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where do people find friends do code with

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  • M matievisthekat

    ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.

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    Les mt
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    Try Meetup - We are what we do[^] FWIW, when I wanted to learn about Android programming I was recommended to join our local Google Developers Group on Meetup. Just search for your area of interest. This turned out to be a very good suggestion as there were lots of tech talks, introduction to new technologies, study jams, hackathons and to cover your comment about how to join the forces I also met developers from almost all walks of the industry and now have many tech friends that I would not have if I had restricted myself to working in the office. As a result of Covid our meetings are currently virtual events :( (I miss the Pizza, beer and chat that went with the live meetings).

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    • M matievisthekat

      ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.

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      PIEBALDconsult
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      "I code alone, yeah yeah, with nobody else." -- George Thorogood

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      • R RickZeeland

        Maybe you can join an open-source project at GitHub, your friends there will be mainly virtual of course :-\

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        matievisthekat
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        do open source projects look for team members or do you just kind of contribute to their repo until they consider you a part of their team?

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        • M matievisthekat

          ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.

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          Lost User
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          Careful what you wish for when embarking on a "joint project" ... if there's money to be made; there's always another relative waiting in the wings. A "personal" project is personal for a reason; something to cling to when all desert you. :((

          "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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          • M matievisthekat

            do open source projects look for team members or do you just kind of contribute to their repo until they consider you a part of their team?

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            RickZeeland
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            I think you just contribute (usually by pull-request) and then they will review your code and see if it is good enough. This is not limited to code, but can also be graphics or documentation for instance.

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            • M matievisthekat

              ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.

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              Cpichols
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              TL/DR: here in the lounge at CP Are you talking irl friends - skin-on friends? If so, I've gotta wonder why. I mean, isn't this what the lounge at CP all about - coding community? We can celebrate your wins with you here - or are you concerned about trusting just whoever comes to this forum? That would make sense, so make some friends here and build up some trust.

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              • M matievisthekat

                ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.

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                agolddog
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                I think I get where you're going, but be careful. It's important to have a non-work life.

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                • H honey the codewitch

                  I taught my friends to code. Helps to start young though.

                  To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                  Paul Sanders the other one
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                  You or them? :)

                  Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk

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                  • P Paul Sanders the other one

                    You or them? :)

                    Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk

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                    honey the codewitch
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                    yes.

                    To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                    • M matievisthekat

                      do open source projects look for team members or do you just kind of contribute to their repo until they consider you a part of their team?

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                      Tiger12506
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                      This actually works. Have joined at least a few open source projects in my lifetime. Usually it's hard to understand a new codebase right off the bat, but open source projects are usually short on everything including testers. Report a few bugs, with helpful information on how to fix them and wait. Pretty soon you'll be family.

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                      • M matievisthekat

                        ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.

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                        Bruce Greene
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                        I've been coding for over 30 years and never had "friends who code." However, I have lots of friends who I ride dirtbikes with - and I hooked up with most of them via FB Groups. Try that!

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