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The 2024 'Advent Calendars' Offering Programming Language Tips, Space Photos, and Memories
Not every tech "advent calendar" involves programming puzzles. Instead the geek tradition of programming-language advent calendars "seems to have started way back in 2000," according to one history, "when London-based programmer Mark Fowler launched a calendar highlighting a different Perl module e...
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." There's also a JVM Advent calendar with daily helpful hints for Java programmers. 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.
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