# January 2025: A Monthly Reflection on Personal Challenges and Positive Moments

DevFeed: [January 2025: A Monthly Reflection on Personal Challenges and Positive Moments](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/january-2025-you-were-rough-38500.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eevis.codes/blog/2025-02-02/january-2025-you-were-rough/>)

Author: Eevis Panula

Published: 2025-06-11T04:18:31.535000Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Eevis Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/eevis-blog.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [compose-multiplatform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compose-multiplatform.md>)

Tags: [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [content](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/content.md>), [gender](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gender.md>)

## AI overview

A personal reflection on January 2025, reviewing hopes and fears recorded in two bingo cards. The author describes a positive milestone involving a Compose Multiplatform blog post, alongside experiences of gender stereotypes, biased AI-generated content, and unequal treatment in developer discussions.

## Source excerpt

The first month of 2025 and its 247 days are behind us. I started 2025 with a blog post participating in Dev's New Year Challenge, sharing some hopes and fears for 2025. In the post, I shared two bingo cards: One for things I wish would happen, and one for things I think will, unfortunately, happen. The original blog post is behind this link: 2025, Please, Be Gentle. I decided that after each month, I'd look at how it went in terms of these two cards. This is the first checkpoint, so let's discuss the good stuff first. The Good Stuff From January, I can mark one thing as complete on my wishes-bingo card: My blog post, Using SVGs on Canvas with Compose Multiplatform, was selected to Dev's week's top 7 listing. I was so happy when I saw the notification about it! So, after a month, my "The Good Stuff"-bingo card looks like this: And the text version: B I N G O Talk accepted to Kotlin Conf I get invited to be a guest in a podcast My research article gets published Learn a new skill More non-binary representation in conferences Man speaks up against biased behaviour New elections in Finland Night outside, in a hammock Get into a Doctorate program Start mentoring again A project is launched without a last-minute crunch More women and non-binary in staff+ positions **Free space (Dream big!)** Happened: Blog post gets boosted or selected to Dev's top 7 #WeCoded without jerks commenting Conference swag socks in my size Someone says my work inspired them A new tattoo A genuine apology from someone after being a jerk Get a book deal Get promoted to Tech Lead position 100K views in Dev Not burning out during the year Build a new, useful feature for Neule.art-app Finish building a keyboard The More Realistic The title of this blog post is both about the state of the world right now - as a non-binary, disabled woman who is willing to call a nazi salute a nazi salute, everything that's happening is just a lot. But it's also about the bingo - I could mark several of my "More reali