2025 Yearly Recap

2025 is almost over. It wasn't perfect, and it brought significant challenges regarding health and work-life balance. However, the changes and experiences—both hard and good—have helped me face 2026 with more confidence and optimism.

Articles

To be honest, my numbers aren't as impressive as 2024, because my health is my priority, but I'm proud to have wrapped up 2025 successfully, thanks to all of you. Here are some of the highlights of this incredible year:

• ✍️ 17 Articles: 5 on danywalls.com (two of them in December 😅) and 12 for Progress Telerik and Kendo UI.

• 📈 danywalls.com passed 900K views, the newsletter grew to more than 1,200 subscribers, and dev.to/danywalls reached over 1,000,000 views.

Awards

🏅 I’m honored to have become a Progress Champion and Google Developer Expert.

Thanks

I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to the following people and organizations for their support and encouragement.

• My family, @Silvia and Edgar, for their support and encouragement.
• Telerik and their amazing team, @AlyssaNicoll, @Mandy, and @Merrill from Telerik you are an amazing team.
• Thanks to @Leifer, @Bezael, @Santosh, Jorgen de Groot , @Leomaris Reyes, @Victor Scudero, @Andrés (Pana) and @Juan Vicente (Angular world)
• @DecodeFrontend, @gdgjaen and @BarcelonaDevFest.

Tech Talks and Events

This year wasn't as crazy as others, with fewer talks, but I had a great opportunity to share moments with amazing professionals at Google I/O 2025 in Jaén DevFest and finally meet Santosh in person.

Thanks to GDG Jaen for the opportunity to share and learn like always!

Thanks to @Santosh for taking the time to give amazing advice about life and career.

Thanks to Google Developer Expert Program for the opportunity to share and learn like always!

Conclusion

2025 was a good year to learn about taking care of my health and work-life balance, and staying close to friends, family, and the community.

See you in 2026!