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Follow up on my community/social stuff for today…

I went and signed in to a bunch of Slack workspaces I had signed out of and found one is fairly active and has some good people and good discussions going on.

I'm finding out more about the setup (can I invite people? can I create new channels?). But this may be where I land. Let's see.

While I credit @cstross for the link, I believe this is worth more than the original “WHAT” that he quoted it with.

It worth saying:

“WHAT ON EARTH?!!!!"

(Also, this is very programmer-nerdy and involves a program with 4.2bn if statements and a 40GB even/odd number function)

https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html

I think 2024 is the year I finally realise I’m a nerd. And that’s fine. It’s my best way of being. I like words and numbers and code and games. They are my things. And they are good things.

I will embrace it. And enjoy it.

In my own ways.

I suppose what I really want from a chat/community is to very selfishly round up all MY favourite people and talk about all MY favourite things on MY preferred platform and with MY rules.

That doesn’t sound like a positive thing for everyone else though.

*sigh*

I love you all, people!!! 💚

Follow up…

I remembered that, thanks to two awesome people who may see this, I am in two brilliant chat groups. (Hopefully you know who you are and I'm very grateful 💚🙏).

But I find myself wanting something bigger, with channels/separate topics, and more diverse in terms of tech and location.

Trying out @changelog’s Slack to see how that goes.

I re-posted earlier about isitchristmas.com having chat in the console.

This is a good write up: https://konklone.com/post/how-to-hack-the-developer-console-to-be-needlessly-interactive

But I want to know how the back-end of this works. Presumably just a light-weight process for connecting people together in "rooms”.

Some useful bash aliases…

If nothing else, this will inspire me to create more of my own!

https://chuck.is/alias/

I also (in addition to dev mid-life crisis podcast) really want, like, some chat or telegram or Discord group that's polite, friendly, supportive, no-shitposting, dad- (and mom-) jokes allowed/encouraged, creative, fun, geeky-but-tech-agnostic, worldly-wise.

Curmudgeonly-grumping allowed. But where even I get told off if it gets personal or unwelcoming.

I kinda have this, but it never quite works out as I'd hoped. I think my standards are too high.

I'm starting to wonder why my podcast feed isn't now full of podcasts about surviving the mid-life developer crisis. With topics like:

– What am I going to do for the next 15 years before I retire?
– How do I work with all these young people who know more than me (but lack the wisdom of years)
– How do I stop feeling bad that I have no spare time for hacking/side-projects/gaming because I have kids who need to be taken to their swimming class and stuff.

Seriously?

And no, I won’t.