Happy New Year, everyone!
Running through February 02, the New Year Writing Challenge offers an opportunity to reflect on 2024ās 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 whateverās ahead. Read on for the prompts!
Our Prompts
Retroāing 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 canāt 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.
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
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 (68)
Happy 45 squared!
I like the post title š¤Ŗ
For those who don't know,
11111101001is2025in binary.happy sum of first 9 natural numbers squared.
You too š¤
How d'you mean?
Device Control Oneis 0x11 hex, 17 decimal. 2025 is outside ASCII range in any radix, but Unicode U+2025 hex is "ā„" and 2025 decimal (U+07E9) is "ß©"Thanks, don't know where I went wrong with my research but I checked again and I was wrong. Thanks for pointing it out! š
Note: I also editing my post to remove the incorrectness.
Usually donāt write on this platform, but this challenge sounds fun. š¤©
This is seriously an interesting challenge, looking forward to taking part in all three.
Just finish with the first one: Retroāing and Debugging 2024
šļø The Dark Side Of Being An Engineering Manager
Ravin Rau ć» Jan 3
I should releas mine next week!
Canāt wait to read yours. @adriens
And here we goooo
š¤Retroāing and Debugging 2024: a year of data, books, APIs, BOTs & AI
adriens ć» Jan 8
Amazing!
Already Published one!
My 2024 JourneyāA Year of Growth, Challenges, and New Beginnings
Arindam Majumder ć» Dec 30 '24
Literally just came here from the DEV email where the challenge was mentioned. Let's go!
Amazing idea !! I will surely participate.
Happy 7e9!
Great One
I really enjoyed 2024 and explored myself in coding world.
dev.to/mdanassaif/2024-was-beginni...
hell yeah
checkout mine
dev.to/trixsec/predicting-2025-a-c...
While AI like ChatGPT offers a new way to interact with information, Google has a massive advantage with its vast data indexing, reliability, and integrated services like Gmail, Maps, and YouTube. Its strong focus on accuracy, speed, and user trust makes it difficult for AI alone to fully replace it as the dominant search engine.
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