Hey DEV community! 👋 As developers, we are constantly buried in code, sprints, and side projects. It is incredibly easy to let the days and weeks blur together. To help me stay grounded, I took a quick break to build a simple web tool: a Year Progress tracker. You can check out the live site here: Year Progress Why I built it I wanted a visual "loading bar" for the year. Seeing the exact percentage of the year that has already passed acts as a daily reality check for my goals. Leaving it open in a pinned tab has become a surprisingly effective productivity hack. The UI/UX Approach As a full-stack developer, I really enjoy crafting clean, SaaS style interfaces. My main goal for this project was absolute minimalism. There are plenty of progress trackers out there, but I wanted to avoid any unnecessary features or visual clutter. The result is a stark, modern layout that tells you exactly how many days have elapsed, the percentage completed, and how much runway is left in the year.…