// DECK_LAUNCHER / SYSTEM / HOLIDAYS
> HOLIDAY_CALENDAR
Yearly-recurring, GAMA's own. Read it here, or subscribe and let your real calendar app remind you every year without asking again.
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3- JANUARY 1SAME BUGS, NEW YEAR
>Every unpatched CVE from last year is still here. It just gets a fresh changelog entry now.
- JANUARY 15BLUE SCREEN REMEMBRANCE DAY
>A moment of silence for every render that didn't make it.
- JANUARY 28COLD BOOT DAY
>The one day a year you actually find out if the backup power works.
FEBRUARY
3- FEBRUARY 2GROUNDHOG COMMIT DAY
>Same bug, filed again, exactly one year later, by someone who swears they already reported this.
- FEBRUARY 14NULL POINTER APPRECIATION DAY
>It's not you. It's the reference.
- FEBRUARY 29LEAP DAY (WHEN IT SHOWS UP)
>The one date every date library lies about at least once.
MARCH
2- MARCH 14PI DAY
>Off by 0.0000000001%, and somehow still your fault.
- MARCH 31BACKUP VERIFICATION DAY
>The one day a year anyone actually opens the backup and checks it restores.
APRIL
2- APRIL 1DO NOT DEPLOY DAY
>Yes, still. Yes, really. Especially today.
- APRIL 26DENIAL OF SERVICE AWARENESS DAY
>A quiet day to appreciate every request that got through.
MAY
3- MAY 4THE FOURTH
>May it be with whatever you're building today.
- MAY 17UPTIME DAY
>Nothing crashed. Nobody will ever know how close it came.
- MAY 25TOWEL DAY
>Known location: still on the desk, exactly where it was left, mostly clean.
JUNE
2- JUNE 6SIGNAL BOOST DAY
>Tell someone about the free tool that actually saved your afternoon.
- JUNE 21LONGEST UPTIME OF THE YEAR DAY
>Not a guarantee. A hope, dressed up as a date on a calendar.
JULY
2- JULY 4INDEPENDENCE FROM YOUR CLOUD BILL DAY
>A brief, wistful pause for every self-hosted thing that stayed self-hosted.
- JULY 17WORLD EMOJI DAY
>🛰️ status: still transmitting.
AUGUST
2- AUGUST 8INFINITE LOOP DAY
>Turn the date sideways. Some processes never exit either.
- AUGUST 15SATELLITE STATIC DAY
>Some signals never made it home clean. This one's for the ones that kept transmitting anyway.
SEPTEMBER
3- SEPTEMBER 9999TH PROBLEM DAY
>A bug ain't one, but that's not zero either.
- SEPTEMBER 19TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY
>Every 404 becomes 'ye page be lost at sea,' whether anyone asked for that or not.
- SEPTEMBER 28ASK BEFORE YOU ASSUME DAY
>The one holiday every clarifying question gets to feel justified on.
OCTOBER
3- OCTOBER 10BINARY DAY
>There are 10 kinds of holidays. This is one of them.
- OCTOBER 21THE FUTURE, AS PREDICTED, MOSTLY WRONG DAY
>Still no hoverboards. Cloud storage got the name right by accident, though.
- OCTOBER 31LEGACY CODE HALLOWEEN
>Something in this codebase is older than the intern reading it, and it is still watching.
NOVEMBER
2- NOVEMBER 9PACKET LOSS DAY
>A brief silence for every byte that didn't make the trip.
- NOVEMBER 30COMPUTER SECURITY DAY
>Rotate a password today. Any password. Yes, that one.
DECEMBER
4- DECEMBER 3INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
>If a screen reader can't use it, it isn't finished. Not a joke entry, a real one.
- DECEMBER 10FIRMWARE UPDATE EVE
>Traditionally observed by not updating anything important until after the holidays.
- DECEMBER 25WINTER SHUTDOWN DAY
>Even the always-on things get to idle today.
- DECEMBER 31ROLLBACK EVE
>One more chance to remember everything that happened this year, in order, before the version bump.