Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. A little light this year for the holidays.

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.NET

• 5 Awesome C# Refactoring Tips - Milan Jovanović

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Web Development

• Classes vs. prototypes in JavaScript - Chris Ferdinandi
• How Marketing Changed OOP In JavaScript - Juan Diego Rodríguez
• Netlify’s Disingenuous Survey-based Attack on Next.js (and Eleventy, too) - Zach Leatherman
• Popover API - Ryan Trimble

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General Development

• Rewriting vs Refactoring Code: How To Navigate The Two - Nick Cosentino

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The Internet

• Privacy First - Cory Doctorow

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Technology

• "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" - Cory Doctorow

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Business & Finance

• Why does it sometimes take so long to manufacture and ship action figures?z - Janet Nguyen

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Sports

• The Patriots Are Reverting To Type - Charles P. Pierce

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Podcasts

• The Rest is History #322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain

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Politics

• How much do political campaigns know about you? Way more than you might think. - Kimberly Adams

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Everything Else

• Bill Watterson’s 1990 Commencement Speech to Kenyon College - Bill Watterson
• Tesla Lied To Customers, Blaming Them For Shoddy Parts The Company Knew Were Defective - Karl Bode

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A Song to Leave You With

The Gaslight Anthem - Spider Bites