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'The language of Pokémon is universal': fans are still catching after 30 years
2 months ago
- A pop-up event in Shoreditch, London celebrated the 10th anniversary of Pokémon Go, attracting hundreds of fans.
- Mairead Ralph met her husband at a Pokémon fan event 16 years ago; she has been a fan since Pokémon Red debuted 30 years ago.
- The Pokémon franchise is the world's largest media franchise with total revenues of $147 billion, spanning games, cards, shows, and more.
- Fans highlight Pokémon's universal appeal and its ability to bring joy and nostalgia, especially during difficult times.
- Rumeysa Usca uses Pokémon Go to entertain her dog and lose weight, while Summer Till uses it to connect with younger relatives.
- Stacie Smith and her son Rupert, who has autism, use the game to encourage Rupert to go outside and integrate into the community.
- Despite the high value of some cards, many fans emphasize that the love for Pokémon is not about material possessions but the enduring joy of the game.
Hacker Public Radio
2 months ago
- Now is a great time to submit a show to get it to the top of the queue.
- Each listener is asked to send in just one show per year.
- Check the hosts page; if you don't see a 2026 date next to your name or your name is not listed, you should send in a show.
- Any unfilled slots for next week will be filled from the Reserve Pool.
- HPR will stop as a project if there are not enough shows.
Why I Love FreeBSD
2 months ago
- The FreeBSD Handbook impressed the author in 2002 with its completeness, accuracy, and up-to-date documentation, contrasting with fragmented Linux docs.
- FreeBSD proved more stable, performant, and responsive on the same hardware compared to Linux, handling compilation loads gracefully.
- The Handbook taught a systematic approach: understand before acting, and its foundations remain relevant after 24 years.
- FreeBSD prioritizes evolution over revolution, ensuring long-term stability and predictability for production environments.
- The author values FreeBSD for its reliable features like jails, ZFS, boot environments, and bhyve, all native and efficient.
- The FreeBSD community is driven by genuine passion, competence, and a focus on serving users rather than chasing hype.
- FreeBSD consistently delivers on its motto 'The Power to Serve' by being effective, efficient, and secure across decades.
How to Bootstrap a Town
2 months ago
- Bootstrap a town by starting with a lodge/clubhouse as a social hub, not just physical infrastructure.
- Target a community (e.g., remote tech workers) within 90 minutes of a major metro for weekend accessibility.
- Use the lodge as a Schelling point for social life, hosting exclusive conferences and residencies to attract talented people.
- Gradually expand from day-trippers to longer-term residents, then to permanent residents and commercial amenities like a grocery store.
- Community is the key bottleneck, not money; build social bonds through rituals, porches, saunas, and uniforms.
- Physical portals (e.g., gravel roads, forest paths) enhance the sense of entering a distinct space.
- The plan mirrors country club development but focuses on walkable density and independent townhood, not suburban sprawl.
<antirez>
2 months ago
- Travel from San Francisco to Sicily was difficult but worth it for the Redis Conference 2015.
- The conference was excellently organized by RackSpace with sponsors RedisLabs, Heroku, and Hulu.
- High-quality talks and around 250 attendees made the event valuable, with free admission and top-notch amenities.
- Notable talks included Hulu and Heroku on use cases and operational challenges, plus Bill Andersen's benchmarking vision.
- A negative point was Matt Stancliff's talk that criticized the author's leadership and proposed replacing him, which the author felt was unfair and poorly timed.
- Despite the disagreement, the conference was overall a magical experience, reinforcing the community's strength and the author's commitment to Redis.
Calling all open source maintainers working with Ruby
2 months ago
- A shared forum for Ruby users aims to reduce fragmentation and save project maintainers time.
- Critics warn of information duplication, spam, and centralization creating a single point of failure.
- Proponents argue the forum is not meant to replace all communication channels but to improve collaboration and reduce fragmentation.
- Maintainers can choose to participate or use their own alternatives; decentralization is respected.
- The forum will be a public, long-term space with easy migration of discussions in or out.
1,500 Curl Authors
2 months ago
- Curl development relies on a large community, not just a single maintainer.
- The maintainer no longer handles the majority of commits.
- The curl git repository now includes contributions from 1,500 people.
- It took 4.5 years to go from 1,000 to 1,500 contributors.
- The 1,500th contributor is Sameeh Jubran.
Open-Sourcing Booklet
2 months ago
- The author built a smart newsletter for Moonlight's community, which had ten times more weekly active users than the website, highlighting the power of asynchronous communication.
- Booklet was created as a newsletter-first community software, coded in Ruby on Rails, using OpenAI's GPT-3 to summarize conversations into a daily digest.
- Booklet hosted various communities but faced challenges with spam and low adoption beyond the author's own communities, leading to its shutdown.
- The Booklet code is now open-sourced under MIT license, supporting Solo and Multiuser modes, with Docker and Render deployment options.
- The author hopes others will adopt Booklet's AI summarization techniques, emphasizing that newsletters often have more users than websites and should be prioritized.
Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
2 months ago
- A small free-book exchange is built into a stone-framed arched niche in a pale yellow wall in Pistoia, Italy.
- The Little Free Library network includes 37,182 neighborhood libraries where people leave and take books.
- Several recently approved libraries are highlighted from locations such as Cleethorpes (GB), Habrough (GB), Ottawa (CA), Conewago Township/Hanover (US), and Abetone Cutigliano (IT).

community

'The language of Pokémon is universal': fans are still catching after 30 years

Hacker Public Radio

Why I Love FreeBSD

How to Bootstrap a Town

<antirez>

Calling all open source maintainers working with Ruby

1,500 Curl Authors

Open-Sourcing Booklet

Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots