It’s time! We are excited to announce the winners of the New Year Writing challenge.

Our team of judges loved learning about each of your retrospectives, goals, and predictions! We're now over a month into 2025 -- we hope your retros provided some wisdom, you've stayed on track with your roadmap, and perhaps you're even seeing some predictions unfold already!

There were so many well-thought-out and well-articulated posts for us to deliberate over. Given the amount of high quality submissions (almost 250!), we have decided to award two winners per prompt.

Read on to see who they are.

Congratulations To…

Prompt Winners

Retro’ing and Debugging 2024

2024: retro.filter(experiences => share(experiences))

Ashley D ・ Feb 2

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #career #beginners

Aniruddha’s 2024: From Code Commits to Cinematic Hits – A Year of Growth, Grit, and Gratitude

ANIRUDDHA ADAK ・ Jan 2

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #career #discuss

Compiling 2025

Small Steps, Big Goals: My Journey to 2025

Diana Castro for AWS Community Builders ・ Jan 10

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #career #aws

Code, Nature & Personal Bits

B G Adam ・ Jan 29

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #career

Predicting 2025

Humanity is What Makes AI Powerful: Predicting 2025

Coco Poley for TinyMCE ・ Jan 29

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #future #ai

My AI Predictions for 2025 including; hyper-personalisation, sustainability, and legislation.

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝 ・ Jan 6

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #future #ai

Our six winners will receive the following prizes:

• 6-month DEV++ Membership
• Exclusive DEV Badge
• A gift from the DEV Shop

All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

What’s next?

We launched a new Frontend Challenge earlier this week! We hope you check it out:

Join us for the next Frontend Challenge: February Edition!

dev.to staff for The DEV Team ・ Feb 12

#devchallenge #frontendchallenge #css #javascript

Thank you to everyone who shared your experiences and perspectives with us. See you next time!