![[journal] 2025 in Review: Professional](https://alldevblogs.blob.core.windows.net/thumbs/article-4f855d78fe50-full-5da01021.webp)
A software engineer reflects on their 2025 professional journey, focusing on joining a startup, scaling codebases, and personal project development.
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A product leader reflects on their tenure at Float, sharing lessons learned about technical leadership, scaling mobile apps, and company culture.
A podcast host shares insights on building a lean engineering culture in early-stage startups, based on interviews with tech leaders.
A tech founder shares his journey through burnout after selling his company and how rediscovering his passion for building led him back to software development, inspired by AI.
A developer shares lessons from two failed CI/CD products and how they led to creating CI Insights, an observability tool for CI pipelines.
A tech professional reflects on the nonlinear nature of tech careers, arguing that moving away from management back to an IC role can be a form of success.
A founder shares practical lessons learned from selling his bootstrapped hardware company, TinyPilot, for $598k.
Author announces moving their technical blog to a new platform focused on AI agent systems and Gradient Labs' work.
A technical deep-dive into the architecture and launch strategy behind the initial version of the Puzzmo puzzle game platform.
How a small team organized a 250-person tech conference in just two months, focusing on community and embracing serendipity.
Interview with Emanuel Zgraggen, CEO of Einblick, on his career journey and building a visual computing platform for accessible data analysis.
A retrospective look at the 2005 Fog Creek documentary 'Aardvark'd', featuring early interviews with tech luminaries like Paul Graham and the reddit founders.
Summary of Jason Cohen's talk on building profitable, bootstrapped software businesses with recurring revenue models.
A developer shares lessons from his fourth year running a bootstrapped software company, focusing on his successful TinyPilot KVM device.
TinyPilot's 15th-month update: record revenue, competitor's $800k Kickstarter, and product development progress for the Raspberry Pi KVM device.
A metaphor using commandos, soldiers, and police to describe different career roles in tech startups and projects, focusing on risk and work style.
A step-by-step guide to analyzing .NET application start-up performance using PerfView and flamegraphs.
A solo developer shares financial results and lessons from his second year building software businesses after leaving Google.
An analysis of why the SaaS 'College Conductor' failed after three years, detailing the technical and business lessons learned.
