Debugging 2024: Lessons learned, wins, and achievements
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Retro’ing and Debugging 2024. I'm one of those people who love looking back on a year. Reflecting on what I've done, what I've learned, and what I want to achieve in the following year. This year—like many others—I jumped on Twitch to recap my year, review the stats, and talk about what I want to do moving forward. Here are the stats, things I learned, and goals I have for 2025. The main reason I like sharing these things is to inspire and motivate others. I hope you find it interesting ❤️. 2024 Stats and Achievements I look at the main things I completed during the year. For me, as a developer advocate and influencer, a lot of what I do is content creation. I check out the number of conferences I spoke at, videos I created, blog posts written, and even GitHub contributions. After adding them all up, you can see the stats yourself: // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1876885288552644899-91'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1876885288552644899&theme=dark" } Finally, I looked at a couple of big things I achieved. I was really excited to win one of DEV's first DEV challenges, and it motivated and encouraged me to submit to more in future, including this one. Congrats to our first Computer Science Challenge Winners! dev.to staff for The DEV Team ・ Jun 25 '24 #devchallenge #cschallenge #computerscience #beginners I also won some awards that I'm really proud of, and was selected in the "top 3% of most active speakers on Sessionize". Something I think that's really important when it comes to stats and achievements is thanking people
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Retro’ing and Debugging 2024.
I'm one of those people who love looking back on a year. Reflecting on what I've done, what I've learned, and what I want to achieve in the following year. This year—like many others—I jumped on Twitch to recap my year, review the stats, and talk about what I want to do moving forward.
Here are the stats, things I learned, and goals I have for 2025. The main reason I like sharing these things is to inspire and motivate others. I hope you find it interesting ❤️.
2024 Stats and Achievements
I look at the main things I completed during the year. For me, as a developer advocate and influencer, a lot of what I do is content creation. I check out the number of conferences I spoke at, videos I created, blog posts written, and even GitHub contributions. After adding them all up, you can see the stats yourself:
// Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1876885288552644899-91'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1876885288552644899&theme=dark" }
Finally, I looked at a couple of big things I achieved. I was really excited to win one of DEV's first DEV challenges, and it motivated and encouraged me to submit to more in future, including this one.
I also won some awards that I'm really proud of, and was selected in the "top 3% of most active speakers on Sessionize". Something I think that's really important when it comes to stats and achievements is thanking people
