What the new years brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year. //Vern McLellan

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Goodbye 2021 and hello to our next adventure! –kale

#Favorites

Framework Laptop - the time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last, without sacrificing performance, quality, or style
//frame.work sponsored

Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
//google comments→

Prince of Persia in JavaScript
//princejs comments→

Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
//benwajdi comments→

Entire website in a single HTML file
//css-tricks comments→

Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
//fabiensanglard comments→

Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing
//github comments→

There's never been a better time to build websites
//simeongriggs comments→

Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes
//righto comments→

How I Build
//pketh comments→

#Ask HN

Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?

#Show HN

Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux //usebottles comments→

Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content //github comments→

HTTP Toolkit //httptoolkit comments→

Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls //exa comments→

DIY Off-Grid Solar Power //mobile-solarpower comments→

Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go //a9 comments→

A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go //github comments→

Marktext – Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux, macOS, Windows //github comments→

#Code

Tokio Console //tokio comments→

Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes //justine comments→

Ruby 3.1 //ruby-lang comments→

Fq: Jq for Binary Formats //github comments→

A Python Guide for the Ages //github comments→

Pytudes: Python programs for perfecting particular programming skills //github comments→

#Data

Consider SQLite //wesleyac comments→

Databases in 2021: A Year in Review //ottertune comments→

Germany: Data retention to be abolished once and for all //tutanota comments→

A fast SQLite PWA notebook for CSV files //dirtylittlesql comments→

Big Data May Not Know Your Name. But It Knows Everything Else //wired comments→

Miller – tool for querying, shaping, reformatting data in CSV, TSV, and JSON //readthedocs comments→

#Design

(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9 //swallowmygraphicdesign comments→

Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art //github comments→

/R/PixelArt Update: NFT Posts Are Now Banned //reddit comments→

I've made a Figma plugin that converts design to HTML with TailwindCSS //figma comments→

#Learn

Learn accounting for free //accountingcoach comments→

How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught //fs comments→

The Beverly Clock //wikipedia comments→

London Beer Flood of 1814 //wikipedia comments→

The bizarre Monowheel seen through vintage photographs //rarehistoricalphotos comments→

Rocky Mountain Basic //wikipedia comments→

Nikon F-Mount //wikipedia comments→

#Books

Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? //ycombinator

JavaScript for Impatient Programmers //exploringjs comments→

Ask HN: Life Changing Books? //ycombinator

Mind-expanding books //github comments→

Ask HN: What are the best books for professional effectiveness? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Are there any good “coding for kids” books? //ycombinator

#Watching

James Webb Space Telescope launch //youtube comments→

I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate //youtube comments→

'People amazed I fold paper for a living, then they see it' //bbc comments→

#Working

My parents collect cans for a living //thenation comments→

Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech //philcalcado comments→

Building Remote Teams for Startups //vadimkravcenko comments→

#Fun

Misbrands //github comments→

iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo //twitter comments→

Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's //fourlightyears comments→

Tetr.io //tetr comments→

A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website //theguardian comments→

Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console //wasm4 comments→

Collection of Unix ASCII Games //github comments→

Online Dating Game à la 2048 //github comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado //bikeindex comments→

New York City bans natural gas in new buildings //reuters comments→

Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps //airbnb comments→

Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser //zdnet comments→

The Best Things and Stuff of 2021 //fogus comments→

Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer //localghost comments→

Be curious, not judgmental //shubhro comments→

How a hypermedia approach can address usability concerns with multi-page apps //htmx comments→

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