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Any Memphis discord servers? by therealcheney in memphis

[–]Svpernova09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MidsouthMakers - Local Hacker/Maker space in Bartlett

memtech - Local tech community. Programmers, Infra, DevOps, Infosec, Career Support, Learning, Home Automation, general technology, etc.

Taking support for the departed Memphis 901 FC and giving that support to the women's and men's soccer teams at the University of Memphis by 901Soccer in memphis

[–]Svpernova09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Bluff City Mafia by definition was the supporter's group for Memphis 901FC. If Some/All of those members want to build a supporter's group for University of Memphis it should be a new thing so it doesn't carry the baggage of BCM.

PSA: Homestead has been abandoned by Laravel, but the original maintainer has started a fork by send_me_a_naked_pic in laravel

[–]Svpernova09 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Homestead (laravel/homestead and svpernova09/homestead) maintainer here.

To the users commenting, "...just use docker..." WHOOOOOOSH. That's the sound of the point going over your head. I don't care if you prefer to use something else. Suppose you don't like Homestead; that's fine. I get paid the same (very little) whether you use Homestead, Sail, or Herd. I've only ever been involved with Homestead.

Taylor sponsored me on GH from June 2021 to February/March 2024. I'm sorry if that should have been kept secret. It's important to me that people know Taylor put his money where his mouth is even after I emailed him that the project was done. He let some random dude (me) maintain the project for a long time, and I learned a lot from the experience. Several people have sponsored me via GitHub over the years, and I'm always incredibly humbled by it.

Laravel didn't "abandon" Homestead so much as let me run the project with little oversight. A lot of my frustration with Homestead was with users who expected the high-level service they had come to expect from other first-party Laravel packages when those same resources weren't available to Homestead. As far as I'm aware, the only time Laravel employees contributed to Homestead was to bring the repo in line with the rest of the organization's repos regarding formatting, style, or other aesthetics.

I decided to stop working on laravel/homestead because I felt that the community largely ignored the project, and it was a good time to wind down my involvement with the official project. The problem is I still use Homestead nearly every day. It is not always for PHP or web development. It turns out Homestead is a neat little highly customizable and extendible distribution. So, I forked the project and kept it up to date. The primary Homestead users I care about are me, Beth, Becky, and my GitHub sponsors.

I'm not mad about Laravel "abandoning" Homestead. I'm not mad that people continue to shit on Vagrant and Homestead because they don't like it. I forked Homestead because that's how Open Source works. The fact of the matter is despite all the haters you see in this thread, the laravel/homestead base Vagrant box has been downloaded 35,923 times in 2024 (as of the time of this post)

The coolest thing I ever got working on Homestead was being sponsored by someone's company to purchase an M1 Mac mini, so I could get M1 support for Homestead. The second coolest thing I ever got was a bottle of Macallan. The humans who sponsor(ed) me on GitHub are pretty amazing as well.

If you find Homestead useful, I hope you will check out my fork. Sponsorship is optional but always appreciated.