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," [1]according to one history , "when London-based programmer Mark Fowler launched a calendar highlighting a different Perl module each day."

So the tradition continues...

Nearly a quarter of a century later, there's still a [2]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 [3]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 [4]Web Performance calendar with helpful blog posts.

There's also a [5]JVM Advent calendar with daily helpful hints for Java programmers.

Another advent calendar promises [6]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 " [7]HTMHell Advent Calendar ," promising daily articles on security, accessibility, UX, and performance.

There's even an [8]advent calendar with tips for the reverse-engineering framework Radar .

There's still a lovely web-design themed calendar at [9]Designcember.com .

And meanwhile developers at the Svelte frontend framework are actually [10]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 [11]managing director is publishing a Retrocomputing Advent Calendar — [12]daily looks at the [13]ghosts of [14]computers past .

The Atlantic continues its 17-year tradition of a [15]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 [16]their favorite games of 2024 ...



[1] https://thenewstack.io/programming-christmas-advent-calendars-for-2019/

[2] https://perladvent.org/2024/index.html

[3] https://raku-advent.blog/category/2024/

[4] https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/

[5] https://www.javaadvent.com/calendar

[6] https://csadvent.christmas/

[7] https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/

[8] https://radare.org/advent/

[9] https://designcember.com/

[10] https://svelte.dev/blog/advent-of-svelte

[11] https://blog.adafruit.com/author/pt/

[12] https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/12/01/day-1-retrocomputing-advent-calendar-apple-ii-retrocomputing-firstcomputer-electronics/

[13] https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/12/02/leftovers-layout-wled-board-revision-a-completed/

[14] https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/12/03/day-3-retrocomputing-advent-calendar-commodore-vic-20-retrocomputing-firstcomputer-electronics/

[15] https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/12/2024-space-telescope-advent-calendar/680839/

[16] https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-dazzling-desirable-rps-advent-calendar-2024