The 2024 ‘Advent Calendars’ Offering Programming Language Tips, Space Photos, and Memories

Not all technical “advent calendars” involve programming challenges. Instead, the geeky tradition of programming advent calendars “seems to have started as early as 2000,” according to a history“London-based programmer Mark Fowler launched a calendar that highlighted a different Perl module each day.”

So this tradition continues…

• Nearly a quarter of a century has passed and there are still Perl advent calendarcelebrating tips and tricks like “Some special packages waiting under the tree to give your web applications that extra boost.”

• Web performance consultant (and former Yahoo and Facebook engineer) Stoyan Stefanov has been hosting an annual conference since 2009 Network Performance Calendar and helpful blog posts.

• There is another JVM is coming A calendar of useful daily tips for Java programmers.

• The HTMHell website describes itself as “a collection of HTML bad practices copied from real websites” and is being marketed as “HTMHell Advent Calendar”, which promises daily articles on security, accessibility, user experience, and performance.

Meanwhile, the developers of the Svelte front-end framework actually Commit to publishing new content every day“Whether it’s a new feature in Svelte or SvelteKit or an improvement to the website!”

But not every tech advent calendar has to do with programming…

• The Atlantic continues 17-year tradition Space Telescope Advent Calendarcontaining daily images from NASA’s Hubble Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope