
The 2024 'Advent Calendars' Offering Programming Language Tips, Space Photos, and Memories (perladvent.org) 2
So the tradition continues...
- Nearly a quarter of a century later, there's still a Perl Advent Calendar, celebrating tips and tricks like "a few special packages waiting under the tree that can give your web applications a little extra pep in their step."
- And of course there's a separate advent calendar for Raku programmers.
- Since 2009 web performance consultant (and former Yahoo and Facebook engineer) Stoyan Stefanov has been pulling together an annual Web Performance calendar with helpful blog posts.
- There's also a JVM Advent calendar with daily helpful hints for Java programmers.
- Another advent calendar promises daily posts about C#.
- The HTMHell site — which bills itself as "a collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites" — is celebrating the season with the "HTMHell Advent Calendar," promising daily articles on security, accessibility, UX, and performance.
- There's still a lovely web-design themed calendar at Designcember.com.
And meanwhile developers at the Svelte frontend framework are actually promising to release something new each day, "whether it's a new feature in Svelte or SvelteKit or an improvement to the website!"
But not every tech advent calendar is about programming...
- Adafruit's managing director is publishing a Retrocomputing Advent Calendar — daily looks at the ghosts of computers past.
- The Atlantic continues its 17-year tradition of a Space Telescope advent calendar, featuring daily images from both NASA's Hubble telescope and James Webb Space Telescope
- The gaming blog Rock Paper Shotgun has been counting down their favorite games of 2024...