replacement parts… and things no one can identify but everyone politely admires. A creator’s playground in miniature.
9. BenQ Monitor Light Bar
Immediate upgrade to any desk setup. Reduces eye strain, looks clean, and helps developers see their code clearly even during late-night “just one more function” sessions without taking extra space on their desk.
10. 100W GaN Charger
Tiny but absurdly powerful, just like that one script they wrote at 3 AM that still runs in production. A GaN charger keeps everything powered: laptop, phone, tablet, e-reader, existential dread, everything.
If you love someone who spends their days coaxing data out of websites, obsessing over keyboard switches, or whispering sweet nothings to their terminal, this list has something that will make them light up.
Here’s to a warm, restful holiday season… and to fewer bugs in 2026. Happy gifting, happy coding, and as always, happy scraping! 🕷️✨
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