Hang out at noisebridge or something.
I don't know what it's like now, but I made come great contacts at Noisebridge like 12 years ago.
Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
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Re: Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
#12The Bay Area has really top-notch tech Meetups. They're sometimes even hosted at top tech companies like Pandora or (top recruiting firm) Robert Half. Not only will you learn a bunch, you'll be able to talk to people actually working with the same tech you are. Which besides being educational, is also a great networking opportunity. If your goal is to get a tech job, you're in the right city -- and it'll be easier fo…
Where can you find these meetups normally? Just by googling?
When you make your Meetup.com account, they'll ask for your interests. You can specify programming, and even specific languages/areas/etc.
Then talk to the people there, and you'll hear about other events...
Re: Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
#13The last time I was in SF was a couple of years ago and I tried it all. Ultimately I was searching for a job dishwashing in North Beach and I was told that the servers cleaned the dishes and they were full up on servers. I love it out there, but I washed out back east after that.
Re: Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
#14Get a job that pays well and has high learning prospects. Deal with the start up business after getting money and a fall back. You'll learn more all round stuff at a start up, but that's not what matters atm, only pure dev does. Tech meetups are cool.
To expand, it's better to get a well-paying job before going to a startup because it will give you more time to grow your money over the length of your career and the brand-name company will open doors that startup experience will not, in terms of signaling value and the network you can build at larger companies.
Re: Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
#15Go work at a startup. Do literally everything. If you don't "know X", learn X.
If you know nothing about software development, it will help to go to a bootcamp.
Good luck.
Re: Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
#16Hang out at noisebridge or something.
I mean yah you can hang out at Noisebridge but my experience was mostly creepy guys on Macintoshes trying to get me to fiddle with padlocks under their camcorders.
Re: Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where can you find these meetups normally? Just by googling?
When you make your Meetup.com account, they'll ask for your interests. You can specify programming, and even specific languages/areas/etc. Then talk to the people there, and you'll hear about other events...
There are not really meetups anymore post-CovID, but'd be good to start some again. Maybe that's a good startup idea to make a meetup planner that is not owned by WeWork.
Re: Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
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Re: Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
#19Well, you may be better situated to go to tech conferences.
Re: Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
#20Do whatever it takes to land a better job in a larger tech company. And you will be just going up from there.