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I built findlocal.community after over a year of trying to build yet another discovery app (YADA as I will now call it). I applied to every affiliate (StubHub, TicketMaster, Fever, etc), and they all rejected me because I'm sure they're inundated with hundreds of local event discovery apps with no users and no marketing budget. However, I realized there's probably many people who want the same data I did, who were blocked by the same problem I had. So I made a site that grabs all the data from public calendars and sites, (public info is free-game for scraping in the US), and puts it into a dev friendly API.

I wasn't sure if it would take hold, but I got a few

tldr: Started studying chess at 16 (800 Elo), grinded to ~2160 peak over 8 years through college, plateaus, and building a custom genetic algorithm engine. Just open-sourced a free woodpecker trainer I built for my own blunders and looking for advice on making the OTB push to NM!

I started a chesscom account (eharris733) during my high school stats class in 2018 (I was 16yo), and now, in 2026, I am reflecting on the major milestones I've reached (and asking if anyone has a similar trajectory/advice). I had played chess as a kid, but as you can see I started at around an ~800 elo strength, which is a pretty common starting point for casual players.

In the first 6 months, I lived and br

I graduated in 2024 with a 3.98 GPA from a small liberal arts school in Computer Science. I did do a summer research term, I did a very rigorous (got the highest grade) undergrad thesis, and I tutored/ was a lead instructor for a coding camp. Then, after college, I went right to work in corporate world as a data engineer and then a cyber security software engineer (2 years in, was promoted once so far). I also do a ton of side projects and I follow technology trends/have a pretty active github. I feel like because I don't have any published papers, and I have worked in the industry a couple years, I have no gauge on if applying to PHD programs is delusional or I would make a decent candidate

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My friend thought I should share this story from last weekend of my experience hiking the Presedential traversal through the white mountains. It's a fairly famous hike from what I've heard, but for those who don't know, it's essentially an 18-20 mile hike (we did north to south) where you traverse 7 (or so I can't remember) peaks of the > 4000 ft peaks in NH, culminating atop Mt Washington, the highest peak in the northeast. I've anonymized my friends names but here goes, written right after it ended:

characters:

friend 1 - avid and fearless outdoorsmen with great aerobic capacity 

friend 2 - friend 1’s friend, really into outdoor climbing

friend 3 - ran trail ultras, had done t

Myself (M 24) and three others of a similar demographic currently have a very casual MTG group. However, due to schedules and whatnot, it can become hard to find a time for all four of us, and we would love to have new people join. The pod is budget-friendly (decks are capped at ~100 dollars on TCG player), and all decks reside somewhere between brackets 1-3. We also, once in a blue moon, particiapte in draft events or the like at Pandemonium, but more often meet up at cafes or bars. If you or anyone you know might be interested, please dm me! We're open to all ages, genders, ideologies, etc. !

Myself (M 24) and three others of a similar demographic currently have a very casual MTG group. However, due to schedules and whatnot, it can become hard to find a time for all four of us, and we would love to have new people join. The pod is budget-friendly (decks are capped at ~100 dollars on TCG player), and all decks reside somewhere between brackets 1-3. We also, once in a blue moon particiapte in draft events or the like at Pandemonium, but more often meet up at cafes or bars. If you or anyone you know might be interested, please dm me! We're open to all ages, genders, ideologies, etc. !

I've had some success with implementing SEO for my react native application, but I still find it to be lackluster. What tips do people have for making sure my site gets indexed with all the relevant links and content. I've done all the basic stuff (ensured Google bot can load the javascript, added static pages, added a dynamically generated sitemap that is working). What other ways have people used to get better SEO?

I am considering using it, since my eyeballs might not survive another day of clearing node modules and rebuilding a package-lock. For people who are using bun in a serious manner, what's the argument for staying with npm?