I found lunchclub.com useful for this.
Thanks for the recommendation. It looks like an interesting way to meet random technical people.
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#22Finding the right Slacks and Discords will definitely help form more intimate relationships, but I've also been gaining a huge amount of value during the pandemic from the software engineering community on Twitter.
It took me a _long_ time to find the "real" software engineering community on twitter. If you just follow the topic, 98% of the "software engineering" tweets are garbage like
> 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.
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#23I host a small Discord for devs hacking on cool tech through my company (for an invite go to https://discord.multiprocess.io ). Folks here interested in compilers/databases/emulators/big data/ML are welcome to join, introduce yourself and hang out.
Sorry to be "that guy", but why Discord and not Matrix?
What is Matrix? It's an answer to your question and I am genuinely curious.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you recommend any specific communities on Slack/Discord?
GameDevNetwork is a pretty chill one for game development. Lots of new people but also some big industry people there. https://gdn.gg/
The emudev discord is pretty cool too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EmuDev/comments/9mop2q/join_the_off...
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#26I like attending Gather.town events.
However, usually chatrooms are better for discovering stuff.
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#27I use Founders Cafe for this. Everyday, I co-work with founders from Stanford/Harvard/YC in person (in PALO ALTO!) and also virtually too (everyday they have cowork seshs)
so fucking worth
Re: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?
#28I use Founders Cafe for this. Everyday, I co-work with founders from Stanford/Harvard/YC in person (in PALO ALTO!) and also virtually too (everyday they have cowork seshs) so fucking worth
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#29I use Founders Cafe for this. Everyday, I co-work with founders from Stanford/Harvard/YC in person (in PALO ALTO!) and also virtually too (everyday they have cowork seshs) so fucking worth
https://founderscafe.io
Looks nice! Might be worth clarifying in your bio or comment that you founded it too.
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#30How did you get a Duck Duck Go email address?
https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-beta/
All this seems to do is remove some external tracking and replace it with DDGs own?
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...