My 2025 in numbers

Patrick Brosset - December 31, 2025

Today is the last day of 2025, which seems like a good time to look back and think about what I've done this year. This year, more than ever, I've continued to push for a web that's easier to build with, more capable, easier to discover, and better documented. I'm thankful to be able to do this work, something I enjoy and care deeply about.

I talked about web technologies, a lot

First in writing, by publishing 23 blog posts:

• 9 on the Edge dev blog:

  • Request for feedback: Incoming call notifications API for web apps
  • Microsoft Edge and Interop 2025
  • Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
  • Contextual logging with console.context()
  • Creating a more accessible web with Aria Notify
  • The Edge 2025 web platform top developer needs dashboard
  • Calling for Interop 2026 proposals
  • Unlock text editing use cases with highlightsFromPoint and other FromPoint APIs
  • Making complex web apps faster

• 5 on my own blog:

  • Demanding more from our AI coding tools
  • AI agents and the web - A proposal to keep developers in the loop
  • How to convince your boss to sponsor Open Web Docs
  • Constructing ClipboardItems from strings and Promises
  • And this one.

• 4 on Chrome dev blog:

  • Test the clipboardchange event—a more efficient way to monitor the clipboard
  • Brick by brick: Help us build CSS Masonry
  • A new way to style gaps in CSS
  • Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows

• 1 on Smashing Magazine:

  • Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore

• 1 on HTMHell:

  • What's wrong with this HTML, and is it valid?

• 1 on Piccalilli:

  • Perfecting Baseline

• 1 on CSS-Tricks:

  • The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable

• 1 on the W3C blog:

  • First catalog of web features completed by the WebDX Community Group

On social media:

• I published about 120 posts on Bluesky (and probably the same amount on Mastodon and LinkedIn)

But also in person, by giving 4 talks:

• 2 lightning talks at Smashing Conf events:

  • Masonry - The pretty grid you didn’t see coming (Smashing Conference, NYC, October 2025)
  • Filling the Gap - Decorating Layouts with CSS (Smashing Conference, Freiburg, September 2025)

• 2 at W3C events:

  • web-features and Baseline (AC 2025)
  • web-features and Baseline - We're feature complete! What's next? (W3C Breakouts Day)

I demonstrated what the web is capable of

• I built 15 little experiments on my site, here are those which I'm most proud of/are the most useful:

  • Navigating the web platform
  • CSS gap decoration resources
  • CSS Masonry resources
  • Web features finder
  • Implementing an accordion component in 2026 🪗

• I built 15 demos on the Edge Demos repo, supporting the web platform docs my team maintains.

I documented web technologies and made them easier to find and use

• I created over 180 commits to the web-features repository, to help build a better, more comprehensive, catalog of all the features of the web platform.

• I created about 10 commits to the mdn/content and mdn/browser-compat-data repositories, to improve MDN web docs and browser compatibility tables.

• I created over 140 commits to the MicrosoftDocs/edge-developer repository, to improve the web platform-related Edge technical documentation, in particular publishing Edge Beta release notes every 4 weeks.

• I created about 200 commits both on the web-features-mappings and web-features-explorer repos, which together power the Web Platform Features Explorer site, a tool to discover and learn about the web platform, via monthly release notes, and detailed feature pages.

I contributed to open source

• GitHub tells me that I've made 3187 contributions this year.

• I've also opened about 260 issues and pull requests.

On the personal side

Because work is only a part of life, and can never be more important than your own well-being and loved ones:

• I biked, ran, hiked, and skied over 1400km, totaling 32000m of elevation gain (and that's not counting the multiple sessions I do at the bouldering gym each week).

• I listened to more than 55,000 minutes of music.

• I took more than 5000 photos, some of which you've seen in this blog.

Happy new year folks, see you in 2026!