Revise 2025 year-in-review blog post (#1271)

Author: mirelaprifti

content/src/content/docs/blog/effect-2025-year-in-review.mdx

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 Here’s a look back at what shaped Effect in 2025.
 
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 ### Community & Events
 
-- [Effect Days (Italy)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf3uQLaK2B9bEBZbwMv04e_zSbRNPKH6) — the 3-day in-person conference dedicated to the Effect ecosystem and community, with 17 talks and 2 workshops.
-- Global meetups across Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, NYC, Vienna, San Francisco, Munich, and Milan. Subscribe to our [community events calendar](https://luma.com/effect-community?k=c) for updates on future events.
-- [Effect Office Hours](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf3uQLaK2B_0hEiHT82cv-DotrtD6Bhi) — recurring live sessions with maintainers and the community.
-- [Cause & Effect](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf3uQLaK2B_jaZ5Fy7IPNq0FIViV_CQl) podcast episodes with developers using Effect in production:
+- [Effect Days (🇮🇹 Italy)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf3uQLaK2B9bEBZbwMv04e_zSbRNPKH6) — the 3-day in-person conference dedicated to the Effect ecosystem and community, with 17 talks and 2 workshops.
+- Global meetups across Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, NYC, Vienna, San Francisco, Munich, Milan, Sardinia, and Sondrio. Subscribe to our [community events calendar](https://luma.com/effect-community?k=c) for updates on future events.
+- [Effect Office Hours 🔥](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf3uQLaK2B_0hEiHT82cv-DotrtD6Bhi) — recurring live sessions with maintainers and the community.
+- Cause & Effect podcast episodes with developers using Effect in production:
     - [Michael Fester - CEO 14.ai](https://youtu.be/8lz9-0y58Jc)
     - [David Golightly - Staff eng at Masterclass](https://youtu.be/x2bUuOZ-htU)
     - [Dillon Mulroy - Led the development of Vercel Domains](https://youtu.be/rPKohHGPqCY)
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 Alongside events and media, the [Effect Discord community](https://discord.gg/effect-ts) remained a constant: thousands of developers discussing real production problems, sharing experiences, helping each other, and shaping the direction of the ecosystem day-to-day.
 
-## Team Growth
+ 
+### Team Growth
 
 This year, Mattia Manzati and Kit Langton joined the team, strengthening both ecosystem tooling and learning content. 🎉
 
-## Ecosystem Releases
+ 
+### Ecosystem Releases
 
 - [Effect AI SDK](https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/releases/tag/%40effect%2Fai%400.27.0), bringing first-class abstractions for AI-native and agent-based systems
-- [Developer tooling](https://effect.website/docs/getting-started/devtools/): Effect LSP, VS Code / Cursor Extension.
+- [Developer too ling](https://effect.website/docs/getting-started/devtools/): Effect LSP, VS Code / Cursor Extension.
 - [effect/workflow (alpha)](https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/blob/main/packages/workflow/README.md) — durable, orchestrated workflows built on Effect’s runtime
 - [effect-atom](https://github.com/tim-smart/effect-atom) — a reactive state management library for Effect.
 
-## Education & Learning
+ 
+### Education & Learning
 
 - [Visual Effect](https://effect.kitlangton.com/) & [Effect Solutions](https://www.effect.solutions/) by Kit Langton.
 - [Effect Institute](https://effect.institute/) launched and is currently in progress, with a focus on structured learning and long-term skill building. Join the dedicated channel on the [Discord community](https://discord.com/channels/795981131316985866/1449050466464956416) to follow updates closely.
 - Docs search functionality substantially improved, thanks to a better search experience powered by Mixedbread
 - Lucas Barake’s course: [Practical Effect](https://lucasbarake.com/)
 
-## Adoption & Growth Milestones
+ 
+### Adoption & Growth Milestones
 
 - Some of the companies adopting or publicly using Effect this year include OpenRouter, Warp, Edge & Node, Polar, Salesforce DevTools, T3 Chat, Vercel Domains, and Effect also landed inside the 𝕏 (Twitter) codebase.
 - Effect trended on GitHub 📈🚀, surpassed 6 million npm downloads per week, and crossed [12,000 GitHub stars](https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect) — milestones we’re grateful for and that reflect sustained use.
 
-## Content & Media
+ 
+### Content & Media
 
-### Effect YouTube content series:
+**Effect YouTube content series:**
 
 - [Contentlayer with Effect](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf3uQLaK2B8OagJfQpsbIghPjM4UVEbo)
 - [Building ChEffect with LiveStore](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf3uQLaK2B94dxogXtXyLjnhVjNIfQtK)
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 - [API Integration for Google](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf3uQLaK2B8b2W6ZxKkaarGmbPQG_XfI)
 - [Effect AI SDKs Refactor](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf3uQLaK2B-ObUBrXKgXAYCikKoVb-gh)
 
-### Featured across major platforms:
+**Featured across major platforms:**
 
 - Mentioned in the [Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol 32](https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/languages-and-frameworks/effect) in the Languages and Framework section, with the Thoughtworks team highlighting that after using Effect, their team found no reason to go back.
 - [Matt Pocock’s video on why Effect “captured his heart”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GChOwivwQ&t=51s)
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 - [Effect: the Good Parts, `use workflow`, and Vercel Domains](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR_MQH3opc8&t=182s) w/ Dillon Mulroy & Swyx
 - [Building AI applications with Effect + Netlify](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KmFwsj9gbI&t=2s) with Maxwell Brown
 
-## Last but not least:
+ 
+### Last but not least:
 
 - We ended the year with a [Christmas gift](https://x.com/MichaelArnaldi/status/2003510051231965459?s=20) from the [terminal.shop](https://terminal.shop/) for the Effect community, which we’ll use to give back and support community-led initiatives.
 - And, of course… [justfuckinguseeffect.dev](https://justfuckinguseeffect.dev/) — probably our most honest CTA to date. 😄