2025 is winding down! 🎇
So much happened this year. Our team is very proud to look back on all the achievements, collaborations and projects that made their way onto our calendar.
We have so many people to thank! And so many cool things to remember. Check out the thread for a peek 📜
Our blog had more visitors than ever this year! You’re favourite articles were:
1️⃣ How to Sync Anything, the 4-part series — https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04/06/how-to-sync-anything?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=eoy
2️⃣ Offline First with @couchdb & @pouchdb in 2025 — https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03/26/offline-first-with-couchdb-and-pouchdb-in-2025?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=eoy
3️⃣ How CouchDB Prevents Data Corruption: fsync — https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/02/26/how-couchdb-prevents-data-corruption-fsync ?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=eoy
We also redesigned how we showcase work from our 10+ year history —
https://neighbourhood.ie/our-work?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=eoy
This year we connected with new communities and found novel ways to introduce CouchDB and PouchDB to more people
🎙️ We interviewed @lsteinmann about the impact the iDAI.field app collaboration has for @dai_weltweit and the global archaeological community — https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03/20/from-dig-site-to-data-sync-idai-field-and-offline-first?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=eoy
🎙️ We attended @localfirstconf in Berlin! @janl presented 15 years of local-first history — https://youtu.be/_x0kmL-AZ00?si=iA55nD15V3x0Y6Fm
And Alex Feyerke showed us how to start #syncing with PouchDB — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Q7An1Co68
🎙️ We also got to take part in the @oredev conference this November! Catch Alex’ talk on #LocalFirst UX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bulFRAPgQw4
🙌 We continued writing about our @sovtechfund partnership! You can now learn about the contributions we made to @log4j — https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/08/05/nh-sta-s01e05-log4j
and #systemd — https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/07/23/nh-stf-s01e04-systemd?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=eoy
🍿 We even launched our own YouTube channel! We shared new and archival deep-dives and tutorials, and can’t wait to do more in 2025! Are you subscribed? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWSKN-pYhvX5uBUBpYjkgA/
There was lots of news from CouchDB too:
💻 3.5.1 came out just last month — https://blog.couchdb.org/2025/11/11/3-5-1/
💻 We heard from the community in the 2024 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey about why CouchDB users are so loyal — https://blog.couchdb.org/2025/06/18/2024-apache-couchdb-user-survey-results/
💻 Plus, we launched CouchDB #Minihosting: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03/05/how-to-host-your-own-couchdb?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=eoy
If you haven’t visited https://blog.couchdb.org/ for a while, come by! We’ve had sooo many great user stories this year, and have a monthly Digest again.
⭐ Thank you, everyone, for a great 2025!
We can’t wait to continue connecting with great teams, growing the CouchDB community and sharing stories and expertise along the way.
For now, we’re wishing you all a good and restful break! See you in the new year with recharged batteries 🔋
Neighbourhoodie Software
