Holiday Gift Guide 2025: For Developers, Web Scrapers & Everyone In Between

Source: Dev.to

It’s that time of the year when the coffee gets stronger, commits get messier, and everyone agrees to finally refactor that script in January. And let’s be honest, most of us won’t. While it lasts, let’s celebrate the season of laid‑back family time and exchanging gifts.

Disclaimer: This guide isn’t sponsored. All recommendations come from the community and the author’s personal experience, so URLs aren’t provided, but the items can be found easily.

Gift Recommendations

1. Book – Soul of a New Machine

A classic engineering tale that reminds us why we fell in love with building things in the first place.

2. Logitech MX Master Mouse

Smooth scrolling, perfect ergonomics, and side buttons that feel like cheat codes for productivity. It’s the mouse equivalent of finally finding that undocumented API endpoint you needed all year.

3. AeroPress + Coffee Subscription

If coffee is the real runtime powering your favorite developer, this combo is a performance upgrade. AeroPress delivers fast, clean brews; fresh beans might even help fix that bug before lunch.

4. Spider Plush Toy

For every web scraper who proudly identifies as “part human, part spider.” It sits silently on the desk, reminding you to obey robots.txt (…most of the time).

5. Git‑Merch Based on Commit History

A mug that says “I survived the merge conflict of 2025.”
gitmerch.com – just enter the GitHub username (not sponsored).

6. Nothing Headphones

Sleek, transparent, and great for tuning out noisy offices or families. Perfect for deep work, debugging, or pretending you can’t hear someone asking, “Can you take a quick look at this?”

7. Mechanical Keyboard (NuPhy / Keychron)

Developers don’t just type on these; they perform.

8. Bambu Lab A1 Mini 3D Printer

For the dev who already has too many hobbies.

9. BenQ Monitor Light Bar

Immediate upgrade to any desk setup. Reduces eye strain, looks clean, and helps developers see their code clearly during late‑night “just one more function” sessions without taking extra desk space.

10. 100 W GaN Charger

Tiny but absurdly powerful—just like that script written at 3 AM that still runs in production. Keeps everything powered: laptop, phone, tablet, e‑reader, existential dread, everything.

If you love someone who spends their days coaxing data out of websites, obsessing over keyboard switches, or whispering sweet nothings to their terminal, this list has something that will make them light up.

Here’s to a warm, restful holiday season… and to fewer bugs in 2026. Happy gifting, happy coding, and as always, happy scraping! 🕷️✨