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To be fair, the more podcasts, the more competition in making podcasts more high quality, the more quality podcasts I can listen to, the more reason I have to do boring chores or exercises.

Yay to podcasts.

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The graying open source community needs fresh blood

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But open-source doesn't always mean working for free, nor does it mean people do it for purely ethical (or socialist?) reason.

There are lots of reason why open-source is attractive after discounting ethics and money. I imagine being credited for being a major contributor to a popular open-source project would mean better job opportunity in the competitive tech job market. The gig doesn't directly offer you money, but it does gravitate the right company that has the money to fund your work they find very valuable. In a sense, this isn't that far from how capitalism work -- credits are due to the people who brings most value to the society, whether the source of the software are open to all or not.

This is of course a very superficial statement to make, but I remember Eric Raymond wrote about this in more a detailed (and more convincing!) manner in The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

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It feels wrong

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I remember this guy! First fallout game I played, my friend introduced it to me and let me borrow his disk for the PS3.

This is probably the first boss I've fought and in my memory it'll always be an intense battle.

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YAML, SQL, or something else? Looking for recommendations for making a database of stories.

A lot of people already suggests several databases or plaintexts like json.

But to be honest if the dataset is not too big and doesn't grow (since it is historical anyway), why not just use markdown with Hugo (a static site generator). You could also make use of its supported search tools to search texts in the stories.

As a bonus, since it's a static website, you can host it and share it to the world!