[HN Gopher] Sensei's Library
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Sensei's Library
Author : Tomte
Score : 106 points
Date : 2021-09-30 10:19 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (senseis.xmp.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (senseis.xmp.net)
| beermonster wrote:
| Sensei's Library, Arch Wiki and Pagat card game rules are great
| resources.
|
| Another great resource for the game of Go is the 'Life in 19x19
| Forum' [1]
|
| [1] https://www.lifein19x19.com/
| yaakov34 wrote:
| Great site, I've gotten into Go in a big way during the last
| year, and SL is still the best overall free resource after all
| these years.
| chrisweekly wrote:
| FTR Sensei's Library is all about Go (the game).
| cglong wrote:
| Thank you, I had to read several comments before I figured out
| which "Go" they were talking about :)
| apetresc wrote:
| Sensei's Library has been around since I first started playing Go
| back in the early 2000s. Not a single thing about it has changed,
| technology-wise, in that entire time; but the community is still
| adding content to it daily. I guess it's kind of like HN in that
| regard, but with twice the longevity.
|
| It's a little corner of the internet I earnestly hope never goes
| away.
| arnoxmp wrote:
| True, it's still a LAMP stack, migrating it to new PHP and
| MySQL (now MariaDB) versions every now & then, fixing a bug
| here and there, adding LetsEncrypt, switching from CVS to
| Mercurial to Git, etc. The last big feature I added was math
| formulas (2 years ago or so).
|
| This project really told me how important it is to leave
| comments for your future self - especially, if your future self
| hasn't touched some parts of the code for 15 years :o)
|
| Anyway, I'm approaching 50 now, so I assume that Sensei's will
| be here for at least another 25 years.
| amiantos wrote:
| Do you already have a plan in place for what should happen to
| it after those 25+ years (universe willing)? Anyone to
| inherit it?
| z0r wrote:
| You're the Sensei's guy? Thanks! I remember reading articles
| here when I was learning Go as a teenager 20 years ago.
| xxpor wrote:
| Seeing how "basic" the site is made me think how little we hear
| about getting Slashdotted these days. Obviously not literally,
| but back in say, 2010, if a site like this reached the front
| page of /., reddit, or HN, you'd expect it to blow up
| immediately.
| arnoxmp wrote:
| I can't talk about /. and reddit, but HN barely moves the
| needle. Today the logs say that there are ~5800 page views
| with a referrer from HN. CPU load: 0.07 :o)
|
| The nice thing about "basic sites" is that they don't use
| many resources. SL runs on a dedicated (bare metal/root)
| server on Hetzner (along several other services), and as long
| as the working set of the DB fits into memory (for Sensei's
| this is ~500MB) I'd argue that it withstands /., but probably
| not the reddit frontpage.
| chis wrote:
| I love this site. My favorite page is
| https://senseis.xmp.net/?ThePowerOfTheB2Bomber , such classic
| old-school internet humor. "The secret of the B2
| Bomber is of course that it contains not less than two empty
| triangles, which radiates absolutely no influence, and thus the
| shape is virtually undetectable on the enemy's radar."
| mcbuilder wrote:
| As a 16 year old in the early 2000s, I used to spend a lot of
| time at Sensei's. I'm a bit saddened that at lot of the "get
| strong at" book parodies are broken, however they live on with
| the Wayback Machine. Here was one of my favorites.
| https://web.archive.org/web/20070224195507/https://senseis.x...
| pixelpoet wrote:
| Wonderful resource, don't miss the excellent section on Go
| proverbs: https://senseis.xmp.net/?GoProverbs
|
| A particularly lovely one:
| https://senseis.xmp.net/?UseGoToMeetFriends
| epivosism wrote:
| I ran a go club for years and from it 1) met most of current
| friends 2) helped two couples get together, 3 kids and counting
| 3) got connected to someone who eventually helped me get the
| best job I could ever find.
|
| I think this happens because it functions as a type of
| personality test, and allows people to demonstrate diligence
| and curiosity without being as directly confrontational as
| chess. In a club setting it also helps around teaching; and
| having a clear ranking system allows relationships based on
| respect / status to form easily.
| pixelpoet wrote:
| My cousin got married to a national Go champion some years
| after I introduced her to the game, and I met my exgf sort of
| in this way too. It's interesting how it happens :)
| vnorilo wrote:
| It helps that Go has a surprisingly powerful handicap system
| [1] - being a casual player I was able to play meaningful
| matches against a clearly superior opponent with suitable
| starting advantage, something that I have never been able to
| enjoy in chess.
|
| That somehow supports the mentality of accepting your
| respective skill levels and enjoying the game together.
|
| 1: https://senseis.xmp.net/?Handicap (from the featured site)
| vermilingua wrote:
| Sensei's Library is one of the most comprehensive resources on
| any subject I've seen. Not only is it an exceptionally wide pool
| of knowledge, but excellently scales from beginner level
| information up to expert advice.
| dfan wrote:
| Previous discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19692418
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