Just like last year and the year before, I wanted to participate in the #FsAdvent event, where someone writes a blog post about something they did with F# during December. Thanks to Sergey Tihon for the organization of the English version and the Japanese F# community for coming up with the idea a few years ago!

As my blog post ended up on 31 December, I wanted to do something that would fit well with the theme of ending of 2015 and starting of the new year 2016 and so I decided to write a little interactive web site that tracks the "Happy New Year" tweets live across the globe. This is partly inspired by Happy New Year Tweets from Twitter in 2014, but rather than analyzing data in retrospect, you can watch 2016 come live!

Without further ado, here are the important links:

• Happy New Year 2016 around the World live web site!
  (It will stay alive for a few days around 31 December 2015, but not forever.)
• F# source code for the project on GitHub
  (Feel free to modify it and use it for other events!)
• Post with all the technical details on my blog

Here is a brief screenshot showing the project on December 29. There are a couple of wishes already: