Ecosystem updates / small stuff

Hi everyone!

This is going to be one of those miscellaneous update weeks — I realized I hadn't published anything on here for a full 3 weeks (chalk that up to managing to take a whole week's vacation!), and next week I'll be tied up at an offsite, so this is as good a window as any. I'll start with my own updates:

This, I think, speaks to LLMs' value in providing translated entry points to docs and our other knowledge sources. While we do maintain translations for most of the content of our docs, that doesn't include the low-level Specs, nor the other sources that Kapa uses for responses (eg Github discussions and the community forum). Those are on Kapa to translate, and the results speak for themselves!

I'm really proud of the Japanese atproto developer community. There currently aren't a lot of other metrics that show them as being larger(!) than the English-language community, and I'm very grateful that Kapa is clearly meeting their needs in a way that we weren't yet. We've also finally translated the docs homepage into Japanese as well, to further improve the Japanese developer experience.

I really like this one — I hadn't realized before we edited it together how clever their approach to part-local and part-VPS infrastructure was, and I'm more convinced than ever that there's a real model here, even for those of us who haven't heavily invested in their homelab (something I am very guilty of, just not by atproto community standards 😊).

And you know what? I think I'll leave it here for now — we can handle the ecosystem news at this Friday's office hours. Until then!