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Go to meetups/hackathons

Threads the app, reply to coders on posts you find interesting and have things to add to.

How to increase the signal and not the noise.

Sending an email without any clear purpose is not something I would encourge. But a highly thoughtful email about some of their works or question you have about a recent piece of code is probably appreciated. Genuine conversation.

The easiest way to start your journey towards overcoming the imposter syndrome while not burdening someone is to reply to a recent tweet.

If you have something relevant to say that is. But you probably do: more often than not.

That’s actually what I asked Mike Pall to do regarding JIT. He was reluctany and probably thinks too little of his teaching ability.. but that book would be awesome for future generations of compiler folks to read!

Back to Bellard, maybe a good first approach is to ping one of his co-authors like the person he made QuickJS with.

I doubt he’ll get more than a handful.

Makes for an intresting conversation and you can learn a lot by posting a well thought comment :)

I have been contemplating a rating system for open source software with a mandatory tag for each star. Allows you to filter out perspectives you don’t care about.

Actually wrote the draft on this in January but last week finally got enough time to complete this with proper project links etc.

We are certainly real people, except for one of the faces on our /support page who’s signature we use when replying to particularly aggressive fraudsters (to avoid feeling personally offended).

The service might look easy on the surface, but getting all required infrastructure in place here in Europe is hard and the telecom world is surprisingly complex.

”I am jealous at you guys: backend services still has a future” a coder friend told me today at lunch.

On topic, I obviously don’t think the community train has passed.

Especially on meetups I see a lot of genuine connections between programmers being made. Threads, the app, has recently been the most relevant place for me to casually chat with other programmers.

I don’t vouch for people to spam: but to overcome their imposter syndrome and dare to talk about coding with fellow programmers. Even the legends.

And they often invite for conversations: wether it’s a comment field, pull request or tweet.

Learning to find this balance of not being annoying is probably easiest by trying to make relevant comments on someones tweet. And the response back will give you an energy boost! :)

These people are much more approachable than people generally believe.

Which is why I wrote this.

Is the same at conferences: one of the best things you can do is to fo and talk to the person holding the lecture. They usually appreciate it very much.

You don’t need to be famous to do that.

Daniel Stenberg is not on the list but he is also a very active programmer on social media like LinkedIn that you can interact with.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381211

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Do you know of any good articles, books or blog post written for outsiders to read?

Very nice for note taking during meetings or emailing on train trips.

Or my favorite: writing outdoors.

Not only for writing, but for shell sessions too.

I love my Raspberry Pi for that.

It is amazing the project keeps going.

I guess the founded had trouble coping with the big attention it got and was swamped with submissions.

We need more playing fields and protocols new players can enter with being blocked by a gatekeeper.

One could argue Google and Microsoft are gatekeepes for email and in some sense they are. But at least it’s possible to challenge their power both technically and policy wise. Eventually it will fade.