I'm 64 and in a senior dev role. I'm not sure what you mean by resources. Resources for keeping up with and improving at coding vary by what stage of developer you are at, i.e. junior, mid-levead l senior,
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#192Have you considered trying to organize such a group? Set up discord, invite your friends you know, ask them to invite their friends of a similar age, then share it on HN to make it a little more global :)
Another commenter on this post set up a server.
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#193Maybe an online group like a Discord or irc for like minded people to hang out? Talking with people with similar level of experience and knowledge definitely is amazing. I used to spend time with a few ex-colleagues from time to time. We had amazing discussions since we knew each others’ experience and level of intellect. I went to other meetups and it’s difficult to find people of similar background and experience.
If you're interested, another commenter here set up a Discord server.
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#194I'm early 40s. I can't think of any specific communities for 50+, or even 40+. There's the subreddit /r/ExperiencedDevs, but that's less social and more Q and A. It might be worth checking into Discord servers to see if there are any that cater to more experienced devs. If you find one, let me know.
If you're interested, another commenter here actually set up a Discord server.
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#195By the way, if you want to have a general, but direct understanding of geriatric issues--almost every city has a nursing home or meals on wheels program and might welcome your contribution as a volunteer.
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#196I'm 64 and in a senior developer role. I don't think resources are age specific. Their relevance is based on what level of experience you have, i.e. junior, senior, etc, what kind of development you do, front-end, backend, etc, what industry you work in and what kind of future work you are interested in. A community would be nice. I can share that I don't have the energy and endurance I used to have. Working long hours for a deadline has a higher personal cost. I'm not as quick but I have good judgement and I have more patience.
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Can you give some details on your tool? I've played the "productivity app whack-a-mole" game, too, and always walk away empty. I just stick with a pen and paper, but I'd love a digital solution.
> Can you give some details on your tool? I'm conflicted; on the one hand I would like to let the world know about it, but on the other I can see how it would be easily dismissed as useless when there's literally no docs about it. I think I shall make a small example usage (terminal only) to demonstrate how it helps me, then post a show HN tomorrow or Saturday (depending). I'll reply to your post again once I post th…
Fwiw I'm also interested in seeing it.
Re: Ask HN: Resources for older developers?
#198Maybe an online group like a Discord or irc for like minded people to hang out? Talking with people with similar level of experience and knowledge definitely is amazing. I used to spend time with a few ex-colleagues from time to time. We had amazing discussions since we knew each others’ experience and level of intellect. I went to other meetups and it’s difficult to find people of similar background and experience.
If you're interested, another commenter here set up a Discord server.
thanks for the invite. will check it out.
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The problem is, so much of is BS that it's physically painful to keep up. Look, someone reinvented a basic lisp-ism in their mediocre language! Yes, new buzzwords for each part that was a function parameter to the original system! Yay! Now you can reduce your boilerplate by 10%! The system is still an unmaintainable ball of mud, but at least your for() loops can now have ridiculously high jitter and concurrency landm…
When faced with a ball of mud or spaghetti I recommend putting all what can be factored out in a micro-service and connect them via RPC to REST endpoints. Make your services are stateless so you can scale effortless and put an API gateway in the center so you can manage. As the service business logic isn‘t really stateless put your state in a caching server. Actually you can‘t trust a cache so also put in an opaque f…
I genuinely don't know if you're being sarcastic
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Less tolerance? What do you mean? I’ve found my outward tolerance has had to increase. I still have an internal drive to shape outcomes in more meaningful directions. This has driven (or perhaps co-evolved with) the development of a wide range of skills to be persuasive and nudge people. People can be so incredibly narrow-minded, short-sighted, inspiring, and/or wise, sometimes in the span of two sentences. Dealing w…
This touches upon something I've noticed lately, people skills are at least as important as technology and raw intelligence. I'm 46 and have been writing code pretty much every day since 8yo. I used to think code was the greatest thing, and would gladly write it for free. But I was also very arrogant, too impatient to negotiate, and didn't really give a damn about the team as a whole. These days I find writing code p…
> [...]negotiating with stake holders and making sure the team works well as a whole; I find those very fulfilling and exciting.
That seems to assume that, with age, you also gain power. As for myself, I'm hitting 40 now, and have absolutely no power over others whatsoever, and that's a pretty tough spot to be in, because now I'm bored with the tech stuff but nobody has ever offered me any other kind of work, and I don't expect anyone ever will, and I also expect it will be more and more of a struggle to keep convincing others to even let me keep doing that.