Advent 2021: Intro

December 01, 2021

Programming

approximately 1 minutes to read

This blog is part of the 24 posts long series "Advent 2021":

Advent 2021: Intro (December 01, 2021)
Advent 2021: C++ (December 02, 2021)
Advent 2021: C# (December 03, 2021)
Advent 2021: Python (December 04, 2021)
Advent 2021: Go (December 05, 2021)
Advent 2021: TypeScript (December 06, 2021)
Advent 2021: CMake (December 07, 2021)
Advent 2021: Django (December 08, 2021)
Advent 2021: Angular (December 09, 2021)
Advent 2021: Flask (December 10, 2021)
Advent 2021: gRPC (December 11, 2021)
Advent 2021: GraphQL (December 12, 2021)
Advent 2021: XML & JSON (December 13, 2021)
Advent 2021: Matplotlib, Pandas & Numpy (December 14, 2021)
Advent 2021: Linux (December 15, 2021)
Advent 2021: Ansible (December 16, 2021)
Advent 2021: SQLite (December 17, 2021)
Advent 2021: Catch2 (December 18, 2021)
Advent 2021: Zstandard (December 19, 2021)
Advent 2021: ZFS (December 20, 2021)
Advent 2021: Thunderbird (December 21, 2021)
Advent 2021: Visual Studio Code (December 22, 2021)
Advent 2021: Blender (December 23, 2021)
Advent 2021: Open source (December 24, 2021)

If you like to read news on the web, or follow people on Twitter, you often hear about problems, things someone doesn’t like, or the odd random issue that crops up. I’m not sure if it’s a sign of the times or not, but we often tend to see the bad parts and forget that there is a lot out there which works. As the year is coming to and end, I figured it’s high time to try something different for once. Until December 24th, I will write one blog post every day to showcase a project, programming language, tool or frameworks that I like and use regularly. No nuanced review focusing on the pros and cons, with a full breakdown of all problems I encountered, but instead a quick whirlwind tour through projects that I’m grateful for. Join me for an advent of praise like there never before!