Challenge yourself with short coding puzzles and design topics from now until Christmas. Which other Advent calendars are missing from the list below?
- Marco's Accessibility Blog: Extended Advent Calendar
- Advent of Code - various languages
- Raku (formerly perl 6) Advent Calendar - Raku
- The Perl Advent Calendar - Perl 5
- 24 Way to Impress Your Friends - CSS
- JVM Advent - Java
- Qemu [*] - system images
- UXmas - UX topics
- 24 P[ull] R[equest]s - miscellaneous FOSS hacking
- AWS Advent - Amazon's AWS
- Java Security Advent Calendar 2019 - Spot the vulnerability
[*] Expected link for 2019 based on the link for Qemu's 2018 Advent Calendar.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @08:00AM (1 child)
Bah humbug
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @08:11AM
Hackaday Presents: Play Christmas Songs 24/7 with a Raspberry Pi Zero! ❄🎅🎄🎁🎶
(Score: 3, Informative) by jimtheowl on Sunday December 01 2019, @08:56AM
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @09:48AM (1 child)
Why should we pay *special* attention to the "birthday" of someone who likely never existed, at a time that was co-opted (earlier mid-winter festivals) from earlier traditions to make Christianity more palatable to other folks?
Especially when the basis for Christianity is on an "imaginary sky daddy" who we *created* to explain the universe.
It means you get to spend lots of your hard-earned money on bullshit, to make sure that big corporations remain profitable. Which makes Christianity the religion of corporatists.
What a waste of time, energy and resources!
It's all a bunch of hokey mumbo-jumbo that has no basis in reality. Since it's just as real, you might as well wallow in Jediism [wikipedia.org] instead.
All of that claptrap is negated by reason, logic and evidence. Then again, that never stopped anyone before.
So have at your ridiculous "Advent." Why don't you go buy some rabbit's feet, dream catchers and/or horseshoes. They'll do just as much for you (jack squat) as praying to some non-existent being.
Merry Christmas to all; And to all a good night!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @02:26PM
Santa Claus does exist!
(Score: 2) by Rich on Sunday December 01 2019, @03:11PM
In Germany, we celebrate the day of Santa Claus, who is known as "Nikolaus" over here. Sweets and Cookies get stuffed into shoes and socks left outside.
Probably through a typo that became "Mikolaus" in a recent conversation I had. Now, "Miko" are Shinto shrine maidens, who also perform ritual dances. The proposition of appreciating a maiden temple dance sounds much more promising to me than appreciating a grey bearded guy. I can have that every day in the year if I just look in the mirror.... Also, the date roughly coincides with the return of the Kami from Izumo Taisha, where they congregate in the "month without gods" (神無). This is a very good reason for a nice celebration to welcome the spirits back.
So, holidays for Santa and free range grazing for the reindeer. Temple dance it is, for me. :)
Well. We could have a little sleigh in the front row for Santa's spirit, to attend too. He will appreciate the change. And we could also have cookies as offering to the spirits, and, for ecological reason, so they don't get wasted, the obligation to munch those cookies which the gods didn't take on the next day.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @08:21PM (1 child)
Poettering is working on advent calendar functionality for systemd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @09:59PM
Wait, don't tell us, it counts down to his birthday.
Amiright?