I've been studying Computer Science for a few years, but due to changing my major as well as a lot of online classes I haven't been able to meet many fellow developers in my university, especially not those who share my interests within the field. And as far as I know, there aren't many physical community gatherings happening close to where I live.
I would like to change that.
So: those of you who have managed to successfully connect with other developers online, how did you do it?
If anyone would like to chat or learn together, just send me a message here or email me at: erikpl (at) duck (dot) com. These days, my learning is focused on C (related to a compiler course) and video streaming (work-related).
I don't really know what to say. I think Discord is more mature than Matrix, though it's great as an IRC(-bridge) client. You're welcome to start your own community on Matrix if you'd like!
Introducing yourself on the channel can get you going so to speak and then go slowly from there. Helping people, having fun etc..
However, usually chatrooms are better for discovering stuff.
Go to meetup and sign up for whatever topics you are interested in. Almost all the meetings are going to be on zoom these days.
There’s no COVID here so besides the 2-3 month lockdown last year I’ve been able to go to many in-person meetups like normal.
Virtual is _fine_ but for my personality meeting in person is still my preferred way by far. I can’t recommend moving here enough to anyone who needs a place to live a normal life and wait out COVID.
I find language learning fun though so it's definitely a feature, not a bug, for me personally.
Learning Mandarin has major benefits.
When I moved to Taiwan, I spent a non-trivial part of my time in Mandarin classes. It absolutely helped with daily life and connecting with other people even though my industry is one of those "entirely in English" ones.
It's like super-charged Lunchclub but for developers with tools that make the whole process of what you described in your post easier.
We are releasing a major update pretty soon and since it's developer-only, I might be posting a Show HN for it soon as well, you should try it ig, I could always work on feedback from more developers.
There are lots of us that want to meet and aren't obsessed with corona. I hold regular weekly meetups and have done so throughout the last few years, it has been a welcome respite and I have formed some long standing and close relationships.
I have found the people I've met to be more community minded and more prone to take the initiative and branch out to new people.
> 10 reasons why JavaScript is the next BIG language that all developers should learn!!!1!
just engagement spam. BUT, once you follow a good dev account you tend to find others.
internet is a richer world than IRL, flawed with social codes, unfair physical comparisons, wealth gap issues etc
on the internet, you are just another random user, it's beautiful
the only time it's ugly, is when people censor you because you speak the truth and it goes against their agenda..
but this is the same stuff IRL, the advantage of the internet is you can create a new life, it's a matter of a click
embrace the internet, contribute, and eradicate the censors by pissing them off
so fucking worth
They state they never save your emails, but they don't have to save them to extract metadata or scan for content they are interested in.
We need a self hosted version of this service IMHO...
Lots of new people but also some big industry people there.
You can find me on there as NathanAldenSr#2130.
