Changelog host Jerod Santo reviewed all 49 previous newsletter editions and pulled the single best code project, best piece of prose, and best podcast episode from each month covered.
This episode is a curated retrospective, not an interview. The value is in the selection criteria: Santo's unfiltered picks expose which ideas actually held up over time and which months produced work worth revisiting. That judgment call, applied consistently across 49 editions, is the editorial product here.
Read the original to get the full ranked list and see whether your own mental model of 2025's most important technical moments matches his. The gaps will tell you something.
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